Birthday

So this year my birthday was on a Saturday which meant no work or school. I had the whole day off to hangout with Ryan and we partied!

Friday night I worked late so he cleaned the whole apartment for me, so I could relax. Then Saturday morning he made french toast sticks for me. We went shopping and then, had not just one hour but an hour and a half massage. ohhh so nice and relaxing.

Where should we go for dinner I always choose something like Texas Roadhouse but that wasn't good enough so we ended up at the Melting Pot. It was sooo yummy but very $$$. It was a 4 course fundue dinner...

As we show up Ryan had made reservations and added a rose. Not to mention we were in our own private booth with a curtain around us ooo la la...

Course one a Mexican cheese fondue. With bread, chips, apples and veggies.

Course 2 a salad. Yes Ryan ate MORE salad than me. He said it tasted like dessert because of the raspberry vinaigrette dressing. YUM!

I forgot to take a picture of the main course but it was a platter of meat. We tried duck, chicken, filet mignon, NY strip, white shrimp and raviolis. There was also potatoes, broccoli and mushrooms (we skipped the mushrooms).

Last but also the best dessert. I would suggest signing up for there e-mails because then on your birthday you get a FREE dessert. We got white chocolate with strawberry's, bananas, cheesecake, rice crispys, and marshmallows to dip in!!

What a perfect birthday!!!

Detox Day!

So while I was surfing the internet I came across an yahoo health article called 3 day holiday detox diet. I mentioned it to Ryan and told him I want to do this, but only for one day.

The article said to have a smoothie for breakfast:
1/2 cup of skim milk
scoop of whey protein
1 medium banana
as much berries as you wanted
and ice

I followed it close but I used 2% milk instead since that is what I had. I didn't add any protein or ice. I forgot to turn the ice-maker on but it didn't matter it was still fine I also added some vanilla yogurt.

Lunch was suppose to be a spinach salad with as much vegetables as you wanted and a vingar dressing. You were also suppose to drink 2 glasses of water before you ate.

Well Ryan decided that we should go to sweet tomato instead. He was nervous about it since he didn't like salad but ended up liking it . Its an all you can eat soup salad and pasta restaurant. So we got our spinach salad along with ranch dressing and a garlic dressing, potatoes, mac and cheese, pizza rolls, cookies and ice cream. (We did a great job of detoxing right).

I kept saying this isn't detoxing. Ryan's response was this is more salad than an I ate all last year. I'm detoxing. He also said we shouldn't of drank all that water before cause we could of eaten more.

Dinner was suppose to be some kind of fish (we chose salmon) with pepper and lemon on it with a side of broccoli. We'll after stuffing our faces at Sweet Tomato we weren't hungry for dinner. So we skipped it then ate cereal before bed.

I don't think it quite worked out but Ryan was all excited and kept saying its detox day we are detoxing. All in all we had fun and want to do it again next year.

SnowBoarding!!!

I went snowboarding for the 3rd time in my life. I've been once a year since I met Ryan. We drove up to flagstaff with his friend Rafael. He is a beginner like me but we lost each other on the hill right away. Ryan called him when I was done for the day and did a run with him.



Watch this video of me!

(This one is actually from my 2nd trip last year)

This video is from the most recent trip of this year 2011. Ryan is the camera man in both.

Ryan's Marathon!!

As many of you know Ryan love to exercise and run. All semester long he has been training to run in a half marathon. The college of pharmacy gets a team together every year for this marathon, so he ran with about 30 other pharmacy students.

Becky came down for it and we loaded Ryan up with pizza pasta, bread, and garlic stuff yum. Then we woke up at 4am wow to drop Ryan off. The race didn't start tell 7 so Becky and I went home and took a nap.

We wanted to meet Ryan and the finish line so we went to what we thought was the finish line but found out it was a cheering area and the finish line was 2 miles away but we lucked out and saw Ryan, then we went and cheer for him at the finish line.

Ryan did a great job. His goal was to to beat 2 hours. He ran the 13.1 miles in 1 hour 49 miniutes. Way to go!!

Blackfriday!

For thanksgiving we went to my Aunts house. We had a big family one like we do every year. Then we stopped by Ryans parents. We had to go to bed early though cause we went black Friday shopping. We woke up at 315 and left at 330 to go to target.

Ryan kept saying he wanted to go to get the good deals. We'll I dont think he'll be going again. We got to target around 330 and had to wait 30 mins for the store to open. The line was around the building. We we freezing. All was worth it though. We got our I-tunes gift cards, movies, and heather got her toaster.

It was fun but maybe I"ll wait and go at 8am instead of 3 next year.

Favorite quote from Primary

Ryan and I teach the 7-8 year old kids in primary. Sunday we were having a lesson on preparing for the 2nd coming.

The other teacher was giving examples and asking if it was a way to prepare or not for the 2nd coming. When asked if Cheating on your spelling test was a way to prepare one girl raised her hand and said I know who cheats on spelling test she does" (pointing to her twin sister).

Then her sister yells, "that was before I was baptized."

The 3 of us teachers couldn't help but laugh at that. This year we have had quite a rambunctious class but love coming home with stories like that.

Halloween!!

For Halloween we went to nightfall a haunted ghost town. I know I'm like 2 months late on the post, but I wanted to put up some pictures. It was quite fun. We saw a magic show, and a Dr Jekyll Mr Hyde show. There was also 4 haunted house we went to.






We also had to carve our pumpkins:

Before

After

With Lights! WOOO