Once upon a time this kid in my ward was like "Lets get together and I'll make orange rolls and you can make monkey bread!" so i was like "uh ok". Yeah I've never made monkey bread! I do have the recipe from mom so i decided it couldn't be that hard. It called for 4 cans of biscuits. So i got 4 can of biscuits and fallowed the recipe exactly. It turns out that when this recipe was written the only kinds of can of biscuits is the skinny little ones. I got big ones. We cooked it and it over flowed and it burned on top. Good thing we put a pan with foil on it und
er the bunt pan or else we would have had a major mess to clean up! We took off the burnt part on top and it even tasted pretty good and put the rest of it back in to cook. It cooked pretty well. When we took it out and let it cool it looked pretty good. When it came time to take it out it turned out to be way too gooey on the bottom. We scooped it out and put it on a plate and it wasn't half bad at all! It just wasn't pretty and didn't look like mom's. I assure you there will be another attempt and this soon. Next time it'll be perfect!
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Friday, June 20, 2008
reDECORATING!
so our lovely apartments decorations are being taken down because they are all Amanda's! lol so sad but kendle and i thought it would be a good time to make it something completely new! we love to do that. OH hello! Kendle moved up!! shes here!!! woohoo!!! ok so our first fun thing together was doing our apartment over. I LOVE IT!
Kendle and i originally wanted to do black white and brown in our room but we ended up getting the same black and white pillows! so that made me think of this brilliant idea of doing black and white as a theme for our living room. the black and white picture was done by ours truly Kendle! shes so talented and then the lines on the wall are done in duckt tape. we originally had a rug from target that was 30 bucks and half that size! but we went to Jo-Ann's to look at fabric to cover our other pillows and got two yards of
shaggy fabric instead! its AMAZING! two minds are definitely better then one! we had so much fun doing this and it feels oh so nice to have a change!
Sunday, June 15, 2008
The Biggest Day of my Life!!.. so far...
Saturday June 14th! Friday was Jared's birthday and he worked. so we were going to go do some stuff for him the day after! we went and got pedicures! yes that's what he wanted. I'm not the kind of girl that takes my boyfriend to do things i want to do on his birthday. anyway so we went to the mall and got there just in time. no one was there yet and right when we got seated a ton of people came in.
here's our beautiful feet!
After we did that we went and got lunch at Bajio's. speaking of which Cafe Rio is way better. anyway! so we got lunch and then went to walmart to pick up some things for the camp fire we were going to go have that night. once we got home we had some time to spare so we played some rock band. i posted earlier about his cake i made but we sang to him after we were done with rock band. we went to my apartment and conveniently there were people there so that was nice. i didn't have to sing solo for him. i had got some trick candles but they didn't work so well.. i was a little disappointed. so here's some pictures with the cake
so annika was taking pictures as we were doing candles and things and it turned out that we didn't have the memory card in there. so we reenacted it...
somehow after talking to people and helping annika pick out an outfit for her blind date we lost a ton of time. we wanted to leave for the camp place by 4:30. we ended up leaving around 5:20. i had to run to the store and he had to pack up the car so we scrambled scrambled scrambled and finally got everything ready to go and the only thing we forgot was napkins! it was nice. so we drove up to the camp site and they had their best site reserved for us. it was the highest one up and didn't have many trees and the view was beautiful. it was still sunny out when we got there so instead of sitting in the sun we went for a little hike.. ok so it wasn't that little and i was wearing converse. its ok it was still pretty. we took some pictures.
After we were done killing our wonderfully soft pedicured feet with bad shoes on rocks we went back to the site and set things up. Jared got the fire started and i laid out the blankets and set up the computer and we started to cook our tin foil dinners. it was the first time I've done tin foil dinners by myself. they turned out really good. i put hamburger, onions, carrots, broccoli, tater tots and to top it off i threw in some cream of celery soup to make it all juicy and good. only one got a hole in it and even then it wasn't that bad. after dinner it started to get chilly so we had Jared's jackets and we brought lots of blankets. we were watching a movie when Jarad said he had some surprises for me. i was supposed to be giving him surprises! its his birthday for Pete's sake! anyway i started to get a little suspicious.. he had to be up to something... he asked me if i wanted my first surprise and i said yes and he pulled out this...
It was really cute. i love getting flowers. Jared always does a really good job at picking good ones out. so we set those aside and we watched the movie still and waited for the stars to come out. it was getting darker when he turned to me and said he needed to give me my second surprise before it got too dark. we were still laying down watching a movie so he couldn't possibly purpose then! instead he had me close my eyes and he pulled out these...
Real pearls! i was shocked! i love them!! and they will be perfect for a wedding... we continued to watch the movie and keep warm. i watched the stars. i love watching stars come out and seeing the sky get darker and darker. earlier when we were hiking and taking pictures Jared had me put his camera in his back pack so i did and i ran into this book thing.. all i saw was this paper with pictures of us i asked him what that was and he said it was a surprise. so i didn't ask much after that. so later he asked me if i wanted the third surprise even though i had already seen part of it and i said of course so we got it out and we went to go sit by the fire and read it...

