Life has just been flying by lately. So...all the way back to...Valentine's Day!!! For Valentine's day I got up early and made some delicious coconut blondies for all my valentines. They were so yummy and were made even better by the fact that I put them in super cute little owl goodie bags.
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| {one of my favorite recipes ever} [gooey and delicious] |
Devotional that day was so good! If you didn't get a chance to go, you should watch it. Elder Kearon is a great speaker and...he's British, so that makes it even better.
That night I went over to Bahaar's apartment and watched Valentine's Day. Because...what else do you do on Valentine's Day?
Thursday was THIRD THURSDAY! woooo. I made theses pumpkin snickerdoodle bars:
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| {complete with cinnamon cream cheese icing} |
Friday night I hung out with the lovely Lisa. We went to Sammy's to try their famous pie-shakes. I got a chocolate cream oreo pie shake. Prognosis: it was realllllllllllly good. Totally worth the long walk down there. We also stopped at the Provo library so I could finally go inside. The outside is so cool that I've been dying to go inside ever since I first saw it.
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| {hello handsome} |
We grabbed Red Riding Hood from redbox and met of with Shannon to watch it. None of us are big scary movie people so we decided that it would be less embarrassing to watch it together. It was pretty scary...I think the best part was probably the synchronized screaming...yeah... By the time we finished the movie it was way past bedtime, but none of us wanted to go to bed yet, so we watched a men's volleyball game instead...mmm. This distracted us from the scariness and we were able to sleep that night :P
Saturday morning Lisa and I went for a little run to return the movie. Sunday consisted of: Jill, an RM-filled ward :), snow (in heels), curry, a teddy bear puzzle, peanut butter cup hot chocolate, and some really awesome home teachers. for the win.
Last week was fun. Grand total I spent about 12 hours doing stats. yeah. I spent that many hours in one week doing math. who am I? but I did get a 96% on my test (with many thanks to my cousin Richard who took time out of is super busy schedule to study with me), so it was totally worth it (as painful as it may have been).
On Tuesday I made some pumpkin cupcakes with pumpkin spice cream cheese frosting. They were pretty delicious, but I didn't snag any pictures of them, so you'll jut have to take my word for it :P
On Wednesday I made these beautiful cookies for Spanish study group. We needed some serious brain food to survive that one:
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| {oatmeal chocolate chip} |
Thursday. Thursday was a truly amazing day. I've really been struggling with some things in my life and the struggling was not going well. And then I went to RA class. Thank you Jay. Jay is the area manager here and he taught class that day. He talked about our hands and what we can do with them and then he talked about the Savior's hands and what He has done with them and what He wants to do for us. We listened to this song:
And he read this poem:
A basketball in my hands is worth about $19.
A basketball in Michael Jordan's
hands is worth about $33 million.
It depends whose hands it's in.
A baseball in my hands is worth about $6.
A baseball in Mark McGwire's hands is worth about $19
million.
It depends whose hands it's in.
A tennis racket is useless in my hands.
A tennis racket in Venue Williams'
hands is a Championship Winning.
It depends whose hands it's in.
A rod in my hands will keep away a wild animal.
A rod in Moses' hands will part the mighty sea.
It depends whose hands it's in.
A sling shot in my hands is a kid's toy.
A sling shot in David's hand is a mighty weapon.
It depends whose hands it's in.
Two fish and 5 loaves of bread in my
hands is a co! uple of fish sandwiches.
Two fish and 5 loaves of bread in
God's hands will feed thousands.
It depends whose hands it's in.
Nails in my hands might produce a birdhouse.
Nails in Jesus Christ's hands will
produce salvation for the entire world.
It depends whose hands it's in.
As you see now it depends whose hands it's in.
So put your concerns, your worries, your fears,
your hopes, your dreams, your families and your
relationship in God's hands because...
It depends whose hands it's in.
So, do it. Put everything in His because that's where it
belongs, for "[His] yoke is easy and [His] burden is light." Let Him
help you. His hand is continually stretched out to you, waiting. All you have
to do is reach for Him. He loves you more than you can ever know. I promise.
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| {Be Not Afraid- By Greg Olsen} |
It was seriously one of the sweetest experiences of my life.
On Saturday I went on a double with Jill's cousin and Jill
and her date . It was pretty fantastic. I attended my first ever BYU men's
basketball game (Jill was appalled when I told her I had never been to one
before :P). Then we went to Thai Mango for some delicious curry.
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| {it was the first BYU basketball game for all of us} [to the great horror of Jill :P] |
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| {a packed Marriott center for the last home game} |
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| {yay for leftovers} |
And finished up the night by watching Captain America (which
was actually pretty good).
Sunday morning Codie and I went to a Spanish barrio for
church. I love going to their wards. They are so warm and friendly and
welcoming. And this time I actually understood 95% of what they were saying. I
even learned some stuff in Sunday School! Then I made it back for the last hour
of my church. I made some wonderfully delicious brownies then headed over to
Richard's for family dinner.
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| {these were probably the best brownies I've ever had the pleasure of eating} |
This time family dinner consisted of 2 aunts, 2 uncles, 4
cousins, and my grandma. Good times.
On Monday I made peanut butter oatmeal chocolate chip bars
for our Spanish class fiesta. And that's pretty much it.
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| {dense, peanut buttery goodness} |
During the fiesta some of the other kids were talking about
dating and one of them asked about my dating life and I said nada. And then he said the sweetest thing. He told
me that I was pretty and not to forget it. Pretty much made my life. Right
after class I went with family to Guru's and got some of their famous sweet
potato fries and then on to see my cousin Richard's choir perform Mozart's
Requiem which I happen to enjoy very much. It was a wonderfully delightful
performance. We then got dessert at the Cocoa Bean (cupcakes and hot
chocolate...yum).
On Tuesday I went to the Pendulum Court with Bahaar for
lunch and this is what we got for dessert:
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| {jealous much?} [cause you should be :P] |
I also had my first prep class for my study abroad and I am
so excited!!! The outlined program looks great and the faculty are
awesome...wooo!!!
Yesterday was leap day! So of course we watched Leap Year :)
Oh, and this is what it looks like when you ship a glass
bottle of vanilla extract in a paper envelope:
so...uh...just don't do it.
anywho, that concludes today's installment. stay tuned for
more updates on my oh-so-exciting life :P
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