Delicious things.

Cupcake Brigade. Make cupcakes, deliver, visit- spread the love. PS. Aren't my trays AWESOME!!?! Bear and galloping stallions, yes.

Homemade tomato pasta sauce? YES. What should you do when you are gifted dozens of tomatoes, yellow squash, and zuchinni from friends and loved ones (their personal gardens no less?!)? Make pasta sauce! 

Ingredients:

-Lots of tomatoes of all kinds- fresh. Buy them, but don't use sissy canned junk.

-Garlic to taste, also fresh of course- non of that dry or canned junk. It's not that hard or exspensive to buy some real live garlic bulbs and toss some in- you don't have to cut them, just take the skin/husk whatever off (And luckily, the tomato and lemon from the pasta and hummus recipes gets rid of garlic on your fingertips)

-Zucchini- lots! Raw, and you can toss big chunks in because it's so soft- so there's minimal prep.

-Yellow squash! I don't like steaming these beasts, they're too tough, and it depletes the nutrients. Solution- blend them raw, into a tiny pulp in your pasta sauce!

-Italian seasoning or fresh herbs to taste

-Pesto. I LOVE PESTO. So naturally I put some heaping spoons in my sauce!

-Olive oil...to taste (can you tell? I don't measure things).

-A little bit of purple onion- because I love it!

Blend the mother to a cream! Food processors work good, as do blenders. Mix it and put it in jars (because I know you all keep your glass jars in piles around your house- because you'll find a use for them sometime...just like me!) 

WARNING. If you freeze your sauce, like me, don't fill it to the top- it will expand and break the glass!

What's great about this recipe- no need to cook until you heat it for eating. Boiling the contents and then cooking them again removes all of the nutrients. If you make this raw recipe you can heat it up for a few seconds when you're ready to eat- and viola! Amazing, healthy spaghetti...lasagna, etc.

Another good add-in: Wheat germ. I love it! I put it in everything! ^---Check out this link.

Note on freezing: Anytime you process food it looses nutrients, except for a few foods which need minimal processing. Heating, cooling, reheating....it takes some good every time. I freeze my sauce so I can take it out a jar at a time for use, thus preventing mold and all that. So it's okay to process it a bit, I mean, at least it's not store bought processes, but beware or over doing it.

Fun in Ogden, planning our dream houses, with Rouchelle.

Amazing fireplace featuring ocean sailing scenes.

Dream bathroom/vanity

Favorite permanent piece at the Eccles Art center

Cool color detail

Nice windows and flower boxes

Good shadows

Fun shapes

Little boy playing pool....on a min pool table...on a claw foot bath tub...on the sidewalk....

in front of a pawn shop...with a dog...and a fake horse.

DINOSAUR HORSE.

Rouchelle loved this house.

Pesto Hummus:

-Garlic to taste, but careful not too much.

-Tahini, I put in a heaping spoonful- I bought mine at a Thai store, you can usually find it at health food stores

-Pesto. Like I said, I LOVE PESTO!

-Olive oil.

-Garbanzo beans, drained (chickpeas, whatever).

-Squeeze of lemon.

-Dash of cumin and coriander.

BLEND THE MOTHER TO A CREAM! 

Eat with pita, creating the perfect protein!

Fun add-in: cucumber, artichoke hearts- anything you desire! Hummus is great because you can make a lot of flavors. Pesto just happens to be my favorite.  

PS. Both featured recipes take about 10 mins. or less.

This is what Rouchelly and my wedding announcement will look like...but not with each other...I mean...I'm not a lesbian! Haha.

Feeling Good, Feeling Alive!

Squeakers with Sulley and Minnie in Becky's bed- he gets around...

So life has been crazy! A little over a week ago (Saturday, January 2) I drove 5 hours from St. George to Ogden, Utah for the spring semester at Weber. The following morning (Sunday) I woke up in my new apartment, and after getting dressed and going to church at the wrong time I called my mom. Bad news. My mother woke up to find my father unconscious on the floor in his man-cave. Now, as strange as it may seem to all of you, I wasn't too concerned at this point...you see, my dad has a lot of health problems and he frequents the hospital. In fact, some of his doctors call him the energizer bunny because when it seems like his battery is done, he re-energizes and poufs back!



