{ Braxton }

This is the cutest kid ever! Check out those baby blues. I did a photo shoot with his dad and him this afternoon and here's one of my fav's......check out some more on my photography blog.

{ Recipe Blog }

So for a while now I have had this second blog that I used to keep recipes that I tried and liked or just family recipes in general. Since so many people are always asking me for recipes to stuff I make I decided to "dress up" this other blog and link up to it! Let me know if you like it!

Lindsay's Daily Dish

{ I ♥ My Man }

I am officially accepting the challenge of "How Well do you Know Your Man?" After answering the questions, ask your man the same ones and see how accurate you are.

1. He's sitting in front of the TV, what is on the screen? Most likely he is watching some sort of action movie or he is playing X360.

2. You're out to eat, what kind of dressing does he get on his salad? Ranch, including an extra one on the side.

3. What's one food he doesn't like? He really does not like sweets.

4. You go out to eat. Where would he choose? Texas Roadhouse or Johnny Carinos

5. Where did he go to high school? Idaho Falls High School

6. What size shoe does he wear? 12

7. If he was (were) to collect anything, what would it be? Well since he is a firefighter he collects patches from other departments.

8. What is his favorite type of sandwich? Cold Cut Combo from Subway w/ everything except tomatos and cucumbers

9. What would this person eat every day if he could? Steak and potatos

10. What is his favorite cereal? Cinnamon Toast Crunch and Cookie Crisp

11. What would he never wear? He would never wear pink or purple

12. What is his favorite sports team? Colorado Avalanche and the Detroit Red Wings

13. Who did he vote for? McCain

14. Who is his best friend? Me of course!!

15. What is something you do that he wishes you wouldn't do? He wishes that I would rinse off my dishes before I put them in the sink....I'm getting better.

16. What is his favorite color? Red

17. You bake him a cake for his birthday, what would it be? Cheesecake or carrot cake

18. Did he play sports in high school? He played hockey

19. What could he spend hours doing? He could waste entire day playing Guitar Hero

20. What is one unique talent he has? He has lots a talents......

{ I ♥ Sweet Tea }

McDonalds has sweet tea now. It's excellent. I'm addicted. Actually I thinks it's gone past addiction. I've been to Mickey D's JUST for sweet teas 7 times in the last three days. I believe that now what most would call excessive.

You see I'd never had sweet tea until about 5 years ago. That's the summer that Geoff and I went to North Carolina for his dad's wedding. In North Carolina they have a chain of fast food restraunts called BoJangles, it's basically the McDonalds of the south. And they sell the most amazing sweet tea by the gallon. We spent like seven days in North Carolina and had sweet tea with every meal....it was fantastic. And that my friends is how this whole excessive obsession begun.

{ Happy Easter }

I hope everyone is having a great Easter and getting to spend lots of time with their families!

{ I ♥ Easter Cookies }

These are the best sugar cookies ever! A definate must try...

Lemon Sugar Cookies

4 cubes softened butter
3 eggs
2 c. sugar
2 tsp. vanilla
1 1/2 tsp. lemon extract
1 tsp. baking soda
1/4 tsp. salt
6 c. flour

Frosting

1 cube softened butter
1 tsp. salt
1 T. milk
1 tsp. lemon extract
3/4 c. powdered sugar
1-2 drops desired food coloring

Whip until fluffy, butter, eggs, sugar, vanilla, and lemon extract. Slowly add soda, salt and flour one cup at a time. Refrigerate for at least one hour. Roll out on floured surface and cut as desired. Bake on lightly greased cookie sheet for 8 to 10 minutes at 375.

Frosting: Mix all ingredients until smooth.

{ I ♥ Panda Express Orange Chicken }

I absolutely love Panda Express' Orange Chicken. Seriously everytime I'm traveling anywhere near a Panda Express I have to stop and get it! I'm pretty sure that everyone is the same way as well, right? Well I've tried several different recipes that claimed to be Panda Express' but they never were exactly the same. This one is. This recipe is it. It's gotta be............


2 lbs boneless skinless chicken, chopped into bite sized pieces
1 egg1
1/2 teaspoons salt
white pepper
oil (for frying)
1/2 cup cornstarch, plus1 tablespoon cornstarch
1/4 cup flour
1 tablespoon gingerroot, minced
1 teaspoon garlic, minced
1/2 teaspoon crushed hot red chili peppers
1/4 cup green onions, chopped
1 tablespoon rice wine
1/4 cup water
1/2 teaspoon sesame oil

Orange Sauce for Stir Fry
1 1/2 tablespoons soy sauce
1 1/2 tablespoons water
5 tablespoons sugar
5 tablespoons white vinegar
1 orange, zest of

1. Place chicken pieces in large bowl.
2. Stir in egg, salt, pepper and 1 tablespoon oil and mix well.
3. Stir cornstarch and flour together.
4. Add chicken pieces, stirring to coat.
5. Heat oil for deep-frying in wok or deep-fryer to 375 degrees.
6. Add chicken, small batches at a time, and fry 3 to 4 minutes or until golden crisp.
7. (Do not overcook chicken).
8. Remove chicken from oil with slotted spoon and drain on paper towels; set aside.
9. Clean wok and heat 15 seconds over high heat.
10. Add 1 tablespoon oil.
11. Add ginger and garlic and stir-fry until fragrant; about 10 seconds.
12. Add and stir-fry crushed chiles and green onions.
13. Add rice wine and stir 3 seconds.
14. Add Orange Sauce and bring to boil.
15. Add cooked chicken, stirring until well mixed.
16. Stir water into remaining 1 tablespoon cornstarch until smooth and add to chicken.
17. Heat until sauce is thickned.
18. Stir in sesame oil and orange zest if desired.
19. Serve over jasmine rice.

