Goodies

The last little while I've been making it a habit to make some sort of dessert. Sure, Miguel and I don't really need to eat delicious desserts, but I need to learn to make them before little ones are running around. ;)

I started off with Oatmeal Pumpkin cookies. They were such a pain to make, only because I'm missing a few kitchen tools like a sifter (which I don't really need, but it would be handy), larger mixing bowls, more kitchen counter space and a mixer. Not a hand mixer, we own three, but a real mixer. Hey, a girl can dream. ;)

Miguel loved them though. He thought they were delicious. The last batch we made though, he left in the oven too long and the bottom of it burnt. So, it's now my job to remove the burnt bottom so they are the same tasty treat as before.

Next, I made homemade Oreos. Man oh man. I am in love with homemade Oreos ever since my friend McKinsey's mom made a batch, and I was able to try some. Love at first bite.

These weren't as difficult, but Miguel now has a fear of using the hand mixer for any job. :) Let's just say that it's pretty funny when powdered sugar flies everywhere except inside of the bowl, and Miguel is covered in the soft sugary goodness. ;) Okay, not totally covered, but you get the idea. We made the cream cheese filling, and since then we've had to limit our cookie intake. That filling is pretty, uh, fattening. But, all the same, it's soo good.

Lastly, for this week I hope, I made a cake. Yes a wonderfully designed cake of all possible goodness. Okay, I'm just trying to boost up my cake making ability feelings. It's not the best looking cake, but I hope it tastes amazing. Here's the catcher though, it has peach frosting on it. Yes, peach frosting. :) It's delicious! Minus the fact that there is a little too much sugar on it, and it was runny last night, it seems to be just fine on the cake. I might need to practice making frosting, but I do like the peach flavor, as does Miguel.

I have a two other recipes to try out this week, but I'm not sure if I'm up to making anything with sugar in it. ;)

I think I'll just work on my cooking skills. Which, by the way, aren't that bad. When Miguel tells me to experiment, oh, I experiment. ;) Thank goodness for the notebook I'm filling up with yummy food directions and ingredients.

Just Sneak Peek... :)

Woah...

...It's been awhile friends and family. I know, it's been a little too long since we've posted about the wondrous adventures in our lives... ;)

Well, where to start...

Ambria hasn't made a successful loaf of bread since the last post. It will happen though! As soon as I get my thermometer...

Miguel has been excelling in his classes, despite the lack of interest while being in class. He finds himself in the Math Lab and in the Hub more than he does at home. But, he still finds time to spend with me. Thank goodness for a happy wifey, right?

We've spent sometime down in South Jordan with my side of the family. As always, we've had oodles of fun. We even went Halloween costume browsing. Pictures of Miguel will soon follow.

As a side note, Pandora has lifted their 40hr ban of free music enjoyment! My life is (almost) complete. :) Well, when it comes to music....

Now back to the good stuff...

We haven't been up to much. We've been on a few dates around town. We ended up going to a play at the Black Box Theater here at USU and had Root Beer Freezes at A&W earlier that day. Two nights later, Miguel took us to a reasonably priced Japanese place where we ate amazing food. Not too shabby.

Miguel and I have taken to doing laundry together. Yes, bonus points for me. I know longer have to venture off to the laundromat all by myself. Yay!

We finally ended up getting our Wedding Photos from our lovely photographer, Kami. I have sorted through the ones I wanted and sent in the lengthy application for editing... ;) Hahaha right. She'll get them edited when she has the time. Don't worry though, I'll post some on here, but the rest can be found on Facebook. (As they are downloading right now...all 145 of them. If you think that's bad, I had to sort through 905. She thankfully knocked out a couple hundred of the duplicates and blurry pictures.)

Now to just wait for Miguel to finish with classes. Just one more for the day, and we are all set to go home, cuddle up in sweats with hot chocolate and maybe a good movie. Sweet. Thank goodness of cold weather... sometimes... ;)

Tah tah for now.

1st Bread Experience

On my list of things to do today was make dinner. Not just a quick meal, but a pretty nice meal. Ginger, Sesame, Orange Chicken with squash and Homemade Bread. Oh yeah!
Well, I didn't know Miguel was planning on eating homemade bread before work, so it's a good thing our lovely family gave us a bread maker! Shout out to Uncle Dan and Aunt Ronda. :)
I made an express bread, which was better than I expected it to be. I am going to try a normal loaf, but I am quite pleased with not only my Oster Bread Maker, but me!
Now that Mike has so willing taken Miguel to work in exchange for his dinner, it's clean up time. ;)
Toodles,
Ambria

Oh Poor Miguel... ;)

Pizza Pie Cafe Kisses
XoXoXo

Update #2

Saturday sometimes sums up to a full work day and then just relaxing at home with the hubby. But, after working all day long, Ambria came home to a wonderfully clean bedroom, kitchen and bathroom that Miguel had worked on all day. During this time he invited Garrett and Caisa over to help him put up the curtains and hang our wall decor. :) Ambria was super surprised, and couldn't help but smother Miguel in kisses. *Yes, we still kiss, but what's new. ;)* Our apartment has started to look homey now, and we actually want to go home and spend time together.
After the little surprise, nap time ensued. No surprise there either! We have taken after our parents when it comes to naps. We just can't enough of them.
We had decided to go on a date with our cute married couple, Garrett and Caisa, that night as well. At 5:40 we met at the Logan Temple, which is super gorgeous by the way, and since the 6pm session was so crowded we ended up sitting in the chapel for quite sometime. But, it gave us an opportunity to spend a lot of time together, thinking and pondering our questions that we have had in our relationship the past little while. After a wonderful 6:30pm session with our fun loving couple, we made it over to Pizza Pie Cafe where they were having a special on their buffet. Such good pizza! :) I think Miguel stuffed himself silly... hahaha. I think we both like the variety of pizza that they have there, especially their dessert pizza.
Soon as dinner was done, we changed out of our dressy clothes into some grubbies for a finale of the Flour Tower game. The game consists of packing flour into a tower, placing a penny on top, and then cutting away the flour in hopes of some poor soul accidentally splitting the tower and having the penny fall off. When the penny falls off, the poor soul has to then push the penny towards the edge of the surface the tower was placed on with their nose! Miguel lost 3 times, and was covered in flour by the time we left. I only lost once, and the was the last one to lose as well. Yep, I'm a skilled Flour Tower player, I guess you could say. :)
I'll post some pictures and videos off of my as soon I as I get them off of my phone. :)

Toodles!