Sunday Dinner

So Ryan and I are blessed enough to live within 20 minutes of both of our families. This has been an amazing blessing for us - we are so grateful for the love and support of our family members, and they're great about respecting the fact that we're our own family, too. One of the best parts is that we get to go to one of our families for Sunday dinner every week - which is a lot of fun and gives us a chance to relax and enjoy being together.

This week, though, Ryan had to stay late at church for tithing settlement - and so I got to make Sunday dinner! It was a lot of fun planning the meal myself. I used my crock pot and made chicken stroganoff. Aside from the fact that it turned out a tad too salty (I put in too much soup mix) it was very delicious, and we had a great Sunday dinner at home together - with Christmas music playing and Christmas lights on, of course :)

Recipe: Chicken Stroganoff

6 chicken breasts
1 can cream of mushroom soup
16 oz sour cream
1 pkg dry onion soup mix (in the future, I'll probably only use about 2/3 pkg just to cut down on the salt.)

Put the chicken breasts in the crock pot. Mix the soup, sour cream, and soup mix together and pour over the chicken. Cook on low for 4.5 - 5 hours. Shred chicken and serve over cooked egg noodles.

Happy Sunday!

Autumn in full swing...

So between school and work and more school and more work, Ryan and I have managed to find time to do some really fun things. In addition to hanging out with some friends from the ward, finishing watching Psych season 6 and White Collar season 4 (can't wait for January!!), we've done the following fun things:

BYU football! We were right at the front on the north endzone one week, it was a great perspective, when they were at our end...

We went to Pizza Factory after priesthood session of General Conference. I won the who-can-build-the-biggest-salad on the one-trip salad bar competition...

We went to McCoard's Corn Maze here in Provo with Scott and Lisa. SUPER fun. We like playing with them.

At the end of October, I attended the American Translators Association conference in San Diego. It was a great experience, I made a lot of connections and I'm still trying to catch up on missing three days of school! It was warm there - that was the best part - but I missed Ryan... a lot. 

With the Hilton in the background (where the conference was held). This was the closest I got to the water all week...

With my little bird friend - this guy had a bird rescue and let me hold one on my shoulder.

The first aircraft carrier I've ever seen - it was soooo big!

Then, of course, Ryan and I had to celebrate Halloween. We started on Monday by going to Tucano's and carving pumpkins with my mom (lots of fun!) Then we had treats and watched the Sixth Sense on Halloween night. We didn't get any trick-or-treaters at our apartment - we're not right on a main road - it was sad. But we had a fun night anyway.

Ryan made the pumpkin snowman - I thought it turned out awesome!