Pre Spring Break in San Diego!

For a fantastic long weekend in March we had the pleasure of visiting my parents in San Diego. It had just snowed again in Salt Lake so it was the perfect getaway! Not to mention the weather was perfect in there. We biked, ate, swam and stand up paddle boarded away! It was so much fun and can't wait to go back again soon!

Thanks Mom and Dad for having us!

Venerdì felice!

I saw this on someone else's blog and it looked fun!

• If I were a month, I’d be May (my birthday month of course).
• If I were a day of the week, I’d be Friday.
• If I were a time of day, I'd be oh lets say noon (I love food).
• If I were a planet, I’d be Pluto (because its tiny and out there).
• If I were a sea animal, I'd be a sea otter.
• If I were a direction, I’d be South (cause its warmer).
• If I were a piece of furniture, I’d be big comfy chair.
• If I were a liquid, I’d be Sugarhouse Coffee Chai (mm mm good).
• If I were a gemstone, I’d be a emerald (my birth stone).
• If I were a tree, I’d be Palm tree!
• If I were a tool, I’d be straight iron.
• If I were a flower, I’d be something tropical.
• If I were a kind of weather, I’d be a “not too hot” perfect sunny day.
• If I were a musical instrument, I’d be a piano.
• If I were a color, I’d be yellow.
• If I were an emotion, I’d be happy.
• If I were a fruit, I’d be a grape.
• If I were an element, I’d be water.
• If I were a car, I'd be an Audi.
• If I were a food, I’d be a milkshake!
• If I were a place, I’d be a beach.
• If I were a material, I’d be anything soft.
• If I were a scent, I’d be Viktor & Rolf FLOWERBOMB.
• If I were an animal, I'd be lion club.
• If I were a facial expression, I’d be a SMILE.
• If I were a song, I’d be “Right Round” by Flo Rida.
• If I were a pair of shoes, I’d be a pair of tennis shoes.

So HAPPY FRIDAY and here is a funny thing that came out of my biology class when we were talking about Darwin and Survival of the Fittest.

Adore!

As I was trudging through the snow today walking to class.... this is what I was thinking about!
Now it doesn't have to be this specific WARM place but i just wanted to be somewhere warm!

Giveaway!

Yahoo Padgett, I say you ditch the giveaway and keep these goodies! But for everyone that cooks these would be fantastic because everything that Le Creuset makes is GREAT!
Visit my wonderful sister's site and you could WIN!
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Vitamins and Minerals

We just got done studying Vitamins and Minerals in Nurtrition class and a couple of the Vitamins do things I never knew, so I thought I would share! I am a major advocate of vitamins so I couldn't have been more interested in this topic anyway!

All the "B" vitamins are great for you but a couple in particular were interesting to me! Niacin, considered B3 has been proven to lower you LDL cholesterol.

Folate, helps you divide and replicate your red blood cells and it also prevents Spina bifida from occurring in fetuses.

Vitamin D might help prevent cancer, so keep tanning, eating your fatty fish and fortified milk and cereal.

And finally I thought this one was the really neat. Vitamin B6 can help prevent morning sickness! Granted you have to take 70X the RDA but my Professor said his wife tried it and it worked!

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY

I hope everyone had a LOVELY day!

Exercise and Sport Science

I already love the one and only class that is actually in my degree! I am taking basic biology, which sucks, lets just be honest, and a nutrition class which is pretty interesting. Not to mention his assignments are GREAT because we venture into the real world and put the material we learn in class to work. To top it off his name is Thunder Jalili and looks like Ben Stiller! BUT my Exercise and Sport Science (ESS) class, Explorations of Movement, is the greatest! Or second day of class we played kick ball, third week we got to go to the PEAK Academy and get our blood tested and had to do the whole fit test thing! Also homework was to run so we could learn how to figure out our VO2 max, to see how strong our heart and lungs are! Where else would you ever have homework that required you to run, its GREAT!

There is my update on school so far!

I HEART Audi

I must share this story just in case anyone has the same problem. My seat heater had been "acting up" and I just decided it was easier not to use it at all because it got to the point it would get too hot just in one spot. So driving along one day Shane had the heater on and put my mitten in the hot spot and it all seemed good, until I picked my mitten up off the seat and smoke billowed out of the hole it had just created.... WHAT! Yeah I had a quarter sized hole burnt in my seat now! I was so bummed so I started researching what to do, in my mind I was hoping there would be some way to fix the leather or something. I found a site where other people had had the same problem and there recommendation was to call Audi of America and report a claim. So I did and I just have to say that was the best thing I could have done. I have a brand new drivers seat now... my car is 10 years old and they replaced it for me! I couldn't be more thrilled to not only have a new seat but a heater that works again! So there is my crazy story with a happy ending, I have always loved my car and still to this day if I were to ever get a new car I would still get and AUDI!!

Official Student!

Here we go again... on to Bachelors degree #2 and I am so excited about this one! I think I am almost prepared besides the fact I still have some juggling to do to get my schedule down just right, whew! 1st lesson learned and I have not even started classes is to register early, they were not kidding when they said classes will fill up fast!

Goodies!

I want a puppy oh so badly! This is Dutchess, my Aunt and Uncles pup! So she is just an example of one I would take anyday... she is so cute! We tied a big red bow around her neck at Christmas and she was beyond darling!

Ever since I made my own tutu I love everything tutu! If someone can figure out how to buy this skirt I would take it!

And Beach Cruisers... the are so underrated, you just feel happy riding them and this one is super cute!

And she is pretty! At the same time wearing a tutu like shirt! Love IT!

I just like this dress and I am trying to decide whether to buy it or not?