Penny Producing Pool

I know I know I know I need to get updates on here of everything going on but this story I have for you all is hillarious!!!! Oh wow!So the funniest thing happened today at the pool at our apartments. Ben and I love to dive for pennies down at the pool. We take a whole bunch of them and throw them all over and then see who can get the most pennies. So anyways, we are just chilling by the side of the pool talking and Ben is nonchalantly throwing the pennies in the pool. Keep in mind today we probably brought down around 50-70 pennies... gotta love it. Anyways, we see the maintenance guy coming so Ben stops throwing pennies. (he didn't see us throwing the pennies in the pool). He comes over to fix a filter or something and looks down at the pool, then he looks all over and we hear him mutter to himself "thats a shi*load of pennies down there". So then he yells to his co-worker "Bob, we're gunna need the vacuum there's a whole bunch of pennies in this pool and it's going to stain the bottom of the pool." HAHAHAHAHAHA... so Ben yells we can just grab them for you. So we do. And the maintenance guys are so grateful and are so helpful to point out where the pennies are for us to grab. Then , hold on tight this is the best part, after we have collected all of them the guy says "you guys can keep them if you want".... Ah thanks!!!

Freaking Hillarious! Ben and I were laughing so dang hard! Oh wow...good times! So we named our apartment pool the PENNY PRODUCING POOL.

Cooking with Linds

For any of you who have enjoyed reading about my cooking adventures I have decided to have a specific blog dedicated to it so if you want to go to this address...http://lindseyweberskitchen.blogspot.com/

You can keep tagging along with my cooking.

First Things First

I know Ben and I don't swear a ton and we keep it pretty low key on our blog (I know some of you are laughing for all sorts of different reasons) but anyways we've decided, with the help of family members, that because we have nieces and such we need to tone it down. So no more "pissed, damn, or hell". For those of you you have been around us we say "Hell" all the time. So now that I have written our swear words in this blog for their final farewell on the blog ...Why am I telling you all this??? Because we got at dang virus! Heck! I am so ticked! Oh its a virus on our computer by the way. I am seriously TO'd! I had my first experience with the blue screen of death...Oh my heck! Going to hurt someone! We had to completely erase everything on our computer and some of the stuff got erased by the dang virus. This included pictures, papers, you name it. Some of the stuff we were able to back up but some stuff we lost. Luckily I hadn't erased the pictures off of the camera so thats good.

So I'm pretty sure we got the virus from some punk who decided to hack our internet here at the apartment complex ....

Needless to say when Jesse, our computer genius brother, finds out exactly who gave us this virus, and yes he will find out, we are going to take over there dang com

puter and when they go to google and type in a search next thing you know this will appear on their screen!

Just as a nice, friendly, neighbor to neighbor reminder....

To not use our internet and then give us a dang virus!

1 year Anniversary

Our 1 year anniversary was over a month ago but I have to share what we did for it because it was AMAZING! We found this really cool hike and beautiful might I add that when you get to the top their are a ton of hot pots and a gorgeous waterfall. Here are some pictures....

Also what a year it has been for us! We've had so many different things going on, so many adventures, so many experiences and so much more to come!

Utah Arts Festival

We went to the Utah Arts Festival last night! It was fabulous! Both of us had never been before.

We watched Ririe Woodbury Dance perform on one of the outside stages. They were amazing of course! They are one of my favorite! The dancers were fantastic! Then we walked around bought some yummy roasted almonds looked at all of the really neat booths. Ben talked to one of the police officers at a booth and he gave Ben some really good advice. We wanted to stay and see a show and the information booth said that a group called "Cowboy Junkies" were going to perform later so we stuck around for that. On the stage that we thought they were performing on 3 ladies dressed as grandmas walked out and started performing. We thought they may just be an opening act but they kept going. It was pretty hillarious...after a while we realized they were pretty much an anti mormon type thing. Terrible. And then it was over. We took a look at our program for the night and realized we had been at the wrong stage... whoops!

It was a blast! We had such a fun night! We are planning on going every day!

Hello World!

