Crested Butte Day 2

Howdie folks! Today was such a great day!!! Jake and I progressed to the blues and I'm pleased to say I only fell once. And I really shouldn't have. I got freaked out cause I was going too fast and I just decided to fall down. Jake and I are perfect ski partners. We are totally on the same level. It snowed lightly today and it was just so wonderful!
Jake and I got on a lift with a random. As usual, I asked him where he was from. 'Fayetteville, Arkansas.' 'SHUT UP!!! US TOO' So we had a good talk on the lift. His sister lives here and he recommended a delicious restaurant for us to eat at on New Years Eve. We told him we wanted something like Bordinos/Theos and he recommended this place so we made our reservations today. Yay!
I only spent $5 dollars today. Can you believe that? I'm so proud of myself. I can't even manage to do that in NWA. I spent it on a lovely hot chocolate after a sorta chilly day on the mountain. Today was a touch colder than yesterday. We came home for lunch and I had to add more layers. Yesterday was such great weather. Today was colder because it was snowing I think. We only have a 3 day pass so tomorrow Jake, Jaclyn, and I plan on checking out the town. However, I'm having such a great time skiing I told Jake we should just wake up and head out on the town early so we could go on the slopes tomorrow around 1. We'll have to buy an extra pass for Thursday but we're enjoying ourselves so much and we're such rockstars it makes me want to not miss a day! I think the reason I'm skiing better than I ever have is because I work out 4 days a week. Pretty sure that's why.
I miss my husband. I think about him all day. I would love to make out with him on the ski lift! Haha. JK...kinda.
I've got to tend to my dinner. Jake and I tag teamed and made chicken spaghetti tonight. I think it's almost ready. Until tomorrow....

Crested Butte Day 1

Greetings from Crested Butte! I'm sitting in front of a fire while looking at white covered mountains! Jealous?

We left NWA at 5:00 a.m. and got to Crested Butte around 7ish. Jake drove me and Jaclyn and we followed Craig, Jax, Austin, & Anna. The trip was actually not terrible surprisingly. It was definitely a long day but I was with my 2 best friends in the whole wide world so sitting in a car chatting was nice! We drove into town, straight to a pizza joint, then passed out!

We woke up this morning and Jake, Jaclyn, and I decided to ski. The others opted to go to the grocery store and just chill. The slopes were great! I'm a rockstar. Never fell. Was super proud of myself too especially since it's been 4 years since I last skied. Okay I will admit that I just did greens today but they were so super easy and I believe Jake and I will progress to some blues tomorrow. I do have one super funny for you though.

So after doing a couple of runs we decided to stop by The Ice Bar and enjoy a cup of hot chocolate and relax on top of the mountain. When we were finished, there was a ski lift that was just right outside The Ice Bar so we decided to take it. I knew we were in trouble when Jake had a hard time just getting on the ski lift. It bounced really bad because it was old and rigidy and when it bounced his ski polls few out of his hands! Bummer number 1. So then we ride all the way to the tip top of the mountain. TIP TOP. You could seriously go no further. Then, as we're getting off the lift, it bounces again and throws Jaclyn into the air and she lands 10 feet away on her bottom. Bummer number 2. Jaclyn gets up and we turn to look at the trail sign and guess what are options are. Double black diamonds or double black diamonds. Bummer number 3. Are you freaking kidding me? Double Black Diamonds? I guess I'm confused. Like literally. We probably stood at the top of 'Jokerville' (name of the slope, isn't that ironic) for 10 minutes wondering what in Gods name we're going to do. I mean, it is the steepest slope I've ever seen in my life. Straight down. All the way straight down. Well we had no option we had to go down it. Jake first. He goes about 3 yards and falls, spread eagle ALL THE WAY DOWN. His polls and skies flying all over the place. Some nice guy picked them up and handed them to him at the bottom of the slope. My turn! I go about 10 inches and fall sliding on my butt which was just fine until all of a sudden my body flips around and I'm going down backwards, like a roly poly at 188 miles per hour I swear. I just knew I was going to break something. Then Jaclyn follows suit just like me sliding down backwards just as fast. Some ski instructor watched and carried our skis down and told us we might want to go down 'The Yellow Brick Road' right down that way to the left which is a green and will lead us home. YOU THINK? So we did and it was just fine except we would have to stop at points because we were laughing so hard at ourselves we couldn't breath. I will NEVER forget that for as long as I live and from now on I'll be paying more attention to which lifts take you to which slopes.

Enjoy pics from day one taken from Jakes camera.....I'll share the ones from mine when I get home.

Here we are on the roller coaster....I mean ski lift headed to the double black diamonds. Oblivious of the future that awaits us.

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Easy Meal

Is anybody else like me and always looking for a super easy meal to cook that doesn't take a long time but one that's very delicious as well? Allow me to introduce you to my new meal invention! It's so easy and simple. Takes about 10 minutes total to cook and is delicious!! I just had to share. It only requires 3 ingredients.

