Fab Friday Feature!!

Today's feature: Wedding Registry's

Since Chris and I got married I have been to 4 weddings and 5 bridal showers. This weekend my dear friend Cindy has her shower, which makes 6 showers in 6 months. I feel like everyone around me is getting married; love is in the air, along with the pollen.

You may disagree with me, but, I have come to really appreciate wedding registry's. All I have to do is print out the registry or go online and in no time I'm are buying something the couple actually wants/needs. I no longer worry about finding something the couple will like, because they picked it out. On top of that you don't need a gift receipt (unless you are buying at Target, we found this out w/ our wedding).

Fab Friday Feature

Today's feature: Calculate your Carbon Footprint

A carbon footprint is a measure of the impact our activities have on the environment in terms of the amount of greenhouse gases we produce. It is measured in units of carbon dioxide.

I truly believe that every American should do this!! Just Google Carbon footprint and there are tons of websites that do all the calculations for you. Choose a site that calculates more than just the state you live in and what kind of car you drive, carbonfootprint.com is a good one, but I am sure there are more.

I view myself as being pretty environmentally friendly. I don't drive a hybrid, but I shop organically and locally whenever possible, try not to by items with packaging, don't fly often, etc. but man my footprint is HUGE (huge being a relative word since sadly mine is about 3x smaller than the US average)

Here are my results:
My carbon footprint 7.01 tonnes.
The average American's footprint 20.4
The average world wide carbon footprint 4 tonnes.

But......
To combat climate change the world wide average needs to be 2 tonnes

Crazy huh!!

Cookies

On May 2nd I posted a Fab Friday Feature regarding Martha Stewart's Cookie Cookbook. Well, yesterday I attempted to make the chewy gingerbread chocolate chip cookie. Once again her cookies do not disappoint... they are amazing, the best so far actually!!! Just to toot my own horn, please note the similarities between my version and the cookies on the cover. I may be a tad biased, but I think my cookies could be "cover girls".

Friends and Babies!!

Last Friday Chris and finally got to hang out with our dear friends Michelle and Tyler and their sweet babies Ella and Asher. I was really excited to hang out with people again after being quarantined the week prior. I was also excited about the "girl time" Michelle and I managed to squeeze in before our husbands showed up. Friday also happened to be the hottest day of 2008 so far, I think it reached 97 degrees. Can you say hot, sweaty and sticky? Luckily Michelle whipped out a sprinkler for the kiddos to play in. Asher didn't really like it at first, probably because he kept making it go up his nose, but once he realized he shouldn't touch the sprinkler he warmed up to it.

Ella didn't seem as excited about the sprinkler as she did her huge Disney book. When/if I have a daughter I am definitely buying that book for her. She was loving that thing.

I am thankful for our friends and for their children. They are all such a joy to be around. I can't wait until Chris and I have children of our own to enjoy.....

Don't get too excited....it won't be for a while.

Fab Friday Feature

Today's Feature: The CityPass

The CityPass saves nearly half the cost of visiting the most popular big city attractions in New York, Salt Lake City, San Francisco, Southern California, Atlanta, Chicago, etc.
It includes tickets to the great icons of America and bundles them to cost about half what you'd pay for individual tickets.

The pass lets you avoid ticket lines and contains admission tickets, transportation information, attraction details, and discount and offer coupons. You just march through the doors, the attraction staff removes that ticket, and you're in, saving money and time.

We first found out about the CityPass in San Francisco last year and with our upcoming road trip we are going to get passes in Salt Lake City. The cost = $28 for a two day ticket(a $108 value).

For those of you traveling to a major US city or attraction.....look into this.

Spring has sprung!!

It's official.....I love to garden. I grew up with a big yard and mom who's an official "master gardener" but I never knew that I loved to garden until Chris and I started our garden a few weeks ago.

A few weeks back I blogged about our 1st true gardening adventures. We were so excited that we had started our garden but our excitement was quickly erased when 4 days after our 80 degree gardening weekend we got snow. As if snow wasn't enough, we then got hail and freezing temperatures for the next week. While most people were enjoying our
crazy weather, all I could think about were our poor
seeds/"babies" a couple inches below the soil. I thought for sure all our plants were going to freeze over and die.
As the weather has slowly began to warm from our freakishly freezing Spring I have been excited beyond belief that ALL of our plants/seeds have survived (with the exception of our poor tomato plant).

**moment of slience for our loss**

Anyway, enough of my patheticness (I don't think that's a word but you catch my drift).

Fab Friday (Monday) Feature

Since we missed our Fab Friday Feature last week, I decided to post it today to make up for it.

Our Fab choice for last week: OUR MOMS!!!

At last!!!!!!!

I woke up this morning for the first time in a week with no eye problems. WAHOO!!! I am ready to go out and be social again:)

What is wrong with us?

I woke up Monday morning with an eye infection and Chris woke up this morning to find his lips were swollen. Poor guy, I think he has a bad heat rash on his lips. It looks like he had collagen injections:)

Road Trip!

Here's the deal. Monica's family has a family reunion every August and she hasn't been able to make it to one in over ten years. So, after much debate we have decided we are going to road trip it. We will be departing August 1st and embarking on an 18 day road trip to places we have been wanting to check out.

Besides driving too many miles to count we will be experiencing some pretty amazing things together. We will also doing many "firsts"
First time Zip lining across a canyon
First time Horseback riding for longer than 10 minutes
First time seeing a Monet painting up close and personal
First time eating "real" BBQ
First time...... I guess we will wait and see.

We have created a "tentitive" road trip map so check it out. Let us know if there are any unknown must sees we should see along the way.

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&ie=UTF8&ll=43.897892,-90.615234&spn=31.116091,81.914062&z=4&msid=108312964434737040035.00044c7226b9c8a52e3cb

Fab Friday Feature!!!

This weeks feature: Martha Stewart's Cookies

Honestly, normally I am not a huge fan of Martha Stewart's recipes. For some reason when I cook them I feel this odd sense that everything needs to be perfect. I know I need to get over it.

Anyway, I went home this past weekend and saw this cookbook on my mom's kitchen counter. Not one to pass up a cookbook, I opened it up. The way this cookie cookbook is set up is genius! It is devided into categories like crunchy, saltie, chewy, etc. So if you are craving something googey, to flip to the googey chapter, check your pantry and choose accordingly. I have tried two of the recipies: Carrot cake cookies (Chewy) and Cornmeal Jam cookies (crunchy). Both were EXCELLENT. My mom said she has made other recipes and ALL of them turned out great.

Since Chris is a major cookie fan I may have to buy a copy for myself:)