Take that DIva Deals!!

Yep milk for $0.15. Diva Deals would be proud of me (I don't get how she gets like $1,600,993.07 worth of groceries for $17.63).

Wait it gets better.

And Better (Diva Deal's jaw just hit the key board)

Mwahaha. Ben's gonna like this deal. He loves milk, I don't really like the taste of milk, but I know I should drink it because I've done my share of osteoporosis research. So I drink it with this......

It says helps build strong bones, but that's a almost not lie for me. Without the nesquik I wouldn't drink half as much milk as I do. Thank you Nesquik for helping me build strong bones and $0.15 milk for helping me stay within the budget.

NYC: Top 10 Sites

Hey Bloggers! This is Ben joining in the blogging business. Don't expect too much from me, I don't plan to post consistently. I just felt in the mood to share with you what Kimi and I declare the TOP 10 NYC SPOTS VISITED.

There is a twist though. Since we didn't agree when ranking the top 10, I have just listed the top 10 in no particular order. Once you finish reading, check our anonymous answers and guess who liked what.

A. Top of the Roc. What amazing views! In our opinion, it is better than the empire state building. A must see.

B. Statue of Liberty. If you want to climb up and look out of her crown, you must get tickets months in advance. Fortunately, my parents are travel experts and got tickets way in advance for us. Thanks Mom & Dad!

C. Food on Foot Tour. This fun guy named Cory started his own business showing people the best small restaurants in certain neighborhoods. We stopped at 10 different spots in the Hell's Kitchen area. If you want the know the specific locations, let us know. We'll hook you up.

D. Wicked. My brother Michael is quoted to say watching Wicked was "pure misery." Kimi and I do not agree with though. We thought it was a fun musical. What also made the show fun is my brother Justin won a lottery getting us cheap front row tickets! We weren't expecting to even go to a show that night!

E. Tandem Bikes in Central Park. Kimi's dream ever since we've been married is to have a tandem bike. This experience brought her closer to that dream. We still don't own one, but we had fun on it! (Tandem bike are hard by the way!!!)

F. Madam Tousou's Wax Musem. This was surprisingly very fun. The wax figures look so real! Check out this pic:

G. Magic show at FAO Swhartz Toy Store. While we have no pictures, this guy was amazing! We ended up buying 2 magic tricks from the guy. The toy store itself is a fun spot to check out because employees are very interactive with customers, showing them to cool games/toys they have. It is right next to the Apple Store close to central park.

H. Frozen Hot Chocolate at Serendipity. WOW. That is all I can say. This was some amazing dessert (or appetizer in our case.) Definitely check this place out. You must make reservations beforehand. Serendipity is known for their desserts. You can't just order dessert though, so plan in a full meal there as well. It's a little pricey, but worth it.

I. Walking across Brooklyn Bridge. This was pretty fun and for me surprisingly very busy. It was fun though.

J. Times Square. Always a fun place to walk and check out the lights and TV screens. Very cool.

Ok guys. Now it's your turn to guess who is who. Sorry, the winner doesn't get anything. Just guess for fun.

PERSON A:

10. B

9. J

8. E

7. C

6. I

5. D

4. F

3. A

2. G

1. H

PERSON B:

10. F

9. G

8. J

7. B

6. A

5. H

4. I

3. D

2. E

1. C

A little random Asian Fun pictures:

Official BYU Grad and a Blast to the Past

This past week has been jam packed full of exciting things. I graduated last Friday but it was a 2 day celebrated event. My parents and grandma came from Idaho and Amanda Gene did for Thursday. It was a bittersweet time. I was very excited to be done with tests, homework, and projects but sad to leave my job and classmates I'd grown to know over the past 2 years. I have a lot of memories at BYU. I could go on for hours about things I've done but here's the Top 10.

Top 10 BYU Favorites

10. An amazing job at WSR where I was the nutrition counselor and actually used what I was learning in the classroom and put it into practice. My boss was great and I loved all the people I worked with.

9. Taking bowling twice. Yep I took bowling twice, just for fun, because I LOVE to bowl. I didn't learn much either time. I can bowl a mean 128 though. And both times

I was in bowling I was in class with BYU Athletes. 1st time was Max Hall and the 2nd time was good old Jimmer. Bowling is the magic class to find the athletes.

8. Food Fight! Food, people, open field and my goggles!

7. Pieing someone and missing their face twice.

6. Fizzy Yogurt. Mmmmmm I discovered this my freshmen year. There would be a sign outside of the Eyring Science Center whenever they would serve this and I was on the watch for it ALWAYS. After my freshmen year they didn't serve the yogurt anymore, until one day in my food science lab, my TA had made a batch of the fizzy yogurt and she shared with us. One of the professors at BYU invented the delicious yogurt and I have found it again at the Farmer's Market in Provo. I can't wait for it to start up again.

5. Discovering J-Dawgs! No hot dog will ever compare! Junior year winter semester, every Friday I would go with my friend Janet to experience the bliss of the secret sauce! Mmmmm! We had to cut back once we started getting fat and spending too much. I am still trying to invent my own version of the sauce. I'll let you know when K-Dawgs opens. (Coming to the Eastern-Idaho-State Fair near you.)

