Over the last couple months, we've added a couple new additions to our family.
First, a couple months ago, we obtained what will be the pride and joy of my kitchen for years to come, thank you Bed Bath and Beyond, in the color of my choice -- RED -- and I'm SO excited about it!
Welcome, our little Kitchenaid mixer!!! (We also go the shredding attachment!)
And with it, I made bread for what was probably the first time in my life. And it actually tasted good! I know! Score!
It was good! I think the only thing that wasn't the best about it was that it didn't look as pretty as I wish, but that doesn't matter because it tasted good!
We also added another new addition this last week, a Cocoa-Latte, which is awesome! Pour in milk/water, chocolate powder and sugar (or just simple hot chocolate mix), and turn it on. It mixes everything and heats it up to "the perfect temperature" -- which we think is just a little too hot so we just turn it off a little bit before it gets to that point -- then, it has a froth button on it and as it dispenses it out the dispenser, it froths it into the cup. Pretty great. We've used it every day since we bought it. :)
We stayed at Missy and Burke's house that night, since the showing was so late the night before, and when we were driving back over to see Rachel again, we thought it looked really pretty with the clouds down on the mountains behind the temple, so I had to snap a couple pictures.
There was scaffolding there because they had to redo the caulk around the windows. I've never seen that before so it was pretty exciting.
Just couldn't help myself. I love how pretty nature is up here during the winter. Especially when it's in that odd phase between snowing and the sun again, like this one. I have some other ones I took during the fall, but they didn't turn out the way I wanted. One day we'll get a fancy camera and then I'll be a nature picture taking fiend!
Anyway, I also wanted to brag about how awesome my husband is at cooking. Yeah. That's right. He's better than me, which isn't saying much, but still, it's pretty awesome. He can throw things together in a pot or baking dish or whatever, not knowing if it's going to work out, and it turns out awesome! I try that, and I'm eating something out of a box because what I decided to do tasted like.......something nasty.
So the other night, Friday, we were super tired and didn't really want to cook but we've been eating frozen/packaged dinners all week so it was time to actually cook. We'd gotten some boxes of Annie's Mac and Cheese (Thanks Marie!) and decided to make baked Mac and Cheese, but all the recipes we found online were for from scratch, and since we were being quasi-lazy that day, we didn't want to do that, so we decided to just make up our own.
And because he's awesome at this part of cooking, the making up part, I just kind of left it up to him and did whatever he said.
It turned out great!
Also, Tuesday, I slipped on some ice and twisted my knee, apparently I have an acute tear in my lateral collateral ligament -- there are three and one heals itself but the other two do not -- so we went into the doctor on Wednesday and he has me going to physical therapy for the next couple weeks to see if it heals itself. If it does, and that's what we're hoping for, then we won't have to do anything else. If it still is hurting in a couple weeks, we'll have to do an MRI and possibly surgery, which would be a downer since I've already had surgery on this knee once.
So I've been to physical therapy twice so far. It's the same place I went when my knees were giving me lots of problems in high school from running cross country, and I love the physical therapist there. He's hilarious and doesn't push you harder than your body can take, which is more than I can say for the physical therapist I had after my surgery 3 years ago, and he is really great about payments too, which is a huge bonus right now. When I am there, I have to do electrical stimulation on my knee, after having it massaged -- I have such a hard life ;) --, and they put an ice pack on top of the stimulation pads so it doesn't shock me too much. Well, the first day, it had just come out of the freezer and I couldn't resist doing a little doodle. Thought I'd share.
Anyway, that's pretty much all that's been happening. I switched my major for the last time to History Education with a minor and teaching endorsement in Math, which I'm really excited about because I've loved history since I was so small I can't even remember it. All I know is that when I'm in a history class, I don't feel like I'm dragging through it so that's probably a good sign.
David is looking at going for the accounting program because he can do the accelerated Master's/Bachelor's degree in just a year longer, which would make him able to get his CPA license in just three or four years after graduating, which is what he wants to do he's pretty sure. Just a couple of extra classes so he should be able to apply for next Winter semester. We're really excited about that and hoping that it happens according to plan. :) It would be really great.
So, we love you all and are grateful for all your love and support!
