Sunday Night Dinner

Matt and I invited our friend Dan over for Sunday dinner last night and, if I may say so myself, the food was sooo yummy. We headed into the kitchen after getting home from church, we had 45 min. to make fettuccine Alfredo before Dan arrived. Matt took care of the chicken and I handled the pasta and sauce. I love it when we can cook together!

Matt's the "spice it up" man, so he mixed up his egg mixture with a bunch of our spices and then his flour mixture the same way. He then dipped the chicken strips in the egg and then flour before placing them in a frying pan filled with olive oil.

While he was busy with that, I got the pasta in the boiling water. I also got everything together for the sauce. We cooked for three people, so I had to alter the recipe. Three sticks butter, 1 1/2 cups Parmesan cheese - cream together. I took a look at that and figured it need something more, so I added parsley, garlic and little milk. Put everything together and there you go!

The chicken turned out golden brown and delicious - thanks to my hubby!

Garlic-cheese bread finished it off. Yum!!

Fettuccine Alfredo Recipe
Sauce:
3 sticks butter, softened
1 1/2 cup Parmesan cheese
parsley and pepper to taste
1 clove garlic
1 tbsp. milk
1/2 cup water from pasta bioling

Cream ingredients. Heat up a bit in a sauce pan before adding water. Add to pasta, about 1 lb. fettuccine.  Add a little more Parmesan cheese, parsley and pepper to taste.

It's your choice to add chicken, we fried some up and it was very tasty. But you could bake or grill the chicken also. 

Enjoy!
p.s. I realize that this meal is not part of our new dieting lifestyle, but you can't be perfect always. Just roll with it.

Ding Dong. It's a new year. Get a new doorbell! Hallo!

I'm not going to say resolution...well, I might.

Matt and I have decided to get healthy. That means loosing weight and eating right. So, with a closet-full, well two, of clothes that I could fit into if I only would loose 20 lbs - we're heading into this with full force. We actually started on Dec. 30th, so now we have a running head start. Every Friday we will be tracking our progress on our blog (thanks to our inspiration, Amber). I think that things will go better if we have someone to be accountable to, and that someone is you! Thank you in advance.

 - Erin -

Starting Weight: 237 (yikes!)

Goal: 155 (based on height and age from Weight Watchers)

Short Term Goal: 15 lbs. in 3 months

 - Matt -

Starting Weight: 229

Goal:185

Short Term Goal: 1.1 pound in 1 week (hehe)

So, it's 82 pounds to loose for me and 42 pounds for Matt. Wish us luck!

And now, inspirational photo time!

Grammy Tunes for Your Day 1

Happy new year! And now, the stylings of Grammy nominated for Best Rock Song, Kings of Leon. Enjoy - hope, hapiness and health to you in the next 365 days!

I also think a little Beyonce is in order. Topping the Grammy nominations with 10 - Beyonce rules!

While we're at it - and we do need these awesome grooves for our new year - The Blackeyed Peas in true form! Boom Boom Pow, y'all!

What the heck - this guy is nominated, but not for this song. Here's the best part, my dad loves this song! I do to!

We also heart Alicia Keys - a Grammy goddess in her own right.
Grammys. Jan. 31! Now go to sleep - it's late.

Our Year in Review & Pictures!

January 2009 brought a new beginning for us in our cute, little apartment. Matt began his second-to-last Spring semester at Utah State University and I went back to work. It was a great start to our 2009 year - we had also been married for about six and a half months at that point. February got Matt and I to our 24th brithdays - Matt's on the 24th and mine on the 28th. We kept ourselves busy with school and work. March came along and we celebrated dad's birthday on the 8th. By the time March gets to Logan the weather is thinking about warming up, and sometimes teases us with a little less snow - but in the end the sun stays behind the clouds and waits for us to get used to the cold, then pops out of no where after we buy a couple new sweaters. April meandered in and Matt finished up his semester in grand style - on the Dean's list again! I knew I had to get going with a summer job - so the search began. By the time we got to May we knew that summer was right around the corner. I got a job with housing working as a receptionist on Central Campus and Matt moved smoothly into his new roll within housing. June was major busy for both of us, but we worked in time to celebrate our one-year anniversary in Salt Lake City. We made it to the Salt Lake Temple (where we were married) and did some sealings before we went to dinner at the Little America Hotel (where we spent or wedding night) - we stayed the night and returned home the next day. I wish we could have relived our honeymoon in Disneyland, but sadly we had to get back to work.  I also got to go spend a week with my brother Tal, sister-in-law Jen and nephew Ezra in California! -  so much fun!! Things heated up weatherwise in July - I was lucky that there was air conditioning at work, because we lack that comfort in our apartment. The 4th was a blast - we went camping in Wyoming with Matt's brother Scott! I fished for the first time - caught 2 all by myself! I also became a true wilderness girl when I was told that if I wanted to go to the bathroom the best thing to do was find a good tree (blah!). We also headed to Idaho for the Wadsworth family reunion. August was exciting! Matt started his very last Fall semester at USU and I got my Nikon D90 camera!! I started my photo business and began to get the hang of owning and marketing a small company. My first client was Carly, a beautiful gal - we had so much fun taking her pictures! September gave us that Fall weather we'd, well I'd, been hoping for - it's my favorite time of year. Our amazing friends Chris & Brittany invited us to their sealing - it was so beautiful! We celebrated grandpa John's 80th birthday! Matt was zooming through his busy semester and I got the privilege of watching cutie-pie Josh every day! I took my first set of bridal portraits in October!  We had a great time celebrating Halloween at mom and dad's - they go all out for mom's favorite holiday! November caught the cold. Literally. But we also got to celebrate Thanksgiving with Matt's family in Cheyenne - a new adventure for us because I had never been there. December was amazing! Matt got himself on the Dean's list - AGAIN! So, he only has one semester of student teaching to go. I shot my first set of pregnancy portraits, plus another set of bridals, senior portraits and Santa playing the Sousaphone! Matt got me my first Nikon flash to use on my first wedding on the 22nd! We had a great time with Matt's family the weekend before Christmas and we spent Christmas with my fam. We got a Wii!

We hope that we will be as blessed next year as we have been in 2009! We wish you all a safe and fun New Year's Eve - I'll be working. We love you! Here's to a fabulous 2010! Can't believe it's here already.
Enjoy our favorite pictures of 2009!

Pretty much every picture we put up on the blog are our favorites - so don't feel bad if there aren't any of you! We still love you to pieces!