Snow in Utah :).

Hello all :).  Yesterday I didn't feel like blogging and today I don't feel like doing the Cook vs Sineath deal-so sorry we aren't doing that until I get in the mood.  Most of you guys may know this about me, but I am definitely a 'mood' person.  In the mornings I choose my coffee mugs based on my mood-maybe a little strange to comprehend but it is true-I have different coffee mugs based on how I feel when I wake up-Seth is starting to understand this.  He use to try to pick out my coffee mug and fill it up (shouldn't I just suck it up if I have a sweet husband who will get up and pour my coffee-as well as fix it with creamer-sometimes this sickens me that I can't deal with it)-but I honestly can't help it.  He now will ask before he begins to pour my coffee. But anywho----let me talk about what we've been up to lately-and how sweet of a husband I have :)--This may end up having a few gushy stories-so I will warn you now.


Well I actually can go into one of the Cook vs Sineath that I've come to realize while being married to Seth.  I am content with waking up around 8-laying around in my pj's until the afternoon-and then being lazy for the rest of the day.  Doesn't bother me in the least-Us Sineaths can do that you see.  After a long week we like to recooperate on the weekends-and we are comfortable in our pjs (thats another deal with us Sineaths-we like comfy).  We are also that family that just enjoys being together-just us hanging around our home.  Those Cooks (haha I shouldn't say it like that-I should just say Seth-but I think it pertains to majority of my Cook family) want to set an alarm on weekends around 6:30am or so (yes I said alarm-and 6:30am).  My husband also has to jump in the shower first thing in the morning to get clean and ready for the day-no laying around in pjs for him..  He also has to be busy doing something.  He says he feels lazy or useless if he is doing nothing-and he is always wanting to see if someone else will join us for anything we are doing (which is actually fun-I will have to say that).  So-anywho that was one Cook vs Sineath scenario and I can't choose a winner because now I am both-Erika SINEATH COOK :).  It is nice and I enjoy that name.


So, I've previously said that we like to do this weekly menu system-and we go shopping every Saturday for our food for the next week.  Usually Saturday morning we make a grocery list and figure out what we want to eat and head out and pick it all up-it's a good system and works for us for the time being.  Our menu for this next week is Homemade Pizza-which we made for Saturday and lunch Sunday, Pot Roast, and Sweet and Sour Chicken.  I understand that is not 7 meals-but we are still technically college students so we eat a lot of leftovers :).  We got into the 'I want to hang out with another couple mood' and invited our friends that we've met from North Carolina to come over for homemade pizza.  Great idea-we had a wonderful time!  We had to clean our apartment (plus), had amazingly yummy homemade pizza, salad, and crockpot apple cider, and great company.

                                     Some of the ingredients-The dough rising

                                            Seth throwing the dough around.

                                                  Look at that Intensity.

                                        Our Final Product-Boy was it Yummy.


So, that was Saturday night.  Sunday we went to church-which has recently been 'adopted' by a Alpine Church.  So, Maranatha will become an Alpine Church-Logan Campus.  We aren't sure what all that entails, but seems to be okay with us.  After church we ate more of that yummy pizza and went out on a hike to Tony Grove-Naomi's Peak with our North Carolina folks (Gina and Joe-to give them a name).  I will be honest-if Seth and I were to go out on an afternoon hike and saw snow-I would probably be a loser and say, "hon let's not go out in that-I don't want to get wet or cold-blah blah blah".  But we went and it was soooo Much Fun :).  Who would have thought that in 'fall'  we would have several inches of snow-some areas would go to my mid-calf.  We hiked around a little and enjoyed how beautiful the scenery was.  We actually even hiked up the sides of hills and went 'off' trail to get different views.  Gina and Joe brought some coffee for us to share and we brought some oranges.  We stopped and enjoyed those while looking out at a beautiful sight.

Tony Grove Lake

Having Fun in the Snow.

Had to do Self Portrait-Getting Started.

Doesn't this Look Fun Guys?

He always has to check on me when I'm taking pictures of the group :).

A beautiful view.

This is real life for us :)>

It got dark fast-Making our Way Back.

End of our Snow hike :).

Pot Roast that we ate after our hike (10 hours in this thing-YummmY.)

So that was just a little preview of our weekend.  We stayed pretty busy-but we had such a great weekend.  Now it is on to a handful of gushy stuff :).

So, I will have to throw out there that married life is great!  I will highly recommend it to anyone :).  Most of you guys know I grew up with a father who is very protective of his family and worries often (Now that I'm older I respect that aspect of him so much more-he's actually given some of his worrisome ways to me).  Seth must have taken on some of those aspects also.  Seth will tell me some of the same things my dad did-Drive slow-Drive safe.  He is so much more worried about me and making sure I have everything I want/need and will then think about himself (if he even does that).  When we are out hiking-Seth has to make sure he is always behind me when we are hiking up and has to ALWAYS be in front of me when we are going down.  He wakes up at 5am every morning with me and will make our coffee, cook me breakfast, and then go and start my car for me so I drive to work in a warm car :).  And I will stop at this last gushy thing-I wore a normal jacket to work this morning-it started snowing and had been constantly snowing all day.  Seth came to my work (in the snow) to bring me my 'winter/snow' jacket because he wanted me to have it when I left work.  How sweet is that :).  I married a wonderful man and I will not feel bad for bragging on him (even though he may not like it very much). To end this section-Seth has gotten into this 'bread baking' mode and is starting our very own sourdough starter for sourdough bread.  He is very into it and has told me that we HAVE to start buying the bread flour-even though it may be more expensive he has to have it-as well as starting to buy this bread flour in 10 lb bags-it is a MUST-our household has to have this :).

                                             Our SourDough Starter : Day 2

I'll end with this:

-It is snowing right now-Sticking to the ground-Hardcore

-I am definitely listening to Christmas music and Loving it

-Finally got my birthday present from my husband-furry slippers from Cabellas-sporting them now and loving them.

-I have 44 Days until I am flying to South Carolina to be with Seth's and My Family for Christmas and am getting more excited to see them all :)!

Peace out-