Yummy Goodness

The last few months I have been cooking and baking more. Here are a few things I've eaten.

 

Tasty strawberries smoothies

Juicing- grapes...

It is so good!

 

I had lots of "cutie" oranges so I juiced them to make orange juice! 

german pancakes

All the fixin's

I bought the pizza dough and sauce. 

Then put olives, mushrooms, pepperoni, and cheese. 

I made peanut butter chocolate chip cookies

Delish!

 

The picture below is what I gave to the people building the Temple near me. I took a separate plate to my friend's work to share the wealth of goodness.

I made chicken fajitas last Monday for dinner.

Sewed a Skirt!

I have a friend who is an amazing seamstress. I was telling her I love sewing, but don't know a whole lot so she said she'd help me sew something. I chose a skirt! So we went to JoAnn's and bought a pattern and fabric that were both on sale. I learned how to do french seams and other nifty tricks. Before I sewed the front and back together I tried it on and it was too small. For once in my life something was too small for me!! So I bought more fabric and sewed two strips down each side. Unless you know what happened, you can't even tell they weren't part of the original pattern.

Starting off...

Sewing part of the ruffle.

The back of the skirt is complete!

 

It's finished!!

 

 

The top I wore with it. 

Christmas & New Years Fun!

For the first time for Christmas I wasn't at my parents house. Instead I went to my sister's house. I had a really fun time there! I loved seeing the kids' faces on Christmas morning. Also, the weather was really pretty so we spent time playing in the front and backyard.

 

Showing the girls double dream hands dude. We had a good time doing his silly dances.

 

Don't I look awesome?! 

 

 We went to a sports store that had fun stuff for kids to do during Christmas time. 

One of them being a carousel.  

Christmas Morning!

 

I took some family pictures of them before I left.

I had to get one with my twin sis! 

I was home by New Years so I hung out with friends that night. For the first time in my life I bought fireworks! They were just the cheapo sparklers, but hey I was really excited nonetheless. The sad news is that I waited and waited, counting down till midnight, but the time crept up on me and before I knew it it was 12:02. Blast!! Oh well. We still had fun celebrating with the sparklers.

Double Dream Hands

There is a goofy guy on youtube that makes exercise videos for kids and I think they are hilarious! For the Christmas party in December, my ward had a talent show. So my roommates and I decided to do one of the dances. We just made a fool of ourselves, but it was well worth it. We had the actual video from youtube playing behind us so people could see where we got it from and wouldn't think we were as crazy as we looked. Here it is for your viewing pleasure.

Thanksgiving

I celebrated Thanksgiving at home with a few friends. 

I enjoyed learning how to make a few new dishes.

 

I had to help the dishwasher clean the spatula. I must say I did a pretty good job at it.  :)

chocolate pudding pie

apple cinnamon

key lime pie

jello salad

Janey was trying to get in on the action. 

Well this is a normal thing she does... she loves stretching on my leg. It's so cute!

 

sweet potatoes with marshmallows & brown sugar 

frog-eyed salad

We had 3 crockpots going...

stuffing

turkey

 

cranberry sauce