Family By Divine Design:: 3 For Thursdays

17 June 2011

3 For Thursdays

I'm a day late, but that's okay. This week's prompt is once again provided by The House of Estrogen.

1. Three things I accomplished this week

Made whole wheat bread
Made "Six-week muffins," so named b/c the batter can last six weeks, refrigerated in an air-tight container. The recipe is quite large, so I just go ahead and bake it all up, cool them all down, and pack them in freezer bags to use later. It's SO great to have a healthy and satisfying snack available to just grab postpartum. Makes getting a handle on having a new addition just a little bit easier.
I washed the outside of as many of the windows that I could reach. Really.

2. Three things I want to do this summer

Have a baby.
Go to my family's reunion.
Go to my 10-year h.s. class reunion.

3. Three colors used at my wedding

Red
Purple
Yellow

4. Three things I find repulsive

Stinky towels. Towels seem to acquire a perma-smell, which I totally hate. But I love summer so I can line dry my towels. For a few glorious months of the year I can fearlessly use my towels. :)
Canned spinach. Way to ruin a perfectly good vegetable.
Cigarette smoke. Eew.

5. Three things I like most about my body

I love that it's healthy and functional. Can't be grateful enough for good health. I am somewhat limited in my movement right now (some things are just too painful to do, even for me), but for being within weeks/days of delivery I am remarkably mobile. I'm SO glad.
I'm quite fond of my 'calves.' I'm rather vain about the fact that I have a well-defined lower leg, as opposed to a 'cankle'. Is that weird?
While I don't always get along with my hair in terms of styling, I do love my natural color. It's a nice, rich brown color, and in the sunshine you can see just a touch of red in places.

6. Three chores I make my husband do

Ummmm . . . I don't make him do anything. I occasionally ask him to do things, and he occasionally does things w/o being asked (isn't that great?). If I were to make him do anything on a regular basis, it'd be vacuuming. I don't know why, but that's one of my least favorite chores.
Mow the lawns, even though the poor guy suffers from allergies. He's never asked me to do it for him, though. He's a 'tough it out' kind of guy. :)
All other yard work. I occasionally weed, but he's primarily in charge of keeping the yard tidy and alive. I'm pretty good at killing plants, actually so it's much better this way anyway.

7. Three recipes
All of the following recipes are from the same site, "Our Best Bites". I highly recommend this one - I've really enjoyed everything I've tried.

Asian Lettuce Wraps - if you're really not a fan of soy sauce, this recipe may not be one for you. I don't think it's soy sauce heavy, but my husband is not really a fan of soy sauce in general. I, however LOVED this recipe. If my man liked it, it would have a regular appearance on my spring/summer menu.
Chili-Lime Steak salad
Reese's p.b. bars (no bake) - LOVE! And no bake means that I can get my choc./p.b. fix in the summer w/o overheating my house. Win-win!

8. Three favorite flavors of ice cream

Ben & Jerry's p.b. cup
Dreyer's Butterfinger
Ben & Jerry's chocolate macadamia nut OR chocolate peanut butter . . . or dulce de leche - I LOVE ice cream, so it's kinda hard to choose my favorites. :D

9. Three animals I'd like to have (maybe not all at the same time)
I am anti-indoor animals.

Dog
Beef cow
Cat, maybe? If I had a mouse problem.

10. Three pictures

Me with the father of my children. Man, he's hot! AND he's a man that I can be pleased with my sons modeling. Really, every girl deserves a man as good as mine.

I didn't want to crop it, but the picture to focus on here is on the bottom right. Me with my dad (in lieu of Father's Day). Also a very handsome man - but even better, a really good man. I love my dad.

My cute kiddos. Overall, they're pretty good friends. My Kate will miss her brother when he goes to kindergarten next year, but at least we'll have a little brother for her at home by then. :)

2 comments:

Caranna18 June, 2011 23:22
What a cute picture of you and your Dad! I never knew you when you were that small - you're so cute! (But your Dad looks about the same ;)

I'm going to have to try those P.B. Bars.

I remembered your recommendation for the Steak Salad so I checked it out, hoping to make it for dinner one day, all I had were the steaks and the lettuce. I guess I'd better plan ahead if I want to try that one!

Thanks for playing, you're great!!
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Emily Judd19 June, 2011 14:04
i love this!

haha i can TOTALLY remember orchestra and that performance...since it was probably my only one :)
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David's Bio

I grew up in southeastern Idaho moving at age one from the center of our town to the outskirts. This home had approximately ten acres and much of my youth was spent outdoors both playing and working with my grandparents on their farms. I enjoyed sports throughout my life and was active in wrestling and football throughout junior high and high school. My junior and senior years at high school a sweet young girl even convinced me to join the ballroom dance team. I graduated from high school and attended BYU where I earned my Bachelors degree in Biology in April 2007. Having been raised in the gospel it has always been an influence in my life.

Rachael's Bio

I lived in south central Idaho on a two-acre property in a three-story home until the fourth grade. We moved to Idaho's capitol where we lived until I was in eighth grade when we moved to south eastern Idaho. This move affected my life greatly. It helped me to gain and solidify my testimony of the gospel of Jesus Christ as well as helped me decide how accurately I was going to live the gospel. This is also where I met David who was to become my best friend and husband. After graduating from high school in 2001 I attended BYU for four and a half years and graduated with a B.A. in Modern Dance, shortly before giving birth to our first child. Through all of my experiences my faith in the Lord, Jesus Christ and my dedication to living His gospel with integrity has increased. My greatest desire is that I will be able to help my children live and love the gospel.

Our Love Story

Rachael and David met first in their ward after Rachael moved in at the age of fourteen. Rachael's family had just moved across town to a home more suited to their needs than the original duplex. Both of their families were active in the church and Rachael and David both served in leadership positions of their respective YM/YW groups. With that constant exposure to each other was added the fact that they went to the same high school and were in the same graduating class. They found each other to be attractive and dated each other quite a bit near the end of their senior year and the summer afterward. After his freshman year at BYU David went on a mission to Russia - Rachael wrote him about every month and a half, just as an "interested" friend. Rachael was at home working for the summer when David returned from his mission and immediately felt that she wanted to date him again, so she asked him to go see the Phantom of the Opera in Salt lake City; thereafter followed about six months of courtship before they were married in Logan, Utah. Now they're both "the luckiest."