Some great Pinterest Tries, And not so Good Tries!

I have a lot of pins on my Pinterest Boards, but I never try them. So I am trying some of them out as I have time or see a need for them. So I have three Pinterest tries! This one is great! My first try was this 7 Detox Smoothies. They are really healthy and really work, which is great. I remember growing up and seeing Detox drinks, and remembering how bad they were for you. However these are great ways for alternatives, such as Energy Drinks, Skin Care, and even Tummy Flattening! Here is the website! http://girlgetstrong.com/2011/10/10/7-detox-smoothies-with-added-health-detox-benefits/ I have only tried two smoothies so far, my husband and I are moving back to Idaho to finish up school so life is a little crazy right now. However I have tried the Tummy Flattening and it really works! I have done it for a week, now realize this doesn't necessarily make you lose weight, it simply helps with that uncomfortable bloating, especially during those horrible ministerial cycles. This is a very refreshing smoothie, and you will feel great after you drink it. I have also tried the Energy Boost smoothie! It really doesn't sound that great when you read the ingredients, however its really not that bad and remember the serving sizes of these smoothies are for one person, so you are not going to have to drinks a lot!I also used normal peanut butter, so don't feel that you have to go out and by new peanut butter. Also you are drinking something that is healthy and is not a energy drink, which are addicting and make it hard to stop drinking them. Oh another recommendation is use ice in your smoothies, it makes it so much better, or freeze your fruit! My second try is Egg Yoke treatment for your hair. I have seen these a lot on Pinterest and I have noticed my hair feeling a little dry so I tried it.. So this wasn't a great way to fix my hair problems.. It smells really bad, and my bathroom smelled like egg for a couple of days. I also noticed my hair smelt like egg, even after I washed it.. So I do not recommend this Pin. However I do have a solution I tried, It has to do with Virgin Cocoanut Oil! This is amazing and has so many purposes! Also I simply put it in as I am finishing up cleaning around the house, or before my favorite show and then 30min later I take a shower! My hair is so much better and feels healthy! So go to this site, all the recommendations are there! http://www.howdoesshe.com/coconut-oil-moisture-treatment If you follow me on Pinterest these pins are located in my DIY Beauty Products and Health board!I will try to update you all on more but these next couple weeks will be crazy!

Here are some Pinterest try's!

So I tried this recipe which was great, and very easy to make. 4-6 raw chicken breasts, new potatoes, green beans (fresh or canned-really any green veggie would work. Broccoli is good, too). Arrange in 9x13 dish. Sprinkle with a packet of Italian dressing mix and then top with a melted stick of butter. Cover with foil and bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour. Here are some of my recommendations: 1st. I used just regular potatoes, I recommend sticking to red, they will cook a lot better. 2nd I used just Italian salad dressing, which makes this recipe a lot easier and faster. but I added the butter to it in a cup and a about 1/3 cup of water. I even add a little more Italian seasoning. I mixed it and then drizzled it all over the food in the pan.. 3rd I had frozen chicken in there so it had more water in it, so don't feel you need to add more water, if you put frozen chicken in there. 4th I let it marinate over night and while we were at church, and when I got home I just turned the over on and then placed it in the oven for an hour. 5th a great idea it if you just want to do it in a crackpot. The chicken came out so good, and tender, we also added rice to it.. Those are some recommendations and ideas for an easy dinner My second try was curling my hair from this blog (Its pined on my Hair Doo's) http://pinterest.com/ldsmowse1/hair-doo-s/ I really love it and it was easy! http://www.thepinkpeonies.com/2012/07/a-little-tutorial-on-how-i-curl-my-hair.html

An Adventure to Indiana!

Yesterday Deborah and I made a 2 hour drive to Indiana. Deborah wanted me to meet the Watson side of the family, that included Stephanie's Sisters. I am not a fan of road trips but this trip was easy and a lot of fun. Deborah and I joked at how she was surprised Robbie would let me come with her haha. He always tells his mom that I am his and that she can not take me away from him. (Its a big joke with us three, so don't think he is controlling). It was a beautiful drive down to Indiana, and we just jammed out to music. When we got there I got to see the house that Deborah grew up in and she told me how much has changed and her perspective as a child. We then picked up Emily at her apartment, and headed to IHOP where the rest of everyone was meeting us. Well we realized that we were running a little late and everyone was already sitting down. I won't lie this was probably the craziest experience I have ever had. Not because the Watson girls are crazy but because how much they remind me of Stephanie!! It was just crazy. When I was just sitting there Dawnelle makes the same facial expressions and is just silly like Stephanie, and Jamie has the same sarcasm as Stephanie. It made me miss her a lot. Anyways we had a great time talking and getting to know each other. Also Mary was there (Deborah's sister). She is pretty funny, and just adds to the group. After IHOP we headed to Aunt Rosemary, which is Deborah's aunt. She is a really nice lady and her daughter Pam is really funny. I enjoyed going over there and meeting them. It was a lot of fun hanging out with everyone and just enjoying our time there. I love the family I have married into, and I see how blessed I am to have such great people in my life. Love Shanel

