Wednesday, December 12, 2007

What's for dinner?

Does anyone have any good, healthy, easy recipe's. I know those are pretty narrowing qualifications but I'm getting sick of our same old stuff and am in search of something yummy. I am also dying for some side dish recipe's if anyone has some. In the spirit of sharing I will put up my newest find Feta Cheeses Chicken. It quickly became one of Cole's favorites and mine because it takes all of 5 minutes to make.
6 boneless skinless chicken breasts (I only use 1 or 2 and it works out just as well)
2 Tbsp lemon juice, divided
1/4 tsp salt
1/4 tsp black pepper
1 cup feta cheese
1/4 cup finely chopped red peppers (they make it soooo good)
1/4 cup finely chopped parsley

Preheat oven to 350. Arrange chicken in 13 x 9 inch baking dish.

Drizzle with 1 Tbsp of the lemon juice. Season with black pepper and salt. Top with feta cheese; drizzle with remaining 1 Tbsp lemon juice.

Bake 35-40 min. Remove from oven. Sprinkle with red pepper and parsley.

Sunday, December 9, 2007

First Snow


We had a snow storm the other day and it actually stuck to the ground this time. I was so excited that I made Cole change out of his pajamas (it was about 9:30 pm) and run outside with me to walk around in it. I scraped, or rather brushed, the snow off my car just for fun. It was really cold though so we came inside rather quickly. We've also had freezing rain recently and it is crazy. I've never seen such a thing before but it can be pretty scary. It is neat to look at all the trees and bushes after though because they have beautiful iceicles all over them.

Thursday, December 6, 2007

President

Cole and I just watched Mitt Romney's speech on religion and thought it was awesome. It made us think of the things we read about in the Book of Mormon about good leaders and prosperous nations. I'm posting a link to the video of his speech. It is about 18 minutes and well worth the time to watch. http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?mkt=en-US&brand=msnbc&vid=426c0d7c-7e3f-4993-8853-c20eff674bc7

Monday, November 26, 2007

Thanksgiving

We had fun in Utah for Thanksgiving. I loved seeing my family. I went with my nieces to feed the ducks (which kind of freaked me out when they came swarming next to me). They kept trying to protect me by kicking the ducks away from me. We also went to a fun new place called Jump on It where we played on their wall to wall trampolines. One of my nieces showed us her latest trick which is doing the spreads and touching her nose to the ground. It was really imporessive. I loved seeing everyone and can't wait to go back.


Birthday


I had a great birthday. My acutal birthday was while we were in Hawaii and we had a lot of fun eating and shopping. Cole and I celebrated my birthday together a few days later. He surprised me with a cookie bouquet delivery at work which for anyone who knows me cookies are my favorite food so it was really thoughtful. He also got me a jacket and a purse. We went to Biaggi's, an Italian restaurant in Champaign (the town), to eat and it was soooo good. I like it better than Olive Garden or Maccaroni Grill. Thanks Cole! My work had a cake to help me celebrate and it was my favorite kind. It was really nice. I am a little depressed to be 24 because it seems kind of old to me. I wonder how I'll feel when I turn 30?

Vacation

We had so much fun in Hawaii. We went to Maui with my parents. We went snorkeling, parasailing, shopping, drove the road to Hanna, and ate... A LOT! I tried fish for the first time and kind of liked it. Parasailing was fun and actually kind of relaxing. I thought it would be really scary but it wasn't. My favorite thing was just hanging out at the pool. Our pool had a little water slide and was really beautiful. Me and my Mom would practice our swimming strokes and had a lot of fun. I had to post the pictures below to fit everything.

HAWAII