When I need a good laugh.....I watch this gem.

You HAVE to try this.

So the other day I was working out with one of my bff's, Paige, and she told me about this website called, http://www.greensmoothiegirl.com/. It's a girl in Utah who is a total health nut. She makes these AMAZING smoothies packed with nutrients. You have to check her website out. She has a video that demonstrates how she makes her smoothies. Basically she blends up a huge bundle of spinach and water, then adds a banana, and frozen berries. I was a little skeptical because it seemed like the spinach would totally over power the smoothie. But I decided to make it and now I am obsessed. So obsessed that I wanted to call all of my friends and tell them about it. Since most of my friends read my blog, (at least I think they do, haha) I am doing a post.

If you're like me you probably eat salad because its good for you, but you would rather eat a hamburger...or whatever. These green smoothies give you about three times the amount of veggies you need in a day. Plus, did you know spinach is packed with calcium? I didn't until I researched it. For those of you that are mommies, soon-to-be mommies, want to tone up, or just want to live a healthier life you have to try this.

One thing to be aware of: when I made this smoothie for the first time, although it was delicious, it was like a poop brown color. It smells like a regular fruit smoothie though. You might try and put a couple spoon fulls fat-free vanilla yogurt in it, but it's fine without it too.

Now I just have to get Mike on the green smoothie boat. He already thinks I am a hippie for recycling everything so wish me luck!

Visiting Mike's Mission in Oregon

This post is long overdue. We took this trip in early October. How lame is that? I promised Mike that I would blog about our trip. We kind of just decided the week of, hopped into green bean (my little sentra), and took a ten hour road trip. Very spontaneous, I know. Once we got to Salem, OR we stayed with one of his favorite families from the mission. They were so incredibly hospitable....they let us stay in their fancy master suite. We just love them. I was able to see where he spent two years of his life and meet the families he loved and served. Not only that, we went on an amazing hike to Silver Falls. It's the only waterfall I have been to where you can actually walk BEHIND it! How cool is that? Just like the movies. After visiting Oregon I have to say that I love it almost as much as Colorado. That's a big deal in my book. Oh, and since Mike served on the Oregon University campus we went and checked out Eugene. Pretty sweet campus, I must say. I was also able to see my former roommate, Michelle Gibson and her baby girl, Kinsey. We are already planning our next trip back.

By the way, you probably have noticed that I changed to format of my blog. I am still in the learning process so that's why its a little out of order. I will get the hang of it soon with the help of my blog master friend, Lindsey.