a bad excuse, a recipe, & lots of rambling

sigh.... hello blogging friends. has it really been almost a whole month since the last time we spoke?
oh dear. my bad. i am ever so sorry. kind of.
it's been an eventful month though, not going to lie. mikie got a 3.89 last semester (woot woot!), we finally got a real bed, we celebrated our one year anniversary, went to utah (i promise we do not go to utah that often... okay maybe we did but now we won't.), watched rsl defeat san jose 4-0, ate a million otter pops, watched our favorite movies at the dollar theater, and umm... well, i went to work. all terrible excused of why i haven't blogged. it probably should have been more reason to blog, but whatever.

okay, can i just say how i just made the best dinner homemade dinner i have made in a while? AND i made up the recipe... kind of. well, i combined two different recipes and then made up bits and pieces here and there. i made asian noodle soup. i know, i know, probably not surprising to most of you haha. but i was craving some asian noodles and this is what it calls for:

• 1/4 cup soy sauce 
• 2 tablespoons sugar 
• 4 cloves minced garlic (i used pre-minced garlic that comes in jars in the store. 1/2 teaspoon of that stuff equals one clove of garlic, and i thought it was nice because i hate peeling and chopping garlic.) 
• 2 tablespoons rice vinegar (okay, can i just say having an asian family, and being chinese myself, i have never used rice vinegar in my life. i swear it's only the white people recipes for asian food that use it.)  
• 3 tablespoons seseame oil (i've never used that either, but whatever. i thought it smelled so good. my nice husband thought it smelled like zoo animals.) 
• 1 tablespoon chili paste (or chili flakes, whatever. just something to give it a small kick.)  
• 1 or 2 teaspoons ground ginger (i didn't really measure here.)  
• 4 cups chicken broth 
• chopped nappa cabbage 
• chopped green onion 
• cilantro  
• cooked noodles (just cook however much you think you need. also, we used spaghetti noodles. if you have different asian noodles that you think would be better, go ahead and by all means, use them.) 
• cooked chicken, cut into pieces (improvise people! if you have chicken on hand, use that. or just be like us and get a rotisserie chicken.)  

mix all ingredients from soy sauce to ground ginger in a small bowl. heat broth in a small pot, and add in soy sauce mixture. pour heated broth over cooked noodles. garnish with nappa cabbage, green onion, cilantro, and chicken. they key is not skimping on vegetables! the first time i made this, it was plain noodles, and it was completely awful. you need vegetables. for real. (seriously though friends, try it. try it on a cold rainy night, or save it for winter.)

okay so we ate that for dinner and then saw kung fu panda 2 at the dollar theater. theme night perhaps? don't judge, i thought it was a good idea.

so for our anniversary, i was at work. but that wonderful husband of mine stopped by and brought me beautiful flowers. after i got off, we went to rexburg's very own water park. (the words 'water park' here is used very loosely, because if you consider a water park as one slide, a lazy river, and a lap pool (not even a WAVE pool, and LAP pool) then yes, i guess it's a water park.) for dinner we couldn't agree where to go, and for some reason decided to hit up Frontier Pies. for our one year anniversary dinner. it was sooo freaking good. we both got soup with our dinner, and they were not only delicious, but came in huge bowls. not the tiny little soup cups at fancy schmancy restaurants. hahaha we have style, we know. yes i have pictures. no, you cannot see them... i can't find my camera cord thingy. so instead you can see my favorite wedding pictures! lucky you!

...okay. some of these pictures looked washed out. not so on my computer but whatever, blogger. and this post has taken way too long to write. i've been writing it for hours, but i keep getting sidetracked. and i have to go to bed.

wait! okay, if anybody can tell me how to change the little orange blogger 'b' at the top of the tab? anybody know what i'm talking about? oh and i've been wanting needing a beginners sewing machine... so if anybody has any tips on what to get or would like to donate to my sewing machine fund, that would be cool too.

alrighty, i'm really outta here.