Where I live..

So I told my Grandma forever ago that I'd put these pictures up so she could see where I lived and I am finally getting around to do that.. I have lived in Virginia for over three years now and I still really love it so YAY for that and I love the family I live with and its just a nice place to be right now. I apologize for my room being a bit messy but it's just what it is right now cause I haven't had a whole lot of me time to get things put together but all and all it's not that bad..


My apartment is in the backyard above the garage.


This is my kitchen. Which doesn't really get used all that much because I spend most of my time over in the big house.

Different shots of my bedroom..

It's a really big room and I love it..

My bathroom..

I also have my own laundry room as well which is very nice and convienent..

What I am making in School..

I have been having the best time ever at school.. I absolutely love my school so much and everything I am doing there. It is such an amazing thing that I get to do and I am learning so much stuff like what actually happens while baking and what happens when the product reaches different temperatures. It's just really fun and I love what I am doing and I am so glad that I decided to do this. Here are just a few pictures of what we have been doing lately.

We made a San Francisco Sourdough and mine turned out so nice. My teacher was very impressed with it and I was also really impressed considering I had never made a sourdough before in my life but it was really good.


We also made Strawberry Shortcake which turned out good.

This is my favorite thing we made. It is Challah(Holla) bread. I had know idea that's how it is pronounced but now I do. It is a jewish bread and it was really fun to make and so pretty and REALLY good. We have also made a few different types of muffins, pita bread, french baguettes, a loaf of whole wheat bread, biscuits, light rye bread and a few others.. It is such a blast to go to school and do something you actually enjoy.

Basketball..

So we have a basketball league at church and its way fun although I only have gotten to play in one game because I have school every Saturday when the games are it is still way super fun.. We got cute jersey's and everything and well my friends and I are awesome so we wore sweet tube socks. This is from the one and only game that I played in. We won! YAY!! We just play against the other wards in our stake and let me tell you we're the only singles ward in our stake so we are playing against the older ladies and they are intense but we're young and intense as well so its a blast.

Go Cart Racing..

My friend Shane's brother got "blown up" in Iraq 2 years ago.. and I say blown up because that's what he always says and well he technically did get blown up but he is still alive. So for the past 2 years he has been at Walter Reed having surgery after surgery to be put back together. It's like a real life Humpty Dumpty story. To date he has had 84 surgeries and he is just waiting to hear if he will be losing his leg or if he'll only have a couple more surgeries. He is really hoping to be home at some point this year. So Shane came out to visit him over Christmas and my friend Sylvia and I went up to see them the other day. We had a blast.. I love Shane he is the funniest kid ever and we had such a great time. Travis' wife and little girl stayed home and Shane, Travis, Sylvia and I went to lunch and then went to race Go Carts.. It was so much fun..

We got these super sweet suits to wear and helmets and it was such a blast.. I'm just kind of the odd girl out because they have suits in all different colors but they go by size so I had to be different.. it's cool though cuz blue is way cooler.. It's an indoor track here in Virginia and they go so fast.. I'm so happy that I got to see him.

Travis, Shane, Me and Sylvia..

Happy New Year!!

Happy New Year everyone.. Here's to 2009. I hope everyone has the best year ever and that you all accomplish everything you hope to in the new year. I have a hard time keeping my New Year's Resolutions every year and I think it is because they are always so unreasonable so this year I have decided to make them a little more reasonable and here are just a few of the things I hope to do in 2009.
-Budget myself.. by budgeting I really mean no more shopping. I cleaned my closet out 7 different times this year and discovered many clothes that still had the tags on them and I never wore. So in 2009 I have decided I have enough clothes and I don't need anymore. I will only purchase the necessities.
-Eat more healthy, but do not deny myself of the things I love, just cut out the junk.
-No more SPEEDING.. I will keep my speeding under control and enjoy the drive instead of hurrying to get everywhere.
-Enjoy life, take time each day just do enjoy life.. whether it be taking a walk or just laying down by the pond whatever it is I'm going to enjoy my life.
-Be a better person, try and do a random act of kindness whenever I can.
-Open my heart and let people get close to me.
-Find joy in the journey.

I hope that in this year we can all do whatever it is that lets us enjoy our lives because Happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.

HomE foR tHe HoLidAyS..

So I finally made it home.. We had such a good time. It was just Melinda and I home for Christmas this year but David, Rachel and the boys came on Saturday so that was nice. I had such a blast with those little boys. They are two of the cutest kids and I love them..

Lance is such a goofball and he just makes life so much more sweeter when he's around.

I Love my family and I am so glad that I got to be home with them.

Stuck In Neward

So on Monday, December 21 my friend Sylvia and I were scheduled to leave Baltimore to go home to Utah well we got to the airport in plenty of time we even got on our plane on time and then we got out on the runway and they shut our plane down because there was to much air traffic in Newark which is where our layover was. So we sat there for about 45 min and when we finally got there we ran to our gate and our plane was still there so we got excited but turns out they had given our seats away so us along with 14 other people were now stranded in Newark.

We had to sit in a customer service line for 4 hours for them to tell us to fly standby. I called American Express and they got us on a flight on Christmas Eve morning which is better than what Continental was offereing us. But we still were stuck in the airport for two days.

We did make the most of it thougha dn we met some nice people that we hung out with.

And we finally got to leave.

First Quarter..

So I just finished my first quarter of Culinary School.. Ok well I finished a couple weeks ago but I have been all over the place so I haven't had a chance to get on here. I got A's in both of my classes and I really had such a blast and I am so glad that I finally found something that I really love and that makes me enjoy schooling.

This is my friend Melissa we had such a great time in our skills class and yay we both have the same classes next quarter too..