My Birthday & Valentines day!

My Birthday was Feb 8th. We went to the Ramonos Macaroni Grill to celebrate with some of our friends. We love Italian food, and that is one of my Favorite places to eat. Happy Birthday to me! I got a Professional flat iron for my hair(i love it, so worth it)

Valentines Day! Feb 14

On Valentines day we went out with our friends Sapna and James. We went to dinner at Red Robin(which was the only place on that night that wasn't an hour plus wait). After we went Bowling.

Which was pretty fun cause it had been a very long time since i bowled.

Sapna & James

Jan 09 McCall winter carnival

Winter carnival Jan 09. McCall, ID

We went to McCall and stayed in our cabin over the weekend in the end of Jan with my Family. On that Saturday we went to the parade. and after we spent the day looking at the Ice Sculptures.

Me and Brett on the bridge of the Sculpture

It was the first weekend so the sculptures were in pretty good shape, they had some pretty neat ones








My friend Stephanie with her Son Joey

Christmas day! Yes a little late...

Christmas day!~ It was a wonderful day! We went for brunch(which was just yummy) at about noonish over to my sister Erica's house. In my family we do a gift exchange instead of buying gifts for everyone.

So the children(my nieces and nephews) exchanges names with each other.

Maci got her very own table with even her name on it.

And after the children had there gift exchange we did ours. We played a gift exchange game. Keegan was a big little helper.

My Little sis Rebecca




My Grandma Pearman

And now i have saved the best and cutest for last. These are 2 vidoes of Lisa's kids. Maci is reciting her Pledge of Allegiance she learned in Preschool(she is 3yrs old) and Brock is reciting his school honor pledge(he is 5yrs old).



We had a very merry Christmas. We are so greatful for our family and the birth of the savior Jesus Christ!

Christmas sewing priojects

So i finally finished some sewing projects i started a couple of years ago. It's not that it was hard just always never had the time. I am also late at bloging so no i didn't just finish them recently either. I made some stockings w a pretty easy pattern. Actually i think i started making these in Enrichment(lol).

I used the same Pattern and made a Christmas tree skirt last year and i was making another one just with some differnent fabric this year. I am so proud of my self cause this is one of my new talents. I can't sew much(just a beginner) but for what i have done i feel i can go on to learn much more. I did take sewing in 4h when i was a kid but lets be honest my mom sewed most all our projects. After trying to teach us and being so patient, it just didn;t work out so good. Lol!

Christmas candy making

So this year i made Christmas candy. One thing i made new, this year was truffles. I made coconut cream w dark chocolate and mint chocolate cream with white chocolate. This is a pic of the filling setting in the fridge.

I got the recipe from http://www.kraft.com/ and i made a little modification to it. There are many recipes for truffles to choose from so check them out if you want.

And than the finish product. Everytime i make something its always a learning experience, i learn what not to do and what i should have done to improve to make it even better. Melting in the microwave is so much easier and less likely to over heat chocolate like on the stove.

I was told they were quite a hit(mostly the coconut ones). can't wait to try out a different flavor.

Coconut truffles

filling

8oz of Bakers white chocolate or i was able to sub w white choco chips for this part(melt in microwave 30 sec at a time)

8oz of cream cheese soften

1.5 cups powdered sugar

1 tsp. coconut extrat(can be sub for any flavor)

1/2 cup coconut flakes(use less or more as you desire)

Beat cream cheese, mix in chocolate, sugar and the rest. Refridgerate fillig for one hour ad than roll into balls and place on wax paper. Refridge one hour.

outside

12 oz bakers semi sweet bakers chocolate(you can not sub w choco chips)

Melt chocolate and dip truffles and place on wax paper until they setup

Enjoy!

BSU vs. Fresno State game

We went to the BSU vs. Fresno State game on black friday(that was this past friday). It was the last game of the season beside the bowl game they play at. We sat in the south Endzone and it was pretty fun. BSU crushed Fresno and no doubt they would, lol!

I look terrible in this pic cause i was so tired i had been up since 2:50 since i had to work that day at 4:45am and there was no time for nap since game started at 4pm.

This was my best pic, lol! It was freezing cold out and i wore flip flops, but they matched my game clothes. From, working all day on my feet my toes weren't even cold.

We had a great time at the game!

Macy's Fragrance Festival 08

Last Wednesday i worked at the Macys Fragrance Festival Nov 5 08'. My friend here Sapna came along with me, to work it also. All the employees who voluntaire to work get all dressed up like a holiday party. Every year it has been at the Centre on the Grove but this is the last year, it will be there. Macys Sets up displays and sections of all the frangrance lines. the customers come and shop, eat food and drink and have a blast like a party. We had a ton of fun working it!