Summers Top Ten

1- Run a 5K every Saturday
2- Go on a hike at least once a week
3- Go to Yellowstone (neither of us have been before)
4- Buy the majority of our food from the Farmers Market downtown

5- Ride our bicycles everywhere we can within a a reasonable and safe distance
6- NO FAST FOOD (seriously...)
7- Go camping lots (until we are sick of it so it maybe just once who knows?)

8- Drive In Movies!

9- Utilize and take advantage of our amazing flight benefits!

10- Last but not least we are taking on the challenge of P90X! Silly But Extreme!

Strawberry Whipped Sensation

My first recipe turned out pretty dang yummy! We took it over to the Parry family's sunday dinner for dessert and everyone loved it!
Saturday night Ben and I went and got the ingredients and then came home and smashed strawberries...we did this around 10pm and got a knock on our door that we did't answer..oops! I would also suggest putting them in a baggie and smashing them becuase they kinda got all over the place! I actually told Ben right after we smashed the strawberries to put the Oreos in a baggie and smash them and he says to me why didn't we do that with the strawberries...Right...
anyways then we mixed the milk,lemon juice,condensed milk,strawberries together poured them into the pan that had a lining of tin foil, melted the butter mixed it with the oreos poured on top of the whipped mixture and put in the freezer over night.
Right before serving the next day I frosted it with cool whip and put strawberries on top!
Here's some pics!









Here's the Recipe:
what you need!
4 cups fresh strawberries, divided
1 can (14 oz.) sweetened condensed milk
1/4 cup lemon juice
1 tub (8 oz.) COOL WHIP Whipped Topping, thawed, divided
8 OREO Cookies, finely chopped
1 Tbsp. butter, melted
make it!

LINE 9x5-inch loaf pan with foil, with ends of foil extending over sides. Mash 2 cups berries in large bowl. Add milk, juice and 2 cups COOL WHIP; mix well. Pour into prepared pan.

MIX chopped cookies and butter. Spoon over COOL WHIP mixture. Cover with ends of foil; gently press cookie mixture into COOL WHIP mixture. Freeze 6 hours or until firm.

INVERT dessert onto plate when ready to serve; remove pan and foil. Frost dessert with remaining COOL WHIP. Slice remaining berries; arrange over dessert. Freeze leftovers.

In my spare time...

I have a subscription to Food and Family thanks to my sweet mother in law. They have some awesome recipes that I am really excited to try. So in my spare time, thus no time limit on it, I am going to bake everyone of the recipes! Sound familar? Kinda the whole julia and julia thing but...not. I will also post the recipes on here so you all can try them if you like! On the menu for tomorrow: strawberry whipped sensation!

....Can't Help It!

I have to have to add two more movies to our list! They are just good movies I can't help it!
Ok so the first one is hillarious I think the majority of people would love this movie... Ghost Town
The second one is actually one that I amazingly just saw for the first time last night... Grid Iron Gang

Top Ten Movies

No this is not the ultimate top ten movies of all time... I decided since this is Ben and mine's blog that I would do the top ten movies that both of us can agree on watching and be satisfied with the movie. They are in no particular order.

1.Remember the Titans
2.Blackhawk Down
3.Shooter
4.The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

5.Forever Strong

6.Little Rascals
7.The Fugitive

8.P.S. I love you

9.Oceans Eleven Series
10.The Bourne Series

We have a nice little variety of movies I think :) There's a few more that we could probably add to the list but we'll just keep it at ten!

Tuesdays Top Ten

On a friend of mines blog she does something like this and I wanted to try it out so let me know what you think!
(Shoot this one has to be really good because its the first one!)
TOP TEN REASONS WHY I'M DOING THE TOP TEN
1. Because I can...
2. Because I want to.
3. Because it will be AWESOME!
4. Because it will help me to blog at least once a week
5. Because it will be FUN!
6. Because I think it will be good for my brain to think of what I'm going to do the TOP TEN on and then to actually think of the TOP TEN
7. Because Jay Leno does a top ten?! Doesn't he? I DON'T KNOW!
8. Because if I can actually think of ten reasons why I'm doing the top ten then I better have something better for everyone to read next tuesday!
9. Because Ben's smart and I will have him just think of witty top ten topics!
10. Because I made it to ten dang it!

