Salt Lake City
this semester i have spent many of my weekends down in salt lake which is very unusual for me. usually during the school year i never want to leave logan and everytime i do i just want to get back to utah state as soon as possible. this year i have enjoyed nothing more than taking weekend trips away from what use to be my favorite place on earth. sometimes, the things you love most can also be the things that make you hurt the most and not that i don't still love logan i think i am slowly growing out of it. logan is what i directly associate my college experiences with. which, for the most part have been very positive and of course very sad. you see as you grow older some things stay in your life and others leave. the things that leave you, you mourn over and the things that stay you value. i have learned that nothing last forever. life is changing so fast. it is great because i love change, but it is sad because you leave things behind forever.
when i was out to lunch with my friend drew, he mentioned to me that he doesn't believe everything in life happens for a reason. i agree with him. i think we make choices, excericsie our free agency and with those choices comes consequences and we can only make the best of situations that happen in our life that our out of our control. when one door closes another opens there are always oppurutunites within oppurutunites. i don't think life is desitned by any means it is just choices that lead to more choices that lead to more choices. isn't crazy that we control our destiny? haha i am probably getting so deep but it is over whelming to think that our life is up to us. i guess since i am approaching graduation and will be soon entering my adult life i start thinking about things like, who am i going to become? what is my life going to be like? what kind of life am i going to have? it is exciting! but also so scary. i guess in times like these, times of real uncertainty this is where my excericse of faith, hope and belief comes into play.
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haddie harris....
oh how i love this girl. we have known each other for a few years now but have recently become the best of friends. i adore her. she could possibly be the sweetest girl on this planet and so geniuine. we have really been there for each other this year. both of us have been through similar experiences and it is so great to talk to someone who can really relate to how you feel and what you are going through. friends are an amazing blessing and i feel so lucky to have as many great friends as i do. they make or break your life. when relationships end friends are there to pick up the broken pieces of you and make you feel good again. haddie and i have spent the last couple of weekends together. we have hung out 24/7 and i have loved every minute of it.
weekend date nights
this weekend was so great because we had a weekend of cute dates. friday night our dates took us to a cute resturaunt in the avenues. they had interesting food like lobster corn dogs and duck fried rice. whaaaaaat? haha but hey i liked eveything we ordered. my date and i ordered a bunch of appetizers to share. it was interesting... but great! i felt bad because i was still hungry after three appetizers i felt weird asking my date to order more!!! he pretty much read my mind though and ordered another one without even asking. awwww what a gentleman. after dinner they took us to walk through a corn maze. haddie and i had a great time.
crab cake appetizers
Saturday Night
Dates & Mexican Food
saturday night was equally fun. i wanted another reason to hang out with my date again and haddie had some friends down in slc she wanted to meet up with. we didn't want to be like "hey take us out" so we decided to make them dinner also we know the way to any man's heart is with cooking, right? we went to trader joes, my favorite grocery store, and bought enchilada stuff. we were a little worried they weren't going to turn out but the totally did. the boys were IMPRESSED. at least so they said. i was impressed with myself. i love when my cooking turns out. it builds my confidence and my love for food.
enchilada recipie
makes 6 enhiladas
1 can green chilies
28 oz can of enchilada sauce
cheese
bundle of green onions
1 sweet onion, sauteed
rotiserie chicken
cilantro
and anything else you like to put in enchiladas
seriously so easy. stuff chilies, sauteed onions, cheese, chicken in tortilla. fold and place in a 9x13 baking dish. pour enchilada sauce over tortillas and top with green onions, cheese and cilantro. cook for about 20 minutes. yum yum! dinner is served. top with sour cream and guacomole.
