Apple Pie Pancakes

I woke up this morning with a crazy craving for some pancakes I had at a restaurant in Fayetteville, NC. They had this amazing apple topping on them, and I really really liked them. But the only thing I could think of that would be remotely close to this amazing apple topping of awesomeness was apple pie filling. So what did I do? I diced a couple of apples and made my very own apple pie filling to put on top of my pancakes. I had to improvise a little, since usually apple pie filling becomes carmelized as the pie is baking in the oven. I had to kind of guess how to cook it on the stove. But it worked. mmmmmmmmmMMMmm. So good. And definitely not the sort of thing to eat more than once a year. In fact, Stephen said he'd probably never eat them again, which I thought was kind of harsh. But he said they were just too much sweet for his sweet tooth, and he can't believe I could take that much sweetness. Especially for breakfast. So there you have it. Deathly awesome apple pie pancakes. As good or better than my fabulous home baked apple pie.

Pedometers are amazingly motivating

So my wonderful husband bought me a new ipod for Christmas, which was really as much for him as it was for me because he thought it was SO COOL that it had a built in microphone and video camera. I was really excited because my last ipod was a hand-me-down from a room mate a week before I left for Jerusalem. I had somehow lost my ipod shuffle on campus, and for once the BYU lost and found failed me. Kristy had a new one, so she was happy to give me her old one and I was happy to have it. But the screen was cracked so it took some creativity to navigate and figure out where things were.

Anyway, I have had so much fun exploring the world of an ipod that I can actually read! And it has so much cool stuff on it. FM radio, the video camera, a voice recorder, solitare, a place for notes, a contact list, alarms, a time zone map, not to mention what it was for originally... MUSIC! But there is one other thing it has that I have been most excited about lately. A pedometer. I know that doesn't sound that exciting, but it's so cool! I've started walking 5 days a week, and I've found that it's very motivating to have my steps counted. And also how many calories I've burned. It keeps track of both my daily and monthly step count. But it doesn't end there. When I plug my ipod in to charge, it sends those counts to the nike+active website, which keeps track of my personal record days, and my all time step count. And there are goals that I walk through one at a time from a 100 story building, to walking off an entire pizza, which I just finished. My next goal is to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro, which is apparently 78,000 steps. At the rate I'm going, that will probably take about 9 or 10 walks. I haven't missed a day this entire month. So far I've just passed 200,000 all time steps. I'm so having a party when I get to a million.