Sunday Morning

It's been awhile since my last post about movies and what not. It's been a great couple of weeks full of working, cooking, and school with the occasional time off to just relax. Sunday morning has to be the best morning ever. You wake up and have nothing to do so you lay around till you get hungry. :) Then you get up and make some food. Today I made crepes with whipped cream, fresh blackberries and a blackberry purée to top it off. Here's a couple pics I snapped.

Mmmm! Tasty!

Then I went back to bed! I'm currently horizontal and it's wonderful! To all the poor people out there working today I want you to know that I'll relax extra hard for you today and I'll make and eat potato leek soup tonight just for you! I'll post the recipe for crepes on damnthelemonade and the potato leek soup is already there, only tonight I'm gonna add a little bacon to the guest list and maybe some cheese like gruyere. Happy Sunday everyone!!

Movies, Ice Cream and a Blanket

One of my favorite things to do in the whole world is watch a movie, eat ice cream, and hang out with a blanket. It's something so simple but it really does make me a super happy guy. And I can't forget that it's not complete without my wonderful wife, Brooke, sitting right next to me. It doesn't matter what movie it is, it makes me super happy. Now, the ice cream does kinda matter. The most recent was a homemade peach ice cream, that really hit the spot. I found the recipe on Allrecipes.com. It's simple and pretty tasty. I did change it because the recipe makes a gallon of ice cream and I only wanted a quart. I also tweaked it a bit because I wanted it to be a touch sweeter. So if you try it, taste the mix before you freeze it and adjust to your liking. Other nights, if I'm not making ice cream, my personal favorite has been any of the Häagen-Dazs sorbet's because I've always been a sucker for fruit flavored ice-cream. While Brooke usually favors Häagen-Dazs new flavors like ammaretto-almond crunch, or bananas foster, or chai tea. I do, of course, have to have a bite of any of those flavors because they are incredible! The point is to get an ice cream you love and sit down with it and who cares if you eat the whole pint.... : ) (I usually only stop after the spoon is starting to taste like paper from scraping all the ice cream dregs out of the carton.)

On the subject of movies. Everyone has their favorites. No, I never really want to watch a chick flick but I gotta let my wife have a turn and honestly I usually end up kinda enjoying it. HOWEVER, some of the films are complete wastes of time and energy and I wish that whoever created that film had a heart attack and died instead of made that horror. I am positive that Brooke would say the same about some of my favorite movies too. Either way we usually end up enjoying what we watch and it's a great way to end the work day and relax before bed.

To end this post I would just add this last thought. I'm saying all this simply because you don't have to spend a lot of money or real energy to have a good evening. Enjoy the simple things in life like ice cream, a movie, and a blanket. I love going out as much as the next guy but at the same time I couldn't be happier to live life at it's simplest.

To the New Year

Well, it's 2012. I spent my first day of this year spending time with the woman I love and relaxing from the chaos we've had to deal with at work this holiday season. 2011 was a good year. It had it's ups and downs with the biggest down happening through the beginning of October, with many ups throughout the rest of the year. But that's all history. What's gonna happen this year? Well a few things are already going on. I'll finish culinary school this year and me and Brooke are deciding what to do and where to go next. On the list of possibilities there's been London, back home to Utah, Portland or Arizona for more schooling, and a few more. We'll just see what happens. I've been thinking recently about new years resolutions. Basically they are things that we hope to achieve to make our lives easier, happier, healthier, and...well...better. Some try to make life better for others. Others just wanna get by. As for me I want to make this year better than the last. I want to see myself and my family progress and move up and forward. I'm a little nervous to make some of the decisions that will need to be made this year but I know I won't have to make them alone. I'm excited for all the adventures I'm going to have this year and the new experiences that will hopefully help me and my family grow. When you really think about it, it's nice to not know what's going to happen ahead. We can hope and plan a few things along the way but life will happen as it's supposed to happen. All we can really do is be the absolute best we can, working hard and doing what we know is right, then leaving the rest to God. I don't know exactly the purpose for writing this particular post other than to get some thoughts and feelings out of my head and into the world. To close I just wanna say I love you, to all of you that should know I love you, particularly my wife and all of my family and friends both here and at home. You all have made me who I am today and I'm thankful to have you all in my life. I wish you all the best and hope that everything you would like to accomplish this year can happen for you. To a happy new year!