Davis Traditions

Once a year Davis is host to the Whole Earth Festival. Basically it is an ultimate hippie festival.

I'm not really the hippie type much but I absolutely love Whole Earth Festival. Its was fun and way different. Pretty much they just set up a festival on UCD campus and there is a lot of incense and smells in the air. And there is a whole LOT of tie-dye everywhere. This year I went with Steven and Kirstin. Kirstin and I dressed to the occasion. We had fun looking at all the cool jewelry, and tie-dye, and everything else. It was fun I'm happy I got to be home for it.

Back in Davis

I'm home now for 2 months. This is my second day home, and I've already seen the Davis wild turkeys....right outside on our street (we live in a circle mind you). Thye were just a few houses across the street down the circle. I snapped a couple pictures of the crazy guys and luckily didn't get attacked (dont worry Jenn I'm ok in case you read this!). Fun times at home

14 layers of Wow

For Jonny's Birthday Holly and I turned this

Into this....


Which we turned into this...



Which ended up like this...



That we then frosted to make this...



That finally came out like this...

!!!

It was crazy and took oh you know like 5 hours or so! It is 14 complete layers with hommade sticky goey choclate icing inbetween. We had fun with it and we were both really happy that our ambitious endeavor turned out as a tasty and pleasing success.

Girls Night

Friday night Jenessa, Katrina, and I had a much needed and amazing girls night! First we headed out for some dinner because we were starving. We decided on Cafe Rio, when we got there it was very obviously Friday Night at Cafe Rio (the line was out the door)! So, we did my favorite way to get around that and called in our order. We went to Jenessa's new found love, the Dollar Store, for 20min while we waited for our food to be ready. She was amazed and got a few fun things, she was especially phsyced about a little red basket she found. Then we went back over and got our delicious Cafe Rio and ate it in the car.

Then we headed out shopping! A girls night must of course. We went to Plato's closet, Jenessa's first time. It was sorta a miss night for Plato's but we did find some good stuff for some good pictures. There was one little pink and purple dress geometric that was totally 60s/70s whatever it was awesome and I wanted it but didnt really wanna pay $12 for it so let it stay there. Then we headed over to Target because Jenessa wanted to get a purse. She ended up with 2 and with a couple new shirts! She was pretty excited and we had fun being with her getting it all. Then we went back home and did makeovers! Another girls night absolute must! We had lots of fun doing it. We went for a sparkly smoky eye with Jenessa, very different for her but she seemed to have some fun. Then we did some color with Kat and a little more eyeliner dolled her up. And I went for the dark red lip with the leather jacket. Then we went out and got some ice cream. Then just took some pics for fun. We had a ton of fun. Love those girls and love girls night!

Not a Teenager Anymore

I turned 20 on Monday, my parents last baby isnt a teenager anymore. But I'm still the baby of course :) It was an awesome birthday. I got lots of great presents but probably my best present was having Steven here. He came to visit for a whole week and was here for my birthday it was the first birthday we got to spend together in person. It was so fun/good to have him here for an entire week. He went to classes with me which was nice (classes are way better w/someone's shoulder to lay on and walk to campus is a lot nicer not carrying my backpack haha).

Monday was my actual birthday and it was great. We went to my 2 classes which were fine, then had a relaxing day. My lovely roommates made me dinner and dessert and we had an apt dinner and out 'other roommates'/the guys came for dinner. We had delicious calzones for dinner with salad and fruit it was way good. Then we went of to FHE. Then we all came back to the apt for bday dessert. Pizookie! Chocolate Chip cookie w/mint chip ice cream...so yummy! And I got a pizza pan! Kitchen stuff is incredibly exciting for me and Katrina and I dont have to steal Holly's pan all the time now.

We did my family celebration the next day on Tuesday since FHE wouldnt take a chunk out of the time. We went to California Pizza Kitchen mainly because I was craving the California Club Pizza. It is so delicous! Mayo spread with lettuce bacon and avacado on top, it sounds super weird and gross, but it is delicous! We also got cheeseburger pizza and Santa Fe chicken Pizza all were way good. And I happened to be one of 3 tables in a row there for a birthday and got a free ice cream sundae. Then we went back to Holly's for presents and dessert. Holly made an awesome and delicious cake for me! I got lots of awesome stuff thank you family for all my presents! :)

Later in the week Steven took me to get the second part of my present. He gave me a legit In n out safety pin on my birthday!!! For my present he took me shopping :) I got 2 new pairs of shoes and a perfume. Steven is amazing it was super fun to get to shop and pick stuff out and I love the stuff. We had a lot of fun during the whole week and did lots of fun stuff. Steven got his first experience of Cafe Rio and he enjoyed it of course.

It was an awesome birthday and an awesome week thank you to all of you who helped to make it awesome:)

Apple Crisp

So I bake every Sunday night and sometimes even more often but I dont ever blog about it enough. I was talking to Taryn before I made last Sunday's dessert and she told me to blog about it if it was good and it was so here it is...

Apple Crip

I got the recipie off a blog(thegirlwhoateeverything) that Taryn recommnded to me and it was delicious! It was a hit with out usual Sunday visitors/dessert eaters/bestest friends :)

The pics arent the best but it was very tasty!

Just in case you wanna try this is the recipie we used:

10 cups all-purpose apples, peeled, cored and sliced (I used about 6 Granny Smith apples)
3/4 cup white sugar
1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg

2 cups quick-cooking oats
2 cups all-purpose flour
2 cups packed brown sugar
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 cup butter, melted

Directions
1.Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2.Place the sliced apples in a 9x13 inch pan. Mix the white sugar, 1 tablespoon flour, nutmeg, and ground cinnamon together, and sprinkle over apples.
3.Combine the oats, 2 cups flour, brown sugar, baking powder, baking soda and melted butter together. Crumble evenly over the apple mixture.
4.Bake at 350 degrees for about 45 minutes.
5. Serve with vanilla ice cream.

Enjoy!

Shooting

So taking a little study break to blog bout my Monday per Taryn's request :)

So I had Monday off from school (so wonderful) and part of the holdiay I spent shooting things. Lexi and I went with a few guys from our ward and another girl over to the other side of Utah Lake and shot a bunch of random junk. We had a 22 rifle and a 9mm and a 40cal (i think). They were all way fun to shoot. The handguns had some kick but not enough to hurt any of us...even Lexi (although she did scream the first time...and second time she shot the 40cal). We shot a few rootbeer bottles and some old shotgun shells and at targets and we shot up a ridiculous little stuffed animal chicken that andrew had. We messed up the chicken pretty good, Andrew was very proud. Nobody got shot so that was a plus too! I had fun I've always wanted to go shooting so it was exciting and I felt so awesome holding an actual gun (never thought anyone would actually hand one to me!).

After sooting we went to FHE and did service painting a bunch of stuff for a lady who runs a daycare. So that was a good end to the day off.