4. BYU Hawaii!! If they would have had my major I probably would have stayed. I love Hawaii, the beaches, shaved ice, spam and eggs, not the humidity, Jack Johnson, ponytails and no makeup, and especially the sun!

3. My study abroad to Asia.

Climbing the great wall in my Mario and Lugi shirt,

crawling through the tunnels in Vietnam,

Karaokee in Vietnam, very different than the karaokee in the US.

Touching a Monk eating new foods

Discovering that babies in China don't wear diapers

Sushi and sumos in Japan, and meeting amazing new friends.

2. Roommates. I have had 14 roommates during my college career. Each one has taught me something, and oh we've had some good times.

1. Finding my Ben and spending my last year in college with the best roommate and most enjoyable living arrangements. No dishes piled up in the sink for weeks, room in the freezer, and clean apartment when ever I want it to be.

NOTE: 6 of the 10 top memories involves food. This is why I love my major, it's perfect for me.

As I have been graduated for 9 days now, I'm lovin it. I can't complain though because we just got back from the Big Apple yesterday so the no school life hasn't set in yet. And I still have my internship to complete so it feels like it's still not the end. But I don't know if I'll ever feel like there's an end, I'm not expecting it. Life is busy and I love it! Here's how I celebrated (I think I scared the old people)

Results are In

5:15 pm. Here's how I found out about my internship, with Ben screen sharing with me so we saw it at the same time.

YAHOOOOOO!!!!! Yep it was that personal! We were really excited and I can't wait to take this next step to become a Registered Dietitian! I have to call Utah State tomorrow to find out when I start and what facilities I will be working with. We don't have to move to Logan, they try and place me locally. My guess is I'll be in Ogden all of June-August at McKaydee hospital and then in a Salt Lake school district for my food service management rotation and then hopefully in Provo/Orem for my community rotation (which is the shortest). More unknowns but not for long.

Other fun things this weekend!! We rolled sushi again, to continue our conference tradition.

Ben was in charge of the tempura. Good Man (I hate cooking with hot oil).

Ben's Sushi roll (very, very Americanized sushi). Try and guess what Ben's consisted of??????

I'll tell you----tempura potato, shrimp, and carrots with ketchup (white boy roll). Yes that is right ketchup. Last year he dipped it in ketchup so this time we just added it straight into the roll.

Don't tell my grandma what he did. Ketchup!

Ross' roll was created with shrimp, potato, celery, and jalapeno. Notice his skin. He just got back from Mexico and seriously he is b-l-a-c-k. (the Mexi roll)

I had a tempura shrimp, potato, spinach, and carrot roll (future dietitian roll).

mmmmmm it was delicious.

Of course we had to have dessert. We thought that a dessert roll sounded good so I gave it a shot. I sweetened the rice with milk and brown sugar. The inside, well, I'll see if you can guess???? PS It was actually pretty good once I unwrapped the seaweed.

We also colored eggs.

Ross is working on his camera skills. He wanted to add little artsy things here and there to his photography portfolio. This will be first in his portfolio! Following these....

Hope you had a good weekend and that you don't end up looking like our Easter eggs.

13 minutes and....

.....I find out about my internship. I'll let you know, but only if it's good. I don't know how the computer system will be since every senior in a dietetics major in the USA and all others will be checking. I hope it's not too backed up, but I know it will be. Now it's only 12 minutes. I originally decided to check it at 6, thinking the system won't be so crowded, but I want to help crowd it too. I'm too anxious. 10 minutes, Happy Monday!

THIS JUST IN!

wahahahha Ben and I were having too much fun playing with this app.

Listen up

Ben wanted to make an appearance too.

Oh and if you're up or want to TIVO a great game show, you can catch a glimpse of us on "Lets Make a Deal" the showing is at 1:00pm on CBS tomorrow Friday, March 26. We're in the crowd directly to the left of where all the games are played. We're bound to be in some of the shots. Look for Guitar Head and Huge Yellow Cowboy hat people, and that's us!

Oh and (read this with alot of excitement)

I graduate soooooooooooooooonnnnnnnnnnnnnn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

COUNT DOWN

9/10 days until Easter and Conference

11 Days and I find out if I got an internship or not.....

15 Days and we're off to Blackfoot for my cousins wedding!

21 days of classes and then finals!!!!!

27 days until graduation!!!

28 days until NYC!!!!!!

These next few weeks are going to fly by.

Last one!

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Busy, busy week. I had to catch up with school because we just got back from our SYCAMORE FAMILY DISNEY CRUISE!! It was so fun and I'll update you, but not now. I ate too much but it was worth every bite, got a little sun, and had sooooo much fun!

Here's a little glimpse..

I had a bridal shower at my house on Saturday for my friend Jackie! Less than 2 weeks and she'll be a married woman!! I'm so excited for her. It was so fun to see old friends and I have been wanting to bake. My friend Gabe introduced me to these cupcakes, which I then modified the frosting and toppings into a luau cupcake masterpiece! The rainbow colors, and pineapple strawberry frosting is my kind of cupcake.

I call the masterpiece "Shady Places with Strawberry and Pineapple"

They were sooooo good too. The best cupcakes I've made yet. I told Ben that our kids are going to have some good birthdays if this kind of baking continues.

I continued to share the bridal shower game with Jackie that my friends played with me at mine. It's funny.