Finished!

Here they are! Completed pictures of my baby pants, shirt, and bib!!! They turned out pretty good. There's also a picture of the stitching on the shirt and the pattern on the pants. The bib is pretty much a hand towel with a hole in the middle of it.
It's been fun learning these new skills. We started our next project today. We are making blessing dresses. This project is a little scary, because we are allowed to modify the patterns to our own taste, so I'm pretty much the only girl doing the dress the way that I am.
I wish you all could see some of the utterly ridiculous outfits past girls have made. So many ruffles and lace, and ribbons everywhere. Craziness! Mine is pretty basic, but really cute and sweet. I'm excited to get it going!

Snapshot

How I spend my Tuesday and Thursday afternoons, stationed next to a sewing machine, working my little fingers to the bone. :)

Food Coma

Yesterday I went to Big Jud's, it's a burger place about 10 minutes outside Rexburg that is a local favorite. I had never been there before, even though I've been up here forever. It kind of reminded me of Kirk's in San Jose, it was small and incredibly hot inside .

Any who, Big Jud's is famous for having massive hamburgers. Like really really big. My roommates and I all just got regular sized burgers but I think it would be fun to go back and split one of the big ones. I got the Bleu Bacon burger, and it was pretty tasty. My favorite thing about Big Jud's were their onion rings. They were excellent! I am tempted to go tomorrow just to get an order. Pretty much the best onion rings I've ever had.

Retraction of Comment Made in Baby Laptop Post

It has come to my attention that it was my mother, not my father, who fixed my curmudgeon of a computer. All future compliments of awesomeness should be directed to her, thank you.

The 4-1-1

So, it's been almost a week since my last post, I could say that I've been busy, but that would be a lie. I only had 3 days of classes this week due to an awesome holiday weekend I spent camped out on the couch watching season 1 of Supernatural. I've seen it before, but my roommate had not. We watched it and I loved it just like I did last time.

I've never really had trouble sleeping after scary shows, but it turns out that Beth ( roommate) has a ridiculously hard time. She hardly slept at all last weekend , she kept thinking about all the creatures from the show coming to attack her. I was literally out in like 5 mins every night. Haha! I feel a little bad.

Any who, life in Rexburg has been pretty uneventful as of late.

Here's the rundown:

1. Recharged my batteries over a long weekend.
2. Fell in love with the movie Australia.
3. Watched Season 1 of Supernatural.
4. Fell in love with Jensen Ackles. Look him up... oh, never mind I'll post a picture.

5. Made a pair of baby pants, bib, and shirt ( pictures forthcoming)
6. Made a loaf of French bread for my baking midterm. I rocked it :).
7. Completed my first ever month of visiting teaching. 100%!
8. Cleaned my room.
9. Saw 17 Again, again.
10. Summer has finally come to Rexburg. :)

Baby Laptop

I'd like to announce the arrival of the newest member of my family.

Introducing Baby Dell
Birth: May 22, 2009
Weight: 3.5 lbs
Battery Life: 9.5 hours
Screen: 10 inches
Color:Green

We ordered this little baby when my other laptop was on the fritz. My dad managed to fix my old one, so now I have 2 computers, which knowing me will be a good thing.

I have a tendency, through no fault of my own, of breaking computers. I personally think that they don't like me because they know how much I hate working on them. Working with my dad in the fall was torture. Computers confronted me at every turn. I'm sure he's in hog heaven with Katie home to work with him. The Golden Child is following in his footsteps into Computer Information Systems.

I briefly bandied the idea about my head until I realized that I'd rather watch 9 hours of Richard Simmons everyday, than work with computers professionally for the rest of my life. I literally die a little each time I'm forced to do work on a computer in an unfun capacity. I'm thankful for a dad and sister that can find joy in what I hate, and for Baby Dell. This puppy is going to be great for taking notes in class.

Taking Over the Tradition

I seem to be the only person in my family who thinks that we have cinnamon rolls every Christmas morning. My family likes to joke that it's our longstanding tradition that I started 3 years ago.

I don't know what's up, but I would swear that this is a real tradition, that I'm not just saying it because it's another reason for delicious cinnamon rolls. Anyways, the last couple years of the "tradition" , others have been kind and stepped up and made the rolls. There was Grandma, Pat, and my mom. This Christmas I think it's my turn.

I finally learned how!

We made cinnamon rolls in my baking class yesterday, and it was awesome!

So, come December it's my turn to take the "tradition" into another year.