New Blog

Hello everyone. (ok Melissa, Lisa, Becca, & Jordan) I have been having some troubles with my blog and it's really frustrating. So I decided to get a new blog. The new blog is
josephandjulianna.blogspot.com
I'm hoping this will solve my problems and it also includes joseph instead of being curlylucie. Thanks for all of your comments and your cute blogs to keep me up to date! Love you all!

Tag! You're It!

Ok, fine I've given in to Lisa and Melissa's tagging. Everyone who reads this is tagged as well!

1. 10 years ago I was only 10 so I was enjoying Mrs. Trimble as my 4th grade teacher. (whoa) I was probably found running around the horseshoe with all of my friends and training for the Hershey Track Meet.

2. 5 years ago I was enjoying being the only kid at home with Reed on his mission and Conrad living in Provo. I loved my Freshman year at the Jr. High School. Erica and I had a lot of fun that year especially in Orchestra and walking home with our violins. I switched crushes between Peter Green and Nathan Tanner. haha

3. 1 year ago I was trying to hold my patience for 2 more months until Joseph came home. I couldn't believe that the end was in sight! I had no idea what it would be like when he was home and little did I know.... I loved living at King Henry with Shea and all of my other fun roommates.

4. Yesterday I went to work at 7, went to school at 12, took a test, went to another class, talked to my advisor about classes, went home, took a nap, did laundry and homework at moms while I waited for Joseph to come home from seeing an old mission buddy. I missed him yesterday. :(

5. 5 snacks I enjoy. apples, granola bars, Chips Ahoy 100 Calorie packs, hot cocoa, ice cream!

6.5 things I would do if I suddenly had $100 million. Come on Melissa, you could splurge 1 million on something fun! I would buy Joseph a car, buy a house, go to New York, and then invest the rest.

7. 5 locations I would like to run away to: New York City, New York; San Clemente, CA; Hawaii; Ireland; Europe (Paris, Rome, Tuscany)

8. 5 bad habits I have: procrastinating, sleeping in past the alarm clock, waiting until the sink is full to do the dishes (or until Joseph does them :$), forgetting to water my plants, leaving hair in the shower

9. 5 shows I like: Prison Break, CSI:Las Vegas, What Not To Wear, The Hills, and America's Next Top Model

10. 5 things I hate doing: cleaning toilets, going to the doctor, going to the orthodontis (blah), sitting in tests, waking up early

11. 5 biggest joys of the moment; being with Joseph as much as possible, my pumpkin spice candle, the smell of autumn, New Moon (the 2nd in the Twlight series), looking forward to a short week due to Fall Break.

SNOW in September

Saturday Joseph and I wanted to go out. We still had to return some wedding gifts to IKEA.

We ended up getting a giftcard for $77 for the things! We then drove to Salt Lake (in the rain/snow, good thing JOseph got us new wiper blades). We ate at The Pie Pizzeria.

We stopped to see Jen before we watched BYU win the game!

Here are pictures of the first snow of the season.

a street in Salt Lake
Joseph with his pizza from The Pie
SNOW!!!
I told him to smile but he looks like a grumpy old man here

An Asian Cuisine

Joseph and I had an Asian dinner complete with potstickers.

Beware of Pirates

Saturday was Aidan's 3rd birthday. We had a pirate party complete with a treasure hunt for the gold! Joseph and I joined the fun by dressing up as pirates.

arrr, matey!
yo ho, yo ho, a pirates life for me!

pirate McKay

Pirate Ethan

the birthday boy in front of his cake
becca worked hard on this cake and it was awesome!
how do you like joseph's gold clip-on earring in the picture? haha

eschoola

It's time to brag or as we Relief Society sisters call it-- Good News Minute.
-Joseph was a #1 collector last month! I am so proud of him! We are looking forward to that fat bonus check on the 20th.
-I was nervous to take my BusLaw test because everyone said how hard it was and I'm having a hard time taking a real interest in that class. It was a torturous test but after only 75 minutes I came out with a 86.7% I only missed 4 questions! Yay! That's pretty good when the class averages are between 70-75%

-We have had an extremely long week! Joseph has taken 3 tests and written a paper while I had a test and presentation followed by 2 more tests next week. (I bet all you brothers and sisters are so glad you are done with school as you are reading this.) But we only have 4 more weeks until Fall Break! Until then, "Carry On! Carry On! Carry On!"

We FINALLY finished the last portion to the epic tale of Harry Potter. I was really happy to finish the book so I could read my textbooks instead but I am sad that it is over. :( Joseph and I agreed that we liked the ending. I did however go to Wikipedia

Mint Brownie, YUM!

I was excited to get our new bedspread (Jen got us a smoking deal) but obviously forgot exactly what it looked like. I thought it was going to be all brown, cream, and mint green. But when I got the package, the only mint green thing was an accent pillow. This past week I found some mint green sheets on sale and they complete the bed! I am so excited about how cute they are that I'm posting these pictures!

"We're going back, back, back to school!" -Grease 2

Joseph and I have made it through 2 full weeks of school. It has made our days long when we sit through 2 hour-long classes until 8 p.m. Joseph was worried about going back to school with such a long break but he has been doing really, really well. He is taking an English, Math, Health and Geology. I really like my classes and love that they relate to what I'm interested in. I am taking Business Communications, Business Law, Personal Finance, and the Business Marketing Education Intro class. My Business Law class should be the only difficult one because of my shallow knowledge of the government and court system but I guess that's why I'm in the class!

I'm a junior!!! :D
the handsome freshman
These are the roses Joseph secretly got me for our 2 month anniversary!

Zucchini Bread

So yesterday this lady at work practically forced me to take home a zucchini she had brought from her garden. I only remember having zucchini once or twice so I had no idea what to do with it (and naturally joseph doesn't like zucchini). I then remembered that I once had zucchini bread and it was tasty. I went to allrecipes.com (a daily occurence), found a recipe, and whipped up 2 loaves. I just ate a slice and it was pretty darn good, I must admit but I am the cook. I did omit the raisins and nuts but I should have put some in half a loaf for dad. oh, well.

Zucchini Bread II (http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Zucchini-Bread-II/Detail.aspx?src=etaf)

Brown sugar contributes to the richness of this traditional loaf that 's pepperedwith nuts and raisins.

Yields: 24 servings

INGREDIENTS:

3 eggs

3/4 cup vegetable oil

1 2/3 cups packed brown sugar2

cups grated zucchini

2 teaspoons vanilla extract

3 cups all-purpose flour

3 teaspoons ground cinnamon1

1/2 teaspoons baking powder

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon salt

1/2 cup raisins

1/2 cup chopped walnuts

DIRECTIONS:1. In a large bowl, beat eggs well. Add oil, brown sugar, zucchini, and vanilla;stir well. Blend in flour, cinnamon, baking powder, soda, and salt. Stir inraisins and nuts. Pour batter into a greased and floured 9 x 5 inch loaf pan. Bake at 325 degrees F (165 degrees C) for 1 hour. Cool.

Rita

So the other night Aidan, Becca's boy, was holding a little doll in his bed. Becca asked him what his doll's name was. After thinking for a bit, Aidan said, "Rita." Becca asked if he meant Rita, like juli's mom and Aidan said, "yeah, Rita." haha. Mom must have made a good impression on Aidan.

P.S. how do you put up a profile picture at the top of your page? and how do you put links to other blogs on the side of your page?