Gotta Love Him!

I finally downloaded this picture from last Friday (I know, I'm a slacker). Anyways. My awesome husband was just thanking me for spending my entire day Friday helping him with his homework and walking him through all of his assignments and study guides, after which he got 100% on his test! So thoughtful!

3 Day Walk

To Whom It May Concern,

I, Deneigh Candland, am doing the Breast Cancer 3 Day Walk! I am so excited to be doing this walk with my mother in my cousin Nicole's name who was diagnosed with breast cancer in her twenties. I am also doing it for women all over the world. By doing this 60 mile walk and all the training involved I hope to get healthy myself. If you or anyone you know would like to make a donation, please feel free to go to my website or by clicking on my countdown on the sidebar. I have set a goal to raise $2,200 and I know I can do it! Feel free to email me with questions!

Sincerely,
Deneigh Candland

In Loving Memory...

We say goodbye to our beloved prophet Gordon B. Hinckley.

Whole Wheat Bread Recipe

I am going through a funny phase right now (especially since I've started my Food and Nutrition class) and I'm looking for a really yummy bread recipe - that is actually good for us! I know that whole wheat is a great way to go, so I'm reaching out to the blogging world and asking for recipes - huge shocker, I know! I need a typically easy recipe where I can make 2 loaves a week and we can eat it as our everyday sandwhiches or toast. Feel free to email me (nayskers@hotmail.com) or post it in the comments to share. Thanks!

Love it!

Love that my mom got off early...

Love that we got to go to lunch today...

Love that we went and got pedicures...

Love that American Idol is on tonight...

The End

Christmas All Over Again

It was like Christmas all over again when I got the mail this afternoon! First of all this cute girl sent me an AMAZING package of goodies! Thank you, thank you Amy!


I also received my Creating Keepsakes 2008 Special Issue, which I am devouring even though I should be studying for my Food & Nutrition test.



And then to top off my awesome afternoon, my mother in law sent 24 Season 6! Yeah! After Phillip's Stats test tonight I can guarantee we will be locking ourselves in our bedroom until we've watched the entire season! If we don't answer our phone...don't get offended! Just kidding!

Family Night

Phillip got home today at 3:00 so we packed up our mountain bikes and went out to Usery Pass! It was a blast! We did the Blevins Trail which was 3 miles and it was actually a great trail! Some parts were a little hard and the sand made for a great workout, but we had so much fun! I'm already sore! We got a few pictures as the sun was going down.

Congrats Peter & Amber!!!

It's official! She's here!

Meet Chloe Fjeldsted

Born 1/18/08 at 2:12 am

Weighing 6 lbs 13 oz and 19 1/2 inches

Busy Bee

Yesterday I spent a good part of my day making my cousin Peter and his wife Amber gifts for their new baby due VERY soon (I need to mail this off today in fact). I made her a boppy (with pockets of course), then decided to color coordinate and match the rest of the gifts, so I made a blanket, burp rag, plus that cute see through paint can that I tied matching ribbons along the handle and filled it with socks and bows that I made a few months ago. These aren't the best pictures, I just took them as fast as I could so I could box the gift up.

Stuck In Flagstaff {Snowed In}

On Sunday morning we left Logan to go back to AZ during a terrible snow storm. It was so bad we had to take an alternative route because the canyon was too dangerous. My little brother was two hours ahead of us, but he decided to go through St. George instead. The storms were hit and miss and in random areas. As we got to the point where we needed to decide whether we'd go one way or another, we decided to go the way we always go that is a little shorter, but we knew we'd be chancing bad roads. We felt pretty good about it, but as we got about an hour outside of Kanab, Phillip fell asleep and the roads were completely snow packed. I was SO terrified as I was only able to stay on the road by watching the posts on my right and when I found random tracks that were mostly covered by snow. Phillip woke up just in time as a car went off the side of the road and he helped them get back on. After 40 miles of that, the roads turned great! It was dark as we got closer to Flagstaff, and the storms began again. It got a little too scary for us and Phillip called his boss and said we were going to stay there for the night. Let's just say we had to dig our car out to see if it was ours...and it was so bad we stayed another day! So we were stuck in Flagstaff for 2 days, but it was great because we were able to get a head start on our new semester for school since it started Monday. Just so everyone is aware though, we LOVED the snow!

Goals & Resolutions

Okay, so if any of you know me, I'm a goal setting kind of gal. When the new year comes along Phillip and I have a little tradition of going out to lunch and taking our planners and discussing things we'd like to work on and figuring out a plan or schedule. I've set a few lofty goals this year and my sweet husband is there to encourage me along the way. My mind is always going a hundred miles a minute and I am always coming up with ideas or projects and it drives the people around me nuts! With that said, I want to follow through with more of those crazy ideas! One of the ones that has been on my mind for a few months is finishing the cookbooks I promised everyone years ago. I've taken forever on this because I've changed the design and how to store them over a gazillion times. I have come to the conclusion that I need to simplify my life and just do it! When I started putting my "what's for dinner" on the side bar of my blog I got a bunch of comments and emails. That got me going even more and I am in the midst of collecting all my final decisions and I'm going to set a goal to complete them by March (hopefully this semester will allow the time). With that said, a few of you asked for my grocery list that I have on an excel spreadsheet (this will be included in the cookbook on a disk so you can add your own items also). I have one little problem...it was on our laptop and I hadn't converted it to my new Mac yet, when the hard drive crashed and yes, I lost EVERYTHING, sigh. I am going to put together a new one as I did have one printed out. I was also asked a top ten list of our favorite dinners. This could go a million ways (easiest, yummiest, quickest, etc). I will just list the top ten that come to mind alternating pork, chicken, and hamburger:

pork chops in asparagus
poppy seed chicken
meatloaf

spinach lasagna

cream cheese chicken
tacos or taco salad

country style ribs

chicken enchiladas

cream of mushroom patties

cabbage stew

So I'm a total dork and can't figure out how to attach the recipes, so if you want them before I get the cookbooks done, then just email me at nayskers@hotmail.com .  Ask me questions, or give ideas.

Here's to a new year, with new goals and plans!  Good luck and best wishes to anyone who set resolutions!