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...)

The battle...

So JB and I were in our bathroom getting ready for bed last week. This normally takes him 2 minutes and me....oh about 15. of course! so anyways....i'm washing my face when a HUGE fly buzzes by my face. I probably wouldn't have freaked out so much, but it was GYNORMOUS! You could hear it flying from like 10 miles away...ok...a little bit of an exaggeration, but still. So i quickly slammed the bathroom door shut. I didn't want the huge bugger in our bedroom keeping me awake. So I grabbed my sword (bathroom wash cloth) and swung at the enemy! JB grabbed his sword (another bathroom wash cloth) and swung as well. It was hard when you consider how tiny our bathroom is. Not much room for two people let alone two people with washcl....swords. So while we are swinging at the huge fly I'm skreeking like a little girl, worried that JB is going to hit me instead of the fly. After loosing it for a minute or so, we saw it flying once again and slapped it down! JB grabbed some toilet paper and smooshed him. VICTORY!!!!! The Battle for Gondor is won!!!!!

rain rain go away....have i already used that title?

hello friends! so it seems like EVERY time I wash my floors....it rains!!!!! oh the horrors!!! the storms were insane! it actually looked like movie rain. i'm not really sure how to describe it, but it was like movie rain. and a HUGE branch fell down RIGHT behind my car. when i say HUGE branch i mean like half a TREE!!!! :) ha ha ha