Ivanpah drylake and landsailing

Check out this video - we saw this happen. It was pretty cool. You can also check out his blog to read more about it.
http://blog.greenbird.co.uk/

There were times I felt like I was going this fast and that I was going to pee my pants. It was so windy there and it made you go so fast.

Busy weekend. . .

Friday evening was spent pulling weeds in the garden in preparation to plant some seeds soon. We are excited to start our garden this year and to reap our rewards! After pulling weeds we went and got mexican food, watched the jazz game and crawled into bed exhausted.

Saturday morning we got up and pulled weeds again - how can there be that many for Heaven's sake it is only the first day of spring! We got all done and then it was time to get ready to go to the Draper Temple dedication. Boy that was a long day. Lots of waiting and sitting. But what an amazing experience, my first temple dedication in person - I have seen several televised but this time we were actually in the temple.


After the temple dedication I tried this new recipe - Cauliflower Soup with Curry, Cilantro and Lime. I had to doctor the recipe a bit since I only got a 6 on it when I first served it to Chad. After I added a little more curry and some coconut milk -I got a 7. I guess I couldn't expect much more than that since Chad doesn't really like Cauliflower!

Sunday morning we had the day off - no Church - since our stake was all attending the temple dedication. I woke up early as usual and decided to finally make granola. I had bought the stuff a couple weeks ago but never got around to making it. We were tired of paying tons of money for a box that had maybe two bowls of cereal in it. It turned out super yummy!


Since we didnt have church, we planned on going up to see Chad's brother's new baby Fisher in Logan. Fisher was due 3 weeks before Hunter was supposed to be born. He turned a week old on Sunday - so he was so tiny! Several times I called him Hunter - which was so sad to me. I held it together better than I thought I would.

After we got home from Logan we had a couple over from our ward to play cards. You all know how much I love to play cards. We taught them how to play hand and foot of course! We played girls against boys and of course the girls kicked butt! I was surprised because when I played earlier with my sister in law she killed me!

What a productive, busy and fun weekend!

A new woman. . .

So for the last couple of weeks I have been debating cutting my hair short. Friday I was in the mood so I went and got it chopped. I am a little afraid that it is an old lady hair cut. I am still learning how to do it, but so far I am liking it and it is so much easier to do. I think it will be nice for the summer.

Here is a picture I snapped with my camera phone - it is not the greatest quality but you can get the idea.

Arachnophobia

Over the last couple of weeks we have been finding spiders in the house. One night a spider repelled down right above my head while I was sitting on the couch in the living room. Then I found a couple in the bathroom. Another day I was just getting in the shower and a spider repelled down right in front of me again. Luckily I was able to splash some water on it and wash it down the drain.

Well Saturday morning I was in the shower and I was washing my hair - as I looked up there is this HUGE spider crawling along the shower curtain pole. I tried to keep my eyes on it as I finished showering to make sure it would not repell down on me. I was ready to get out of the shower but I couldn't get out because the spider was holding me hostage. The spider was going back and forth marching right along the shower curtain pole and if I pulled the curtain open I was afraid it would fall down on me! I stayed in the shower forever waiting for the spider to move so I could get out. I yelled for Chad to come rescue me but he was outside. So I waited and waited meanwhile becoming a prune. Then all of a sudden I couldn't see the spider anymore so I decided to make my move. I flung the curtain open and ran out of the bathroom. I didnt dare use one of the towels in the bathroom fearing that the spider could be on one of them.

This experience reminded me how much I really hate and fear spiders. Does anyone remember the movie Arachnophobia? It came out in 1990 and it had Jeff Daniels and John Goodman. I don't know why I complied to actually see this movie, but I did. We were on a family trip visiting some distant relatives in Arizona that we had never meet before. My sister and I went to the movies with some distant second cousins. I remember sitting in the theatre screaming my head off, with my legs up to my chest in the fetal position sitting in my chair. My sister reminds me of what a fool I was making of myself, but obviously I didn't care because I was scared to death!

Soup dilemma

I have a soup dilemma. I am on the cooking committe at church for our Relief Society meetings. We are having the birthday celebration for Relief Society this week and the committee decided we were going to have soup and bread bowls! Yum! I usually volunteer to make the food because I like doing it and everyone else just stresses at the thought of having to cook for that many people.

Well I originally was planning on making pepper jack potato and white chicken chili. Someone else on the committee said she would make a chicken noodle so I don't want two chicken soups so I pondered what other soup I should make. Vegetable beef but that is brothy soup and the bread bowls may spring a leak. So I thought of this new recipe I got for a tomato soup that has pickling spice in it, when you serve it you add in a little cream and crumbled bacon - it is to die for. Another one of my favorites is the Zuppa Toscano (olive garden) - sausage and potato yumminess! Then I thought of roasted Butternut squash soup with a little curry, which is another one of my favorites. Then there is chicken tortilla soup but that has chicken too but it is soo good.

In our planning meeting I said we should only have 3 soups - what was I thinking? I thought it would make it simple or something. But now I can't decide which soups to make and if I really should limit it to 3. They are all so yummy!

I don't know what to do. I love soup so much and just don't know how to solve this dilemma! Any suggestions? What soups go best with bread bowls?

Weeds

So along with Spring comes weeds and yard work. No wonder I like winter more than Spring - there are no weeds.

I spent last night doing some of my yard work that should have been done last fall. I raked up leaves and pine needles, pulled out some dead plants and even pulled up weeds. How can we already have weeds? It is not even spring yet!

I am not sure if I am ready for weed season! I hate pulling weeds. Perhaps when my visiting teacher comes over I will tell her to pull my weeds when she tells me my house is messy!

Spring Fever

Yesterday when I got in my car it was actually toasty warm and it made me have spring fever. Today was the most perfect day. I slept in, cleaned house a bit,went snowboarding with Chad and now I am enjoying the Jazz game.

Today was a spring skiing day - it was 45ish, so it was no jacket weather! The sky was so blue and the mountains were so white with the fresh snow from the last storm. I just wanted to sit on the mountain and take in all the beauty.