Homemaking Skills 101

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN!
THE DAYS I NEVER THOUGHT WOULD COME HAVE NOW ARRIVED!

I have been cooking and sewing and learning to be crafty!
(Sounds like Catherine doesn't it? But no! This is me! I promise. Seriously.)

But yeah I've been sewing up my old pants and shirts. I'm improving at it too!
I might even making a new scripture case or something....

I also want to take up crocheting. I need something to do when I watch NEW movies.
Sudoku is good for movies that I have seen before, but not new ones.

And I have been cooking and baking =D

Exhibit A:

Mom's tasty pasta salad.

Up close view:

I promise it is delicious! I ate all of it in 2 sittings, for dinner last night and for breakfast this morning. It is just THAT good. And cold, which is perfect for this hot weather we've had lately.

Exhibit B: Muffins! Blueberry and chocolate! (Aka the best kinds)

I love muffins!

NO I REALLY LOVE MUFFINS!

And milk =D

You can ask Nikki, I was talking about milk all the way too and from the library.

Oh yeah, and I am starting Jane Erye and Sense and Sensibility.

And thus begins my adventures of developing my homemaking skills.

I think next I am going to try mom's amazing chili and homemade macaroni and cheese.

I can't wait! =D

I had a dream about
theme parks, back massages,
salmon (yum!), chocolate
and a rampaging train.
Awesome huh?
Meg

What are men to rocks and mountains?

Today has been quite a lovely day! My alarm technically went off on time but I didn't get up for 20 minutes, leaving me 20 minutes to get ready (or so I thought). But being my brilliant self, showered the night before and got ready with ease and grace and looked rather cute if I do say so myself. I tried calling Albert to make sure we were walking to church together, but someone forgot to turn their phone back on......and off I went on my own, up the hill to church. I power walked it in my high heeled boots and got there about the same time as the cars that were driving the same way. I was quite proud of myself.

All the same, as I was walking up, who did I see but Brent and Bill! I was quite surprised they hadn't left for Burley already but according to Brent they were too lazy and tired to drive, therefore they slept yesterday to rest up. We got to church to find that half the stake had been told 9am and the other 9:30am. And after being quite good and getting there on time and everything. But we just relaxed for a bit and chatted. I felt more than usually small sitting next to two 6'4" guys plus Brent's shoes were about twice the size of mine. Talk about overwhelming, luckily they are all easy and I am pretty sure I was sitting next to the two coolest guys there. (They are so fun!) Albert came later and I did not see him until after sacrament.

Church ended up having sacrament, then 3 Sunday schools, but based on seating I didn't have to move, but Brent and Bill left to go home before the snow got too bad. Then for Relief Society, we were in the same room. I got to sit in the same seat for 3 hours....that was fun. (This was the same room we had Catherine's wedding reception in by the way). But church was quite good and I got my Temple Recommend but I still need to get the Stake President to sign it.

This afternoon was nice, I came back and I made Albert and I wraps with chicken, lettuce, ranch dressing and salsa on top. It was YUMMY. I even got to talk to my dear sister today =] Ah how I love talking to her.

And now I am watching Pride and Prejudice. Albert watched the first half with me. The snow started this morning and has yet to stop, but it is not to stop until Wednesday and then it is going to be a high of 9 degrees. I am a tad nervous but I kind of like the snow. It makes the break seem homely and warm. I desperately wish to have the classic Christmas movies, while curled up in a blanket on the couch, drinking hot cocoa. What a wonderful thought.

Anyway, this weather is making me quite happy, at least until school starts back up next week. Plus in the evening, Idaho gives off this beautiful pinkish glow of the sun setting behind the thick snowy clouds and it is a gorgeous site.

But now I am off to go drink some milk (I have most of a gallon to drink by Wednesday, as if it is a challenge though), Man I wish I had some cinnamon bears right now. Maybe I shall eat some chocolate (teeheehee). I bought some yesterday for the first time since I've been here. =D I forgot how happy it makes you feel =D =D =D

Now to go finish a letter. I promise to write you all that are far from Rexburg at present.Oh and I think the people in this whole complex have decided that since most people are gone that they must make up for the noise, for they have been running up and down their apartment and the breezeways to no end. It has never been this loud since I've been here, what is this craziness? Oh well. I love y'all dearly.

Jack: You are not to talk of Miss Cardew like that. I don’t like it.
Algernon: Well, I don’t like your clothes. You look perfectly ridiculous in them. Why on earth don’t you go up and change? It is perfectly childish to be in deep mourning for a man who is actually staying for a whole week with you in your house as a guest. I call it grotesque.
Jack: You are certainly not staying with me for a whole week as a guest or anything else. You have got to leave… by the four-five train.
Algernon: I certainly won’t leave you so long as you are in mourning. It would be most unfriendly. If I were in mourning you would stay with me, I suppose. I should think it very unkind if you didn’t.
Jack: Well, will you go if I change my clothes?
Algernon: Yes, if you are not too long. I never saw anybody take so long to dress, and with such little result.
Jack: Well, at any rate, that is better than being always over- dressed as you are.
Algernon: If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated.
Meg

This is gonna be a good, good life!

Today was a great day!

To start, we ended up NOT having our German quiz because NO ONE was prepared for it, instead we took it home for homework.

Second, German class is CANCELED tomorrow!!! AKA I GET TO SLEEEEEEP IN! And I need it =]

Then we got out of Book of Mormon early because we decided to meet on Thursday for our class and then Math got let out 15 minutes early!

We went to Walmart and I got more YUMMY cereal! =D And Milk =D

Then for FHE, Bishop Hancock and his wife came and we had a nice lesson on family unity. (And all our FHE guys came for the FIRST TIME EVER! There's 6 of them, normally 3 show up at a time)

We made a family flag (we're FHE group #4) so we named our flag Fantastic 4! Even though Lisa wrote the "Fantastic" small....and we all signed our names artistically and drew pictures on it and it looks AWESOME:

Sorry for the crappy lighting

The left side we have John Bähr aka "Jon Thunder", Pee Wee Herman (Because Cole's last name is Herman and he has dark hair too) along with Jenny-Far, John Berryhill, A-man-duh, Rebecca, Nicole and Lisa. And of course Dallan's monster that he drew because he could.

We have the lyrics "I'm feeling like a star, you can't stop my shine" at the bottom, Tiera (in yellow), Dallan's blob monster again, "Fantastic 4(ever young)" Rachel and BYU Idaho! =D (Aka the best!)

Best for last! "Kiwi" aka Keely, "Eye love the Church of Jesus Christ", Superman Mike (Michael -note he like photography but he is a digital dork meaning he only likes Canon b/c he doesn't know better), Parker the super missionary and his sidekick monkey, Alisa, Cacia, Dallan signed his name twice (the star and the car, his last name is Starr....yeah) and of course me! (I have photography words around my name =D)

Yeah so I am pretty sure this flag rocks and it was a blast making it!

We also played a game where you're in 2 teams and someone draws a word out of a bowl or something. Then each team goes back and forth trying to think of songs with this word in it, such as "love" "hate" "blue" "dance" etc. We lost but it was fun, and we had root beer floats! And the Bishop and his wife left the root beer w/ us so now we have 1 1/2 liters to drink by Friday =D =D =D =D =D