Rob and Shanel Talbert =)

So it has been to long since I have written on here but I will sum it all up to get you to know! My family and I work hard to put the reception and plans together, so that Rob and I would not have to stress to much. And all of our hard work paid off because Rob and I had a wonderful day and I can say everything went very well. Then after the wedding Rob and I headed of to Florida for a week and enjoyed every minute of being a newly married couple and enjoying our time together. We really enjoyed going to Disneyland and having a blast together. Then when we got back we had a reception that Deb (my new mom) put together so nicely. Rob and I now live in the basement with Rob's parents just till the end of Aug. Rob has an internship he is finishing up. We enjoy it and we both have jobs that pay so we are very blessed and saving to start our life at school. We have done some exciting things like go to Kings Island and ride scary roller coaster, and also go to the water parks. We hang out with lots of other married couples who have 3 to 5 kids haha but we enjoy every minute of it. We are now adopting 4 kids this week to house sit for one of Robs priesthood leaders from when he was a teen. They have two girls who are 16 and 14 and then two boys who are 11 and 9. So basically I'm the soccer mom this week =) We are very excited and ready to see how challenging it is to have an up and running family 24/7 haha. I hope to update you on some fun and exciting things as Rob and I live our new journey together =)

Charmed or Blessed?

So recently I have had a few of my friends tell me that they are jealous of my life and happiness.. Ha when I hear that, all I can think is wow they really don't know me... However my mom has always said I have had a charmed life and I feel that I am not charmed but that I am blessed for my actions. Some struggles that I have seen my friends struggle with I have not had to struggle with but that is because I do everything I can to follow the gospel and to do what I know is right. I just happened to find a young man that is the same way. Believe me I have a had my fair share of trials, more like each and everyday, but my fiance taught me something last month that will always stick with me.. HAPPINESS IS A CHOICE, it's an action that we must show or try to do. So as I have gone through these past stressful months I truly try to keep that in mind, even though it it's so hard. I feel that if girls/women could see the reality of the world instead of a fantasy life would be some what easier. I will remember going to see the movie, The Vow, with my mom and sister and when we came out my sister said that she didn't like it, however my mom and I loved it! We saw the reality of life through the movie. It is not like most love stories because it didn't make it typical or into this love fantasy.. It was a real story of how the world works, its hard to make hard decisions.. However we make hard decisions everyday! I feel that youth and a lot of women forget that we chose to come to earth to make hard decisions that sometimes we don't like. Also compromise is huge, I can say from experience that it is hard to compromise, however with Robbie we have worked on a lot of this. I guess I always have to think of the talk Dieter F. Uchtdorf gave in 2010 at a Young Women's broadcast http://www.lds.org/general-conference/2010/04/your-happily-ever-after?lang=eng&query=happily+ever+after I remember how I had a fantasy in my head how life should be, but when he spoke about having my own happily ever after! And wow I have worked really hard for this moment in my life to get married in the temple! I want people to know that life is hard! But we can have our happily ever after! Shnel

Planning a Wedding

So there is nothing like planning a wedding... This is why, there is so much going into a wedding and so much to think about.. First you have the prep work, which consists of you and your fiance figuring out the basic information such as date, colors, when and where.. Thats the easy part.. Then you have to prepare yourselves for marriage before you even get married and think about everything after the wedding however that comes a little later.. Second you have the wedding planning, this consists of talking with your mom and soon to be mother-in-law about what you want to do and how everything is going to look. This also all comes don to the dress, bridesmaid, grooms men, family(on both sides. How you are going to decorate, what food you are going to have, how much money you have to spend, how you want the reception to look, what you can compromise on.. Where the honeymoon is going to be.. Third what the plans are after the honeymoon, where are you going live, who is paying for what, are you getting joint accounts, and the list goes on and on... However even with the stress of planning everything and hoping it all goes well.. It all boils down to one thing.. You and the person standing next to you! If you can both compromise and come to conclusions on things life will all work out. If anything I have learned is that Robbie and I can talk to each other even if we upset each other.. However always ALWAYS REMEMBER that you always love each other, you just don't have to like them for that moment! Because those little things that bug us and drive us crazy end up making us a couple and we learn from each others mistakes. Also never have expectations for one another! If you do talk about them and see if they are rational! Robbie and I talk about this a lot.. because you think you don't have expectation however after LOVE LAND has disappeared you come back to reality and realize things that you never have. Rob and I are both LDS (Latter-day Saints) we live to the standards of the church and we both have never done anything with another person! That is amazing to me that we both have the self-control and mind set to do that.. But that also brings concerns and possible expectations.. Talk to each other about it even if you are living together or so forth.. It never hurts to have communication on everything.. It maybe awkward at first but I can tell you hard things to talk about become easier! I'm not married yet but these are things that Rob and I have done and gone through so far.. Its great to know that I am not scared of my fiance judging me and not loving me for giving my opinion or thoughts! Just thought I would give you all so updates and advice.. =)

New Job!!

