I love me some seafood! My mom made salmon for dinner over the weekend. Salmon is good especially to dip in ketchup. Don’t tell me I’m not the only one that does that!

Mama Vik’s Recipe
- Put some lemon juice on the salmon
- Season it with garlic salt and lemon pepper
- Put a few butter pats on top to keep it moist
- Slice some thick onions and put it on top
- Wrap in foil and bake in oven at 350 degrees for about 30 minutes or grill it

Anyways, my life has been out of control lately….heck, even our house is out of control! I’m determined to get my life and house back in shape this week or weekend. Who says spring cleaning needs to be done in the spring only?

I have been going to the gym a lot more lately. Last night dad and I were on the treadmill while Tyler went downstairs to play some basketball. There were some guys playing basketball and they asked Tyler to join them. He didn’t really want to play a game since he’s more of a football & baseball guy than a basketball guy. I smiled and quietly laughed when Tyler looked up at me. It was so funny… like we both knew he wasn’t going to make awesome shots and he didn’t. It was fun to watch him play anyways.

I asked him if he got any of their phone numbers and he looked at me like I was stupid. I guess girls only do that.

Lately Tyler has been talking a lot about P90X since he is going to do it. I swear he cracks me up when he explains how he wants to look. Starting with his arms, he will show me how big they’re going to get then show me how his chest is going to be ripped with a beautiful 6-pack and the entire time he’s saying pow-pow-pow for each one of them (in sign language). He says I’ll be drooling over him soon and not Nick Lachey. :)

Finally after living in our house for 2 years, we’re starting to add more to the walls. I’m finally now getting sick of the bare wall in our family room. Yess, about time I know! We bought really cheap frames from Ross a few months ago and I told Tyler I was trying to think of something to print and put it in one of the frames. He immediately said, “why not an ampersand?” I love Tyler even more for knowing me too well for my love of ampersands.

I worked my magic in Photoshop and printed it out. Tyler did the cutting since he’s a pro at that. We both majored in Graphic Design for a while together and we both know he’s better at it than I am. I had some scrapbook papers stored away in the closet so I used a polka dot scrapbook paper. Polka dots is another obsession of mine.

I have a magnet board up from IKEA on the wall in our office. I fell in love with this PDF I found on Skinny Emmie’s blog. I decided to swap out some of the things I had up and replace them with inspirational quotes, pictures and goals. Now it’ll be a constant reminder when I see the board!

I came across this cute PDF for Valentine’s Day. I printed it out hoping to frame it right away but then realized I didn’t have anymore 8″ x 10″ frames. Frame shortage…what a shock! So I found a cheap black frame from TJ Maxx.

I bought the frame because I loved the vintage look of it but didn’t like it black so Tyler spray painted it white. I love it white now!! Sorry I forgot to take a before picture.

Now I’m keeping an eye out for cheap frames so I can add more frames to the family room wall. Right now it’s just the ampersand frame up in the middle of the family room wall all by itself. Hopefully it won’t be too long until we add more!

A friend of ours had eco-party light bulbs in his bathroom.
You can guess what we did in the bathroom…and it’s sad to say we’re all 26 years old.
After all, our parents say we’re still kids.

My smoking hot husband! Blurry equals signing and that happens a lot with deaf people.

At least we had fun!

Perhaps it’s time to share my goals for 2011.

Lose weight. This clearly is a problem for me. I did lose weight after joining a sweat challenge in the area but then it got too expensive so I couldn’t continue and finish the challenge. Let’s just say it was about $250+ a week. Now I’m back on Weight Watchers and making it a routine to go to the gym more often. I’m trying to change my mindset to make sure that a trip to the gym is on top of my daily list. I have also started wearing my BodyMedia armband and I’m excited to actually be aware of how many calories I’m eating and burning. It also calculates how many steps I’m getting in daily & hours of sleep I’m getting. Pretty cool, right?

Debt-Free. Well, not entirely 100% debt-free but at least pay off all of our credit cards. After looking at our budget, we realized we could actually save more money and be able to do things if we didn’t have credit cards to pay off. So we’re anxious to make it happen this year! We have been doing great with earning extra money from Yellow & Savvy Design, rent money from Joe since he’s living with us and things we sell on Craigslist.

Vacation. Tyler and I haven’t gone on our honeymoon yet! We’re so anxious to go on our honeymoon soon. Although it looks like we might not get to go anywhere until later after summer. My co-worker is going on maternity leave in March and then Tyler’s company doesn’t really allow vacation days during the summer. Hopefully we can make it happen! I’d love to go somewhere alone with Tyler and be technology-free which means no phones (and sports)!

Overall my main goal this year is to really take one day at a time and live in the present instead of dwelling on the past and thinking too much about the future. I have a great feeling about 2011 and I’m going to make sure it’s a great year! I also hope you have a great year too!