Primary Lessons

I have a calling of teaching the Sunbeams in my ward., They are adorable! half way through the year and my class has dwindled down to 2-3 kids each week and we have a blast.

This week the lesson was on Families Are Forever. The lesson discusses temples and what we need to do to get to the temple. So I came up with a picture that I printed out for the kiddos.

I love it. I printed one off for each of them. Too bad I didn't think, I could have put it in a dollar frame from the dollar store. Maybe their mom's will do that or put it on thier fridge. I just created this in publisher and printed it on photo paper.

My Cool Christmas present!

So for Christmas I received a NINJA blender. This thing is amazing. I started making me some breakfast smoothies. the first day, I put in strawberries, peaches and bananas all which were frozen. In very little time, they were all chopped up in little pieces. It really is amazing!
I my next smoothie, I put in the frozen strawberries and peaches and then added a carrot. Same thing, very little time, I had a great beverage after adding juice and milk to the mix.
My third smoothie has tasted the best.
Here is my recipe.
1/2 cup of greek yogurt
3/4 cup frozen strawberries
3/4 cup frozen strawberries
1 clementine tangerine
3/4 cup 100% Orange Strawberry Banana juice
Mixed it up in the ninja blender and i had 2 cups of a very delish smoothie!

I didn't follow a recipe, I just added whatever I wanted and it taste awesome!
 

My new goal...

I have a goal to look and feel healthier. I'm not going on a diet, just changing the way I eat. I have decided to make an online journal via my blog of how I am going to do this. What I was doing was eating a fast food meal once a day and then finding something to eat at home in the evening. Just not the way to eat. Also, take out the carbonated drinks and all the baked good and candy. And keep it to about 1500 calories of food a day. and drink about 140 oz of water. Not too hard right?
Here are my day 1 and day 2:

Day 1: Breakfast: I didn't have time to make something for breakfast and there  was a blueberry donut at my house. OOPS!
           Snack: Ham and cheese sandwich.
           Lunch: Fruit snack, Granola bar, and Trail mix
           Snack: Bowl of cereal, cheese and cracker
           Dinner: Ham and cheese sandwich and potato chips, 8 oz of soda.
Drank 48 oz of water.

So the first day is a little harder...

Day 2: Breakfast: My smoothie with strawberries, peaches, and carrot and milk
           Snack: 2 cups of kettle corn
           Lunch: Big Salad with tomatoes, cucumbers and shrimp dressed with 0 cal Zesty Italian dressing from Sprouts.
           Snack: Peanut Butter and Jelly sandwich
           Dinner: Cereal
           snack: 12 oz of Milk and an orange
 For some reason, I couldn't get full after I ate my shrimp salad. Until I drank the milk and ate the orange.

Drank 48oz of water.

I want to add that going from having your food made for you as you go thru the drive thru and making it on your own is super hard....

So for every day, I am going to post what I ate. If there are any yummy recipes, I will add those as well.

My Garden!

SO since I have all this time on my hands, I decided to put a garden in my backyard. My roommate, Jamie, was excited about it too, she bought seeds. The one day we went to Home Depot and bought wood and dirt to put a box back there and fill it for the veggies. So here's what we ended up with for our box of dirt.



A couple of weeks later, after some rain and being couped up inside, I decided it was time to plant my seeds and already grown peppers and tomatoes. So After planting the tomatoes, peppers, beans, lettuce, rhubarb, strawberries, green onions and carrots, I took some pictures!

The marigolds are to keep the cats out. Hope it works.


The Green Beans coming up out of the ground!


The Green Peppers!


The tomatoes!


The Garden!

The back yard view from the patio.

My roommate just told me the other day that the marigolds don't keep the cats out. or it could be that they are dying.

So there are an enormous amounts of cats that roam around the neighborhoods. It's so frustrating. They have ben coming in my backyard and digging in the garden. I thought the marigolds would keep them out, but the other day, Jamie saw them digging in the garden. She scared them off before she went out to work. So if you have any ideas of how to keep them out of the yard, PLEASE, I beg of you, PLEASE let me know!

Camping

Cake Decorating

I've have been for the longest time wanting to make/decorate a cake. So when my friend asked me to bring a dessert for her halloween party, this is what I created!







I wonder if it has to do with all the time on my hands that I now have.

Changes!

So a few things have changed since I last posted. First it started with losing my job in August. So the rest of August, I worked for my severance pay, then went to UT, for Labor Day weekend to see my new neice! September, Megan came down with here kids, and we had some fun times hanging out togethere. The 3 kids would come play at my house while mom and meg went shopping or did scrapbooking or were cleaning the house for a baby shower. Then my roommate who lived her (sort of--when she was sleeping and getting ready for the day she did) got married in September and moved out. And then Megan left...So, my next task was to find a roommate. Around mid October, the previous roomates couches were moved out, our Relief Society President became engaged... meaning I would be released from the presidency and the RS Pres. roommate, Jamie, needed a place to live. I also worked on my bathroom project, redoing the cabinets. I bought couches for a really good price and pet fish. The last couple of days in Oct. Jamie moved in and we are trying to come up with a name for the place... jamie squared, house of jamies, are two ideas. I still have one more room to fill. But here are some pictures.




Window seat was hidden with couches that were in here before!


Living room with couches and more decor on the wall


Decorations with Fish tank, which is behind the couches, but you see it as you walk into the house.

Now on to the bathroom project.

Cabinets went from oak with stain to black with distressed edges. Very classy and more up to date.


Light fixture went from old 80's style light with two bulbs to this with 5 bulbs... very bright in the bathroom now. It was also brought up to date.


Faucet went from hard water eating away at the base with a single plastic handle you lift to brushed nickel with two handles that you turn.

Total cost for bathroom project: little over $50! and it looks great!

My next project is redoing the master bath. I will be painting the cabinets as well, painting the walls to a lighter shade of plum, changing the light fixtures and faucets and then tiling the bathroom floors in both bathrooms.

Stay tuned for projects coming up!