Fudgy Buttons- so easy

I have this obsession over cookbooks, as most of you know! I LOVE the Taste of Home cookbooks the most! But the Quick Cooking ones are the best. So several years ago I started getting one in the mail each year, then a friend of mines grandma died and she gave me a bunch of hers(ones from previous years, that I didn't have). So since I love them so much I got online(amazon.com) and ordered the only one that I didn't have(1999).
I got it in the mail today, that was so exciting! :) Totally made my day!! :) And eating at Bajios!
So here is a new recipe, SO easy. maybe it had a little too much peanut butter in it, I didn't really measure very well because I had doubled the recipe and our measuring spoon is really flimsy so I had a hard time scrapping it out of the jar.

Fudgy Buttons
2 tbsp butter or margarine
1- 1/2 tsp baking cocoa
1/2 confectioners sugar
1/2 tsp milk
2 tbsp creamy peanut butter

In a small sauce pan, melt butter: remove from heat. Add cocoa and mix well. Stir in sugar. Add milk and stir till smooth. Add peanut butter and mix well. Drop by teaspoonfuls onto waxed paper: flatten tops and shape into 1-inch patties. Makes about 1-1/2 dozen.

I had it made and done in less than 15 minutes. When I got the peanut butter mixed in enough to handle I kneaded it to blend it better. It was a little warm, but not too much! It melted in my mouth. SO YUMMY! Rich, but yummy! I wish I had a picture of them.

So life has been crazy! Yes, Edwin and I did break up. Work got so busy. but then it slowed down a little, but there is another area that is really busy, so they take all of our people that are cross trained and that leaves a few people to stay in my area. So they hired temps to be trained so when we supposedly get "really busy" we won't fall behind. I'm hoping that we get so busy that we are getting our hours for a couple of months. I need to get some bills paid for. I have plans that I really want to follow through with, but I need to get my jeep paid for soon. Oh-well! And I need new back tires. Being an adult sucks! :p

Valentines Bouquet

Here are pictures of my valentines bouquet! This was an interesting one, I had so many ideas, like putting candy hearts in the bottom(which I wish I would have thought of in the beginning).

This first version is the white trash version, I was just having fun with it, I really didn't care for the pink plastic thingies and for some odd reason I added calla lilies(which are are my favorite, but they are a spring flower, so I took them out). This version was NOT a winner!


These next two pictures are what I ended up doing. I wanted to keep it a valentines bouquet, not spring, not Christmas. I still can't take very good pictures, so they didn't turn out very good! But it was still fun to do!

Super Yummy Breakfast recipe

So with all this time on my hands, I've been trying new recipes. I got this one from Kraft recipes. It's SO good. It's a breakfast dish. but I made it after dinner tonight and I made a double recipe in a glass baking dish and Emily helped me, we(everyone else in our 2 houses) ate it all, it was so good. I am definitely making it again!!! :)
Not sold yet, it is SO extremely easy. crush the wafers, mix the eggs and milk. Then while that's baking, slice the fruit with an egg slicer. And your done! Cooks for 15 minutes! :)




Puffed Dutch NILLA Pancake
3 eggs
3/4 cup milk
20 NILLA Wafers, finely crushed
8 strawberries, sliced
1 medium banana, sliced
1 tsp. powdered sugar
PREHEAT oven to 450°F. Beat eggs and milk in medium bowl with wire whisk until well blended. Stir in crushed wafers.

WRAP handle of large ovenproof skillet with several layers of foil. Heat on high heat 2 min. Spray with cooking spray. Add egg mixture; place in oven.

BAKE 14 to 16 min. or until egg mixture is puffed and golden brown. Remove from oven; top with the fruit. Sprinkle with powdered sugar. Cut into four wedges. Serve immediately. Store any leftover pancake in refrigerator.

Make it Easy
Use an egg slicer to evenly slice the strawberries and banana.

