Quick Catch Up!

Well, it has been a little while since I last posted, I decided it was about time. I will give a little update on what has been happening lately. We had a great Christmas and New Years, and I have loved the snow, but I am thankful it is starting to warm up a little bit.

School started two weeks ago and as I am still searching for a job decided it was a perfect time to take full time classes and finish up my degree. Only one and a half semsters left and I can graduate from the community college. I think i will transfer up to the U to finish a Business Degree.
I am currently signed up for five classes and I hope I can handle all the work. I am really excited for my classes and I think most of them except Business Law, will be fun and interesting. :) I have Financial Accounting, Business Law, Astronomy (I love this class), Reading Contemporary Culture, and a fitness class.

I have been taking Cake Decorating classes the last couple months and have learned so much. It is really fun to learn all the techniques. I have loved every minute of it. I only have one class left to take and I can actually certify to be a Wilton Cake Instructor. Here are some of the cool flowers and techniques we have been working on. Next week we have our cake final and I will be sure to post some pictures.

(The roses are actually a purple lavender color, I have no idea why they showed up periwinkle in the picture. Weird!)

I went to Olive Garden this week with some friends from the ward. One of our good friends has been here from Zimbabwe, Africa and has to go back home this week. We are sure going to miss her. Hopefully she can come back soon. I wish I had some pictures but I took my camera and as always forgot. We had so much fun talking, laughing, and I was happy to get out and do something fun, other than homework.

In loving Memory..

My grandma passed away on Sunday night. I am so thankful for her and I am so lucky that she is my Grandma. I am so thankful for all the wonderful memories we have and for her great example, faithful testimony, love, beautiful smile, and always being there for me and my family. She will be greatly missed. I know that I will be able to see her and with her again someday.

WE LOVE YOU GRANDMA.

A Few of My Favorite Things...

Fall is my new favorite season of the year. I love the crisp chill in the air, fun fall fashion, fun decorations and here are a few more:

Colorful Fall Leaves

Carmel Apples

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies

Pumpkins

We cant forget Thanksgiving and spending time with family.

I LOVE FALL!!!

I looked out the window and what did I see....

SNOW!!! White, Cold, and Beautiful SNOW!

I looked out the window this morning and couldnt believe that there was really snow on the ground. It has been colder but I wasnt ready for snow quite yet. It did end up melting within a few hours but I guess Winter is coming sooner than I expected.

Fall Favorites

I have decided that fall is my favorite time of year. I love the crisp chill in the air, the beautiful fall colors, leaves, and decorations.

For a singles ward activity we went to a corn maze last week and we had a blast. I have only been to one other corn maze, actually a haunted corn maze in high school and I think the regular corn mazes are my favorite. If you have never been in one you should go. We did make our way to the finish, but we found ourselves going round in circles and we did get lost a couple times. This is an actual a birds eye view of the corn maze we visited. It sure doesn't look like that from the ground.

What is Fall without pumpkins?

While at the grocery store the other day I was drawn to the pumpkins and specifically to a container of pumpkins I had never seen before. They were so cool. I had to buy one just for fun. It is so unique and awesome looking I cant ever bring myself to carving it so it will be a great decoration just as is. I so so intrigued that I came home and looked it up on the internet. The internet has the answers everything. I found out this crazy pumpkin is called a Knucklehead Pumpkin, but I think it looks like the pumpkin has witches warts.

What a weird name. I decided I want to plant these crazy pumpkins in our garden next year.

Birthday Bash

In our family, we have three birthdays in the fall and all within a couple weeks of each other. We sure cant say we don't get to party. Ryan and Jessica's birthdays are a week apart and we thought it would be fun to combine and have a double birthday party for them. We don't get to see them very often and so it was a lot of fun to have them over to celebrate and share in their special day!

Our family is currently divided when it comes to College football teams. My dad, an alumni of BYU is a huge BYU fan along with Spencer and Kenny. However, Ryan, myself and Jess prefer the great and glorious UTES!!! Instead of making two birthday cakes I thought it would be fun to do a U of U theme birthday cake for the two of them.

Happy Birthday Ry & Jessica!!!

A Birthday Adventure

Kenny turned 20 years old this week. We got the family together celebrate his birthday. Each year on our birthdays my Mom makes us our favorite dinner, Kenny chose to have Navajo Burritos. Always a favorite and especially delicious. He got some fun gifts and was glad to have Ryan and Jess and Grandma and Grandpa here to celebrate.

He has always loved Indiana Jones so I put my creativity to work and made him an Indiana Jones birthday cake. It turned out cute and he really loved it.