tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6544350584325505042024-02-07T01:03:28.130-07:00Braden and Katie CrockettKatie Crocketthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03954452179046917031noreply@blogger.comBlogger49125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654435058432550504.post-2321461883152216172012-10-27T13:34:00.001-06:002012-10-27T13:34:00.259-06:00Banana squash friesA coworker offloaded a ginormous banana squash to me this week. And since I had never cooked one myself I got online to look for a recipe. That's how I discovered that you could cut them into fries and bake them. I like sweet potato fries so I thought this should be good too. First I found a huge knife to cut it open. Then I cut it into a ring. (This is when I preheated the oven to 435 degrees.)Braden Crocketthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17740664226734959709noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654435058432550504.post-51639615665811553502011-12-30T11:23:00.002-07:002011-12-30T11:23:13.925-07:00ThursdayI went to help Helen today to deliver deviled eggs to some people in the ward who were having a hard time. I was excited to help her serve others. When I got there she was quietly crying. Tears streaming down her face. She looked so worn out and tired. I asked her what was wrong as I gave her a hug. She told me that her friend's-husband's-brother just passed away. She had hears in her eyes about Katie Crocketthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03954452179046917031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654435058432550504.post-32955635480231060612011-07-19T18:05:00.001-06:002011-07-19T18:05:05.122-06:00Fun with kidsWe went to Discovery Gateway today with a few kids. It was fun!Braden Crocketthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17740664226734959709noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654435058432550504.post-88151673608345990432011-05-19T07:47:00.001-06:002011-05-19T07:47:55.127-06:00iPhone postI'm using a new iPhone app called BlogPress to create this post. I thought I would share this picture I took:- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhoneBraden Crocketthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17740664226734959709noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654435058432550504.post-60391690192020872712011-05-10T10:02:00.001-06:002011-05-10T10:04:29.982-06:00Our AnniversaryThis weekend we celebrated our three year wedding anniversary.
In that short amount of time, we've both graduated from college, gained full-time employment, and bought a house. We've also traveled to lots of exciting places including Nova Scotia, and the Redwood forest in Northern California. We also got a whole bunch of new nieces and nephews.
An extra special surprise this year! Katie Braden Crocketthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17740664226734959709noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654435058432550504.post-19733407738445079112011-04-11T17:07:00.000-06:002011-04-11T17:07:43.834-06:00Location!!The best part about our house is the LOCATION!!!! We love our Sugarhouse home. Here's why:
Walking Distance:
Sugar house Park
Blue Plate Diner
Our Ward house
Hunan Gardens (Chinese food)
Great Harvest Bread
Anderson-Foothill Library
5 minutes away:
The FREEWAY entrance
Home Goods and Brickyard
DI
Desert Book
Sprague Library
The dentist
My hairdresser
Foothill Shopping
10 Katie Crocketthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03954452179046917031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654435058432550504.post-81082985093872172732011-03-26T14:26:00.000-06:002011-03-26T14:26:18.271-06:00Blogs with PicturesI apologize. We don't have pictures up on the blog yet.
If you're anything like Katie and me, you have an RSS feeder that alerts you of new posts on your favorite blogs, and then just scroll through it until you see a picture of something that interests you and then if you have to, you read the post (or at least part of it). We just don't blog like that. We read blogs that way, but that is not Braden Crocketthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17740664226734959709noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654435058432550504.post-43432430267754001622011-03-22T21:27:00.000-06:002011-03-22T21:27:14.960-06:00Downstairs DilemaBefore we moved into our house we were getting prepared to fill it up with furniture by buying a used couch and chair we liked from craigslist. But unfortunately our couch didn't fit down the stairs and the chair didn't fit through the doorway to our office. Sad face...
So we're still on the lookout for a couch that will fit through the narrow space. Hopefully we find something soon. We need to Braden Crocketthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17740664226734959709noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654435058432550504.post-87675692470190738462011-03-09T06:15:00.000-07:002011-03-09T06:15:47.104-07:00Our StyleWell we've moved into our house and put all the furniture in place. Most of it we brought with us from our apartment, but some of it is new (or at least new to us). The comments about our (mostly Katie's) decorating style is that it is simple, yet elegant. We like simple lines and colors with a few very good accents. I don't know if there is a name for it. Maybe "urban chic" or "contemporary Braden Crocketthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17740664226734959709noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654435058432550504.post-53017439521642472662011-02-02T09:11:00.000-07:002011-02-02T09:11:16.894-07:00Groundhog DayHappy Groundhog Day 2011!
Wow it is cold this morning! Seems like winter will never end. But Punxsutawney Phil saw no shadow, so that means no more winter!
We have these complicated models of weather predictions like doppler radar and weather balloons and the Weather Channel with in-depth wall-sized graphics of pressure fronts and weathermen with white sport coats. Unfortunately to most of us Braden Crocketthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17740664226734959709noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654435058432550504.post-217323112304181862011-02-01T22:51:00.000-07:002011-02-01T22:51:00.929-07:00Can't have what you want when you want itThis seems to be a recurring lesson I have to learn in my life. I had strep throat over the week end and was banished to my room alone all day Sunday and all day Monday. It was kinda hard for me. I was alone and couldn't have what I wanted when I wanted. I wanted to be with someone. Anyone. I choose alone time often over being with other people but finally when I was told you can't spend time Katie Crocketthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03954452179046917031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654435058432550504.post-64386641529727608842011-01-25T11:21:00.000-07:002011-01-25T11:21:40.572-07:00Getting ready to moveWe've known for a month now that we would be moving. And we have wasted no time getting things packed up. Even though "moving day" isn't until the end of February, we already have a great deal of the apartment packed up in boxes.
