Buy Me Some Peanuts & Cracker Jacks

OK. The weather is warm. I am giddy! Millions of thoughts and anticipation for summer are making me very overwhelmed. I want to run, jump, and sing... It is amazing what warm weather can do to you. I am SO stoked for spring! I can't wait until temple square is full of tulips and everywhere you go and drive you see yards full of tulips and other beautiful flowers. Most of all...

I AM EXCITED FOR BASEBALL SEASON!

In August I bought a brand new baseball and I keep it in the cupholder of my car. I play with it in the car, yearning for a new season... anticipating the possibility the Astros will again grace the World Series sometime soon ( not likely but a girl can dream can't she?)..excited to watch the Bee's (SLC minor league) play, buying CHEAP season tickets, and sitting in the sun cheering for the home team.

MY LIFE IS GREAT right now!

P.S. I don't care WHAT they say about Roger (Clemens)... I still love you!!!!

Domestic

I love being domestic. I love being the ideal girl. I love cooking, cleaning, wearing heels ( and like the daring ones...not just plain jane heels), wearing my hair down, skirts, dresses, and anything girly, eating healthy, and working out. I love the feeling when everyone tells me how cute I look. (Vain- yes I know) It makes me happy. I will make one very lucky man very happy one day!

Utter Boredom

OK seriously. Someone needs to shoot me in the face. Four hours of boredom at school with nothing to pass the time. I should be studying but I accidentally left my book at home. I don't even want to go to class tonight. My teacher makes me want to shoot MYSELF in the face. UGH! Help! I need rescue from this horrible horrible spinning lameness. ARG! How many days until school is over?

Mando's Perfect Banana Bread

So... this one day I was CRAVING Banana Bread but my sister still had not sent me her recipe so I decided to look one up online. I modified it a tad and this is what I got. EVERY SINGLE TIME I make it people RAVE about it. I make it so often I even have it memorized! My first recipe from heart! I gave out the recipe to three people in one day after I made it again Monday night. My friend Isaac even sent me a message that said, "hey my mom wants your banana bread recipe , I told her that it was the most amazing thing that has been baked on this earth.... so ya..." Hahaha. I am kind of anal about giving out recipes... especially because I have become famous for this... but because I love you all... here it is.
I hope you enjoy it.

Preheat oven to 325.

(bowl one- large bowl)
8 tbsp unsalted butter ( that should be a whole stick) room temp
1 c sugar
2 eggs
mix the butter and sugar together until nice and creamy. then mix in each egg one at a time.

(bowl two- small bowl- cereal bowl usually works)
3 ripe bananas
1tsp cinnamon
1tbsp milk
mash the bananas together with a fork and then stir in the milk and cin. with it. i usually do this all with the fork too.

(medium bowl- bowl three)
2 c flour
1tsp baking powder
1tsp baking soda
1tsp salt


so... then pour in the banana mush into the sugary buttery creamy heaven ..hahaha that would be bowl one. mix it with the mixer until it is all mixed in. Then what you want to do is get a spoon, fork, spatula, or your favorite mixing utensil for mixing by hand and pour ALL of the flour into bowl one. You want to make sure to mix & fold the flour in there but only until the flour JUST starts to disappear. ( as opposed to using a mixer and really mixing in the flour) Then pour it into your bread pan.

*note... I usually use just a dab of butter to grease the pan, not the spray stuff.

Put the bread in for 60 minutes and it should be perfect. Serve warm with butter for ultimate satisfaction!

Mando

P.S. Yes I meant to write Mando. It's a name the girls in my sorority and most of the frat guys call me. And yes...there is a story to it. I usually make the bread for them or my roomates so it has become known as Mando's banana bread.

Boxing is For Girls

For those of you who may not know... boxing is apparently for girls.Yes Yes... it is true. AND... because it is for girls I have decided to sign up for a 20 class commitment that must be paid for in advance and if you quit going you are pretty much screwed. What I was failed to be informed of is that apparently... boxing is for Nazi, pain loving, military boot camp loving, MASOCHIST girls! Jeez LOUISE! I have never ever EVER worked out so hard in 60 minutes in my life. Lucky me... I have 19 more classes to go. Actually... I suppose I am somewhat of a masochist myself because AFTER the class was over I ran for an hour and then went to the gym for an hour. I was on an exercise high! However, Saturday was not so pleasant and Sunday I couldn't even get out of bed because I was so much in pain I could barely move. Hmmm... doesn't sound like a great way to start your workout regiment. However, I do have 19 more classes left and I intend to make the most of it. I suppose I will be ready to join the marines after I complete this. I have an inkling boot camp would be much easier, and they might even be a tad nicer. Hmmm.

Why I Love Living in Utah

This first picture is a picture I took in Texas when I was home. Notice the difference.Beneath are pictures of my drive to my night class. Notice the mountains in the rearview mirror in the picture beneath.

Seriously? I love Salt Lake City. This is taken from the Business Loop at the Univeristy of Utah looking West at sunset.

This is taken near President's Circle still facing West (duh- the sun sets to the West)


I have many pictures of the beautiful scenery of Utah but seriously. I couldn't ask for a better campus than the University of Utah. I LOVE the mountains!

Cooking With Shanna

Please let me introduce you to one of my most favorite people in Utah. The name? Shanna. She is actually Katherine's cousin Branson's (Reed) girlfriend. Wow... that sounded more complicated than it was. I love love love her and one of my favorite things about her in addition to her rad personality is that she shares my affinity for baking, cooking, and cleaning. ( I know mom & dad...you are probably having a heart attack. I bet you guys never knew I would turn out so domestic!! ) So about every single one of my friends asked me to breakfast lunch or dinner last week and I was dreading going somewhere else when she asked me to go out to dinner so I instead told her I wanted to make something from scratch. Something I had never made before. I picked Lasagna and rolls. I really have to give her all the credit for the rolls but I did watch her make it while I got the meat ready for the lasagna. She actually posted her recipe on her blog here.


This is me mixing the cottage cheese and other stuff together for the lasagna.
Don't those rolls look absolutely yummy?
The finished product.

I also made a really yummy spinich salad with strawberries, cucumbers, red onion and a poppyseed dressing. Now that is what I call heaven!

Sorry

OK... I haven't been on here for a while. When I googled myself my web page came up. I think it is fine that people I know can access it but I don't want just anyone google-ing me to find my web page so I set it to private and NO ONE could read it. After a while I decided ....whatever. I took off my address and I just won't post contact info or anything. So yeah.... that's that. I have some new posts coming but I have to upload pictures first. Just wanted to say I'm back.