You would think with me being unemployed that I would have blogged more. But I haven't blogged pretty much at all except for posting this AMAZING granola recipe yesterday! Maybe I'm sounding all Molly Mormon or whatever but its amazing so join the club you may think I'm in but not... hahaha.

Anywhoo... so I bet everyone is just dying to know what we have been up to because we have super crazy random dramatic (LOL) lives!

1. As of last week I (Lindsey) am no longer unemployed. We were driving along in the Mazda (prounounced Mahz-duh!) and heard a radio ad that says " do you have call center experience" why yes I do " have you worked in the travel industry" yes " do you know how to use the sabre system" this was the system that jetblue changed over to so...yes." Apply now to be a travel agent for teleperformance! " So just for the fun of it I did! 15 minutes after filling it out they called me and pretty much hired me over the phone but I still had to do the whole interview thing and all that jazz. Bad news I won't be graduating this semester because I had to drop some classes for the hours at the job. Good news... GREAT PAY! Well for me! Its the most I will have ever made. Fabulous! The project is permanent and its for expedia.com except the business travel portion of it. Should be fun! Their biggest thing they talk about is advancement so I'm crossing me fingers and going to work hard to advance quickly! I start next Monday working evenings.

2. My unemployment claim was denied. I appealed it. Denied again. Bunch of B.S. It's so political these days it drives me up a wall. So good thing I found a job cause they are not going to pay me a dime. Thanks people who denied my claim and jetblue.

3. Ben and I are looking into joining the ROTC. At first we were both commited hard core but I'm not so sure if its what I want to commit to for 12 years. Ben for sure wants to do it so we are getting him all ready! You have to pass in 3 areas to be granted a scholarship; leadership, academic, and physical. We took a practice physical a few weeks back and we're not going to talk about that. Lets just say it gaves us some idea of where we were at and what we need to do. What the ROTC would be is the ARMY would pay for our schooling we'd have to do special leadership training at the school as well. The ARMY would give us basically monthy paychecks, housing allowance and we would lose all of this if at anytime we worked a job for more than 20 hours a week. Sound Awesome yet? Then after we graduate with our Bachelors we would also be commisioned an officer in the ARMY! WOW HUH? Starting out at about $50,000 a year. So then all we have to give them in return is 4 years (after we graduate) active duty and then 4 years reserve. Ben and I both want to do the nursing program. We really worry about deployment and being split up though. Really scary. Before we decide to jump full head on to this thing we are going to take the ROTC classes at the U during the fall and then we can start in January 2011. A lot of commitment, a lot of discipline, new lifestyle so we'll see.

4. Our 1 year anniversary is this Sunday the 27th! So AWESOME! What a year right? WOW! It's been amazing though every last second of it! We don't really have time to celebrate though so we are going to major celebrate in September with our cruise to the Bahamas! We were talking in today about maybe buying an anniversary gift. Maybe a special hammock thing (believe me it's way cool) so we can sleep on our porch, or a rifle (LOL) Random I know.

5. We are both enrolled full time at school right now. Ben is kicking butt at 16 credit hours plus a 40 hour job and I am at 12 credit hours with a 40 hour job. We have 1 class together, communications. It is so much fun having a class together and we are so hard core students.

Well I think thats it for now but who knows!

Granola Heck yes!

Found this granola recipe ... LOVE IT! Ya know how granola is like a million bucks at the store well this is super cheap to make and super easy!!! I've made like a gazillion batches so far and it tastes AMAZING too! Much better than the million buck stuff from the store.

Heres the recipe!

• 3 cups rolled oats
• 1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons dark brown sugar
• 1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons maple syrup
• 1/4 cup vegetable oil
• 3/4 teaspoon salt

Directions

Preheat oven to 250 degrees F.

In a large bowl, combine the oats and brown sugar.

In a separate bowl, combine maple syrup, oil, and salt. Combine both mixtures and pour onto 2 sheet pans. Cook for 1 hour and 15 minutes, stirring every 15 minutes to achieve an even color.

Remove from oven and transfer into a large bowl. Mix lightly for a few minutes.

You can add dried fruit or raisins after you cook it. Or you can add apples, bananas or strawberries and mix with yogurt.

Super yummy! Try it out!