Yummy Chocolate Chip Cookies

Ryan made a special request yesterday for me to make him some cookies. I got this recipe from a friend and thought I'd try it. I usually make AND LOVE chocolate chip oatmeal cookies, but these ones I made yesterday were SO yummy! I keep telling Ryan that I made some dang good cookies. Here's the recipe...give it a try.

3/4 cup butter (softened)

3/4 cup sugar

1 cup brown sugar

2 eggs

1 tsp vanilla

1 tsp baking soda

1 tsp salt

2 3/4 cup flour

milk chocolate chips (NOT semisweet)

Important tips:

• cream butter and sugars in kitchenaid for a few minutes (3-4)


• mix eggs and vanilla in separate bowl. don't mix for too long. add to kitchenaid and cream.


• mix other ingredients (except choc. chips) in separate bowl and add to mixture in kitchenaid.


• add milk chocolate chipes
• bake @ 300 for 15 minutes (I actually baked them for 18 minutes because I made big ones.)

ENJOY!

The Greatest (and lamest) Excitement

So I'm here in bed playing on my computer while I listen to my cute husband snore. :) He really only snores when he is TOTALLY exhausted and today he played in an all day softball tourney with some buddies here in Provo. He had fun, buy they lost in the championship game...he claims the umpire made some pretty unfair and completely wrong calls that ended up throwing the game. But anyway...that's not what I'm posting about. This is lame, I know...but I'm excited that I got some new running shoes today. I'm attempting to train for the St. George marathon that I'm suppose to run in October. I haven't done a good job at training at all for this one! Oh well, I'll just take plenty of Gu's and ibuprofen and I'll be good! So to get me excited, and also cure my current shin splints, I got myself some new shoes. :) I've lived in Asics and Mizunos for the past few years and decided I've give Saucony a try. Now I'm excited to go for a long run in these pink shoes!

Burn, Baby, Burn!

This past Friday I got together with some of the girls from hygiene school. We all have wanted to get together to have a little burning session of all our notes, books, reminders of school. We went to Kiwanis (sp?) Park in Provo to use a fire pit there to get the job done. We really had a great time! It was great to see everyone who came (half of our class was there...but still that's only 7) and catch up. Some of the girls made a banner that said UCDH to burn and vent some of our frustrations. That school graduates 50 hygienists a year and have flooded the market and have made it so hard to find jobs! So it's easy to understand why we don't really like their school. Anyway, here are some of the pics I got.


All the girls.

The banner Marie and Kim Swain made. Love it!

Our fire. It did get pretty big once we got all our notes on there!

Man it felt good to burn those notes!