In my bachelor pad, my roommate and I have been trying to learn how to cook. When we first moved in we hung a sign above our stove which reads "I kiss better than I cook." Since then, Nate and I have actually become quite talented at cooking and have been discovering/inventing new recipes. Also, recently my fiancé posted a sticky note below our kitchen sign that accurately documents our cooking talents in all its smiley-faced, girly hand written glory. "And I cook pretty darn well! :)"

Last night I was making glazed carrots and realized we had a partial bag of coconut. Here is my new recipe.

Coconut Glazed Carrots

7 Carrots (all we had left)
1 tsp Cinnamon
1 tsp Nutmeg
3 Tbsp Olive Oil
1 Tbsp Brown Sugar
1/4 cup coconut flakes

Cut the carrots into 2"x.25" strips. Combine carrots with all ingredients in a zip lock bag. Shake until homogeneous. Spread the stuff on a 13x9 pan. Bake at 350 covered for 30 minutes. Bake uncovered for 5 more minutes.

I would have taken pictures, but we ate it all before I could get my camera.

I saw this and have been laffing for the last few days.

Here are some pictures from my weekend excursion to Grey Rock Mountain along the Poudre Canyon.  It is a 7 mile round trip hike that Becca, Nate, and I did in about 3 hours.  We spent 45 minutes up at the top.  It is relatively easy but gets kind of technical the last 1/2 mile because you are picking your own trail up a pretty steep cliff face.

The weather was pretty bad so the light was terrible, ergo why the pictures didn't turn out as cool as I hoped they would.

You can see some of the cool things that photoshop can do by comparing these two pictures.  It can take a normal picture and turn it into a digital work of art.

This next picture of Becca and I is one of my favorite pictures ever.

Nate was actually on the edge of the cliff.  His feet were dangling over about a thousand feet of nothing.

Something about this picture is just cool.

This last one is of the sunset over Lake Loveland.  This is where I go to watch the sunset a couple times a week.