Time passes so quickly.

This week has gone by so fast.

Highlights Checklist:

-A's in all my classes at midterm: CHECK!

-Birthday party in IF for Ryan and Chase: CHECK!

-Chase finishes his first full week working for Med Source: CHECK!

-Chase gets a refresher session at Aeropostale so he can work there too: CHECK!

-We bought meat other than chicken (meaning steak): CHECK! and YUM.

-We did a WINCO run, and now have enough groceries to last us at least a month!: CHECK!

-Our sink is leaking: CHECK! :(

-Chase has two huge scabs on his face!: CHECK!

-The scabs are a result of a little off-roading accident!: CHECK!

-We went to the ice caves with Brandon, Robyn, Travis, and Lindsey: CHECK!

-The adventures at the ice caves resulted of the off-roading accident!: CHECK! and whoops.

-We have no curfew now, but stayed out for the first time past midnight this week!: CHECK!

-Reading Frankenstein for my art and culture class, and think it's amazing: CHECK!

-Took a giant anatomy lab test, where i had to know blood vessels, anatomy of the heart, and anatomy of the ear and eye.: CHECK!

- Making the steak we bought!: CHECK! (I found a recipe on foodnetwork.com for grilled steak with a bacon balsamic glaze and it was so GOOD! It was a really unique flavor combination!)

I think that's about it. This weekend, Chase and I are looking forward to seeing Jamie and Nicole tomorrow here in Rexburg, possibly seeing a movie for our date tonight, going to the temple tomorrow with Sarah and Eric, taking a Middle East test (and getting an A! (hopefully)), going to the art gallery at the Spori, studying ALOT for my test this week, helping Lindsey and Shawn and the kids with family pictures and picnicing with them, and who knows what else!

Chase and I have been blessed very much, especially lately. Chase was able to get a job and Medsource of course, but then was able to get on at Aero. (... which also means some excellent discounts! This is especially good for Christmas, so we can get inexpensive presents.) We have this home where we get dirt cheap rent, we get to see Chase's family here in 2 weeks, go to the temple with TJ, and see Jake play ball. I have been doing well in school, we have solid meals everyday, and things i have been studying have just been awesome. I mean.. could life get any better really? We have had the opportunity to learn that we receive these blessings from living the way that we are suppose to, and continually trying to do better. We've come up with a little system on our white board calendar. We have prayer, scripture study, temple, and journal writing on there. We only get prayer points if we do morning and night. We have to go to the temple at least once a week, and write in our journals at least on Sunday. (we haven't been as good on the journal part! ha) But depending on how well we do, measures how good of a date we get that Friday! It's been awesome to track our progress and also be able to realize how much more smoothly life goes, and how much more patient and loving we are. The gospel is so true, and it changes our lives every day.

Lately, we have also been somewhat obsessed on dreams of our future home. (Or at least someday having a living room.. haha). We've even been devising some plans to make our little apartment even better! We want to paint the wall that goes around our bed area, and it may sound crazy, but we want to do it an almost purple color. It's a almost plum color. But it's mostly a brown with purple undertones. It sounds crazy, but it's actually a really cool color! Anyway... but we have also been obsessed with deciding what art we want in our home, whether it be religious or not. It's been so fun, and maybe i'll post some pictures of the ones we love. But, just the other night i drew out what i want our future living room to look like haha. We love our little apartment, and this stage of our life, but we are so excited for the future and everything that entails.

But anyway, that's a little bit of what life has been like lately! It just keeps getting better!

This one is pretty intense, but Chase and I love it.

And this one is awesome. Very sublime.

Birthdays, Bruschetta, and shoot.. i can't think of anything else important that started with a B lately.

So i'm really bad at blogging, obviously. I said i would be good, but school has gotten the better of me. Actually, all truth be told i should be studying right now. But my brain is fried. I actually am suppose to take a test tonight. I'll get to that.. haha.