I just noticed that I haven't updated for a few weeks, and I am on my laptop and have no pictures on here, except one of Edwin and I. Boring! He's not boring, it's just a boring picture.
I'm all better, but I have 2 huge canker sores, they keep getting stuck on my braces, making them tear bigger and not heal very fast. I got a Magic Mouthwash for a really bad sore throat back in October(I think) and it has Lidocaine in it, which numbs anything it touches. It's so funny, my tongue, my lips, everything. But it lets me deal with the pain a little easier. Rinse with salt water every once in awhile and use wax. I think it's either pecans or almonds. But if I eat pecans in certain things it doesn't bother me at all, but if I eat them in ice cream(ben and jerry's butter pecan and tin roof sundae) I'll get them. Or Costco's chocolate cover almonds, which are the best, I get canker sores like none other, but if I eat them in salads or an Almond Joy, doesn't bother me at all. I hate it. But I've also eatten a lot of fruit lately like fresh pineapple and strawberries, and lots of fresh veggies, like tomatoes. Oh-well!
Things are ok right now. They are upgrading some stuff at work in PFL(my area) so everyone on my shift in my group had the option of going to day shift or do TLO(temp. lay off) for 3 weeks. It's really hard to go from night shift to day shift and back again(unless you've tried it, don't tell me I'm just being a pansy). So I decided to do TLO, I didn't want to, I want all the hours I can get, even thought we really aren't busy, I really can't afford to take TLO, I had the option of staying out till March 22, but I can't do it, so I will go back to work in 3 weeks. It will be nice to have a vacation to get somethings I've been putting off, like sewing the edges of my quilt together- that I started last summer. Clean my room really good, I plan on doing a lot of cooking. I only like to cook in the winter for some reason, but it's hard because I have no one to eat it. My mom is always on some random diet and my dad can't eat certain foods. Then people get mad if I take what I make to Shellies kids, because they don't need junk food(I personally like to make dessert stuff). Oh-well. I want to learn how to make homemade tortilla chips, pineapple upside down cake, there are a few others I want to try, I just can't remember right this second, it is 3:30 am. My brain is tired.

Dating Edwin is a lot of fun. We are learning more about each other, just random things. But it's fun. He is so kind and sweet. He's a really good person. That's what I love so much about him.

We got snow and it still hasn't melted. It's been so cold that it will melt during the day, then freeze at night, so whatever is facing north still has snow/ice. That's another bonus about TLO, I don't have to freeze at night when I'm coming home. yeah!
I just made some oatmeal, for some reason it sounded really good and now I can barely keep my eyes open. Wow! I guess I will go to sleep! :) Hopfully this isn't a false tired, because thats what happened last night, I was so tired, but when I went to bed, I was too wired to sleep. I hate that, then I get restless legs, it's horrible. So I go upstairs and lay on the couch till I fall asleep. It helps for some reason. Maybe because I read too much in my bed and when I actually do go to bed, my body doesn't think it's time to sleep. And when I lay on the couch, I always fall asleep, so I need to stop doing that. Oh-well! Night! :)

Christmas 2010

This year we didn't take any pictures of Christmas day. But I did get a internet thingy for my laptop, so now I have internet on my laptop. But I don't have any pictures on here. So that is why there aren't any pictures this time.
Christmas was good. Despite everyone being sick. I've been sick for like 2 weeks, just a cold(stuffy nose, sore throat, chest congestion, etc). Tanner and Trent have been sick, Dani was sick. My dad has been sick. Fun stuff. But mine has been going the longest so far.
Instead of stockings, which my parents put a huge effort into every year, they decided not to this year and put the candy in one bowl, nuts in another, candy canes in a cup in the middle of the table. I liked that better, for a change.
My dad woke me up around 8:45, which is nice because usually we get up at 7 am, but when you don't have kids, that excitement isn't there. But I stayed up texting Edwin and watching movies.
I got a lot more than I expected, but everything I asked for. I wanted purple sheets, Ree Drummond- the Pioneer Woman cookbook(love it), a Arm & Hammer spin brush, a memory card for my camera(so I won't have to delete pictures on the one I have now), a ton of necklaces, Shellie gave me a necklace holder(love it) and these really cool beads that you put in water and they grow, they are good for vases. Natalie gave me a wooden nativity set.
I was so tired and I didn't feel good at all, so I fell asleep around 1 and slept till 7:30. I was still tired that night, I did a lot of sleeping this weekend.
I HATE being sick, didn't go to church on Sunday, I was too miserable. Cory and Natalie came up on Saturday night. Lots of fun. If I didn't feel so miserable I would have wanted to do more. Oh-well!
I hope I do something fun for New Years eve, I don't work, but I'm broke as can be!!! So if anyone has any ideas, let me know! Maybe I can talk Cody into letting me borrow a bunch of movies and my parents into buying tons of junk food and Edwin into coming over. Hmmmmm. Oh-well! Maybe I'll hang out with Shellie's family, I'm suppose to get Marmaduke from Netflix next!
Anyways, that's the excitement going on in my life! :)
Next time I will put pictures on here!

lately.....

