I'm Engaged!!

November 23

After almost 8 months of dating, Adam and I are now engaged! I can't believe it. It was so unexpected. Adam and I hadn't even ever talked about marriage. I wanted to, but I didn't know if he wanted to. But I guess it was on his mind all along! He actually bought the ring while he was in Rexburg visiting me. It makes it so special that he was the one to pick it out. I fell in love with it the moment I saw it. It's perfect! I am so happy!

So how it happened was that Adam told me he wanted to take me out to a nice restaurant in downtown Chattanooga and that maybe I should dress up nice and wear heels and stuff which I was totally down for. So we drive to this really fancy and nice Italian restaurant by the Tennessee River called Tony's. We had a view of the river from our table. After we ate, we decided, or I guess it was planned to go on a walk around because it was so nice outside. We walked by this museum and it took me to the most beautiful spot where we could see the river better and we were kinda on a ledge. The place! You an see the ledge that the random person is standing on, that's where he did it.

And that is where he proposed to me!! I was in shock! At first he told me he got something for me a little while ago and he unzipped his jacket pocket and took out a ring and got down on one knee. He asked me to marry him and I sat there for a while in shock and not saying anything except for "Are you serious?!" It was so unexpected I thought maybe it wasn't real. Then he said "Please?" Haha. I realized I hadn't answered him yet so I said "Yes! of course!" We then walked around some more then drove back to his house. When we got there, Adam's nephews Karson, Kooper, and Kutter were there and they greeted me with a pink rose each and there were hugs given and a warm welcome to the family.

Kutter (2), Kooper (4)
Me, Adam, and the ring :)

Then I went up to my room and there were candles lit and beautiful pink, white, and red flowers in vases everywhere. And there was a white cloth on the ground with a bunch of different desserts for us to eat. His sister Kristi gave me a beautiful blue flowered hair clip thing to put in my hair on my wedding day!! The romantic dessert picnic! There were other vases other places too.

It was just a perfect day! And it was kinda freaky because I had a dream the night before that I was getting engaged. This is to show that dreams do come true!

Now we are making wedding plans! We are hoping to get married April 10th in the Sacramento temple. But we will keep everyone updated! YAY! I can't believe I'm going to be a Sink!We went back the the spot where he proposed to me the day after.

New Moon's Coming Out!

Twilight with Cheeseburgers

In honor of another movie coming out for the Twilight series, I thought I would put up a video that I saw about it. I loved it! I'm excited to see New Moon this next week! I'm gonna take Adam with me.

Easy AMAZING Brownies

I was in charge of bringing dessert for our Relief Society dinner tonight and I got home late from studying and taking a test so I had to quickly whip something up with the limited ingredients I had like I always do and I found this AMAZING Brownie recipe on the internet. It was seriously soooo good! I don't ever want to lose it so I am posting the recipe. They are so bad for you, but it's almost worth it. No, it is worth it!
Scrumptious Brownies
1 cup butter; melted
2 cups flour
4 eggs
2 cups of white sugar
1/2 cup cocoa
1 tsp. vanilla
frosting: 5 T. butter, 1/3 cup milk, 1 cup sugar
Add later - 1 cup of chocolate chips
1. Mix flour, sugar and cocoa in large bowl.
2. Pour in butter add eggs and vanilla.
3. Once all ingredients are in the bowl, mix well.
4. Pour onto a greased and floured 9x13 pan.
5. Bake at 350 degrees for 25 minutes.
6. The last five minutes of baking make the frosting.
7. Bring the frosting mixture to a boil and boil for 1 minute.
8. Remove from heat immediately and add:
9. 1 cup chocolate chips
10.Stir until smooth and pour over warm brownies.

Masquerade!

November 14

The 15th ward, my ward, had a masquerade dance last night and it was so much fun! It was a formal, but I didn't have any big dresses with me at school so I had to wear just a plain black dress, but that's ok. Then they had paper plates for us to make masks with. It was really fun to just dance. I haven't done that in a long time. It was a good bonding experience with the people in my ward. This is a picture with me and my roommates Monica, Valerie, and Deseret. This is before our masks! Ope, I can't tell who is who with our mysterious paper plate feathered masks on!!

Me and Monica before we disguise ourselves... I wish I had a big red dress like Monica...

