Stratego

For Christmas Chad's parents gave us the game Stratego and last night I played it for the first time. Chad really liked the game growing up so he's pretty good at it and I, of course, lost miserably. I've always known that I am competitive but recently I've discovered that I am selectively competitive.

If I'm playing a game that I think I'm good at and really should win, I can get pretty vicious. Luckily for Chad, I didn't really mind losing last night so no blood was shed (although, the fact that Chad was able to win using his weakest player was pretty embarassing).

My question for the day is... where do you think we get our competitive drive? Our parents? Experiences where we lost and vowed never to let it happen again? I don't remember my parents ever pushing us really hard to win anything so I'm not sure that's it. I guess Dad is pretty competitive so he didn't really have to say anything, we just caught on.

If there's anything I learned from being married and watching my siblings in their marriages... its always less contentious if you and your spouse are on the same team. Wouldn't you all agree?

Cheesecake

Today I tried to make a baked cheesecake. I followed the directions exactly... It turned out disgusting. I'm not taking it as a personal failure because I did what the directions said but there's a possibility that the directions were printed incorrectly because the recipe was in a ward cookbook. I haven't given up on cheesecake yet. I'll just have to find a better recipe.

February Failure

I have officially failed at blogging this past month.
February 8th was Chad's 26th birthday. Because his birthday was on a Monday when he had work and class till 10 pm, he got to have about 3 days of celebration instead of just 1. The Saturday before, we went to Tucanos for lunch with Chad's sister Amy and her husband Brent. It was alot of fun. Chad got to open his presents on Saturday too. Instead of wrapping everything, I just hid them around our house and then Chad had to find them. I think his favorite present was a new drill. He also got a power inverter for his car, some slippers, a body pillow with a pillowcase that I made and a tree for our room (since he's been wanting one). I also made a delicious cake. I made cream cheese frosting and it was SOOO good! (I'm not tooting my own horn because it Paula Deen's recipe but it really was delicious).Over President's Weekend we went down to the Annual Cox snowmobiling trip in Duck Creek. It was a nice 4 day weekend and we had alot of fun spending time with Chad's side of the family.
This is Chad.

This is me.

For the past week I've been under the weather with what started as a nasty cough and sore throat and has now moved up to my nose. We had to give talks in Church on Sunday and on Saturday my voice was pretty shot. Good thing we have prayer and Priesthood blessings to rely on. I'm actually feeling much better today but still not 100%.

In upcoming news... we are very excited that Mary Mott and her husband Luke will be coming back to UTAH next week! Now we just need Elise to be able to come up and the foursome would be reunited after over 2 years apart! Can you believe that?!?! You will be missed Elise but we'll plan another get together sometime.