Well school is going great! I have A's in all my classes and have gotten A's on all my tests so far. Chase was working road construction, but as the season has ended, he is about to start working for a company called Med Source. It's located down in Utah, but he got the job because of his best friend, Chad, who also works there. He goes down to Salt Lake next week to train, and they give him a headset and he'll work from home. 2 to 8 pm every day. He just calls people to sell diabetic supplies. Luckily, the people he calls have already filled out surveys to say that they want the products, so he won't get any angry people yelling at him. He will get 8 dollars an hour plus commission, and Chad has been getting alot more than 8 dollars an hour with all the deals he closes, so we hope Chase will too!

Last week was my mom's birthday and i was in charge of dessert for the party. I wanted to do something a little different, so i found a recipe for deep fried candy bars. As weird as it sounds it was absolutely delicious! Chase and i ate twix and it was unbelievable with the carmel and chocolate all melted inside.. YUMM!

Also, it was Chase's birthday this week! We got to spend the whole day together. We started off the morning with a "hot and cold" gift hunt, Chase went to my classes with me, we ate lunch on a hill overlooking Rexburg, i had to study in the afternoon unfortunately, i made yummy chicken bruschetta alfredo (which i will post the recipe for at the end.. I know people wanted it!), ate chocolate peanut butter cookie trifle, and we opened some more presents. And it ended falling asleep to the movie Big. What a great day! ... at least compared to wake up, school, food, study, food, study, sleep. haha.

We went to General Conference last weekend and got to spend time with Chase's best friends Jamie and Chad, and their wives Nicole and Claire. It was actually Chad's birthday on Saturday so we got to celebrate that with all of them. It was awesome to be able to spend time with them and to be able to get to know them and their wives better!

We're actually looking into the possibility of moving to Provo next fall to do nursing at UVU. It's not set in stone, but it's a definite possibility. It would be great to be close to all of our married friends down there, and chances look very good on getting in. I just am afraid of wasting time and semesters trying to get in here. It's so competitive that it's nearly impossible. A girl we know didn't end up getting in until she had almost graduated with a bachelor's! So she ended up with her RN, and 2 bachelor's by the time she finally finished!! I don't think i can do that. I know that I am still pretty young, but I just want to finish my schooling so I can have my degree, find a job, and start our family.

Anyway. We have lots of pictures to post, but we can only do it on my laptop, and its new battery is currently being shipped! So i'll add some pictures to this next week! :) We have conference pictures, haircut pictures, and food pictures (haha).


Alfredo Recipe!!! (I kind of just figured it out by myself, so I'll try to make it easy, but it's mostly just guessing measurements haha)

Homemade Alfredo Sauce:
- 1 pint carton of heavy whipping cream
- pack of shredded italian cheeses
- 2 tsp. butter.
- 1 clove of garlic (you won't use the whole clove so you can use it for the bruschetta too)
- pepper

Melt butter in sauce pan on high. Add whipping cream and stir until it mixture starts to boil. Add as much chopped garlic as you desire. Add as much cheese as you desire! (probably about a cup. I also like to add a little bit of medium or sharp cheddar to it to make the taste a little more bold!) Mix until cheeses are melted and mixture becomes creamy. Add as much ground pepper as you desire! (I also like to add a tomato and basil seasoning into the sauce!)

Bruschetta:
-2 tomatoes
-1 clove of garlic
-1 small bushel of basil

Dice tomatoes, chop some garlic and basil, and mix together! I also like to put in a few squirts of Kraft Sundried Tomato Vinaigrette Dressing. (It's also the best if you're going to eat salad with this!) It's super simple. I like it better if it sits for a day so that the flavors really come out, so you could make it a day before even, or left overs are just really yummy! :)

Take about 2 boneless chicken breasts and season them with garlic powder and pepper. Or, I really like to use garlic salt and that tomato basil seasoning i mentioned! Just cook them on the good old George Foreman and slice then into small strips.

Oh! and boil a few cups of penne pasta or whatever noodles really. We like to use the whole grain penne pasta to make it at least feel a little more healthy!

Once everything is done, serve the noodles with sauce, then bruschetta, then the strips of chicken. Top it all with a sprinkle of italian cheeses and that's all! We like to eat it with artisan bread dipped in balsamic vinegar and olive oil. And broccoli fried with extra virgin olive oil and garlic salt! It's the BEST! This meal is definitely not for counting calories on!

Hopefully this wasn't too confusing... Well that's all, this has been far too long already!