I have felt a little like I'm on a reverse treasure hunt. Instead of looking for hidden treasures, I'm discovering things I had forgotten we had or at least hadn't seenBraden Crocketthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17740664226734959709noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654435058432550504.post-86887465398790798942011-01-20T11:37:00.000-07:002011-01-20T11:37:07.828-07:00We've bought a house!It has been a month since I last wrote. And a lot of things have happened recently.
We found (or actually our agent found) the perfect house. We had decided previously that we would wait until summer 2011 before we were serious about moving. But along came the perfect opportunity, and we happened to have all our ducks in a row already. It is a 4 bedroom 2 bath house. Full finished basement, aboutBraden Crocketthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17740664226734959709noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654435058432550504.post-62150344128232503032011-01-19T23:30:00.000-07:002011-01-20T12:34:12.643-07:00DLNA is the future!I've always been interested in following the latest trends in technology. I've watched Apple as they announced just about everything since 2006. And I actively read technology blogs and watch all the coverage of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas every year. One day I might actually go to it.
Many people believe that the future technology is having an internet connection in Braden Crocketthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17740664226734959709noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654435058432550504.post-63772599853183564262010-12-13T11:10:00.000-07:002010-12-13T11:10:30.573-07:00Ready for Christmas?It's December. The middle of December. Less than two weeks from Christmas.
I guess we're ready. The tree is up. The decorations are all in place. Most the gifts are wrapped. All the Christmas shopping is done.
Just a couple little things left.
And one big thing...
On Katie's side of the family, we have a Christmas tradition that I really like. At the beginning of the year, not too long after Braden Crocketthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17740664226734959709noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654435058432550504.post-58723036013980380662010-11-08T15:14:00.003-07:002010-11-08T15:33:41.242-07:00How to SubscribeI have provided a new Subscribe section to the right.
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An hour later the phone rang and I was shocked that I had fallen asleep. I couldn't wake up enough to answer the Katie Crocketthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03954452179046917031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654435058432550504.post-26995985298654784212010-10-31T01:41:00.000-06:002010-10-31T01:41:55.096-06:00TwitterTwitter is so appealing to me. I love the fact that on twitter you can only write 140 characters. That isn't much. This post would be over by now if I only wrote 140 characters. I like that factor. Short and sweet. I like the fact that I can write a quick message telling how I am or something crazy that I saw and leave it at that. Enough said. Concise. I like the beginning so close to the end. Katie Crocketthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03954452179046917031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654435058432550504.post-81126086694727358042010-10-30T10:08:00.000-06:002010-10-31T08:57:59.182-06:00JulyI have come to love the month of July. I have only now realized that July is the only month that I am not thinking about school. Its the month that I can devote all my time to Braden. I wish that I had more time during the school year to stop thinking about school. If I am not at school I am thinking about the seating chart, or how to teach science, or what should I do with my children that don'tKatie Crocketthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03954452179046917031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654435058432550504.post-1461643568807308712010-10-29T10:35:00.000-06:002010-10-29T10:35:01.561-06:00Library cardI've written before that I don't read much. At least not books/newspapers/magazines. I actually do a lot of reading of blogs online. That's where I get most of my news.
Yesterday, I went and got a new library card from the public library. I blogged about it. And now I can check out books, CDs, DVDs, etc. from the vast catalog available.
I think the last time I actually used a library card Braden Crocketthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17740664226734959709noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654435058432550504.post-47344616950621243852010-10-29T10:19:00.000-06:002010-10-29T10:19:09.756-06:00Acronyms > L337Acronym n. a word formed from the initial letters of other words
example: RADAR (RAdio Detection And Ranging)
Acronyms gave the english language a way to say something faster than before without losing meaning. (Useful in morse code, etc.) Some acronyms became universal, some did not. (i.e. SOS) But when there are so many acronyms, some become repeats and make it harder to differentiate, Braden Crocketthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17740664226734959709noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654435058432550504.post-16069825984539258482010-10-21T15:22:00.001-06:002010-10-21T15:23:34.085-06:00Dog stroller?We were driving down 700 E next to Liberty Park recently and Katie told me that she saw a dog in a stroller. I was paying more attention to driving so I hadn't seen it. So we turned and went into the park to try and find it again. And sure enough a lady was walking her dog... in a stroller! I had no idea they actually made strollers for dogs. I thought the point of walking your dog was to let Braden Crocketthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17740664226734959709noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654435058432550504.post-71093172178220768942010-10-18T14:57:00.001-06:002010-10-18T14:59:02.316-06:00Little Shop of HorrorsThis weekend Katie and I went to the South Jordan Community Theater's production of Little Shop of Horrors. The actor playing Seymour is another one of the other fifth grade teachers Katie works with so we went to support him. We went as a double date with Jennifer Miranda (the other fifth grade teacher) and her husband Michael.
It was really good. You can still see it for yourself! The show Braden Crocketthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17740664226734959709noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654435058432550504.post-40231789909278595862010-10-18T13:48:00.000-06:002010-10-18T13:48:12.093-06:00New DesignI changed the site design a bit. I like it better now. I think it is lovely.
Tell me what you think. If you have been reading this blog using Google reader or another RSS/ATOM feeder, please visit the site to check out the change in design!Braden Crocketthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17740664226734959709noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654435058432550504.post-16052311482448478132010-10-11T20:27:00.000-06:002010-10-11T20:27:59.695-06:00Nevermind thatAll good bloggers make some serious cash doing it. But simple amateur bloggers don't. I have just learned a few ways that might make us a little money on this blog. The first is ads.
If you have been a regular follower of this blog you've probably noticed the absence of any ads. Well, that's just because we didn't know how to get them. You see, ads are a good thing. Advertisers pay you if you Braden Crocketthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17740664226734959709noreply@blogger.com0