Sunday, June 3, 2012
New Blog Address!!
I got tired of this blog...and started a new one! You can now follow me at ericksonfamilylove.blogspot.com
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Intriguing Intrigues
Yesterday I came home from work and found...
Do I have the best hubby? Why yes, I do :)
It's not even Valentine's day yet!? Matt's always one for sentimental surprises. What a sweetheart!
Also, I made this for breakfast:
I don't care if it looks like baby food. So good! I'm going to become really good friends with green smoothies...hopefully Matt feels the same way.
And then, I made this for dessert:
That's right. Garbanzo bean brownies. Looking for some extra protein and fiber in your diet? Why not get it with chocolate?? It is essentially all of the same ingredients, except you swap white, over processed, enriched, bleached flour for garbanzo beans. Put everything in a blender, add some chocolate chips, and voilà! This was a first attempt, but I do foresee more coming. Spark Recipes had this great recipe: Garbanzo Bean Brownies. Check it out!
I would also like to reiterate my point about the amazing husband part (see above) with this:
Matt made bread! From scratch, and it was so so so delicious! Matt is the official bread and waffle maker of the Erickson home. He gets better and better with every new batch. I was sad to see it go (yes, it's already gone). I am looking forward to years of delicious bread from this wonderful man :)
Shout out to Stephanie and Nicki. Remember when I said we were going to start a quilting class (see last post)? Well, it has started. I'm already lost. Fortunately, we are all in the same boat (except for Stephanie because she's a mom; she knows everything!). Here is the product of class #1:
These are all of the pieces we cut for block 1. We will be making a new block every month, and by the end of the year, we will have a whole quilt! I'm not the biggest fan of the colors, but I guess it will be done just in time for Christmas. Here's a printout of what the finished product Should look like:
Should be fun! Hopefully we will get better as we go...hopefully.
To close, here is a pic of my spin class using the projector:
It's so cool!! I love spin. It's great.
Listen to this and be happy :) Fine By Me - Andy Grammer
Do I have the best hubby? Why yes, I do :)
It's not even Valentine's day yet!? Matt's always one for sentimental surprises. What a sweetheart!
Also, I made this for breakfast:
I don't care if it looks like baby food. So good! I'm going to become really good friends with green smoothies...hopefully Matt feels the same way.
And then, I made this for dessert:
That's right. Garbanzo bean brownies. Looking for some extra protein and fiber in your diet? Why not get it with chocolate?? It is essentially all of the same ingredients, except you swap white, over processed, enriched, bleached flour for garbanzo beans. Put everything in a blender, add some chocolate chips, and voilà! This was a first attempt, but I do foresee more coming. Spark Recipes had this great recipe: Garbanzo Bean Brownies. Check it out!
I would also like to reiterate my point about the amazing husband part (see above) with this:
Matt made bread! From scratch, and it was so so so delicious! Matt is the official bread and waffle maker of the Erickson home. He gets better and better with every new batch. I was sad to see it go (yes, it's already gone). I am looking forward to years of delicious bread from this wonderful man :)
Shout out to Stephanie and Nicki. Remember when I said we were going to start a quilting class (see last post)? Well, it has started. I'm already lost. Fortunately, we are all in the same boat (except for Stephanie because she's a mom; she knows everything!). Here is the product of class #1:
These are all of the pieces we cut for block 1. We will be making a new block every month, and by the end of the year, we will have a whole quilt! I'm not the biggest fan of the colors, but I guess it will be done just in time for Christmas. Here's a printout of what the finished product Should look like:
Should be fun! Hopefully we will get better as we go...hopefully.
To close, here is a pic of my spin class using the projector:
It's so cool!! I love spin. It's great.
Listen to this and be happy :) Fine By Me - Andy Grammer
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one
Okay, so I guess today was more average than fun, but it was still good, and tomorrow is still another one. It has now been exactly three months since my last post {fail}. How does time escape so quickly? Another thing - Matt and I have been married for 7.5 months. Yikes! Before we know it we are going to be 68 with grandchildren. It's coming faster than I'm ready for. Sort of. I'm ready for somethings, just not being 68.
