Impulse Buy . . . Something I Never Do

This is the first and only fashion post I will have. 

Today was a shopping day with my sister and I absolutely loved it. 

We went to my favorite store, Victoria's Secret, and then we went to Forever 21. 

At Forever 21, my eyes beheld these shoes.  At first glance, they are like . . .uh . . .ok those can be cute.  Then, I put them on . . .

Cuteness, right?! And they are actually comfortable and fit perfectly with a three inch heel.  Then when I thought about it, I was like, "Oh my gosh, these are the perfect teacher shoes!!" I'm aspiring to be a high school Spanish teacher and right now I am tutoring some students and so I pictured wearing these while teaching/tutoring and I was sold! They were only $26.  Ok, that's a little bit more expensive than I would have wanted to spend, but I absolutely fell in love with them and I hardly ever fall in love with clothes. 

I wore them to tutoring today and I felt just the part. 

Oh and when Moydie came home, he loved them. 

To fit the outfit, I was wearing black gaucho pants with a black. lacey shirt with pearl earrings and a pearl necklace. 



I am very excited to find more outfits to match these cutey shoes!



Emily is My Sister and She is Awesome!!!

My little sister Emily is a freshman in high school this year and she is the coolest!!

She was able to place 33rd at State XC and she played varsity in basketball this year, too! 

She qualified for State Track, too, of course!

She's the key member of two relays.  The sprint medley and the epic 4X400. 

Since I wasn't busy this weekend, I decided to go because quite frankly, I needed to be there for her!  It was a huge surprise! I arrived about an hour before they were going to run the prelims for the medley and so we went to go find her to say hi and good luck before they raced and holy cow, she was so surprised! She kept saying, "What are you doing here?!" Lol :) Here's a pic my mom snuck of the surprise . . . sadly, you can only see my hair, but it's the thought and memory that counts right?



They performed well in the sprint medley, but sadly they didn't qualify for the finals.  Here's some of her teammates in the tent ready to run. . .

It was so cool to watch my sister run! She was the anchor on the medley and she was a fighter! She passed two girls before the finish line and she was flying!

The next day they had the prelims for the 4X400. 

It was the most perfect race I have ever seen!

Karlee started and she got us into fifth place!  Then she handed it off to Emily who took off like a jackrabbit and passed three girls!! Before any of us knew it, they were in 2nd place and Emily was going after that first place girl.  Emily handed it off to Taylor and that girl ran tough and kept us in second.  Taylor handed it off to Miranda and she held all the girls off until right at the finish line when a girl came up on her.  They placed 3rd in the prelims with a 9 second pr!!!  They were qualified for the finals on Saturday which meant they would be able to get a medal, stand on the podium, and get the only State points for the girls side of the team!! 

Here's Emily getting ready to run her leg on the 4X400! I was so nervous!!! Lol :)

Here they are after the race; so excited that they qualified!!!!

 Oh the crazies lol :)

Gotta love 'em! :)

The next day, the girls ran another tough 4X400 and they got 7th at State!! They all got medals!!! Wahoo!!! I'm so proud of them!!













The Yogurt Experiment

Ever since I can remember, I have loved yogurt.  My mom bought us Yoplait while we were growing up and so when I came to college, I bought Yoplait yogurt.  My favorite was the Strawberry custard style. 

When Moydie and I got married almost two years ago, I kept buying Yoplait. 

One day, when we were shopping, Moydie stopped me at the dairy section and pointed out that he loved Mountain High Yogurt.  He told me it has less sugar than Yoplait.  Cool!  We tried Mountain High and I immediately was hooked on it.  That stuff was like candy to me, but healthier!  Since Moydie and I work out a lot, having protein after a workout is crucial and Mountain High yogurt has 10 grams of protein per serving!! Wahoo!! Score!!  We have been faithful customers of Mountain High yogurt ever since. 

This last weekend, I went to Princeton to race in the ECAC Conference and we bought some food there for breakfast since the hotel didn't provide one.  At the grocery store, everyone kept saying, "Get Greek yogurt; Greek yogurt's the best!"  So I did, I bought five flavors of Oikos Greek yogurt. 

And guess what?  I loved it!  Out of the Vanilla, Key Lime, Raspberry, and Strawberry flavors, my favorite was Vanilla.  As soon as I started loving this yogurt, I had to look at the sugar and protein content.  It looked good, but I wanted to compare it with other Greek yogurts and our beloved Mountain High. 

When I went to the store yesterday, I thought it would be fun if we tested and experimented with all these yogurts to see which was the tastiest, best form of protein, least amount of sugar, and the cheapest.  Moydie was very excited when I told him my idea.

We experimented with Mountain High, Chobani, and Oikos.  

This is what we found out . . .

