Life never go the way we planned!

After a year of student life with two kids, we thought life will get better with a more stable career, who knew that it wasn't what Heavenly Father has in stored for us. Now Jeff is too old for being an air traffic controller, he decided he is going to get his BS in aviation administration at UVU starting this fall.
Not only we are going to we are going to be dirt poor for the next two years, we also have to feed one more little person. =) Yup, we are expecting baby no.3. Even though life is not going the way we planned, we are still very grateful for the blessing that came our way.

ultrasound taken@ week 7

Spam musubi

Unlike most people, I like spam. I don't eat them a lot but I always have couple cans in my pantry. I remember whenever my mom needed a quick, easy meal; spam was always on the menu. I know some people think Spam is such a disgusting food. Why is that??? Here people eat hot dog, bologna and think that spam is gross, I don't get that at all, What is the different between them? They are all processed meat! So if you eat hot dog or bologna, I will ask you to give spam a try. 

I made some spam musubis for lunch, the kid loved it and I was very satisfied. It is very easy to make and so yummy. Give it a try! You might like it.

 

Ingredients

2 cups uncooked short-grain white rice
2 cups water
4 tbsp rice vinegar
3 tbsp soy sauce
3 tbsp oyster sauce
2 tbsp white sugar
1 (12 ounce) container fully cooked luncheon meat (e.g. Spam)
5 sheets sushi nori (dry seaweed)
1 tbsp vegetable oil

Directions

1. Soak uncooked rice for half an hours; drain and rinse, then cook it in the rice cooker.
2. When the rice is done, let it rest and cool down for 15 mins, then stir in rice vinegar, soy sauce, oyster sauce and sugar until mix well.
3. Slice spam lengthwise into 10 slices, or to desired thickness, and pan fry them about 2 mins per side or lightly browned. Cut nori sheets in half and lay on a flat work surface. Place a rice press in the center of the sheet, and press rice tightly inside. Top with a slice of luncheon meat, and remove press. Wrap nori around rice mold, sealing edges with a small amount of water. (Rice may also be formed by hand in the shape of the meat slices, 1 inch thick.)
4. Musubi may be served warm or chilled.

New Favorite Hair Do For ME!!

I love trying new hair do's on my little girl, and she looks cute with everything of course, on the other hand, I have hard time finding hair do's that look good on me. I watched these video few days ago and thought it might look cute on me.
Today, it was 9th wedding anniversary for me and my hubby. I decided to try this DO and LOVE IT!!!

Here is the final product.

Close up on the braid.

 Trying to look HOT! Ha!Ha! 

What do you think?

Pasta Anyone?!

Last week I got 25 boxes of pasta for free by couponing. I haven't try this brand yet, hopefully they are good. Guess what we are having for dinner?! =)
 

 Do you have a favorite pasta dish that you would like to share with me? Please!

No More Store Bought!!

There are only few desserts I really enjoy, ice-cream cakes are one of them. If you get them from an ice-cream place like cold stone or baskin robbin, they are good but very expensive; and the ones from grocery store aren't very good.
Since my daughter (who turned 3 today) didn't tell me what cake she wanted, I decided to make an ice-cream cake. There are few things I will do differently next time but it was very easy and tasty, not to mention the price was GREAT! I think it totally costed me about 2-3 dollar, well....... it wouldn't be that cheap if I didn't get the ice-cream for free.

If you consider making an ice-cream cake, you should watch some youtube clips about it, get the basic idea then be creative and make it your own. It really not that hard! Enjoy!

1st couponing experience in Utah. "LIKE"

I liked couponing in my area when we were in PA. I was just used to the stores, and I had my routine, I was very afaid that I would have a hard time couponing here in Utah.Today, I went to two stores and both were success, I am very happy.

Here is my shopping (saving) trip:
6 cool whip $.24 each
6 philadelphia cream cheese $.49 each
2 Haagen daz ice cream $.54 each
2 planters nuts $.75each
8 athenos hummus FREE
5 trial size Tide FREE
6 coast bar soap FREE
2 olay bodywash FREE
2 olay body lotion FREE
3 vaseline lotion FREE
3 suave shampoo FREE

I paid $6.96 for all these good stuff!! I would have to pay $63.27 without coupons. Yes, Coupon Rocks!!!

Shopping = Spending money?? Not Always!

Yes, I'm a Black Friday shopper! Not the extreme kind would wait in line outside of a store, but I don't mind staying up or waking up earlier for shopping. Since we are moving in a few weeks, I didn't want to have extra stuff to haul, and we don't have money for it either. The shopping I did this year was the kind that would make me money. Do you want to see what I got?

I paid $23.72 for all these stuff which worth $271.52, and I have $75 worth of mail-in rebate which I will get cash in about 6 weeks.  Yes! I'm getting pay shopping!!

I know buying beauty and household products are not as exciting as buying clothes or shoes, but hey, they make me money.