Shrimp stir-fry! Buy your bag of frozen shrimp. All you have to do is put them under hot water and they're ready to eat! Grab a frozen stir fry vegetable. Put some olive oil in a pan and throw that baby right in the pan. Add your shrimp then your stir fry sauce. So yummy and seriously takes no time at all! Add some rice if you'd like. Without the rice though this meal is rediculously low in calories! Scott and I have about 7 shrimp a piece and we split the whole bag of veggies. I calculated it to be about 200 calories only!! How genious am I!! It's nice too because everything is frozen so it won't go bad. If you're like me you plan to make this glorious meal then never cook it and all of your food goes bad (waste of money). This is just fantastic! A new staple. Every time I go to Walmart now I just stock up on stir-fry veggies and shrimp because it's something I can throw together in 10 minutes and it tastes like I spent a really long time on it. Anyways, just thought I'd share! Try it out. You'll love it!

New Years 2009 Plans

Sooooo....guess where I'm spending my new years. Guess. JK. I'm going to Colorado holla!!! My friend, Jacqueline, has a home in Crested Butte and a bunch of us are packing up and taking a road trip to go skiing! Jax asked us months ago if we wanted to go. I waited until just last night to give her a definite answer because I have a tiny little problem. Scott can't go. Work. Such a bummer. I went back and forth with it but I decided to take the opportunity to be with my wonderful friends, in Colorado, skiing, eating fantastic food, making memories. I feel so sad that I won't be with Scott on New Years. But it's either sit at home, all week, off from work, while Scott's not, being bored, doing my same ol' same ol' OR skiing in Colorado. I'm taking the opportunity. It's fantastic and I'm so excited about it!!
A bunch of us went about 4 years ago to stay at Jacqueline's house for Spring Break. It was a fun time but I'm positive this will be way better. We all know what to expect, what the house is like, where the good restaurants are, what the slopes will be like, etc.
So it's gonna be: Jax & Craig. Anna & Austin. Me. Jake. and hopefully Jaclyn. Jaclyn has the week off from work as well but can't decide if she wants to leave Brad behind for New Years because he's in the same position with work as Scott is and can't get off to go. I told her no pressure. She can decide the day before if she wants. Of course we all want her to go. Can you just imagine me, Jake, and Jaclyn on a 15 hour road trip to Colorado? Yes I said 15 hours. At first I searched long and hard for a flight a few months back but they were all about $700 because Crested Butte doesn't have a big airport near it. Just too much....I guess. It'll be alright. Even if Jaclyn doesn't go it'll be me and Jake in a car together and I'm not too concerned with being bored. I'll post videos on my way there maybe.
So I have 2 Colorado problems. The first is that Scott can't go. I hate going on trips without Scott. Even when I was having a blast in Miami with my girlfriends I was really wishing Scott could have been there too :) He's my buddy. There's not a whole lot I enjoy doing without him there with me.
Problem number 2 and quite possibly larger than problem number 1 is my skiing wardrobe. It is uuunnnnnfortunate. So the first time I went skiing I was like, 12. My ski coat is seriously tri-colored with fusha, purple, and blue. Yuck! And my ski pants have elastic around the ankles. They aren't the cool snow-boarding kind. I've been skiing many times since I was 12 but I mean, who wants to spend $300 on a ski outfit when you don't go just all the time. I've never wanted to spend money on a new one. So I thought I'd bite the bullet and go to Lewis and Clarke and check out their stuff. I just can't do it. I just can't spend money on that. I'll never wear that coat unless I'm skiing or there would be the rare, random, off chance Scott and I decided to go camping in November which I never see happening since neither of us are outdoorsy. What am I gonna do? Does anybody have a cute skiing wardrobe I could borrow? Facebook me!! My mom has a cute red coat. I guess I could grab that when I'm home for Christmas. However I would love to have options. Jaclyns looking for something too if she decides to go. Help some girls out!

Sayings

I find that my friends and I speak our own language. Are you like that with your friends too or are we Special Edna like that? Here's my Kara & Friends dictionary and maybe some background info on why that saying/word came about in case sometimes my blogging vocab confuses you.

1. Miz-Miserable
2. Burnt Toast-Old, boring, etc. (Extra old/boring if you say Stale Burnt Toast)
3. Buggs - Bothers You
4. Dus Woo! - Woo Wee who cares
5. Thumma Scew - Summer School. (Jake had a professor who talked with a lisp and she was African American and he said she wore her Easter Outfit to class the first day and she said summer school pronounced thumma scew. LOL. So funny to us...we'll just randomly say thumma scew)
6. Crunchy Curls - Girls with naturally curly hair who put too much gel in there hair and when it dries it's crunchy.
7. I Guess I'm Just Confused - My all time favorite saying and if you can't figure that out for yourself then....I guess I'm just confused. :)

Hmm....I thought I had a lot more. I'm sure I do. Maybe we'll do sayings part deux. Until then....holla!

Thumma Scew