Senior Recital

It's almost here! My Senior Recital is just a week away! This is the poster I made to advertise for it around my music building. It's going to be next Thursday December 3 on BYU campus in the Museum of Art Auditorium. I couldnt find a good evening time for the location so it's actually at 3pm in the afternoon which I think will work out pretty well! I am pretty excited because my 3 sisters, my mom, and my best friend tiffany are coming in to town! I cant wait to see them! anywho, if you are in the provo area next week, I'd love for you to come! Wish me luck!!

More Floral Stuff

Here are a couple more arrangements I have learned to do over the past few weeks. These two projects have been my favorite so far. I looved the glass cube arrangement I made and the bridal bouquet was pretty fun.. Both were actually pretty difficult tho. a lot more difficult than i thought they would be. I know that the more practice i have, the easier it will get to make em. So I am hoping to stick with it and make more so I can get really good at it.

glass cube autumn arrangement.. The blue-ish flowers are in this pic are actually way more purple in person. they look kinda weird in this first pic but i promise they look better in person lol...
I really wanna learn to make it look a little tighter and more round than this. but i still like how it turned out for this assignment.

I made this one just the other day.. and i decided i was sick of all the autumn colors i had been using so i decided to switch it up a little (thanks kel for the color suggestions haha).. anyways, this first pic is to show the cool stuff we learned to do with the ribbon when we tie it.
i used roses, white stock flowers, waxflowers and pink carnations. This is also one that was tricky to make and being a perfectionist, took me a little longer than i had hoped. I need to make a few more of these to really get it how i want them to look.

sorta late...

so i know its a few weeks late but just wanted to post a few fun pics from sam's bday. this year we decided to stay home and have steve and sarra over for the evening. it turned out to be pretty fun! i made one of sam's favorite meals for dinner along with one of his favorite kinds of cake of all time- a "Lincoln Log" cake. That is what he calls it anyways haha.. both the meal and the cake were his mother's famous recipes so he felt right at home! thanks mom r. for those! anywho, i wanted to post pics because this cake was pretty tricky to make so it was definitely an accomplishment for me! hahaa

sam got a mini rubics cube and Bohnanza for his birthday! that game is soo fun. i highly reccomend it.. oh he did also get a new xbox game a few days later when it came out....it is a roll cake that has mint chocolate chip ice cream in the middle. homemade chocolate frosting. it was sorta hard to make but waay delicious! 2 +4 candles =24! haha

happy birthday babe!!

Coconut Macaroons

So I had never been a fan of coconut. in my entire life. UNTIL a couple years ago when I was working for BYU catering and they had these AMAZING coconut cookies that were to die for. I still can not figure out what made me like em so much when I have never liked coconut in my life. but ever since then, coconut has been growing on me. especially in the form of these cookies haha. anyways, I was looking for some random recipe in one of my cookbooks tonight and came across a recipe for these delicious gems!! I was soo excited! I was even more excited that I already had coconut in my pantry and that the recipe was sooo so simple. I made them and they turned out awesome! they arent quite as good as the ones in catering but they are pretty dang close and pretty dang good!! So I decided I should share it with everyone! Here is the recipe:

Coconut Macaroons:
1-1/3 cups flaked coconut
1/3 cup
2 Tbsp. all-purpose flour
1/8 tsp. salt
2 egg whites
1/2 tsp. vanilla extract

1. In a small bowl, combine the coconut, sugar, flour, and salt. Stir in egg whites and vanilla; mix well. drop by rounded teaspoonfuls onto greased baking sheets.
2. Bake at 325 degrees for 18-20 minutes or until golden brown. Cool on a wire rack. Yields: about 1-1/2 dozen.


I have also had some that are chocolate dipped on half of the cookie which is also pretty amazing. I will be trying that very soon. anyways, hope yall enjoy!

Halloweeeeen!

This year for Halloween we kept it pretty low key which was nice. A few days before, we went and bought a couple pumpkins and carved them with our good friends Andy and Christa. They turned out sooo awesome!!! best pumpkin we have ever carved! i think it is the first one we have carved since we've been married and it was way fun so i am sure we are gonna do it every year from now on. Then on Halloween night we had a few friends over and made some yummy caramel apples then watched the Dark Knight. we hadn't seen it since the theaters and it was a pretty creepy movie so we thought it was perfect for the evening! I just have to say that I liked the movie waay more this second time I saw it. anyways, it was a great night! we had an awesome time with some good friends.

Sorry for the cruddy photo quality. our digital camera broke so we have been using the cameras on our phones. if anyone out there has an old digital camera lying around that they dont use anymore, let us know....

letting the boys do the carving lol:




Halloween, making caramel apples.. this was mine, heath chunks, mini choc chips and marshmallows:
the beginning of sam's masterpiece:
mallow-teeth?

Sam's creation.. not only did he include marshmallows on the toothpicks, he was sure to drizzle chocolate on them as well.. he pays attention to detail, haha:

Catching up...

October was a pretty busy month for us. I'm just now realizing I never posted pictures of the Opera so I thought I would get to that! It went great. Pretty time consuming but way fun. plus some of sam's family came in town to see it so that was fun too. Thanks for coming Amy and Mom R.! We loved seeing you! also, we had our choir concert with the King Singers which was way cool too. Some people took some pretty professional looking photos of both the Opera and the choir concert and let us get them off the internet so I am posting a few of those for yall to see!

Tavern scene in the beginning that Sam was in:
Next scene, we are all at a party at this scientist's house and Sam starts wandering around stealing things and touching stuff LOL "....uh maybe we shouldnt be touching that..."

Full cast curtain call, we on the stairs in the back, second couple down:


King Singers Concert, if you click on the pic, it should blow up so you could find us in the back better. I am right behind the percussion guy to the left, sam is second row towards the right:
before our choir came on:
Cool group shot: