Day 20 & 21: Love Everyone Better

An uplifting weekend with the wise words of LDS Leaders. 

This was the beginning of the LDS General Conference session with the Women's Meeting on Saturday. 

There were 4 outstanding speakers reminding, not just women, but everyone to remember that we can learn from others no matter their age, there is no barrier. We are here to help each other keep covenants, have faith in Christ and understand repentance. Through loving others we must remember to help with a smile, forgive, comfort other despite differences. Though there are differences we should always seek to find what you have in common with others. President Henry B. Eyring said, "Daughters of God are more alike than they are different". 

More uplifting messages for you and your family April 5-6 

during the 184th Semi Annual General Conference 

Click here to watch 

Saturday I cooked in the crock pot so that cooking Sunday wasn't necessary. I had some meetings to attend for Girls Camp. 2 Weeks away!

Here are a few recipes to save you time! 

Crockpot Salsa Chicken 

3 lbs chicken 

1 bottle of 32oz organic salsa

1 chopped jalepeno 

3 diced fresh tomatoes 

1 cup fresh pineapple chunks 

combine all ingredients into a crockpot and cook on high for 6-8 hours 

Its the perfect paleo meal. We ate this for 2 meals. For Evan I put the chicken on bread and added some pepper jack chicken for a sandwich. The second meal I made him nachos. I added the chicken to a few black beans, multigrain chips and melted pepper jack cheese. 

Bacon Wrapped Asparagus 

Ingredients

Asparagus Spears

Turkey Bacon

Wrap each spear in a piece of bacon 

Cook in the oven at 350 Degrees for 45 minutes

For Dessert I made Fruit Roll Ups. 

The strawberries and mango I bought were starting to look old so I save them by making fruit roll ups. 

Ingredients 

2 cups Strawberries

1 cup mango 

3 T honey 

Combine the ingredients into a blender and puree until smooth.

Onto a silicon pan liner pour your mixture 

ensure that it is about 1/8 inch thick

cook for about 7 hours in the oven at 170 degrees 

We couldn't keep our hands off of this delicious treat. Evan was pleasantly surprised it was like the store bought stuff but not artificial tasting. 

For my birthday I got the Movie Saratov Approach!

It was absolutely incredible. Evan and I really enjoyed watching it. If you haven't seen it, SEE IT! It is now out on DVD. 

Here is were you can purchase the movie

* I have not been paid to indorse this movie, I simply just loved it and highly recommend it* 

Hope you enjoy this food and movie 

<3 

E & H 

Day 14: Sunday Fun Day.

We stayed up way too late Saturday night, it was nearly impossible to roll out of bed and get ready for church. We didn't even really do anything or go anywhere... But we did find a really great app "UNO WITH FRIENDS" yep we both just lay in bed playing each other on our iPads- we are that cool.

We made it to church on time, Evan had to teach the Young Men- sometimes hard to keep their attention and get them off their iPhones.... 

We ate sloppy Joes, or sloppy somethings as Evan called them. It doesn't come on a bun like he expected. The meat was generously slopped onto a cooked sweet potato. He gave it a score of 5/10... He would give it an 8 if it weren't for the potato. I liked it though- and I thought it was pretty close to Sloppy Joe Sandwiches

Sloppy Sweet Potatoes

Ingredients 

2 large sweet potatoes, scrubbed clean

16oz ground beef

1/2 white onion, finely chopped

2 cloves garlic, minced

1 jalapeno, finely chopped

1 cup tomato paste

1 cup yellow mustard

Bake Sweet potatoes at 350 degrees until soft all the way through (usually 45 minutes) 

Cook meat in a pan with onion, garlic, and jalepnos 

Add tomato paste and mustard

Let simmer in pan for 20 minutes on low heat

Add to sweet potato

We watched the movie "The Game Plan" with the "Rock" while we ate our potato dinner. If you haven't seen that movie you should. It came out in 2007, but its actually super cute and definitely a good family movie. 

We intended to go for a walk, but its still cold here in New York. Spring will never come. It's supposed to snow AGAIN this week. *sigh* we are over the whole "winter season" 

  

It's nice to get a full day with Evan. He only has 2 more weeks of the Medicine rotation. Hallelujah !!!! 

Then it's on to Surgery, we are crossing our fingers this rotation won't consume every minute of his life. Rumor has it he has some weekends off. Which is a rare thing these days. 

At least there is light at the end of the Tunnel, and heat! Tucson in T-minus 3 months .

Moving? Oh boy, packing is one of my least favorite things... not going to think about that. On another note, girls camp is 3 weeks away and I am literally praying we don't get snow. 

Thanks for reading our daily on-goings. 

have a happy day, 

H & E