Food is DELISH, But Just Not Fish...Chicken is Better:)

Soooooo ya, I made this last week for Roommate dinner and to take to the Bishopric Sunday night. 

They were indeed DELISH. 

The End. 

Springtimes-a-Comin!

Little Seeds Lie Fast Asleep

Little seeds lie fast asleep In a row, in a row. 

“Wake up, wake up,” calls the sun, “Wake up now and grow."

Little seeds wake one by one In a row, in a row.

Then they stretch up t’ward the sun And be - gin to grow.

YAY FOR: 

Roommates who drive me to Walmart for Seeds, 

Bishop's who give me Cow Poop, 

Egg-cartons, "pop"bottles, Gatorade bottles, 

Strawberry containers, and diced Jalapenos :) 

I made Egg-carton planters and thought it would be even cooler to make them into greenhouses! I taped and stapled a gallon bag to the cut-out top of the lid. Boom Greenhouse. In the big on I planed carrot seeds(the one with the eggshells for later transplanting) and the smaller one I planted lettuce seeds. We'll see if they work...

 In the toilet paper rolls that I collected from our trash like every day!! I cut and folded the bottoms so I can later transplant them to pots. And what am I growing?? Peas!! YAY I want them to grow fast so I can move them outside when the weather gets warm and grow up the railing outside my apartment. 

I also decided to try regrowing food from leftover scraps. I so far have a romaine lettuce and a celery. They just started to sprout!! 

I am also getting way too excited for spring and to see my family so soon I am counting down the days until school is over and I have a much needed break. 

Lucky Ducky!

Well maybe it's because of my mom or maybe because I grew up in a drinking, party, college town, but I CELEBRATE Saint Patrick's Day! Why wouldn't you want to? You get to decorate your house with rainbows and clovers, eat green cookies in green milk, and when I was growing up the leprechauns would come and mess up our house and leave behind chocolate gold coins.

 I remember waking up in the morning to find my room a mess! toys and blankets thrown all over the floor, the family room couch cushions were all thrown off and amidst all of this was a trail of coins leading to the kitchen table where that sneaky leprechaun had died our milk green! Mom would make sure we all had a green shirt and for the girls green hair-ties for school so we didn't get pinched! For dinner we would have an all green meal. Green jello, broccoli, noodles, apples, and of course green kool-aid!

This year being at college I couldn't just do nothing! I decorated our wall with shamrocks and rainbows, painted green nails, Wore a green shirt with gold earrings, dyed MY milk green, and even the toilet water! It was a monday so we had FHE (Family Home Evening) with our new group of kids. Two of the girls went to pick up something for the treat for after. They came back with a cookie mix and put green food coloring in. Then they kinda forgot about the cookies and it wasn't until we noticed smoke coming from the stove top did anyone remember the cookies. They were not exactly green but.....BLACK! Haha it made for a good laugh and a lingering smell for a couple of hours.

Why Not?

 I've always had a love of making something new out of something old. I will save little broken pieces to toys or scraps of fabric in the hope that I can re-purpose them sometime later in my life. Sometimes they go untouched for years and I find them later and think why would I keep this junk? Other times I find them and get excited all over again thinking of what I could possibly use this for. 

Well I like to do the same thing on the computer and when I go back and clean out my files I find all sorts of little projects and stories I have created over the years. I like to take images and make them into something new and fresh. That is what I was able to do this week for my apartment manager BB. We were talking and she mentioned that she still had to make the fliers for the upcoming free laundry week. She said it is always such a hassle trying to make them fun and cute and wished she could have someone make them for her. As soon as she said that JB, who I was in there with, looked at me and said that I do stuff like that all the time! So BB asked if I would and I said "Sure! Why not?" 

IT'S ABOUT TIME!!

Well we've been together for a semester and a half and we haven't killed each other!

These are some of the first attempts to our official pictures! 

More to come later:)

Happy ♥ Day!

Valentines in Rexburg. A scary place for single girls who are not exactly looking for a date. On the flip-side Rexburg is the most depressing place EVER for girls who WANT to have a BOYFRIEND. Sigh life is so hard;) Well V-day was a blast this year because ALL of my roommates were single! We decided that we didn't JUST want to sit at home watching sappy love movies. So we went out on the town. Which translates to we drove to the DI and went shopping and then got Taco Bell for dinner. 

 BUT living in a small town full of Mormons means that there is always an adventure to be had even just going to DI. We drove over and as we pull in the parking lot we notice two boys with the hood of their car open. We walk up to the store and they call us over asking if we can jump their car. KJ brings her car around and they get out the cables. Ok so I don't mean to stereotype and be totally sexist here but I just figure if you have a car and are a boy that you would know how to hook up jumper cables. Well I stand corrected. They did try i'll give them that , but even I know that you don't start moving things around once the car is started! Well we helped them get the car started.....and then he took out the keys.....and it died again.....smart I know. So we started it again and sent them on their way. We had a good laugh about it once we were inside. We started shopping and looking around for stuff when the boys cam BACK to the store. They said that they didn't really thank us and wanted to take us to ice cream. So we hid all of the items we had found in the store inside of clothing racks so we would be able to find them  when we came back and we went to Dairy Queen for $1 cones.


We then went back and finished shopping finding lots of... "fashionable" clothing. (Well i'm sure it might have been at one time in history) I found one sweater that kind of looked like that old video game, Galaxian that we used to play when we were little. I didn't end up getting the sweater but did get a floral belt! We then continued on our trip to Taco Bell. When we got home we ate dinner and watched Napoleon Dynamite, You Again and Safe Haven. We basically had a big sleepover in the front room. Livin' V-Day to the fullest! ♥♥♥♥♥♥

So I love to decorate our little Apartment for every Holiday and Valentines day is one of the fun ones. Hearts, ♥'s and more <3 's!!! I couldn't help but draw on every surface available! We even put up a Hugs for 5cents sign on out window. We thought it was a good joke until 3 boys we didn't even know came over looking for hugs because they saw our sign! Then we knew it was time to take THAT sign down;) I even went outside and got a branch to make a paper rose tree!

I also made Rice Krispies with pink, red, and white M&Ms and cut them into hearts. I cut the leftovers into little bite size Krispies for my VT sisters. I love having an excuse for making holiday treats!
The last thing I did for V-day was make cards for my family. I painted a lilac branch for Mom, and make personalized cards for everyone else. Even though I didn't end up sending them until much later I sent them eventually :)