Mountain High yogurt has .0885 grams of protein per 1 gram of yogurt, .221 grams of sugar per gram of yogurt, and costs .32 cents per gram.  

Oikos has .16 grams of protein per gram of yogurt, .24 grams of sugar per gram of yogurt, and costs .6 cents per gram.   

Chobani has .188 grams of protein per gram of yogurt, .2 grams of sugar per gram, and costs .58 cents per gram. 

With this study, in order from best to worst we have found that for protein it goes Chobani, Oikos, Mountain High; for sugar it goes Chobani, Mountain High, Oikos; and for cost it goes Mountain High, Chobani, Oikos. 

The results of the taste test were:  I loved Oikos rich, creamy, custard texture and yeah, I guess I loved the sugar.  Moydie still loved the taste of Mountain High. 

From this study, we are still going to buy Mountain High, but we will buy some Oikos too because it has more protein than Mountain High and since it comes in little packages, it's perfect for after work out snacks, lunches, and trips.   



There Are Miracles!!!

 

I don't want to be romantically obsessive or anything, but Moydie and I are close . . . real close.  So close in fact that when I go on trips with the BYU XC and Track team without him, I miss him real bad and I love to call, text, and send him pictures of our trip.

On the morning of May 8th, Moydie was taking me down to the Smith field house to drop me off for our trip to Princeton University for the ECAC Conference Championships.  We were talking in the car about calling each other as much as we need to and we had agreed to always have our phones with us, turned up loud.  (Sometimes Moydie can't hear or feel his phone, so I had gone through it and turned everything up the day before lol).  He dropped me off and we kissed (a lot) and said goodbye.  Then I'm off to the locker room to pack. 

After 10 min, I'm all packed and I'm making sure I have everything I need when I reach in the bottom of the bag I brought from home and I find Moydie's phone.  Oh crap. 

The night before, we had been at band practice and during practice he always gives me his phone to hold onto so it's not bulging in his pocket getting in the way of his guitar playing. 

I had forgotten to take it out and give it to him. 

Uh oh . . .

I frantically started thinking of ways to get it to him.  I figured it would be safe in our track secretary's office and that I'd just email and facebook Moydie to tell him where it was.  I didn't even know when he would realize he didn't have his phone . . . he's not real connected to it.  I ran and put my stuff on the bus and then ran to Ann's office to put Moydie's phone safely there and then I ran onto the bus to jump on my computer to send Moydie all these frantic messages. 

Right after I had sent the first message, I heard one of the girls on the bus with me yell, "There's Moydie!" I looked out the window and what did I see? My Handsome Husband looking for me!! I ran off the bus into his arms and then I dragged him into the office to get his phone and the earth started spinning again lol.  I was so happy! I asked him how he knew and he said that when he first went home he tried to find his phone and he couldn't and then he remembered that I had put it in my bag and that I still had it!! Dang, my husband's good! He was so worried about me, thinking that if he couldn't find his phone, that I would have a miserable trip.  Well thank goodness there is someone looking out for us.  I really believe that Heavenly Father helped Moydie think to look for his phone immediately and then realize it was with me and come screaming back right before we took off.  There was a reason Coach Shane was late for the bus that day.     

May Fun!!!

It's only the 5th of May and I've already done tons of stuff!! I've gone to Women's Conference, gotten deathly sick, gone to a rock concert, and I've had a beautifully fun date day with the hubby!

On Thursday, the 2nd, was the first day of Women's Conference! I love going to Women's Conference with my mom, sister, aunts, grandma, and cousins! It's such a blast to hang out with them!
My favorite part of going to Women's Conference is the Spanish session I go to.  One of my professor's wives presented and she is amazing! She talked about how to stay fiercely loyal to your spouse.  It was inspiring.
Sadly, I had gotten sick Monday night and Thursday was the worst of it.  I had fun on Thursday, but I was seriously miserable at some times because of my cold/allergies.  Thursday night, Moydie was able to give me a blessing and through the Lord's power I started feeling better.  I woke up Friday almost perfectly normal! I only had to blow my nose once that whole day!! (From Monday to Thursday I had used up two toilet paper rolls from blowing my nose).  So Friday was a lot of fun!

Friday night, we went to watch my husband play with his band at a Dillard's party!  This was my Mom's first time hearing them and she loved it!! They did really well, too!  They are called The Compilations! Look them up on facebook and like their page!

Saturday was a fantastic day!  Moydie and I decided not to go canyoneering this weekend since I was still recuperating and so we decided to work out twice and go to the Salt Lake City Temple! This was our first time going to this temple and it was amazing!! One of my new favorite temples! You think it's magnificent on the outside?! You should see the inside!! Incredible! Moydie and I were blown away!! It is definitely the Lord's House.