So lets just say I have never really worked in a office before, and Cathy Diuguid is giving me the opportunity to get the experience I need for future references. It's great because I get to sit in front of the computer and do what I want until dan dan dan.. the dreadful phone rings... Then it's business time! It's really not that bad but I always get nervous. The first time I answered the phone I said the business wrong, and when they asked for Cathy, I paused a little... Then they said they needed an appointment and I said "Oh that's what I am here to do =)... and of course Cathy, Taylor and Megan just laughed. But I am getting there a few more days and I should be pro! I already got most of the MACBOOK skills down and now its that darn phone! haha Its great to be in an environment where I know people and can laugh a lot. It's never a dull moment in the Diuguid's house! Got to love your job. Shanel =)

When You Know, You Know!!

So these past couple weeks people have asked me about myself and when I say I'm engaged they always say your only twenty... I have let that get to me a little until I talked with my wonderful fiance today! We started talking about us and somethings that we have noticed that have changed about each other since we have been together. I told Robbie that he has really grown up a lot, and has become so open and has taught me things about myself! He told me that he has noticed the patience I have with him and how understanding I am with him. Well lets face it guys usually don't have a clue on what to do or say sometimes.. However Robbie now always knows whats to say to make me smile or comfort me. I always tell him we are crazy for getting married!! But I think we are crazy not to! I have talked to friends that haven't gotten married and they say what they thought they would miss out on a lot of things by getting married, they realized they haven't missed much. Rob and I both realize that marriage isn't something just to do, but that we will work together and become one. Of course we will not always get along but we will love each other and grow together! We have become great a compromising so far! Which I fill is a big deal! We also both realize why we are together and why we are getting married, and that is we are helping each other grow and become closer to our Heavenly Father, we want the same things in life and strive to have a righteous family. How grateful I am to have a relationship with my heavenly father that allows me to know that I am making right decisions! I am so excited to see Robbie in 3 weeks!!! I can't wait! It will be wonderful! -Shanel

Sunday inspiration

Well I haven't done one of these in a while and because I had such a great day at church I thought I would talk about it =). So today my family and I went to church and sacrament was great because it gives me the time to think about the sacrament and what I should be working on. I love Sunday school, the adult Sunday school teacher is amazing and we always talk about aspects of the gospel that open my mind to greater things. Today we talked about the prophets in the Book of Mormon, who "DREAMED", and what those dreams interrupted. We talked a lot about Lehi and Nephi's dream. We talked about the tree of life and what it takes to obtain the fruit. As we talked about having the love of God with us and to have a desire for that love; we found that it helps us to want to make right decision. As I was thinking about what everyone was saying I couldn't help but think what got me to this very moment in life to where I was heading to the temple! My goal since I was little was to get married in the temple. However I really looked at all the decisions I made that got me here, these decisions consisted of not dating till I was 16 and also not dating non-members (don't get me wrong I may have thought about it once or twice but it never felt right. I went to a church school at BYU-Idaho which I was surrounded by many saints. We all had similar goals and are aiming to do what is right! It was hard to get to this point but how grateful I am that God shared his love for me and I listened. I have had great friends, my parents, and leaders who have taught me well and I decided for myself from a small age what I wanted and now I am so close I can't wait! I feel that we should always look at life in an exciting way! Yes it has been hard and not easy to see the "bright side" sometimes. However when I see the plan unfold as it is a little at a time I am grateful! and hope to strive for righteous blessings my whole life to achieve the greatest gift of all ETERNAL life and to live with my dearest and Heavenly FATHER!

A Little Girls Fairy Tale

I can remember growing up and always looking at wedding magazines imagining what kind of dress I would wear, what colors I wanted, my theme and even my future prince charming.


However as I have grown up and gone to college I have soon realized the difference between Fairy Tale and Reality! My dream wedding has turned into priority and Elegance. I have realized that I will not end up with this outrageous glamorous wedding reception. However I have realized that I am about to take the biggest step in my life. I am about to get married to my best friend who has seen me at my worst and still loves me. I am going to be getting married in the Houston Texas Temple.


I am accomplishing my own dreams and doing it with Robbie by my side. I am doing what my Heavenly Father wants me to do. I am excited to embark on this journey of marriage and cant wait to see what happens! Now off to the stress of planning a wedding!