Busy, Busy, Busy

This past weekend was busy, but fun. My friend Laura came over on Friday, and we both went to see Kaitlin's gradutation (congratulations friend!), then Laura spent the night both that night and Saturday night. Saturday was the Access Coffee House/Open Mike Night. It was fun and there were many wonderful performances. Sunday after church, Laura, Liz, Alexandra, and I went out to lunch at Firehouse subs (yummy), and then Laura, Alexandra, and I went to Wal-Mart to buy some snacks to take to NEXT. I can hardly believe it; only 6 more days!

This coming week is going to be busy as well. My self-defense class at school (for PE credit) starts tomorrow so I have that tomorrow and Wednesday. I work Tuesday and Thursday as usual, and Wednesday is Ladies Meeting. Then on Friday some of the girls in our carpool will be spending the night, and on Saturday morning we leave for NEXT!

HaPpY ThAnKsGiViNg EvErYoNe!

first saw this on Girltalk blog

Lets Eat Italian!

Last night was our church's singles groups Italian night! Everyone brought a dish to share and the church provided desserts and refreshments. The food was sooo delicious! They also had some fun contests. The first was one were each table sent up a girl representative and they each competed to draw a picture of Eric (the pastor who leads our group). The pictures were hilarious. Then they had a contest were one guy representative came from each table and they had to compete buy singing opera. This was funny to watch! Then they gave announced the winners for the food. They had a most creative, best dish that a girl brought, and the best dish a guy brought. Then they had a prize for the worst food, which they judged by its being the one that was the least eaten.

This night was so much fun.

Cookies!!!

I made cookies the other day for a lunch that I went to today. I made no-bake cookies and omitted the cocoa and added caramel chips. They turned out really yummy. You can get the recipe here. the only changes that I made were to leave out the cocoa powder and I added caramel chips after I stirred in the oatmeal. Here are some pictures!

These are the caramel bits that I used

Pictures of the cookies as they were setting...they were not quite done yet at the time of these pictures :)

The empty cooking pan. For easy clean-up fill the pan with water let the water boil and while it is boiling use a spatula or something to rub off all the cookie dough. It makes it really easy!

Happy Pi Day (No I didn't misspell it)

Hi everyone, did you know that today is pi day? It is for the mathematical pi which the rounded number is 3.14 (Get it...March 14th?) You can find out more about pi day here. I did not know about this holiday until today....and I found out because my Mom made a pie and told me it was "for pie day" and to let her know when I figured it out so I looked it up and found the website above.

My Mom made some delicious pies. I have posted some pictures of them below. They are some kind of apple pie with a topping that includes nuts, caramel ice cream topping and more! Mmmmm

Tea Party

Last Wednesday I went to my very first ladies meeting for my Care Group. This month we did a ladies' tea. It was a great time of fellowship, food, and, of course, tea! There were many different kinds of tea to choose from and for food we had little sandwiches (the one I had had tomatoes, basil, and some kind of spread), chocolot roll, rasin sconed (with whipped topping, lemon curd, and/or rasberry jam to put on your scone). The food was delicious. I think that during the evening, God taught me about speaking up. Someone there said something, and I though of a response but did not say anything and then another lady there said almost the same thing that I was thinking!