A Foodie Kind of Sunday

I am still kicking my self for not taking photos of last nights dinner, it was yummy!

We had a "house dinner" which normally consists of 9 girls but last night it was 3 girls and 1 boy, and one of those 3 girls doesn't live at our house anymore. :( We miss her.

I had a lot of food left over from Grad Weekend with the fam so I needed a crowd to cook for.

I had them work on my Banana Bread (It's kind of famous, and if you're really nice and ask, I might just post the recipe one day) while I started some other items.

The Menu?

Sauteed Chicken in a Mushroom Cream Sauce

(Thinly sliced Chicken Breast cooked in a little olive oil and garlic. Once cooked I poured a can of Cream of Mushroom soup on top and let that set up together - YumMO!)

Parmesan Roasted Potatoes

(So easy, and so good! Drizzle Olive Oil on a baking sheet, sprinkle Parmesan on top of the oil. Cut baking potatoes in half, length wise, and place cut side down on the baking sheet. Bake at 400 for about 40 minutes. I also drizzled more olive oil on top and sprinkled a little more Parmesan, some pepper and salt)

Broccoli Florets

(You know - the kind you stick in the microwave for 3 minutes and they're done :) )

Parmesan Asparagus

(Another easy one. Cut the ends off, Place in a baking dish with some olive oil. Sprinkle with pepper and bake at 375 for 7 minutes, turn and cook another 7 minutes until tender. Plate and sprinkle with Parmesan cheese and garlic powder)

Tossed Salad

(Out of a bag!)

Asian Seasoned Rice

(Uncle Bens Minute Rice haha)

Limeade 

(Homemade. Follow the recipe on the back of the lime juice bottle - 2 quarts of water to 1 cup sugar and 1 cup of lime juice. Fresh limes are probably pretty great too but this was good for concentrate lime juice)

So cook it up and then tell me what you think and next time,

I'll take photos!

Music Monday - Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing

I'm slacking a little bit on the posting but when I find some time I will catch you 11 followers up on graduation weekend and the start of May term.

It's Sunday night and I am searching for a Music Monday song so I post on time. I came from Hymns on the Hill and so all I have running through my mind are church songs, and lets face it, it could be worse. One of my favorite songs that is not in the LDS Hymnbook we use today, but is a hymn, is Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing.

Enjoy Sufjan Steven's version of Come Thou Fount for this weeks Music Monday




"here's my heart, oh, take and seal it, seal it for thy courts above"

Music Monday - Someone Like You

Another Music Monday is here! I don't know if all of you know who Adele is but I have come to love her voice and her music. It's music that I sing in the shower, walking to class, even when other songs are playing on the radio - It's good stuff.

Someone Like You is one of my favorite songs specifically for the chorus and how it is almost fluid as you sing it, wonderful.



Adele - Someone Like You


I heard that your settled down.
That you found a girl and your married now.
I heard that your dreams came true.
Guess she gave you things I didn't give to you.
Old friend why are you so shy?
It ain't like you to hold back or hide from the light.

I hate to turn up out of the blue uninvited.
But I couldn't stay away I couldn't fight it.
I'd hoped you'd see my face,
And that you'd be reminded that for me it isn't over.

Nevermind I'll find someone like you.
I wish nothing but the best for you too.
Don't forget me I beg
I remember you said:-
"Sometimes it lasts in love,
but sometimes it hurts instead"
Sometimes it lasts in love,
but sometimes it hurts instead yeah.

You'd know how the time flies.
Only yesterday was the time of our lives.
We were born and raised in a summery haze.
Bound by the surprise of our glory days.

I hate to turn up out of the blue uninvited
But I couldn't stay away I couldn't fight it.
I'd hoped you'd see my face & that you'd be reminded
That for me it isn't over yet.

Nevermind I'll find someone like you.
I wish nothing but the best for you too.
Don't forget me I beg
I remember you said:-
"Sometimes it lasts in love,
but sometimes it hurts instead"

Nothing compares
no worries or cares.
Regret's and mistakes they're memories made.
Who would have known how bittersweet this would taste?