Here are some more pictures. I don't really like any of the pictures taken lately, so I only picked 2.

Uncle Jerrol, long story behind this picture. He was hiding from me though! Lol!


Here is my christmas bouquet. Orginally I wanted tiny pine cones on the bottom, but couldn't find any, anywhere! So I just settled on mini ball ornaments and tiny gift bows. I think turned out cute. Emily helped me with, I'm still not happy about it, but it will do.
Life has been slow lately. It's been nice, but at times really frusterating. Like work, we have temps. which is nice because I can take a day off and not have to fight for it or hope that I can get it off. But also, it means not getting our hours, I just think they don't want to get rid of them right before christmas. Oh-well! I'm just grateful for a job right now.
Dating! I mean, yeah I'm dating someone, but it doesn't feel like it because we never see each other. And I understand why and I'm fine with it, but I'm just tired of people telling me that this isn't normal. I wish I could get into it, but I can't. I guess I am just having a bad night and I feel neglected. It's a girl thing! Oh-well!
But other than that, life is good! Christmas is almost here, which means spring will be here soon after that! Yay!!!!

Thanksgiving 2010

Here are some pictures from Thanksgiving, I will add more later. :)

This year EVERYONE was there, plus Aunt Linda and Melinda. It was hard to get a good picture of everyone.


Me, getting christmas trees.


Fall bouquet. Just something fun. I'm going to try to do one for each holiday. It is kinda fun. And they are fake, so they don't bother my dad's allergies.


Jameson and Abby. Her face cracks me up! She's so cute!


I made a bunch of magnets, because we couldn't find where my mom put our magnets when we got a new fridge. This is the result.

This picture was taken by Cody at work. We were just messing with our phones and I actually kinda like this picture! :)

I am just messing around with my blog, and if you get on Stats it will tell you where people are that look at your blog. Who the heck from Germany or Russia??? A little worried now! Because I seriously have never 'blog stalked' so now am just a little not sure what to write anymore. I don't want to go private because no one really ever reads my blog anyways, but I want it available for those who know me and do read it. Oh-well! Whatever!

I LOVED my purple background on here, seriously, it was soothing to my eyes. Plus I LOVE purple. But I felt I needed to celebrate Halloween, or something like that. I would have done a deer hunting background if I had found one. My dad, Trent, Shellie's family, Edwin, they all got tags this year, so this weekend, everyone will be gone. I hoping we go to my grandma's Friday night. If we don't, maybe I can just go myself for the weekend, I already love it up there. Then up to Manti on Sunday or something. We'll see! :)


Pictures taken the day of Aunt Mary's funeral.


Too much to write about. We had Tanners blessing, I've been sick. It was not fun! Aunt Mary's funeral in Richfield. It seems like every weekend for the last 2 months has had something going on. And the next two weekends will be busy also!
But I'm ready for this weekend, I even painted my toe nails and finger nails orange for the deer hunt, then I will paint them black for Halloween! :)

Conference Weekend

This is what we did this weekend-

My mom will probably get mad at me for putting this pic of her on here, but I couldn't get her to pick her nose for me(I was being extremely annoying about it too!!!)


Mike and Shellie(I have a WAY better picture of Shellie, but she won't let me put it on here! It's a pretty awesome 'pay back' picture).


Red Cliffs- it was pouring rain and on the red rocks it looked white and slick. It was neat.


All of us who went, it's a little blurry, but whatever.


The storm coming in from the south.

We went to Red Cliffs after conference got over on Saturday. My cousin Melinda Lou was here and that's what she wanted to do. We had planned on having hot dogs and salad and to go hiking. But a storm came in while we were there, the wind was blowing red sand all over, then it stared pouring rain. It was crazy, so we came back home and roast hot dogs and marshmallows and talked, played with Tanner, watched a movie, Skylar came over. It was just a fun relaxing day! We totally needed the rain!!!!!

happenings....

So here's what's been going on lately....

Dani and Tanner(she was trying to hide).


Me holding Tanner with Trent. He just fell asleep like that, he's so cute! :)


Then I moved him to my lap. Man, he can sleep!!!


We went up to Kolob Sunday for a Sunday drive, it's so gorgeous up there! We stopped by the lake to eat and while we were sitting there, Edwin swore he saw an eagle(I've never seen an eagle on Kolob before). So I got my flashlight and it was an owl! I've never seen an owl in the wild before(I don't even know if I've seen one in general before). So I was all excited!


It let us take pictures of it, I shined my flashlight on it while Edwin took pictures of it. It stayed in one place for a few minutes! It was awesome!