Biscuits

I am getting really into finding good recipes that require common ingrediants that I have because I don't have a whole lot of money so I can't just go and buy all the ingrediants that you only put in one thing. I was really craving biscuits and gravy 2 days ago so I went on a search for a biscuit recipe that didn't require shortening or cream of tarter and I found this one! And it is way good and easy! I love biscuits.. it's probably one of my favorite foods especially with gravy or soup or stew poured on top of them! Yummy!
Biscuits

2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
1 tablespoon granulated white sugar (optional)
1/2 cup cold unsalted butter, cut into small pieces
3/4 cup milk
1 large egg, lightly beaten

Topping:
1 large egg, lightly beaten with 1 tablespoon milk

Preheat oven to 400 degrees F and place rack in center of oven. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. (I just sprayed it with Pam)

In a large mixing bowl, sift or whisk together the flour, baking powder, salt and sugar. Cut the butter into the dry ingredients until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs (use pastry blender, two knives, or fingertips). Add the milk and slightly beaten egg and stir until just combined. (The texture should be sticky, moist and lumpy.)

Place mixture on a lightly floured surface and knead the dough gently until it comes together and is a smooth dough.

Roll out dough to 1/2 inch thickness. Cut out biscuits with a lightly floured round cookie cutter. Place on prepared baking sheet and brush the tops with the beaten egg and milk mixture and bake for about 10 - 15 minutes or until the tops are golden brown and a toothpick inserted in the center of the biscuit comes out clean. Remove from oven and place on a wire rack. Serve warm with butter. (Or put sausage gravy on it or potato soup or stew! Mmmm....)

Makes about 12 3-inch biscuits.

Turkey Cookies

These are my favorite cookies to make for the Thanksgiving season because they are really easy and yummy and cute. :) I've made them 2 years in a row. Although, I'll probably have to skip this year because I have no money and I'll be staying somewhere else other than my apartment. (Tennessee!!) But I like them anyways...

Turkey Sugar Cookies

1 roll (16.5 oz) Pillsbury® refrigerated sugar cookies
1 container (16 oz) chocolate creamy frosting
Candy corn
Orange decorating icing
Black decorating gel
Miniature candy-coated chocolate baking bits

(I usually just use white frosting then dye a little of it orange. But whatever works.)

Heat oven to 350°F. Bake cookies as directed on roll. Cool completely, about 20 minutes. Then
spoon chocolate frosting into resealable food-storage plastic bag; seal bag. Cut small hole in bottom corner of bag. On each cookie, pipe frosting on outer edge of half of cookie. Arrange candy corn over frosting for feathers. Pipe orange icing onto each cookie to resemble turkey face and feet. Use orange icing to attach baking bits to turkey face for eyes. Pipe black gel on baking bits for centers of eyes.

Duck Pond Attack!

November 3

Adam and I went to one of our favorite places, the duck pond in Rexburg for our last thing we did together before he left for Tennessee. I had some older bread that I needed to get rid of and I thought that I could just have a peaceful evening with Adam and a couple of ducks and feed them my stale bread. I was amazed, though, when we drove into the pond area, there were about what seemed to be a million ducks. I felt like I was in a scene from the movie The Birds! We parked and right as we got out of the car, there was a stampeed of hungry ducks!! One or two even began to bite and my leg for some food. These ducks were not scared of us at all! I even tried to run away from them for a bit because they were becoming too overbearing, but no, they chased me up the hill! And they were running fast! The whole situation was so ridiculous that I began to laugh histerically! I haven't laughed that hard in a long time. It was a good last day. :)

I began feeding the ducks right as they attacked me before I could even really leave the parking lot.

This is where they started biting me. You can probably tell my my face that I was a little shocked!
I was looking for an escape!
I started running up the hill, but they ran after me!

I felt like their mother and they were my hungry baby chicks.

Adam took a turn feeding the ducks because I needed a break from the craziness!


Haha... I think Adam conquered the ducks in the end! He is the ruler of the ducks!

Pumpkin Night

October 30-31

We saw that Papa Murphys was selling Jack-o-Lantern Pizzas for Halloween and I thought that it looked cute, so Adam picked us up one to eat the day before Halloween. We also had pumpkin muffins so it was like our Pumpkin Night!I cannot go through Halloween with out carving a pumpkin, so Adam and I picked out a frozen one covered in Rexburg snow outside of Albertsons. We were going to carve it on pumpkin night, but we had to let it thaw for a day. It was that frozen! But this is the before picture before we did anything to it.
Adam's job was to cut off the top and scoop out the guts!

I had the job of carving it with a dull, woobly knife.
The after picture of us with our pumpkin. I think it turned out pretty good. I made it a happy pumpkin.
This is what it looked like outside on our balcony. It was pretty sweet! I love Halloween and this time of the year!!!

Flowers from Adam!

Adam suprised me with beautiful fall color flowers last week! He really is the best. My vase was packed with them! It makes my apartment look and smell so much better.

I'm so glad I'm dating a man who loves to give me flowers! :)

Here's a closer look