Valentines Day

It was a pretty quiet day here for V-day, since it was Sunday. I did make a nice valentine dinner of Gnocchi, with home made sauce, sauteed edamame, and bread sticks.

We also invited Curtis, my nephew, over for dinner and a movie.

Hope we didn't bore him to death. lol.. love you Curt.

This is how the kids spent thier evening..watching the Olympics in thier favorite spot- Mom and Dad's bed.

The adults watched "Couples Retreat", it was pretty funny. I even made a red-velvet cake, my first gluten-free attempt with this type of cake. I always shied away from it because, you add a bottle of red food coloring to it! I didn't have the food coloring, but I did have some red paste left from my cake decorating days. It worked just fine.

Just wanted to tell everyone how grateful I am to have you in my life, even if we are miles apart this Valentines Day.

a me day, well sorta...

This week is Derek's week off, and I have really needed some time away from the house, so I went up to Salt Lake. I met up with Julie Nooner (most of you know her family from Morrilton)
It was so nice to see a familiar face. She gave me a tour of the Skin Institute were she completed her degree in Aesthetics. It was a really cool place, and I cannot wait to go back and get some procedures done. Since the students do the work, the cost is about half of what it would be in a regular spa.
After my tour we went to Pei Wei, and had some lunch. It was so nice just to sit and talk and be like a normal person for a while(well, as normal as I can be!) Thanks Julie for a great day!

After our visit, I went into Taylorsville to check out a Gluten Free store called Against the Grain. I have never seen so many gluten-free products in one place! They had just a a delivery of gluten free decorated sugar-cookies from a nearby bakery. I just couldn't resist taking some home. They even sold whole pies. Only in a place like Utah, could a store like this thrive.
I think they should name it Gluten Free Heaven. Oh, by the way the cookie was heavenly :)

little things mean alot

Okay, moving half way across the country is tough!
I'm having such a hard time adjusting. I find myself going to Walmart just for the Southern vibe, and believe me, there are rednecks in Utah too! Ive decided I've got to pick myself up and go on.
We are not going back, even though yesterday while heading south on I-15, I thought to myself
"I can keep on this Freeway and in 2 days I will be back in AR!"
How pathetic am I!
So, Ive got to start being more positive about this experience. So I'm going to share a few "likes"

Okay the first. I love this thing! It has THE best water pressure. It's great for waking you up in the morning!


2nd, we have grass in our yard, not a tree in sight!(no leaves to rake this fall- yahoo!)


3rd we have a garage. If any of you have lived here, you know scraping windows every morning can be a chore!



4th our church is literally one house down. I was standing in our front yard. You can see the steeple-only one house stands between us.



5th-okay I know your saying, "she loves a door?" Our last house did not have a door on the Master bath, so you always had someone walking in on you. I was even more excited when I found out the door even locks! Heaven!



ust random thoughts, from my random mind...