October oh9

To start I made amazing home made lasagna with my own home made marinara that I made from the tomatoes that grew in my garden.
Then I made french onion soup one day. This recipe was soooo good and so easy.
Then I decorated!

And made candy boxes for the little kids that will come trick or treating.
Went to the Melting Pot in Spokane. While there got cheese fondue to start and then salad then regular fondue with broth then for dessert then had chocolate fondue! it was soo good I was stuffed when we left.

Sarah! My friend Sarah works there so I got her as the server.
And finally yummy chocolate fondue. This was the Ying Yang hald dark and half milk.
Cheesecake dipped in the fondue.
And of course I got some more wonderful cupcakes from the cupcake company.

Reading

I absolutely love to read and last week I finished The Time Travelers Wife. This was a great book but very sad. I can't wait to see the movie now.

A few other books I really like that I have read in the last year or so are:
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
The Kushiel's series by Jacqueline Carey
Drowning Ruth by Christina Schwarz
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
My Sisters Keeper by Jodi Picoult (also a movie but I haven't seen it yet)
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
Angels and Demons by Dan Brown (also a movie but not out yet I have read the series but this is my fav)
The Twilight series (also movies but so far I hate the movies)
If you are looking for a good read any of these are great.
Also if you want quick funny reads I highly recommend the plum series from Janet Evonovich that starts with One For The Money.
There are 15 books and they are hilarious well at least I thought so.
Happy Reading!

Professor Layton

I have always liked brain teasers and if you have a Nintendo DS I highly recommend these two games. They are a ton of fun lots of brainteasers to really get your mind going. These were originally released in Japan but they have recently come to the US. I got the Curious Village last year and it took me a while to finish the whole game but I have to say it is worth it.

I just got the diabolical box a few weeks ago and it has kept me thinking.

OMG cupcakes!!

Those cupcakes I mentioned in the last post we figured out who made them.
http://www.onlycupcakes.blogspot.com/
If you live around moscow you need to go to the Saturday market and get some of these they are amazing!

Recently

So Trin moved out and we had a very empty room so we moved our computers from our room to hers and this is her room now.
And the Bedroom.
My grandpa came up a few weeks ago to visit and we drove up to Farragut Navel Training station where he did basic in WW2. It was a lot of fun to see my grandpa.
Then this last weekend I went to the farmers market and I fell in love with cupcakes!
There was a lady there selling these. The one on the left is a snicker doodle and the one on the right is the black tie affair and they were amazing! I can't wait to go back this weekend and get another one or five.
As usual I got my garbanzo beans and rice from the little old Greek people and it was amazing as usual.
Then took a walk in the Arboretum. There were tons of turtles out her is one swimming in the pond.
Me trying to pet the ducks.
At the end there is a bunch of flowers and dry gardening and I thought these were really cool spiky flowers.
and the bees were out too.
Made it to the end!

Trin comes back!

Triniti came to Moscow to get her stuff and I miss her tons now that she is gone :( but while she was here we did some fun things. She brought her boyfriend Alex with her and we went to Nectar for dinner. Trin and Alex at Nectar.
We went to Sangria for dessert and then went to Mix to have a few drinks. These are our drinks. If you go there I think its the Pom Passion is amazing.
Triniti and I being goofy.
The Next day we went Garnet digging. Star Garnets are only found in Idaho and India and the Emerald Creek Garnet digging area is only about an hour away so we headed up there. I thought it would be a fun thing to do with Trin since it is her birthstone. How you do it is you get buckets and go to this hill and load your self up with dirt. Then you sift through it in sifters and get all the dirt out and what you have left is rocks. You then take it down to the sluice and clean it off and then you can see the garnets. Its hard to find them though because they look like dark rocks. So here is Me digging.
Trin and I sifting through the dirt.
Trin and Alex sluicing.
Trin found a HUGE garnet!
Weighing out at the end of the day.
Showing off our garnets!
It was a fun weekend and I MISS YOU TWO!!!!

Trin goes to Rupert

So Triniti Came to southern Idaho to go camping with my family this summer and things came up so it took us a while to be able to go so we hung out around town for a few days.
I showed her around town first we went to The upper crust for lunch.Then we went on the hunt for an antique store but for some reason they were all closed so we took a picture in front of the hitchin post.
Since there were no antique stores open we settled for the Minidoka Museum.
Where Triniti drove a stationary train with Juan.
She knocked on outhouses.
Made a phone call :P
We stopped by the first Church ....
to pray :)
Then Triniti was naughty so she got sent to the first jail.
And she finally got her chance in the outhouse.
I haven't been to the Museum since I was in grade school but it was a lot more fun this time.
Then we prepared for camping. And yes my mom taught Triniti to cook! She made and excellent strata that we ate for breakfast while up camping. I couldn't find the exact recipe but it was close to this.
When we finally did make it up camping we went to a kinda crappy spot because there was a sick family member at home and we had to have cell reception. But we did do some fun things.
This is Kody and his dog Mya riding the motorcycle.
Triniti and I before we went on a ride.
First beer break. Don't worry mine is lemonade.
The four wheeling trail we took.
The view from the top.
Waiting to continue.
And sitting by the campfire.
I also found a snake!
After a long weekend of camping Triniti and I had to head back so I could get to Moscow and she could head back to Montana. We had to have a group picture with my mom at the table where we played monopoly cards several times during the trip.
It was a lot of fun I hope she can come back again and we can go camping at a nicer spot.