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I’M A WRINKLY OLD LADY TODAY

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Have you ever wondered what you will look like when you are old? I did tonight. This is what I do when I can’t think of an art project. Who knows if I will even look close to this, I couldn’t quite get all the wrinkles I wanted, and hopefully I will look a little less dead.  Too much walking dead for me I guess.  But it gave me a laugh, and Taylor quite a scare when he saw me like this.  It will be interesting to compare these photos to what I will actually look like when I am old.

GO GET YOURSELF A PINEAPPLE.

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I am so super busy right now with finals. Even without classes, I am still up and coming home at the same time. Crazy. We are both ready for this semester to be over. Then it is up and time to go to Brazil. I can’t wait to feel the sun. It has been a long harsh winter hasn’t it?

I am on a healthy kick right now. We usually eat pretty healthy, but we are just cutting out a few things these next few weeks. I will be posting recipes we are using, and where I got them. This was a good one!

I got this from my friend Graci, she is a health guru.

Look her up on instagram here  for more great recipes!



I also made this for two, and we ate all of it. So if you want more, double or triple this recipe.

1 Pineapple cored and diced (we used half)
1/2 c diced red onion (I used half an onion)
1 jalepeno seeded and diced (we didn’t have a jalepeno)
1 large garlic clove, minced
1 orange pepper diced (we didn’t have this either)
1 red pepper diced (I used a half)
Juice from 1 large lime
1/4 C fresh mint leaves minced
Red pepper flakes to taste
1 C Brown rice

Put all above ingredients except rice together in a bowl. I also added chicken. I cooked the chicken with some coconut oil, coconut flakes, lime, honey, chili powder. A few minutes before the rice was done cooking, I added the whole mixture to the chicken to cook slightly.

Delicious and healthy! Taylor licked his bowl clean, an added bonus with a really healthy dinner.

PI DAY, AND ALSO IT WAS WARM OUTSIDE.

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Blueberry Banana Cream Pie
Banana Cream Pie

If there is a time to celebrate math in any way, shape, or form, it is definitely on PI day. Why not use this as an excuse to make some yummy mini pies you have been secretly been wanting to try anyway? 

Didn’t take me long to justify making these. 

We were invited over by some friends to take in the celebration, and we wholeheartedly agreed to take part in it. 

After scoring the internet for recipes, there was no recipe that I could find that included both Blueberries, and Bananas.  I was a little shocked that there weren’t, because these are oh so good.  

Here is my spin on the Blueberry Banana Cream Pie. I would highly suggest making this. It only took an hour! 

Ingredients (4 four inch pies):

Crust

1 1/4 C Flour 
1/2 t Salt
1 T Sugar
1/4 C Ice water
1 Stick of unsalted butter, cut into about 8 or 10 pieces. (Keep the butter refrigerated)

Cream

1 C whipping cream
8 oz cream cheese, soft
1/2 t Vanilla extract
1/3 C Sugar

Additional

1-2 Bananas
2 C Blueberries

Directions:

Mix together dry ingredients. Add in butter, and mix well. Slowly add in ice water. The crust should mold together if you press on it.  Put it in a ball, and refrigerate for 30 minutes. 

Preheat oven to 350. Grease the pans.

Roll out dough until it is about 3mm thick (lets be honest, I just rolled it out so it was thin enough) and then cut out 5 inch circles and mold it into the pie tins. 

You might need to trim the excess dough coming out of the tins. Just do what makes sense, and what looks good.

You might also consider putting pie weights down, since you are baking these pies just for the crust.

Bake for 20-25 minutes, or until crust is golden. 

Mix whipping cream with a whisk until firm peaks are formed. Remove from bowl, and put cream in fridge.

Whisk cream cheese in the same bowl until light and fluffy. Add sugar and vanilla. Keep mixing until smooth. 
Fold in whipped cream into the cream cheese mixture. 

Cut Bananas and line at the bottom of the cooled pie crust. Add cream on top, making sure it is smooth. Put lots and lots of blueberries on top (you should probably put as many as you can on there). 

Let set in refrigerator for an hour, mine were in there a lot longer and were not soggy in the least bit. 

Enjoy!