Not much is going on around here. Trent and Dani are in the process(as I type this) of moving in here. Until they move up north(if they go that route). It's going to be crazy around here! But we'll have a baby in the house, so that will be fun!

Anyways, I don't know what to write, but thought I'd put some new pictures on here(that are already on facebook). Hope everything is awesome with everyone!!! :)

I just wanted to save this picture some where that I could see it often, until I can print it off!


This is from my great-great-great grandmother!!!

Leavitt Reunion 2010

Here are some pictures of our Leavitt reunion up on Kolob(God lives there).


The quakies are so thick! It was gorgeous!!!!!! I'll have to take Edwin up there before it gets cold, preferably when the colors change! :)


Me trying to climb the vanilla pine tree, maybe my next post I'll put the picture of me kissing it(I was really smelling it).


Skylar......


Whitney, making Celestial S'mores.


Before braces, I could actually get my tongue up my nose!

These pictures were taken off of a Long Beach, Washington website(yes, I stole them). I wish I was up there right now. That one trip I went on ruined me. Someday!!!





I haven't really been in the mood to post lately! I was on my class website http://hhs-classof-2000.blogspot.com/ and was checking out some of my other classmates blogs. Interesting. In a way, it bummed me out, because they are all married with kids and I'm not! But in a way, the rebel in me comes out and says "eh, big deal, I'm not the one running after kids, wiping snotty noses." Don't get me wrong, I want kids(however many God wants to give me). Just not this second!

The ward that I LOVED, I am no longer in. I am totally bummed out about that, I knew it was coming, but I guess I just didn't want it to happen. I thought if I ignored it long enough it wouldn't happen, I guess.....
They did a whole new college/singles ward change. They are making it so if your not in the boundaries of a certain ward, they will discourage you from going. My bishop is totally awesome and said I can continue going to his ward till I go through the temple. But I have to make the change eventually, so I am going to go to my new ward tomorrow and talk to Bishop Johnson and see if I have to start over on all my temple preparation. I just need to start temple prep classes. I had to wait till all the ward changes happened. If I have to start all over on my work(which I shouldn't), then I will go go back to my old bishop and talk to him, because I trust him, he's pure awesomeness. Edwin aged out and he's going to a family ward now. I'll miss that, I think it was a good thing for us to go to church together because we learned the same thing and were able to talk about it later. And FHE's, I am going to miss!!! Even though Bishop Jenson said I can still go to theirs, we will see!
Now I get to feel like a chaperone in my new ward, yay! That's why I found the ward I liked because the Hurricane ward was just too young for me! Oh-well! I'm going to give it a try!
Seriously, I really don't have much to blog about. My camera has been sitting in the same spot since our little Ipson reunion a few weeks ago. I have a Leavitt reunion next weekend, so I'll try to get some fun pictures up there.
My 10 year HS reunion is the same weekend, it will be too much driving back and forth to do both, so I am going to go to Peach Days Friday night and hopefully see the people that matter. Even though I would love to see Bobbi and Matt, I've been talking to Bobbi a lot on facebook and she is so stinkin' awesome and she is moving back to Utah from Oregon, but she'll be in the SLC area. Maybe I'll have to go on a little trip and visit all of my favorite people up there!
Oh, yeah! Before I forget, Trent and Dani had their baby on the 20th. Their blog is private, so when I get a picture of Tanner, I'll post it! He's a cutie!!! I saw him last Sunday and he's so much fun to hold(like all new born's). I would have gone over after work on the days I have gotten off early, but after working where I work, I don't want to hold a new baby! Yuck! That kid would probably get really sick.

Ok, so we had a family reunion last weekend. And I am finally updating my blog! I put these pictures on facebook, but I just felt the need to explain them, I guess!
The only pictures that I didn't take with my camera were when we all went to the temple friday, I think Trent or Natalie got some though!

Me! In a swimming suit! OH MY GOSH!!!!! Wow!!! Yes, I am wearing a swimming suit and yes, it is purple! I haven't been swimming in like 8 years, it was at FHE once and I got pulled in! My swimming suit was too big on top(it fit when I bought it), so I had to wear a tank top over it, plus I felt it showed too much skin!


Chris going off the high dive. I told him if he went off, I'd go off. He said ok, but I'm sure that he was used to doing it. So, he won in that round! Little brat!


Cory trying to flip me over. My brothers are such wienies!!! They all picked on me that night, except Trent!!!


Going off the high dive.


Emily sleeping outside!