October 12th: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Today we watched my favorite movie!!! Ok, one of the many. The first Harry Potter movie (and book) are my favorite! Of course all the books are magical but the first one is so new to not only Harry but to the reader as well. He's discovering the magical world for the first time and it's exciting! For dinner, we made loaded shepherd's pie, Because shepherd's pie is VERY British. It's also referenced in some of the books. It was so yummy that we pretty much inhaled it and I didn't get a chance to take a picture. I did get the recipe from Pinterest. I modified it though. I used instant mashed potatoes and added the sour cream. I used soy meat crumbles instead of actual ground beef and Costco bacon bits.  And for dessert we had "Polyjuice Potion" (7UP and lime sherbet). I had planned on doing a Harry Potter themed FHE but didn't plan it too well. Next time I guess. We also got to have the Missionaries over for dinner. I finally made something they liked! And they didn't know that it wasn't real meat. Muahahahahaha!!!

"Harry and Ron slouched into the Great Hall in states of deepest gloom, Hermione behind them, wearing a well-you-did-break-school-rules sort of expression. Harry didn't enjoy his shepherd's pie as much as he'd thought."

Shepherd's Pie recipe from: http://bakeatmidnite.com/loaded-shepherds-pie/

Alastor 'Mad-Eye' Moody: [handing out Polyjuice Potion] "Fair warning, it tastes like goblin piss."

Fred Weasley: "Have lots of experience with that, do you, Mad-Eye?"

[Moody glares]

Fred Weasley: "Just trying to diffuse the tension"

October 11th: Coraline (late post)

Last night we watched Coraline. I forgot how terrifying that movie was. We took Broseph to see it when it first came out but he didn't remember ever watching it.Maybe because he was about 7 then and nothing sticks when you're 7.  I think he liked it though. For dinner we ate (doll hair) spaghetti squash with (button) mushrooms and (button) zucchini. I don't think I was too prepared for this one. I had major plans on making gluten free sugar cookies for Broseph but it just didn't happen. He also didn't eat the dinner because lets face it, what 13 year old boy wants to eat spaghetti squash. But mom and I enjoyed it. 

Coraline:  [to Coraline doll] "You think they're trying to poison me?"

[Makes Coraline doll nod] 

October 10th: Edward Scissorhands

October 10th: Edward Scissorhands. For dinner: kabobs. Dessert: ambrosia salad. I honestly eyeballed all of this. I was so tired from our trip to the apple orchard. The ambrosia was made with the apples we picked today. This is Broseph's first time watching this movie. I'm so excited to see his reaction. I've loved this movie since I was very little.

Bill: Soup's on! 

Edward: I thought this was shish kabob.

Joyce: Who’s handicapped? My goodness. Don’t be ridiculous! You’re not handicapped, you’re… What do they call the… exceptional? My name’s Joyce, and l noticed that you have not tasted any of the ambrosia salad that l made especially for you.

UPDATE: Broseph's own words, "I hated it. It was stupid and sad."
This makes me sad.

I'm baaaaaack!

Yes! It's true! Thanks to my husband and my friend for pushing me to get back on the saddle again. Things you will see from me.. my pinterest in real life posts, recipes, themed dinners and life. I'm pretty excited to get started again. Also I will be posting a countdown to my 30th (yikes!) birthday. Stay tuned.

2012!!! Already? Let me tell you about 2011 (unfinished memory)

So here it is. 2012. And I need to catch you up on November and December of 2011.

Nothing much to tell. No pics yet I will do a picture haul of the last couPle of months soon. Let's start with November.

November if course is my birthday month. And I am spoiled for a whole month. At last that's what I tell my husband. And what kind of birthday would it be without a trip to....


Drumroll please....

THE TEMPLE!!!!

That's right ladies and gents, I decided for my birthday I wanted I go to the San Diego temple and do baptisms for the dead. I was accompanied by my beautiful husband, BFF Connie (her first time), BFF Brittany, Susan and Gerald the most cutest couple alive!!
So we baptized some of my husbands deceiced relatives. I have done proxy baptisms many times before but this was so much more special. I was overwhelmed with emotion. One of the best temple trips so far but there is one that tops them all. But we will get to that later.

Summer Daze...

So here's the deal, the hubs dropped the camera at the beginning of summer so there's not a whole lot of pics because I really didn't see the point.. So with that said... hers basically the bits and pieces of our summer. ***FYI.. we just got a new camera.. cross our fingers that the hubs doesn't drop it... this is the 2nd time hes done this... ENJOY!!!!

bored yet......?

Hey! Is anyone there?

Long time no see! I would apologize for the non existent blog update on my life to my many readers but life hit me like a ton of bricks! Has that ever happened to you? 

Summer started off with a job. I am now employed. I don't even want to touch a computer on the weekends. So there's my reason for the lack of a life update. Nothing much has happened. Well nothing huge to report on. Just wanted to let you know that I'm alive and I will do a post on the days of summer soon. Thanks for reading. 

psh...