Chicken and broccoli braid

Oh my goodness. I made this today in my homemaking class today. It is so good!! With these ingredients you'll end up with two braids.









1 c. cooked chicken (chopped)
1 t. garlic
3/4 c. grated cheese
1/2 c. mayonaise
2 tsp. dill weed
1/4 tsp. salt
2 pkgs. refrigerator crescent rolls



Preheat oven to 375
Wash, chop, blanch broccoli
Cook and cut up chicken
Mix all the ingredients together in a bowl.
On large cookie sheet spread out rolls. You'll have to pinch the seams together so you should end up with two rectangles of dough.Spread chicken misture down the center, cut edges in strips and braid over the top.
Bake 20-25 minutes or until dough is golden brown.

It's not easy being green

Today in stage makeup we had to make ourselves look like animals. I decided to copy this little guy.







Here are the final results!!!!


















I took awhile to get all the makeup off. I think my face will have a green tint to it for the rest of the day.

Just a couple of videos to hopefully make you laugh...or maybe cry

The Office: Dwight and Jim

Harry Potter Pride and Prejudice

Remembering Dumbledore

Prince Caspian Fan Trailer (Haha this one makes me giggle)

Gobble!!! Gobble!!!

I am very very very extremely excited!

Tomorrow I will get to hang out with Stu and Lor and Erika, a friend from back home who will no doubt think that we are insane by the end of the night, more so than she already does. We'll do all sorts of crazy cool stuff like eating pizza and making a Horkley's run (probably one of Stuart's favorite things in the world just because you can get a gigantic thing of pop for 57 cents, as it should be). Laura is afraid that we won't be able to keep Erika entertained for the evening. Don't worry Laura, she'll be entertained....or freaked out. You two better be on your best behavior! Stuart told me that Erika and I can play Wii sports but I informed him that Erika isn't the athletic type so we probably won't do that. Haha.

Saturday will be a very special day. We'll arrive at the Idaho Falls Airport at 9:00. Erika and I will say goodbye to Stuart and Laura and depart on our way to Washington. First we'll make some random stop just for the heck of it and because the pilots really enjoy the take off and landing experience I'm sure. We'll arrive at Seatac where Mom and Dad will pick us up and we'll stop at the best burger joint in Seattle. That's right. Be jealous that you aren't cool enough to go to Dick's with us.

I'm way excited to see my family and have some Washington humidity. My skin is drying out and I don't like it! Plus I'm really looking forward to all the great Thanksgiving festivities like yard o' beef and tub of fake cheese. Yum! Everybody's favorite. After all the fun and games I'll come back to Idaho to finish the semester. After that I get to go home for Christmas! I love the holidays!

Surprise! It's a white rabbit!

On Friday I learned how cheeky and odd my family can be. I went to Laura and Stuart's house as is my custom for every Friday evening. We ate yummy food and treats! Laura made a huge wad of popcorn stuck together with caramel, chocolate, and peanut butter.

And I made some pumpkin cake. The frosting tasted like really sweet pumpkin. Almost too much.

We started talking about how Laura's birthday is coming up. Stuart then started to break the truth to me: he'd told Laura what I got her for her birthday. One thing I've noticed about my family however is that we have the tendency to be pathalogical liars so as Stuart was beginning his sob story with tears and a smile at the same time, I had a pretty good feeling that he was going to lie and that I should prepare myself. Sure enough, he had tricked Laura into believing that I got her Sabrina, the Audrey Hepburn version. So of course I hit him and called him a jerk to make it all seem more believable. Laura, being the cheeky devil that she is (and I'm pretty sure she would have hurt someone if we didn't obey her will) commanded us to celebrate her birthday at that moment so that she could open the rest of her presents (yep, she'd already opened two boxes out of three). We agree to do as she asked and went to go pick up Laura's real present: Roxanne, starring Steve Martin, and a cute little tote bag.

When we got back to the appartment, Stuart told Laura to close her eyes. She immediately started freaking out and I don't think I've ever seen her more scared. For some reason she thought that we got her a white rabbit which she is apparently terrified of. Stuart put his hand over her eyes and told her to reach out her hands. I don't really blame her for being nervous at that point.

Laura was having trouble with that so I kind of plopped the gift on her lap. Her surprised face was more of a "Thank goodness it's not a killer white rabbit like Monty Python" face.

I made her give me a real surprised face.

She told us that the reason she is afraid of white rabbits is because of her guilty conscience for opening one of her sister's presents just to peek and see what it was. Turns out it was a rabbit and things didn't turn out so well for Laura.... Poor thing.

I dedicate this blog to Captain James T. Kirk

A good friend of mine, Kaitlyn Jorge, sent me this picture via e-mail. It made my day. So I'm sharing some of my nerdiness with you. Go on laugh. You know you want to.




Last week was a pretty good one. It was Halloween after all. Compared to past years, this Halloween was actually kind of dull. There is a city ordinance here in Rexburg that says anyone 18 years or older can't go trick or treating. I didn't really mind since I ended the practice a few years ago. Plus, if I had gone trick or treating, I think Dad might have disowned me. I think he started telling me at age 13 or 14 that I was too old to go trick or treating. When I told that to my roommates, they practically gasped. If only they knew how wierd my father really is.... Just kidding Dad. You know I love you.

In my makeup class the day before Halloween, we gave ourselves scars and bruises and all sorts of bloody gashes. I wasn't really feeling much like giving myself a gash in the forehead (Although I'd be more than willing to do it on someone sometime) I just gave myself a black eye and a scar on my cheek. We had to have a story to go along with our wounds. I said that I was walking my dog through the park one night. My dog started chasing after a squirrel and I ran after my dog. Since it was dark, I ended up running into a tree in the process. It seems like something I'd really do right?










That night there was also a stake Halloween dance. I didn't go because Stuart gave me his disease. Natalie dressed up as Smurfette.





Then on Friday I accompanied Stuart and Laura for Laura's first ever American footaball experience. In all honesty, my high school games were more exciting. We ate pizza and doughnuts and then left shortly after half-time.

This one is cute and tiny!

When Stuart took me home later that evening, there was a beautiful sunset as seen in the picture below.

My Newest Creations

I finally downloaded the software that came with my camera onto my computer. Yippee! And I've spent some time playing with my options. Here are the results.