Bear Lake?

For the Zohner family vacation this year we went to Bear Lake.
Bear Lake is in both Idaho and Utah, but mostly Utah.
So we went to the Utah side.
Specifically Garden City, Ut.
Here is where we stayed. 
It was super nice!
Here is a picture dump.

Cute little Abby on the boat.

Spencer.

Cameron.

Sam wake-boarding.

Christina water skiing.

Mindy water skiing.

Sam caught some air.

Spencer and Glende getting ready to go tubing.

Alan playing in the sand. :)

These pictures don't do the lake justice. It was so blue and so pretty!

The water was super warm and so enjoyable!

To see what we did last year for the Zohner vacation go here. 

Looky What I found!

A bunch of random pictures from my phone that I found when I uploaded the pictures from yesterday. 

Enjoy!

A massive folding chair that we found at Sam's Club in Provo. Taken Fall 2010

This is the family "cabin" farm in Driggs, Idaho. Taken December 2010

Utah State Fair. Taken Fall 2010

A random picture of us at our old apartment in Provo, Utah

Taken sometime in 2010 : )

Right after I chopped my hair real short. The dumbest thing I ever did, by the way. Taken March 2011, Provo, Utah.

These were on the Snake River by the Idaho Falls Temple. We took these right before I went to NY. Taken July 2011, Idaho Falls, Idaho.

My hair is slightly longer. Just a random picture from school.

Taken Fall 2011, Pocatello, Idaho.

Until next time!

Chocolate Zucchini Bread.

I had gotten some squash and zucchini from my upstairs neighbors. They had been sitting on my counter for a little over a week and I needed to use them up. We used one of the squashes for a side dish for dinner, but with the zucchini, I made some chocolate zucchini bread. Well technically I made one loaf of bread and twelve cupcakes. The recipe that I used makes two loaves but I only have one bread pan. Anyways you can find the recipe here. I like this website, because the comments are always helpful. People just add what changes they made and how it affects the recipe. So go check it out and read some of the comments. Here is the way I made mine.

Ingredients

• 2 (1 ounce) squares unsweetened chocolate
• 3 eggs
• 2 cups white su
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• 1 cup vegetable oil
• 2 cups grated zucchini
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 3/4 cup semisweet chocolate chips

Directions.

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease two 9x5 inch loaf pans. In a microwave-safe bowl, microwave chocolate until melted. Stir occasionally until chocolate is smooth.
2. In a large bowl, combine eggs, sugar, oil, grated zucchini, vanilla and chocolate; beat well. Stir in the flour baking soda, salt and cinnamon. Fold in the chocolate chips. Pour batter into prepared loaf pans.
3. Bake in preheated oven for 60 to 70 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of a loaf comes out clean.    

Like some of the comments suggested, I mixed all of the dry ingredients together with the chocolate chips. And slowly added this to the wet ingredients. I baked the cupcakes at 350 for 30 minutes, but that was too long, as mine were a little burnt on the bottom, or as my grandpa says, they had a little black stuff on them. I would suggest 20-25 minutes but check them. I didn't have unsweetened chocolate squares, so I just used three tablespoons of unsweetened cocoa and one tablespoon of butter for one square of chocolate. I also added 1/2 cup of sour cream to make sure the bread was moist. I believe that applesauce would work. These were seriously so delicious. Now go make some! Until next time!

The Day

So our anniversary has come and gone. It was so nice to spend the whole day with Sam and do whatever we wanted. I loved it. Here is a run down of what we did:

Woke up and shared cards with one another. (I am a big card kind of girl)

Got ready and got some donuts for breakfast. (I am also a huge donut fan)

Headed to the Draper Temple, where we got sealed. We did some sealings. This is the perfect way to spend an anniversary if you can. The man who did the sealings was hilarious.

Came home, changed and went to lunch at Zupas. This is a big deal, because Sam never wants to go there because a guy in our ward told him it was "chick" food. Sam liked it, but agreed that it was "chick" food. I do not know what it is with guys and thinking that they need to gorge themselves every time they eat.

We planned on going to Jump On It. It took us a while to find the flipping place. When we got there, it was pretty crowded, so we headed back home. We were pretty tired at this point, so we just took a nap, which turned into two hours.

We woke up from said nap, decided we were hungry and I talked Sam into letting me order some take out from my favorite Thai restaurant, Spicy Thai. If you are in the Provo area and have not tried this place you seriously should. It is so good. Do not get scared by the name, you get to name your spice.

We ended the night watching some TV. All around it was a perfect day with a perfect husband.

Life is great!

Until next time!

One year

So this past weekend was one year from Sam's and my first date. It was so nice to get to spend the entire weekend with him and not worry about school or anything. We had so much fun together. It's always hard after spending all weekend long with him, without school or anything, to then have Monday come. On Monday's I have class until 11, but Sam has class all morning long and then again from 5-7. So I usually don't get to see him until after 7.

On Friday we had plans to go to BYU Spectacular with Mindy and Dave, and Dave's dad Dale. BYU Spectacular is something that they only do for homecoming weekend. It was really fun and cool. It is like a bunch of groups from school that put on performances. There is a lot of singing and dancing. But it is way good. Last year it was a couple of weeks later. I think more towards the end of October, instead of the beginning. We went with Mindy and Dave last year also. That was the first time I had met any of his family. We went to dinner at this sweet Italian place called La Dolce Vita. We also went there last year. It is such good food for a pretty reasonable price. After dinner we rushed over to the Marriott for BYU Spectacular. It lasted for about two hours. After wards we went home and watched a movie.

Saturday was the day we were for real celebrating. We started our day out by sleeping in and getting ready for the temple. Sam went to temple on the morning of our date last year, so we did it again. Instead of doing an endowment session, we did initiatory. We got out of the temple at around 12. We headed down to Wal-mart to pick up somethings we needed. I wanted to get some crop pants for rock climbing later. We then went to Tucanos. Last year Sam had gone to Tucanos with some friends and I went to basically the same place, but it's called Rodizio Grill. I actually didn't eat when I went, so this was the first time for me. It was so yummy. I love getting to experience things with Sam for the first time. We ate so much food and were so full after wards. All we wanted to do was curl up and sleep. But alas we couldn't. We had to run back to our apartment and change back in to church clothes and run over to Jen's husbands baptism. We had Sophie, their their 7 month old daughter with us, so Jen could just enjoy the baptism and not have to give all of her focus to Sophie. she was really well behaved. Mostly she just played with these fake keys that she had. In fact she was so well behaved Sam even held her. Towards the end she got pretty fussy because she was hot and tired. I took her into the hall, which was a lot cooler, and she fell right asleep. It was funny to have her with us, because it was a little taste for the future for when Sam and I have our own babies.

After the baptism we went home and just relaxed. We wanted a break before we went rock climbing that night. I remember thinking on our first date ever, when we went rock climbing that Sam must trust me quite a lot to let me belay him. I mean we had only known each other for a little over a month and here he was practically putting his life in my hands. I also put mine in his, but he picked this date. Anyways, back to the future. We left to go at about 7:15. And we got all geared up and had a lot of fun. Sam is way better at it than me. Then again he is better at just about everything than me. What a punk!

On Sunday we had a pretty lazy day. We went to church and got sustained and set apart as Sunday School teachers. We weren't exactly stoked when we were called, but the idea is warming up to us, mainly because we get to team teach. After church we just ate some food, watched movies and enjoyed our time with one another. I love Sam more than I could ever describe and it has been the best year with him. He is one great man.

Until next time!