Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Grateful List

My older sister Brooke has a blog dedicated to posting things she is grateful for. I constantly go to her blog for a pick me up and to always be reminded of how much we have to be thankful for. Her latest post was an A to Z alphabet list of things she is grateful for and I wanted to take on her challenge of making my own list, so here it goes...

A- Apples. I eat at least 1 apple every single day and I love them! As they say "An apple a day keeps the doctor away".

B - BRANDON, Brittany, Brooke, Becky, Brenna (all my sisters) & Birthday's
Too many to name just one

C - Cooking. I am no chef by any means but ever since I moved to California I have really taken up cooking and love trying new recipe's.

D - Dogs. I can't wait to have a yard so I can get my own

E - Education. My school has been a long drawn out process but I feel very blessed to be getting an education.

F - Flowers there is always something gorgeous blooming here in California

G- Garbage Man. Thank you for handling such a gross job.

H- Health. It is so easy to take being healthy for granted until you get sick.

I - Internet

J- Jokes. I am not good at telling jokes but I love to laugh so I really enjoy a good joke.

K - Koda. Our family dog in Utah & Kites

L- Lake Powell. My favorite vacation spot

M -Missionaries. We had them over for dinner 2 nights ago and they are so awesome.

N- Niece and Nephews

O -Olympics I love the winter olympics and have really enjoyed watching them the past 2 weeks

P - Parents! I have the BEST mom and dad anyone could hand pick

Q - Quilts. There is something so homey and comforting about a nice quilt.

R- Running. Although every morning at 6 am I dread my run when I finish a nice long run I feel so great

S-Snow, Sledding & Skiing (water & snow)

T - Teeth. Maybe its because I work at a dentist office but I love a straight, white, clean teeth.

U - Utah! There really isn't anywhere I would rather live

V -Vehicles

W- Web Cam

X- X-Mas. I love Christmas time, there is no better holiday. (X-mas is not removing Christ from Christmas however the X comes from the Greek letter chi translated as Christ).

Y- Young Women's. I am in the young women presidency in my ward and I feel so lucky to be apart of such a great organization and we have the BEST group of girls.

Z- Zoo. My cousin used to take my sisters and I ever year growing up. I have always loved the zoo.

Sunday, February 21, 2010

Cupids Workshop

To help the young women earn money for girls camp we decided to make and sell caramel apples and chocolate covered pretzel sticks for Valentines day. We homemade the caramel which turned out AMAZING. We made 3 different flavors: cinnamon sugar, toffee and chocolate meltdown.
The pretzels were first dipped in homemade caramel, then in chocolate and then drizzled with more chocolate.
I made the tags for all the apples and pretzels. I made a bunch of different varieties and we had the girls package the apples and pretzels up really cute.

We made well over 100 caramel apples and at least 100 pretzels. It smelled so yummy in the kitchen and yes we got to sample a few extra apples. YUMMY!

Friday, February 12, 2010

Love is in the MAIL

Look what we got in the mail!

Aren't I a lucky girl...

Of course when I got all the cute dishes I had to BAKE!

Thanks Mom, Dad & Britt for all the fun stuff