So I just told my mom to keep me updated...then more bad news. My dad pretty much went into a coma and it didn't seem like he was going to "re-energize." After a few hours of things seeming to get worse I couldn't take waiting around in Ogden, and with the suggestions of my mother I drove back 5 hours to southern Utah (the day before classes started!).


When I got to St. George my father was still in a comatose state and remained so for the most part until the next day. We were all very scared and worried, praying for the best, but fearing what seemed eminent...


Drum roll, the energizer bunny energized once again (that would have been awful if I had drum rolled my father's death...fear not, I'm not that twisted)!

My family on Christmas Eve, including the new addition Squeakers McGee (pure bred shi tzu)

Though my father has made a great recovery so far, from what turned out to be bi-lateral pneumonia (no one knows why he passed out, or why he stayed passed out), I wasn't served the luck he was. Monday morning I woke up with a ridiculous cold and due to my head-cold-fuzzy-brain, I was stranded in St. George and missed my first week of spring semester classes in Ogden! No good.


When Friday rolled in and I finally felt good enough to safely drive back to Ogden, I figured it was the weekend, and I mind as well stay in St. Geezy to hang out with friends and go to my buddy Crystal Turners mission farewell on Sunday. (That was a crap sentence, but I'm too tired to fix it...)


Friday night was fun, I went bowling with Rouchelle, Casey and some of their friends.


Saturday night was even more fun. I learned how to play poker with Alex, Rouchelley and some of their Madonna-boob-swimming pool friends! We played with candy, which made me very hyper, and I did pretty well! Poker anyone?


On Sunday I dragged myself out of bed to go to Crystal's 9 am farewell and I couldn't find the church! I drove around for an hour looking for it! I went into one chapel and thought it was the right one- I sat down for about 15 minutes and took the sacrament before I realized it was the wrong chapel. Then I tried another- wrong again...after an hour I figured I missed most of it anyway and gave up :(

After a brief visit with my dad in the hospital and a goodbye to some family I headed back to Ogden. The drive was lovely (I LOVE long drives alone)! Oh wait...the drive was lovely, but I got my first ever speeding ticket!!! Ah! $90!!!! However, I still feel happy and did so after I got my ticket. I figure I deserved it...I was going 89 in a 75 zone and i ALWAYS speed. I mean, I'm almost 24 years old and I've never gotten a ticket! Later that night, thanks to my buddy Dan, I got my comfy bed delivered and all was well.

I have high hopes for this semester. I have a good feeling. I love my room. My roommates seem wicked sweet so far and my apartment/house is super! I live super close to campus and did I mention that my room is painted blue! So far my classes seem like they're going to be amazing and I even get to write a children's book! Love it! Things are good!

KNOCK ON WOOD.

Art corner

Movies

Sleeping corner

Clothes corner

Vanity corner

"They were the best of times, they were the worst of times" -Charles Dickens

Here are two dolls that I started last summer I think...I finally finshed them! It's Howl and Sophie from Howl's Moving Castle. Howl's got a green and blue heart and his bird coat is removable. Both sophie and Howl have rings like in the movie, Howl's is blue and Sophie's red. Sophie has silver stitching in her hair so it resembles starlight.

Here are some rings that I bought all of the supplies for last summer and just now made...haha! After I test the strength of the glue I will out some on Etsy. Any requests?

So I've moved.

That's right stalkers, I've moved to Ogden, Utah!

Despite the bitter cold (It's September and I'm already cold?! I'm going to freeze to death!) I'm actually liking the Mormon-packed North. As you know at this point, I like to blog via-lists, and so here we go:

Good things about Ogden:
1. Peery's Egyptian Theater
2. Ott Planetarium3. Fun roommates

4. Ogden LDS Temple 5. I live close to Khiah!6. I like Weber State and my institute classes are sweet-a!

7. Riding the bus

Icky things about Weber:

1. Cold/snow

2. crime rate
3. Creepers on the bus