um....ya...

so i'm not sure if anyone follows this thing anymore.  i kind of use facebook as my blog.  but anyways...

The last few months have been eventful!  JB and I moved some of our crap to Tulare California for the summer long internship at Tulare Community Church.  We drove from Holland to Chicago to hang out with his family for a day then off through WI and MN to get to South Dakota to see the Badlands and Mt. Rushmore.  It was super foggy and we had a hard time seeing the faces...but we did get a couple of good shots.

Then we drove to Colorado to visit our good friends Dan and Crystal.  After a few days of relaxing and playing the Wii we headed off to St. George Utah to spend the night before our trek to Chino.  We stayed a few days with my family and then headed up to Tulare.  We had a week of not knowing where we were going to live (if you know me you know how much i hate living out of luggage....) but then we finally got hooked up with a sister of my mom's friend who just bought a house with a guest house on the property.  Well...it's pretty much amazing.  Look at all the fun pics on my facebook...seriously...i almost died when we moved our stuff in.  

JB has been hard at work writing sermons, helping out at VBS and doing a few sundays of worship leading.  Two weeks ago we went with the junior highers to a retreat at PLNU (my old stomping grounds!) where we were completely surrounded by noise almost 24/7.  good gosh!  i was so happy to home without noise...i love quiet time!!!!!!  :)  but it was fun too!  getting to know some pretty cool junior highers was good for me.  but it was weird being surrounded by a ton of little people who were dressed in 80's style clothing.  really really weird!  now if only 80's music would come back in style!  ha ha ha  

Surprisingly we only have 2 1/2 more weeks before we're done here at Tulare and then we spend a week and a half with my family in Chino and San Diego.  Then it's off for Holland MI again!  another 40 hours in a car....mother of pearl!!!!!  i HATE road trips...

anyways.  I've really missed all the fun friends in Holland this summer.  it just makes it that much harder to leave again in year!  ugh.  i hate change!!!!!  can't all the people i love just live in one place????  is it too much to ask for?

Spinach & Mushroom Quiche

So I made a spinach and mushroom quiche yesterday. I looked up recipes online to find one but I would always be short a few items so I made up my own! here it is! it was yummy...

1 cup of fresh spinach (most recipes you can use frozen)
1/2 -1 cup of fresh mushrooms
1 tbsp butter
salt & pepper
Put mushrooms butter and seasonings together in a fry pan and fry up. Add the spinach at the very end since it only take about a minute for it to wilt.

Take a refrigerated pie crust (or make your own) and press it into the bottom and sides of a pie plate.

Wisk up about 6-8 eggs and add the spinach and mushroom mixture and whatever shredded cheese you like. Pour into the pie crust. Bake at around 350 degrees for 40-45 minutes.

so...that's my recipe. Add bacon or ham or what ever vegies you like! :-D

HAPPY COOKING!!!! and eating! ;-)

Crock Pot Fun!!

Ok so i just got this blog from a friend of mine. The title is "A Year of Crockpotting" it's saved as one of my blogs to check out. I guess the lady is making something in her crock pot everyday for a whole year! so great! and she puts the recipes up too...so take a look! I think the crock pot is the GREATEST invention since sliced bread...but that's just me.

I made a Taco Soup in the crock pot the other day and it was a success. Ask me for the recipe if you want to try it! :)

fall musings...

hello friends!

well it looks like fall is offically upon us in michigan....i do like it that the weather has cooled down and the humidity is hardly around anymore, but it means we're that much closer to WINTER...the dreaded WINTER! AGHAGHAGHGAHAGH

i know many people think that tanning at a salon is a bad thing...but getting completely depressed b/c there is NO SUN here for 5 months is not something i can live with this winter. so i'm going to get a membership for a few months. probably between feb and may. i won't get orange! i'll just get happy! WOOOO HOOOO!!!! happiness rocks! :)

oh and i put out my fall decorations. been lighting a bunch of candles and using less electricity. it's fun. also coming home and throwing on a sweatshirt and jeans is great too!

so now a question....WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE PART OF FALL?

...mine would be fireplaces...even though we don't have one...

hi!

hello! so i'm watching the movie "Outbreak" which is super scary! :) but guess what? Patrick Dempsy is in the movie! how crazy! ha ha ha he's a small role and he dies...but who would have guessed back then that he would be such a big name now right?

oh...and i'm super pissed that china stole the gold medal from nastia luckin. ugh! sooo pissed off! her landing was 100 times better than that other girl! go usa! ;-)

updates....

hello friends! i just realized that i haven't written in awhile!

On the job front.....I'm trying to get as much work at Western Seminary as possible! I've contacted the bookstore and library people to get jobs there. I have a meeting next week Wednesday with Mary at the bookstore. She had mentioned that she would need help on Thursday and Friday. And I'm hoping that the library will take me Monday through Wednesday. I'm trying to get as many hours as possible! :) And how great would it be to WALK to work!!!!! I'm really hoping this all works out....so I'm asking for some prayer. :) If you could send up a little prayer that would be fantastic!!!! :-D

This weekend JB and I are going away for the weekend with a girl I used to work with, Heidi, and her boyfriend Kyle. His family has a cottage up north. So that should be super fun!

rearranging the wernlund's pad

well....we did it. we tackled the basement yesterday. i started on it around 1pm and JB jumped into the fray around 4pm. We weren't finished until almost 10pm....what took us so long you ask? well....jb decided he wanted the pub table and chairs on the first floor. so we had to rearrange the first floor as well. But I think it looks pretty darn good if I say so myself! so....come on over if you want to see it! :)

oh....and last but not least....my sister sent me a picture message this morning of my niece Aubrey. She was in the bathroom....unrolling the toilet paper! HA HA HA she is just too darn cute! and that's exactly what her mommy did when she was young (or so I was told. Erin was a bit of a trouble maker...)