it was really cute he had wrote and illustrated the story of us meeting and dating. it was really funny. so i was reading and laughing and then i turned to this page...
i was kinda surprised and didn't really know what to do. he got on one knee and pulled out a box. i sat there and just kinda stared... he said "you should probably stand up for this.." so i did and he said his cute little thing and of course i said yes! and we he stood up and we hugged and kissed and i was so happy and laughing! totally forgot about the ring. after a bit of that he was like " do you want to wear your ring??" so he put it on me and its beautiful and i love it! the rest of the night was just laughing and smiling. i couldn't control it. we ended up getting home about 12 exhausted. he went home and i went into my apartment and annika was up. she had gotten home from a blind date shortly before i got home and was really tiered too. i showed her the ring and there was a little freak out. she had heard from someone that heard from someone that heard from someone that it was going to happen that night anyway. so i told her the story and we talked about her date. annika being the cute self that she wanted to celebrate somehow but we just didn't know what and we were way to tiered anyways. so we took this picture and ate some leftovers. we will celebrate later but this is the picture we got...
And this is the best close up we could get of the ring!
Saturday, June 14, 2008
Happy Birthday Jared
today is Jared's birthday!! well i guess yesterday was.. technically. we are celebrating it mostly on saturday. i'm taking him to get a pedicure... totally something he wanted. plus i get to have an excuse to get one too! and we're going to go up the mountain and have acamp fire and make tin foil dinners and roast marshmellows and just stuff. it'll be fun. but i made him this cake! i'll get more pictures with him and me in it too but i love it now and want to put it up so here it is!
Sunday, June 8, 2008
Sunday shoes
Welcome to my garden
so once upon a time Jen had a baby a shower. i bought lots of daffodils to decorate with. once i took them home i didn't know what to with them. so i bought this really cute window box for flowers and planted them and they died. they have been in front of our apartment for along time just getting deader. i got home from Tucson and they were still there... looking way yellow and way dead. that was it! i decided i needed to get some good sturdy flowers that hopefully i couldn't even kill. so i got these! i planted them yesterday and i love them! hopefully it'll last for at least awhile.
I'm back!
alright so I've been back for awhile but just haven't gotten around to blogging yet. Jared and I are loving being together again. He goes back to work on Tuesday so maybe I'll get things done then. kendle moves here in a week so i need to get my room ready for her.... because it is OUR room.. anyway... TUCSON! i was there for two weeks and it seemed like two days. i was way sad to leave and homesick for a long time when i got home but here are a few things that we did. 

Devin graduated the day after i got there! it was way fun to see him all grown up and graduating.. ok maybe it was more weird then it was fun. but he is still my little brother and I'm excited for him to come to BYU in the fall!
ok so other then graduation we did alot of shopping and swimming and just good ol hanging out. it was so good to be home again. Jen, Micheal and baby Ethan were able to make it down for sawyers blessing too. it'll be sad when Kristen moves to Houston and we won't be able to get together that easily. Jared was even able to make it down for the last three days of my stay. so my family got to get to know him better and he got to sit down and chat with my dad.

These are the cutest little boys ever!!
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