I must admit, I am posting this picture against Landon's wishes.  I just think it's too funny.  This is the position he generally studies in--hands and knees, bum up, face in a book.  He says it keeps him from falling asleep...

We went indoor rock climbing this weekend.  I have decided that if we ever had to climb for safety or survival, our family is pretty much set.  Among survival skills, I'm sure its one of the important ones, right?  Landon and I both scaled some of the harder climbs in the place, and I even went by the right colors for some of them (which makes it harder)!  A group of guys tried to do them after us and just couldn't make it over the overhang (to the right of Landon in the second picture).  It helped our self esteem, ha.  But my forearms have been sore all weekend!

                                     

I don't know why but they couldn't get this one to focus...

Neglected

I feel that I have been neglecting the blog lately.  Mostly because I have no pictures, and that's always my favorite part about blogs.  But I felt that we should update everyone on life.  So, for fun I am inserting some of our recently edited engagement pics (Thanks to Tami).

Anyways, Landon has been dealing with the winter semester of school--long semester with no vacations.   He has a nazi professor that even I am growing to dislike intensely.  But he still takes time to get up and make me breakfast on the days he has later class.  :)  He is realizing with his volunteering that radiology might not be his dream job.  We are not yet sure what that leans him towards instead.  This could be a long process of trial and error, who knows.  But, in the meantime we are both riveted to the NCAA tournament, especially BYU.  Yes, our team has taken a hit with the loss of our center, but we are hopeful.  Landon is so optimistic that he put them going all the way.  Honestly, I think he just didn't have the heart to vote against them.  I am more of a realist.  Either way, the Draney Madness bracket challenge should be exciting! Go Cougs!

New Favorite Recipe

I eat a lot more pork since getting married--Landon can't eat chicken.  So we have been experimenting with new recipes.  I found my new favorite--it's pretty much delicious. If you want to try it, we have used shredded pork instead too and just didn't roast it as long, and it is also amazing, and you can use almost any fruits or vegetables, but their mixture is great with the meat and sauce.  Definitely dried cherries instead of raisins though.  I like it a lot because it's pretty :)

For pork

• 2 teaspoons salt
• 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
• 1 teaspoon ground cumin
• 1 teaspoon chili powder
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 2 pork tenderloins (2 1/4 to 2 1/2 pounds total)
• 2 tablespoons olive oil

For glaze

• 1 cup packed dark brown sugar
• 2 tablespoons finely chopped garlic
• 1 tablespoon Tabasco

For vinaigrette

• 3 tablespoons fresh lime juice
• 1 tablespoon fresh orange juice
• 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
• 1 teaspoon curry powder, toasted
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
• 1/2 cup olive oil

For salad

• 3 navel oranges
• 5 ounces baby spinach, trimmed (6 cups leaves)
• 4 cups thinly sliced Napa cabbage (from 1 medium head)
• 1 red bell pepper, cut lengthwise into thin strips
• 1/2 cup golden raisins
• 2 firm-ripe California avocados

• Special equipment: an instant-read thermometer

Prepare pork:
Preheat oven to 350°F.

Stir together salt, pepper, cumin, chili powder, and cinnamon, then coat pork with spice rub.

Heat oil in an ovenproof 12-inch heavy skillet over moderately high heat until just beginning to smoke, then brown pork, turning, about 4 minutes total. Leave pork in skillet.

Make glaze and roast pork:
Stir together brown sugar, garlic, and Tabasco and pat onto top of each tenderloin. Roast in middle of oven until thermometer inserted diagonally in center of each tenderloin registers 140°F, about 20 minutes. Let pork stand in skillet at room temperature 10 minutes. (Temperature will rise to about 155°F while standing.)

Make vinaigrette while pork roasts:
Whisk together juices, mustard, curry powder, salt, and pepper, then add oil in a stream, whisking until emulsified.

Prepare salad ingredients while pork stands:
Cut peel, including white pith, from oranges with a sharp knife, then cut oranges crosswise into 1/4-inch-thick slices. Toss spinach, cabbage, bell pepper, and raisins in a large bowl with about 1/4 cup vinaigrette. Halve, pit, and peel avocados, then cut diagonally into 1/4-inch-thick slices.

Assemble salad:
Cut pork at a 45-degree angle into 1/2-inch-thick slices. Line a large platter with dressed salad and arrange sliced pork, oranges, and avocados in rows on top. Drizzle some vinaigrette over avocados and oranges. Pour any juices from skillet over pork.

Stylin'

These are the socks we wore to church on Sunday...

Celebrate!

We took pictures by the statues of good ol' Malone and Stockton.  We tried to pose like them, although I think I look like I want to throw it down instead of the mailman's lay-up pose.  More dramatic is always better in my opinion.

For our six-month anniversary this week, I decided we were going to do something fun.  Since Landon has never gone to an NBA game, I thought that we should break him in.  Last night we went to the Jazz vs. Celtics game.  I think I was more excited than he was.  We decided we had to root for opposing teams for fun, so I went for the Celtics and he rooted for the Jazz.  He ended up having to buy me dessert, ha.  But it was a good game--down to two points in the last minutes.  My man Ray Allen came through with some clutch 3's.  We were pretty much in the nose-bleed section, but it was still a fun night...aside from getting pulled over.  We were going to be late and I wanted to see them announce the players, so I was speeding pretty bad.  I was on track to make it in time, but I was caught in the act.  Luckily, it was a fun and nice cop, and she let me go with a warning because I don't have any previous tickets.  So I can't really complain.  Sad to say, we missed the tip-off.