Sugar Free Coconut Oatmeal Raisin Cookies

So in all my searching for a great sugar free cookie recipe approved by my taste buds, I finally perfected this one! It's delicious and really filling! And for me, saying that about a cookie, that's saying something! So if you're trying to get off sugar like me or trying to be a little healthier, these are the cookies for you! I think its thanks to these cookies I'm able to resist all other forms of delicious desserts right now! These hit the spot!!

 SUGAR FREE Coconut Oatmeal Raisin cookies!

1 cup whole wheat white flour
1/4 cup AP flour
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 cup finely chopped nuts (any kind)
1 cup quick oats (not instant)
1 cup raisins 
1/2 cup shredded coconut
1 cup applesauce 
2 eggs
1/2 cup vegetable oil (I used a little less than half cup)
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 little packet of Stevia or other sweetener

Combine wet ingredients first then add dry ingredients
 Bake at 375 for 8-10 minutes! :)

Diet Coke Keychain's!

Hello!!!!! So for anyone who knows me, you'll know that I am completely 100% in love/addicted to Diet Coke. So when I saw this DIY on Pinterest I just had to try and make them, for me and for a few friends and family members I knew share my love of this caffeinated heavenly beverage! This is a picture of her key chain....

cuuuttteee huh?! And here is my finished project! It took a few trials and errors but they turned out pretty well if I do say so myself!  :) 

(This is the link for the actual inspired blogger who created this DIY Project :) Props to her!)
http://craftyladylindsay.blogspot.com/2011/03/pop-can-key-chain.html 

a MAJOR update!

So! I've been married for almost 5 months! Crazy! It's gone by so fast, and the best part is it's been the BEST FIVE MONTHS of my life! Being married isn't at all scary like I thought, it's like having a never ending sleep over with your best friend!

We had a wonderful, amazing wedding.....

and reception.....

and an incredible honeymoon!!!!

It was all so much fun, everything I hoped it would be, aside from the fact that I did get pretty sick for awhile on the cruise :-/ but anyway, we are currently living in my in laws basement apt. for FREE! $$$$!!!! Which is the most wonderful opportunity to save money and its definitely the nicest place we could ask for in our price range, which is basically nothing. haha

In other news! Our first Christmas Holidays together were so much fun! we spent Thanksgiving with his family and Christmas with mine!

and now we both have started school again at UVU. I'm taking 18 credits and he's taking 15. School sucks. And we're both working. So nights after 6:30 and weekends are my favorite because we get to hang out together :-]

Well this is the most blogging i've done in like 5 months so until next time!

whenever that may be....

I'm getting married in the....(8 mornings from today) MORNING! =]

Oh this is fun! So I've sucked majorly and big time at the "picture blog" but I'm sitting here super bored at work and I have a lot I can post about!

I'm Marrying my best friend in 8 days!!!!!!!!!

So we are getting married on

September 1st 2011

in the Los Angeles temple at 10:30 am

So these are not our rings. Preston's is more manly looking and mine is beautiful!

This is kinda what my bouquet will look like

I'm really excited to marry Preston. I'm kind of scared about such a huge commitment and quite honestly it really doesn't feel real. I guess I always thought that when I was gonna get married I would just feel a lot differently. I don't feel grown up enough to get married. Not really. I don't feel like I've done enough planning and worrying and freaking out about the wedding as you always see on shows and "Bridezillas" and everything. I feel like I've barely planned anything! Which is kind of sad I guess. Maybe it would have felt more real if I had to freak out about feeling like everything has to be PERFECT, I haven't really cared about much....haha I've been more freaked out about the actual marriage itself than anything else! I'm just scared for that huge commitment!! I just have to keep telling myself, its Preston and he is everything I didn't know I wanted, and everything I need. He's my best friend and he matches with me perfectly. I also am mostly just worried about if I'm gonna look good on my wedding day! I just got my hair dyed yesterday and I feel like it looks super super blonde barbie play boy bunny ish. but hopefully it will calm down. I'm going to Bakersfield on Thursday with Linda, even though we probably won't get there till Friday and then my Bridal Shower (second one) is that night. Then I'll probably just be doing a bunch of stuff to clean and get ready for the reception.. and Then Wednesday next week we'll have to get our marriage license and then drive down to LA to get my endowment out and then Thursday we'll get sealed, we're staying in a Hotel on the beach in Santa Monica thanks to my wonderful Grandma, then Friday is the Reception and Saturday we're flying to Miami and staying the weekend till monday at 5pm when our cruise for the BAHAMAS leaves :) ah! I can't wait! I've never been anywhere cool! haha I can't wait to go to Miami! and I can't wait to be with Preston for a week straight!

I'M SO EXCITED FOR NEXT WEEK!!!!!!!

I really can't believe its already here! then I'll have a super hot husband that I get to be with for eternity! Well I'm kind of out of things to say for now...I feel weird cause this is exactly like a journal entry and I've also discovered that I am a super boring blogger. Maybe I should just make this a private blog from now on.

smiley faces should always be yellow.

why can't I figure out how to change the font of any of my posts anymore??!!?! uuuuggghhh!!!!!

Thought process:

I love pictures.

I suck at writing in this blog.

Writing about pictures and finding ones I like, is. easy.

Conclusion?

**dramatic pause**

Picture of the DAY!....well more likely, ...picture of the whenever-I-get-around-to-it! Yaaayyy! and honestly since no one reads this, this is more of a way for me to save all my favorite pictures in nice and neat little posts on one little site I can access at anytime :) like an online scrapbook! Plus it will make it seem like I blog a lot! which probably isn't that cool but..I'm cool...also,I do what I want, I want to do this...so its cool.

So picture numero uno:

to me this is exactly the kinda of thing I picture in my mind when I think of my perfect day, there is a place our stake goes for Girls Camp that this reminds me of too and whenever I think of getting away and going somewhere perfect and beautiful to just be alone in nature and away from the world, I think of going to Big Meadow. And theres a song that we used to sing at girls camp that I always loved too, The Mountain of the Lord. ahhhh I can't find the lyrics anywhere!!! i'll keep looking and post when I do. Anyway this picture is awesome. I love sunsets and perfect weather.

=) <---imagine this is yellow....BECAUSE IT IS!

Dr Kelso "nothing in this world worth having comes easy"

This show is awesome. And it may or may not make me cry sometimes...haha But this particular episode I watched today and with whats going on in my life lately I felt like I could relate to this a lot....By now with this situation it doesn't really matter anymore so its become a lesson learned a little too late, and something to work on for later...

Nothing in this world worth having comes easy, and I think thats the way God intended it to be.

Nothing is perfect. Especially relationships, but the ones that really matter are worth fighting for. I learned that the hard way and I really do believe that relationships aren't perfect, you have to do a lot of giving, and forgiving but in the end its worth it, if you're willing to work for it.

and on a lighter note, this is one of my all time favorites, cause I can relate to it so much.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTSNVh-ah-4

I do that very same thing at least six times a day.

:]

One of the greatest challenge is to overcome the feeling that we are unimportant. That we are not special and unique. Do you think for a moment that Heavenly Father would sent one of his children to this Earth by accident without the possibilities of a significant work to perform?....My dear friends you are a royal generation. You were preserved to come to earth in this time for a special purpose. Not just a few of you. All of you. There are things for you to do that no one else can do as well as you. If you do not prepare to do them they will not be done. your mission is unique and distinctive for you."
-H. Burk Peterson