Waiting for the gym to clear out..

This has got to be the most randomest blog that I have ever done...

There is one treadmill in our apartment gym and two ellipticals and they are all taken at 1 in the afternoon. I don't understand. I already get upset when someones on the treadmill anytime from 12-1 because thats when I watch Gilmore Girls while I'm running. Today I went down later because I did the ab ripper first...not trying to brag here its not like I did amazing with the ab ripper and I did all the reps or something... no I did not :) Oh and I am supposed to run 9 miles this weekend for the half marathon training so I HAVE to run today!

Thats ok though it gives me some time to blog while I'm waiting... yes I'm waiting until 2 and hopefully someone will be off the treadmill. Its better than that time on a Friday night when I went down there to run and there were a whole bunch of people having pretty much a party in the gym. I put in my headphones and just start running and they come in with chairs and beer and sit down in front of the TV and start watching sports... ARE YOU KIDDING ME? I had to run that night though so I sucked it up and as soon as I was done I didn't even cool down I just shut off the treadmill and walked out. Seriously people c'mon.

Ben and I don't know if its us or people lately but it just seems like people are nuts! Not in a good way. The other day we were doing self checkout at the store we were trying to purchase one item that was in box with a bar code. The scanner was not reading the bar code so then it wanted us to type in the #'s on the bar code, meanwhile there is a girl breathing down our neck and tapping her foot! Go to another eisle geez! She is so lucky I didn't slap her! My heck! As my mom would say bless her heart, "Linds, maybe her dad has cancer, her son is in a wheelchair and someone stole her wallet you don't know whats going on in her life." My mom is too cute. But, thats not what I thought I thought I want to maybe slap her she's probably all talk. I'm not usually a violent person but lately I've been thinking some people need a good something something once in a while.

Don't even get me started about driving! I have become kinda an agressive driver I guess and I'm working on it but when I'm in the slow lane and you are tail gating me there is no better way to really tick me off! Yes I admit I've even slammed on my breaks a few times to these people(don't worry I don't do it anymore I got in trouble with Ben and my mom,dad,Jason,and Karlie) Who am I to judge though... sigh... this has got to be the craziest thing I have ever done on the internet... yes this blog that I'm writing write now.

Oh and one more thing... we pay $10 every month for a parking spot at our apartments. Its the last one on the row and theres a spot next to it that has a sign that reads"NO PARKING UNLOADING ONLY". So apparently because people can't park there they park in our spot. Not just even a half and half sometimes they full park in our parking spot. We've complained many times to the management they gave us the tow truck companies number which we keep in the car. One of the tow truck guys told us that if their in the "No Parking" Spot an no one is in the car that we can call them to be towed. The other day I get home from work and I am in a rush because I have to be inside to work at jetBlue in like 5 minutes and there is a truck with a small trailer backed into our parking spot. No joke. My front bumper and their front bumper are like 5 feet away. This guy comes out and opens the door to the truck grabs something and starts walking away so I roll down my window and start saying hey,hey, excuse me! He completely ignores me and keeps walking! I'm not even kidding right now! So I call the tow truck company they tell me they have to verify what I've told them? Fifteen minutes later I get a call from them they say "We've verified that there is someone parked in that stall. What kinda of car do you drive?" I tell them. " Ok we just wanted to be sure it wasn't your car. We'll send someone out right now to tow it." What??? I have nothing to say to that ... wow...oh wow. That was nice of them to make sure I didn't call the tow truck company to have my own car towed out of my own parking space... HELLO PEOPLE GEEZ!

Oh ya! Ben and I went snowmobiling with my family a few weekends ago and last weekend we went to Vegas... still need to blog about all that. We made a video while we were in Vegas of our adventures so I need to wait until we get that edited and then I can post about our trip :)
Ben needs to get on here too and talk about how his new job is going he has some very interesting people he works with. Very interesting.
I have been in a really wierd mood lately so I hope this blog doesn't make anyone think bad of me. For those of you who know me well this is just me being me. And no I don't hate the world in fact I'm in a really good mood today and loving the sun that is shining and that Ben is going to be home in 1 hour!
I'm going to go see if that person is off the treadmill now.