I applied for graduate school! That's the exciting bit of news in Andrea's life. I applied to study Exercise Science with an emphasis in Health Promotion at BYU. I'm QUITE excited for it. For now I'm just hoping and praying and wishing on every star that I will get in...hopefully that works for me.
I went through this period of time where I felt like my only hobbies were studying, sleeping, working, and being married to my wonderful husband. While all of those hobbies still predominate in my life, I'm finally finding some new ones that I'm pretty excited about! I'm taking two exercise classes this semester: zumba and spin. Both are awesome! I was kind of nervous about zumba because I'm no dancer. Fortunately, neither is 3/4 of the rest of the class. In fact, I'd dare say that I'm in some upper percentile, but maybe that's pushing it. I'm actually really enjoying it! Everyone should try it. I'm thinking about getting more involved in zumba after this semester...instructor? Maybe. We'll see. Spin class is also great! BYU recently put in a new spin room that has an HD projector that fills a whole wall. Just last week we rode through mountain trails, on the Hollywood trails, and through canyons, among other things. It feels like such a good workout every time. Also, a friend named Emily from my ward has recently started an exercise group that meets on Saturday mornings. She will leading us through some turbo kick routines. Sweet!
Besides fitness hobbies, I'm starting a quilting class with my mother-in-law Stephanie this weekend, which I think is going to be awesome! We are going to make one block of a quilt each class time and by the end we will have enough blocks to make a whole quilt! I think that quilts are beautiful and I would love to know how to make them. And couponing! My sister-in-law Nicki is showing me the ropes on couponing. It is actually quite a bit of work and upkeep, but I'm looking forward to saving buko bucks!
Matt is just as wonderful as ever. He has a heavy load of classes this semester that are keeping him quite busy. Next week is travelling down to Las Vegas for a construction management competition on risk. I'm going to miss him, but I'm glad that he can have this opportunity.
Hopefully it will be less than three months before my next post. That would be nice.
Most played song on my ipod lately: Two Door Cinema Club - What You Know. I got it from spin class! It's great!
I applied for graduate school! That's the exciting bit of news in Andrea's life. I applied to study Exercise Science with an emphasis in Health Promotion at BYU. I'm QUITE excited for it. For now I'm just hoping and praying and wishing on every star that I will get in...hopefully that works for me.
I went through this period of time where I felt like my only hobbies were studying, sleeping, working, and being married to my wonderful husband. While all of those hobbies still predominate in my life, I'm finally finding some new ones that I'm pretty excited about! I'm taking two exercise classes this semester: zumba and spin. Both are awesome! I was kind of nervous about zumba because I'm no dancer. Fortunately, neither is 3/4 of the rest of the class. In fact, I'd dare say that I'm in some upper percentile, but maybe that's pushing it. I'm actually really enjoying it! Everyone should try it. I'm thinking about getting more involved in zumba after this semester...instructor? Maybe. We'll see. Spin class is also great! BYU recently put in a new spin room that has an HD projector that fills a whole wall. Just last week we rode through mountain trails, on the Hollywood trails, and through canyons, among other things. It feels like such a good workout every time. Also, a friend named Emily from my ward has recently started an exercise group that meets on Saturday mornings. She will leading us through some turbo kick routines. Sweet!
Besides fitness hobbies, I'm starting a quilting class with my mother-in-law Stephanie this weekend, which I think is going to be awesome! We are going to make one block of a quilt each class time and by the end we will have enough blocks to make a whole quilt! I think that quilts are beautiful and I would love to know how to make them. And couponing! My sister-in-law Nicki is showing me the ropes on couponing. It is actually quite a bit of work and upkeep, but I'm looking forward to saving buko bucks!
Matt is just as wonderful as ever. He has a heavy load of classes this semester that are keeping him quite busy. Next week is travelling down to Las Vegas for a construction management competition on risk. I'm going to miss him, but I'm glad that he can have this opportunity.
Hopefully it will be less than three months before my next post. That would be nice.
Most played song on my ipod lately: Two Door Cinema Club - What You Know. I got it from spin class! It's great!
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