{ I ♥ OCD Tendencies }

So most people that know me would find it hard to believe that I am indeed a little OCD. Questionable right? Wrong. My OCD manifests itself in some very odd ways.

Such as the fact that whenever I am at the doctor's office I HAVE to straighten and fan out the magazines according to genre. I have a great system that I use.....Woman's magazines followed by the In Touch & US magazines followed by the health related mags and so forth. Who does that? Me.

Or how at night when I go to bed I have to take two bottles of water with me for the nightstand. Why two you ask? Well see one bottle inevitably will develop this disgusting after taste somewhere between 1 am and 4 am and I can no longer drink it, hence bottle number 2 comes in handy. If I didn't have that second bottle readily available I would then end up having this much too long debate on whether it was going to be worth it to go all the way downstairs just for water or if I could just deal with the bad after taste and would end up never being able to fall back to sleep. No comment please.

But by far I am the most OCD when it comes to my closet. You see I love my closet, it has it's own window and heating vent and it perfectly fits all my shoes. I love it so much that I can barely stand having any of Geoff's clothes in their. In fact the only clothes I let him keep in their are church clothes. Don't worry he has a decent closet in the extra bedroom. But anyway back to my closet. I have organized all my clothes by color and lengh of sleeves and this system has worked pretty well for me for several years. I can find what I'm looking for and don't have to waste time. Now this is where is gets ugly......

Today I came home and not only had Geoff put my laundry away in my closet ALL wrong but Carma the cat got in the closet and in an attempt to get to the top shelf tried to climb up my clothes with her little kitty claws and pulled so many of them off the hangers to the floor. It was a disaster.

And that my friends is why I love OCD tendencies....because clothes on the floor and in the wrong spots can cause me to have a little meltdown that lasts at leat 20 minutes!

{ What??? }

So I opened my email box that is linked to this account tonight and it was FLOODED with messages from my friends saying that I have been leaving them odd comments on their blogs. Upon further investigation I determined that someone is leaving comments from ME but it's really not from ME. Weird huh? So I changed my password but I don't think that it's the problem, it's like they are commenting and just using my name and blog link. I talked with my friend Jill and she said that the same type situation happened to her two weeks ago. What is going on? So anyone that gets a odd comment from me please disregard it and let me know so that I can try to let Blogger know so that they can fix the problem.

Thanks, Linds

{ Kitty? Anyone? }

I love animals.

That being said I can be found quite often chasing some lost dog down Ammon Rd. trying to help him/her find their way back home via me.

The dog tag licensing office in Bonneville County knows my cell phone number by heart I call them so much.

I seriously can't tell you how many times I have been late to work because I was on my way and had to stop to try to get some stubborn dog into my car so that he/she wouldn't have to die on the road that day.

Geoff is at the point where everytime I pull back into the driveway and tell him I found a "lost" dog/cat/bunny/cow/parakeet I'm pretty sure he mentally is hitting me in the head with a frying pan. Mostly because after I give him the above named animal I head back to work and he is left to deal.

All of that being said you can imagine the situation I was placed in when my little sis and her friend Kinze showed up at my house the other day with Carma. Carma is a tiny kitten that Kinze's dog found. She was so young that her eyes were not even open yet so Kinze bottle-feed her for however long. Well long story short: Kinze's dad said that the kitten is big enough now that it's got to go....and my sister knowing my vulnerability decided to con me into taking it. Who am I kidding it didn't take very much conning. Anyway here is the problem, Geoff is at work for two days and I haven't mentioned that we have an additional family member here yet. So I'm thinking I'll wait till he gets home and see's the kitten walking around and just tell him I have no idea where it came from? Sounds like an amazing idea right? That's what I thought.

On the off chance that this idea doesn't pan out the way I forsee it, does anyone want a really cute, housebroke gray tabby cat named Carma?

{ E.L.F. Addiction }

So has anyone ever tried E.L.F. make-up products? I bought some at Target a while back on a whim cause they had some fun colors and get this...they are ALL only a dollar. That's right every single product is one buck. So Here are some of my favorite products of theirs so far.

So here is the website E.L.F. and here are some great coupon codes ......if you spend $15.00 or more you can enter "CAROLINA" and get $7.00 off your total which covers your shipping (which is $6.95) ~OR~ if you spend $25.00 or more you can enter "FREEBRUSH" to get a cool professional brush set. FYI you can't use both coupon codes at once so you'll have to choose! Plus I think currently they are doing BOGO (buy one product get one half off) Hurry Over!!

{ To Do List }

Stuff 2 Do On Mt Day Off

1. Do Laundry Lounge around in my pajama's all day.
2. Cook Dinner Make Double Chocolate Brownies.
3. Eat dinner with Geoff Eat said brownies striaght from the pan while still gooey.
4. Complete lots of scrapbook pages Look at way too many blogs.
5. Stop eating so much crap after the brownie incident Buy way too many Girl Scout Cookies when they come to the door.