Nevermind I'll find someone like you.
I wish nothing but the best for you too.
Don't forget me I beg,
I remembered you said:-
"Sometimes it lasts in love,
but sometimes it hurts instead"

Nevermind I'll find someone like you.
I wish nothing but the best for you too.
Don't forget me I beg,
I remembered you said:-
"Sometimes it lasts in love,
but sometimes it hurts instead"
Sometimes it lasts in love,
but sometimes it hurts instead

Graduation Weekend - Part 1

Grandma had a build-a-bear box with her when I met up with the fam tonight.

It was from my niece, Cailin, who is 8 years old.

She made me a graduation bear...

named Utah.

 My sister and gradma asked Cailin what they should name the bear and she said Utah -

and then they said "What?"

Meet Utah.

T - 1 Day

Today is Thursday.
I could have taken my Econ History final this morning but I decided to take it tomorrow morning since I didn't sleep last night. Rockbridge County was back and forth between a tornado warning and watch all night long.

So today, I woke up around 10am (wonderful) and, sorted the mountains of laundry I need to do before my fam gets here tomorrow night. Then I made some flower hair clips with fabric flowers and by rolling fabric in to flowers. They're pretty cute.

Then I painted my nails. again. I painted them yesterday but my nails are weird and my polish always chips and to keep them growing, and strong I have to keep a couple coats of something on them.

Now I am about to shower, straighten my hair, and I will head up to the library to study and finish the corrections I have on my senior paper.

Basically, everything is done. Once I make the few revisions I need to make on my paper and take my Econ final, I am done.

Until Monday, when I start my real final class for my undergraduate degree.

The family gets here tomorrow night and I'll have a large casserole dish full of manicotti waiting for them. Saturday morning is graduation and that evening we will be taking some family photos. Sunday I get to bring them with me to church and then they will leave Virginia at some point Monday. I will start classes Monday... but maybe Tuesday depending on when they leave.

So weird.

I'm graduating college.

Freshman Year in the car with Dad as we drive through Pennsylvania on the way to drop me off at school. Braces, nervous wreck, and excited all at the same time.

Senior Year in the car with Mallory getting ready to deliver a Key Lime pie to Josh for his birthday. Bangs. No braces. Much more aware of who I am, what makes me happy, and not the same little girl who arrived in Buena Vista almost 4 years ago.

Music Monday - Something That I Want

I'm a big fan of Grace Potter & The Nocturnals so imagine my surprise when I am sitting in the theater after watching Tangled and the credits start rolling and I hear a song I know....

You can bet we stuck around until it was over. :)





She's a girl with the best intentions
He's a man of his own invention
She looked out of the window
He walked out the door
But she followed him
And he said, "What'cha lookin' for?"

She said, "I want something that I want
Something that I tell myself I need
Something that I want
And I need everything I see."

Something that I want
Something that I tell myself I need
Something that I want
And I need everything I see

He's been livin' in a pure illusion
She's gonna come to her own conclusion
Right when you think you know what to say
Someone comes along and shows you a brand new way

She said, "I want something that I want
Something that I tell myself I need
Something that I want
And I need everything I see."

Something that I want
Something that I tell myself I need
Something that I want
And I need everything - 'cause

It's so easy to make believe,
it seems you're livin' in a dream
Don't you see that what you need
is standing in front of you?

I want something that I want
Something that I tell myself I need
Something that I want
And I need everything I see

Something that I want
Something that I tell myself I need
Something that I want
And I need everything I see

Do a little dance...

I'm sitting on my bed.
To my left - dinner. Farfalle pasta, meatballs, & Wal-Mart brand sauce.
*Babs would be horrified. You never, ever, mix pastas and sauces (I.e. rigatoni belongs with a meat sauce, bucatini should be covered in spicy tomato sauce with loads of pancetta, farfalle does not belong with meat balls. She knows these things because she lives in Italy when she isn't teaching)

To my right - my juice box.

I need to finish senior paper.
For realsies.

but I just thought about how I am moving to Provo in less than 60 days,
and I felt like doing a little dance.

but I didn't feel like getting up, and therefore - no dance.

but if I did a dance it would probably look something like this...

Start at 1:30 for what the dance would look like....