Awkward and Awesome Thursday

Remember how I said there were no pictures of me during the whole wisdom tooth removal thing? Yeah, apparently I lied. So many awkward things going on in this one photo. Your Welcome.

Awkward:

• Eating too many cold, fried, popcorn shrimp from WalMart and getting an upset stomach (uh, duh). Which led me to unbutton my pants on the drive home from our picnic, which led to me standing outside our car to get gas with my pants practically falling off my butt. Classy. Luckily it didn't take me that long to figure out what was going on. Chad on the other hand, knew immediately what was happening and just watched it unfold.
• Chad drinking too much water and eating too much before his Mountain Biking class. He's a workout puker... so... there was this whole projectile vomiting episode during class. Nice impression on the first day.
• I brought workout clothes to work so I could run home while Chad was in class (Luckily Chad got out early and picked me up a half a mile into it!) After being home for hours and finally changing into something other than workout pants (are pink sweat shorts really any better?) I found a sock in my pants behind my thigh. Ugh. How did I not feel a bunched up sock stuck behind my leg?!
• Driving around our apartment complex with a giant bowl full of water, our car getting pelted with water balloons and our window down screaming "don't hit me in the face!". Just in case you missed it, we are knocking on the door of a pranking war with 3 teenage boys. Where are Will and Jared when you need them?!

Awesome:

• Asn and Pat spending the night with us last week! We had mexican food and ice cream and Ash and I fell asleep on the floor while we watched Adventure Time.
• Banana shakes. We went there with Nikki and Matt and I got a cookies and cream shake, Chad got snickers, and Matt got banana. Gross. Why in the world would you get banana when candy and cookies are available? Turns out, the banana shake was better than both of ours. And now I'm addicted. Thanks Matt.
• I mailed in my request for an absentee balott. I figured Michigan could use my vote more than Utah. And it seemed like too much work to register here because I'm crazy lazy. But the first reason sounds so much better, so I'll stick with that.

How's your week? 

Pranks

Starting around 7pm Friday night we started getting ridiculous knocks on our door. I would corral the puppy and Chad would go to the door and.... surprise!.... no one would be there. After the third time Chad turned off all our lights, opened the door and sat in the opening with a glass of water. Don't prank the prankster.

Unfortunately they had moved on at that point. But it started up again around 9. By this time we knew it was some Young Men from church having some fun with their leader. Since we are both really feel like teenagers still we decided to play along. We left a little present in their car, ahem, Rukia left a little present in their car (It was in a bag, we aren't that mean). And after that went back and forth, the water came back out and Chad raced all over our complex with 3 teenage boys trying their darnedest to catch him. Never happened. Don't prank the prankster kids.

We couldn't do anything too wild and crazy, we are the "adults" in this situation after all, so here's how it ended:
 

Cotton balls were really the only thing we had in our house. We were working with nothin'!

Then it started again. Because while we still feel like teenagers, they actually are teenagers. Which means they have way more time on their hands, get bored easily and have no interest in watching the presidential debate.

So while we attempted to watch the debate, clean up from dinner, cut the pups hair, and blog, this was happening outside. Yes, we heard it. Yes, we were smart enough to stay inside while the crazy occurred. I was NOT getting hit in the face with a water balloon.

Chad attempted to get them with a bowl full of water. It didn't happen. We were at a real disadvantage. We had nothing to work with. Chad gave it his all with the bowl but ended up breaking it in the end.

So while we won the first round, they definitely won the second. And now the balls in our court. And while my inner teenager wants to do something awesome, my inner adult knows that these kids have got us beat in the time and boredom category. But when have we ever acted like adults... :)

"Fall" & Meatless Monday: Banana Bread

Sunday afternoon we decided that if Fall wasn't going to come to us then we would just go to Fall! We packed up a picnic, grabbed our cameras and dog and headed out to Cedar City, about an hour north.

Apparently Fall has come and gone for Cedar City. It was a giant fail. We still had a picnic by the river, Rukia ran around to her hearts content and we snapped a few pictures anyways.

Need something to make your Monday better? This will definitely do the trick! I made 2 loaves of Banana Bread last week and threw one in the freezer for this week. I broke that guy out of the freezer on Wednesday and it was finished up on Saturday. We love our banana bread, even more if it's got some chocolate chips thrown in ;)

Best banana bread trick? When your bananas start to get real ripe, like brown, throw them out there no good here come the flies, brown... peel them open and throw the guts into a plastic Ziploc baggie and then throw that guy in the freezer. No wasted bananas and banana bread anytime you like without waiting for ripe bananas.

Banana Bread:

Ingredients:

• 2/3 C Shortening
• 1/2 C Sugar
• 2 Eggs
• 1 3/4 C Flou
• 1 t baking powder
• 1/2 t baking soda
• 1/2 t salt
• 1 c mashed banana
• 1/2 C walnuts... or chocolate chips :)

Directions:

1. Cream together shortening and sugar. Add eggs and beat well
2. Sift together dry ingredients. 
3. Add dry ingredients alternatley with bananas, blending well after each addition.
4. Stir in walnuts or as many chocolate chips as you want! Or both...
5. Pour into a well greased loaf pan.
6. Bake at 350 degrees for 40-45 minutes