Day 22. Cake. YUM!

The Bellywings are the best!! We were cropping tonight and they brought some snacks and this beautiful cake to celebrate my birthday!! Isn't it pretty? Sprinkles and pink. My fav.

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Day 21

Waiting in the car for the ice to melt off the windows a bit and for the car to warm up. Wouldn't you pass the time taking pictures of yourself too?

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Day 20

All of this came out of my purse. Interesting huh?



A list of a few things:
Battery charger for my Rebel camera, which I don't carry with me.
Cash! I never have cast on me!
An empty bottle of Excedrin, how it got empty, I don't know.
A coloring book picture, all colored in from Haley
Many pouches
Bling and stamps that I bought at RSC. (Doesn't everyone have this in their purse?)
Receipts from Target, RSC, and various other places.
A leatherman type tool, that doesn't have a knife. (I actually use this at work quite often.)
Remote for the ipod thing we got for hte car
Camera cord
Notebooks
Wine corks (I'm collecting these for a friend of mine)
USB drive
Aromatherapy Headache stuff.

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Day 19 Hoar Frost?

Day 19

I believe this is hoar frost. Different than any kind of frost I have seen before. I wish I could have snapped a picture with my nice, new camera, but I didn't have it with me. I could have gotten a much better capture, I feel. Not very happy with how this one turned out.

(Shot with my point and shoot camera)



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Day 18

My desk at work, when I am not in class. It's one tiny office. :) Yup, I like having lots of beverages handy.

(Shot with my point and shoot camera)

Day 12

Day 12 As soon as I come home from work I get into my comfy clothes. I turned around and on the couch were Jason and Cullen. Of course I had to grab my camera. This is a common sight around our house. Isn't it sweet?

Day 11 {Kid's Favorite Chocolate Chip Muffins}

Day 11

As far of my New Year's Resolutions, I'm going to try more recipes. Specifically, 3 a month for a year. This is the first one that I've tried so far this month. Here is the link to the original recipe.

I didn't have any whole wheat flour on hand (thought I did, but apparently I used it all!) so I used all purpose flour. Also, I used pumpkin pie spice in the muffins since I have a ton of that for some reason.

The verdict is that they are really good! Jason even liked them despite the fact that they have pumpkin in them! I will be making them again for sure, though of course with a couple modifications.

I think next time I'm going to use the whole wheat flour, cut the oil in half and use applesauce, and I need to see if I can't cut down the sugar. Though I won't be making these again for a while since we have 36 of them! That is a ton of muffins for 2 people!!!

If you try this recipe out, let me know what you think!

Day 10 {Lazy Sunday}

Cullen enjoying a lazy Sunday.

Day 9 {Rearranging}

Day 9 I spent 12 hours at RSC (the local scrapbook store) helping rearrange the store. This is a huge pile of Thickers that had to get moved off the wall and moved to a new home. Believe it or not, this was the only picture I took. I was too busy helping move stuff around!

Day 8! {Fun at RSC!}

Day 8 Dun, Dun, Dunce! Jessi being all silly at RSC! Oh how I love my night crops. So many good laughs!

Day 7 {Winter is here to stay}

Yup, it's definitley winter out there. It's been snowing since last night and we have about 5-6 inches on the ground. It's also freezing out there! We have Windchills of -25F. BRRRRR. It's freezing out there. Sadly I wasn't able to stay outside long, but I'm thrilled with this shot I took of a tree in our front yard.

Jason finally got his snowblower this year. He gets so excited every time there is snow in the forecast in hopes that he will get to snowblow. Today he go to do this that. But man it was cold out today! Windchills of -25F. BRRRR.

Day 6

Day 6 Jason and I got married back in August 2003. Yup, over 6 years ago. I can't believe where time has gone. One of the best decisions that I made for the wedding (though I'm not sure if Ma agrees with me!) is going with silk flowers. Ma did all of the flowers for us. She is amazing. I absolutely love my wedding bouquet and still have it displayed at home. One of the things that Ma did to the bouquet as she was making it, was put this little bumble bee in it. No one really even noticed it, but it holds great meaning to me. That little bumble bee is from Great Grandma Ho-Ho's (I could never say Holmstrom growing up and called her Great Grandma Ho-Ho) sewing stuff and she passed away before the wedding. I love having that little bumble bee as a small reminder of Great Grandma.

Day 5 and Bonus Shot!

I love both of these pictures so you are getting both of them. :)

Day 5 Before Christmas I was at Hy-Vee shopping for baking stuff to make cookies and such. I knew I wanted to make fudge and to do so I needed Sweetended Condensed Milk. While perusing the shelves at Hy-Vee trying to find the best price, I game across this little gem, which happened to be the cheapest one! Even if it wasn't I would have bought it because I loved the vintage feel of the can. I think Jason thought I was crazy for loving this can so much, but I do. Oh and if you are wondering if the fudge ever got made. It didn't. I really should make that sometime soon. Maybe this weekend.

I snapped this picture of Jason after he came in from the freezing outside. I can't believe how cold it is out there!

Day 4 Spent a bit of time tonight reading in a finance book. One of the very few times that I took a pencil out and underlined and jotted some notes in the book.

Day 3

Day 3 I love this picture of Kya with Grandma Marie. It just radiates love. So beautiful. We spent the day at Marie and Jerry's today celebrating Christmas. It was so much fun and I loved spending the day there.

Day 2

Day 2 One of my favorite places to be is at RSC. I walk in the door and it feels as if a weight has been lifted off my shoulders. Everyone should have a place like that. Even though I work there now, I feel the same way. It's a wonderful place to scrapbook, and I have even just brought my laptop in and sat and enjoyed the afternoon and evening. Most Friday nights you can find me there as well! I love cropping with the Bellywings. So many good laughs. One of my favorite places.

Day 1

Cullen has taken to sleeping with us at night and sleeping on our bed today. I was hoping to get a shot of him actually sleeping, but instead he woke up and yawned. Oh and I will do my best to not make my 365 all of Cullen. :)