A HAPPY WEEKEND ALL TO OURSELVES

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We got away from Provo for the weekend to celebrate my birthday last week.  It was a weekend full of spending some good quality time with my Mr. Lund. We ate dinner in the tiny town of Kamas, and stuck out from all the locals.  We drove through a peaceful blizzard, and enjoyed the open fields of snow. It was so beautiful.  We spent a weekend staying in a 115 year old house that we luckily got all to ourselves.  We cuddled and ate our favorite treats all the while watching a few good movie thrillers. Bed & Breakfasts are my cup of tea.  It feels like home, and you always get to meet and spend time with the ones who run the place.  She was a really sweet lady, and made one fantastic breakfast for us when we woke up….and then shortly later went back to reality in Provo.  It sure is fun to get away. Mr. Lund sure knows how to treat me when I am in need of something exactly like this, and I didn’t even ask.  That’s love right there folks. (Obama always says folks and it drives me nuts, but somehow I started saying it.) Why does that happen? 

IN LOVE WITH GRAPEFRUIT, AND HERES TO EATING HEALTHY

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Broiled Grapefruit

I thought I would finally try a broiled grapefruit. So easy, and I am in love.
 This is all you do:
 1/2 t Cinnamon
1/4 C Brown sugar
1 T Butter
 Melt, and stir it together.
 Sprinkle evenly on top of grapefruit, there is enough to use it on two grapefruits. Put it in the oven on broil until the sugar is bubbling.

 Now maybe Mr. Lund will like grapefruit. It is a test I am going to try. it is great.

 On a healthy note, I have also made the decision to eat a little more healthy. I don’t know if what I am doing is making a huge difference, but it makes me feel better about what I am eating. I am taking MSG out of my diet, as well as always looking at ingredients to become familiar with ingredients to avoid. Of course, we will still eat out occasionally, but at least I can have better stuff in our home.

 No more canned soup, ritz crackers (I’ll stick to Kashi), etc. The list goes on. My favorite thing that I still have that has MSG is ranch. I love homemade buttermilk ranch. Only problem is the MSG. So my sister and I are both on a voyage to make it from scratch. That will probably take a while.

 I also buy unbleached flour whether it is my all purpose, bread flour, or whole wheat. I want to have my own chickens so I can give them a good home, and also so I know that I am eating good eggs.
 Since we are in an apartment now I at least upgraded to cage free. Even Taylor bought those eggs when he went to the store. That made me really happy.

 How do you find ways to eat healthier? If anyone is interested here is one of the articles I have read: http://www.100daysofrealfood.com/2013/02/11/food-companies-exploit-americans-with-ingredients-banned-in-other-countries/
 I have also been watching every food documentary on Netflix. I would highly suggest watching any of the ones you see.


MY FIRST WORLD PROBLEM

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My First Race

Here is a picture of this one time a long time ago when I ran a half marathon.  My first race ever, kind of a dumb idea, but proud about it anyway (I would suggest perhaps just a smaller one to start off). I worked so hard, and really had to push myself in order to be able to do this.  I don’t know how I ended up finishing because my last practice before the actual race I only got to 8 miles. It was a miracle.

Fast forward to now.

I have been really wanting to wake up in the morning and find time to exercise. For one it makes me feel so great, and I just want to get some muscle back on my body.  Know what I am saying?

Before I ever do anything, I have to make a plan and chart out when I will do everything.  So I made a chart.  I figured out in the 12 weeks what workouts I should be doing every day for P90X.  I was really excited.

We are now at mid-semester. Is it really almost March?

I have had this plan since January, and still I haven’t worked out.  No not even once.  I know how pathetic that sounds.

For some reason this semester I am in love with the idea of getting 9 hours of sleep.  9 hours is heaven.  And on the days where 9 hours is possible, even when I plan to wake up to exercise, sleep wins.  Sleep has been winning the past few weeks.  I know how ridiculous this sounds.  I know that if you really want something, you should do it right?   Well…I must not really want it.  But I want to really want it.

I set my alarm, wake up and then my sleeping self decides that I can sleep longer, and that I will fit in working out another time.  EVERY dang time….and Mr. Lund will be really surprised when I actually get up and work out.

Why oh why am I not a morning person? How do you become a morning person anyway? I wake up early a lot of days, and I still would always rather sleep for 9 hours. Maybe nobody is a morning person, but you just get up and get what needs to be done? Alright, alright.  I will work on it.  I just keep thinking when we have a baby how I will probably never get 9 hours of sleep again.  NEVER.  So maybe that is why I am hugging so tightly to the idea of sleep.  It is a wonderful thing.

So I thought that if I posted this fail on my blog, maybe it would motivate me to just do the first workout.  Then once I have re-connected with exercise, I will remember how great it is, and keep doing it.

Cross your fingers!