Canucks, Cookies, Christmas

Had a great day today. Baked Christmas sugar cookies with a friend and it was so great to decorate them all beautifully!! And finished assembling most of my furniture. sigh. haha.. there's a few stories there for sure. Then Des and I went to the Canucks game which was fantastically fun. Next time we're making a sign to bring. :) Yeah for cheering loud and dancing!! I'm excited for the weekend too.. Have some out of town guests coming out so that will be great to see them! And below is a picture of my favorite little man. :) Have a good day!

Cousins, Cookies, Crazies

Tonight I am reminded of what a great family I have. A bunch of my cousins and I got together tonight to make a traditional family/Mennonite cookie that our Omi always makes. So we all went to my cousins' house in Langley and enjoyed dinner together and let the cookie making begin. Desiree and I usually make jam jams, but we were making the hidden jams which we often try to make because a couple of our cousins love them. However, usually something goes wrong. Tonight everything went off without a hitch and they were probably the best ones we've ever made! And it was a great time-lots of fun with a big group of people!

My favorite part was when I phoned my Omi to get the recipe. Here's how our coversation went:
Me: Hey Omi! Can we get the recipe for the hidden jam cookies?
Omi: Okay, let me get it. Okay, you put in (okay i don't remember the exact amounts)... sugar, honey, syrup and flour. And that's it.
Me: Um.. Aren't there spices or some other ingredients in there?
Omi: Nope, that's everything.
Me: Are you sure?
Omi: Oh... wait, yes, there's eggs, cream, baking soda, cloves, cinnamon...

Hahaha.. we had a good laugh at that one. Luckily we got the entire recipe! I took a bunch of pictures but I have no idea where my camera cord is, so once my house is back in order after all the renos after the basement flood and such, I will upload them, so something to look forward to. But I figured I'd post since I'm back to posting now and all.. :) Have a great Sunday!

Colorado, Canada, Crazy, Cookies

Greetings!! I have much to blog about but not much time or energy to do so, so I will leave you with one post for now. Just got back from Colorado on Sunday. Went down and met Jacquelyn, Bethany and Jenn down there for Amanda's wedding. So much fun! We pretty much just hung out and caught up and chilled. Good to see those girls again. :) Two years ago Bethany, Jacquelyn and I did a road trip down there for Rachel's wedding, so it was fun to go down again!

Jacquelyn trying to upkeep her reputation of being an amazing cookie maker..



Amanda's dad whipping out the Michael Jackson dance moves



Picture of the self-portrait

Rachel and I

Sarah, Jenn and Jacquelyn

So a bit of a glimpse into my week!! Wedding pics to come as well as some of Las Vegas!

Sixth, Sunday School, Seventh

Happy Sixth day of December!! Tomorrow is the seventh! (just tying my title in...)

Here's me quite tired once again so this is slim pickings.

What makes today better than yesterday:
-Got to hang out and make cookies with Chrystal all day (okay that sounds like the last three days.. haha.. but um... we made lots of cookies..)
-The cookies we made were for church. Every saturday night people are in charge of cookies and coffee.. We always assumed people bought or made the cookies so we made about 150 cookies... um.. then we realized that people just use pre-frozen stuff at church. haha.. everyone was pretty excited about our homemade cookies though so that was fun! We had chocolate chip cookies, rolo cookies and jamjams!!
-I got to help Chrystal teach sunday school last night which was fun. My favorite moment was when Chrystal said "Okay, you guys can eat Jesus now". hahaha.. The snack we made was Jesus (sour patch kid) lying in the hay (crunched up wheat thins).
-In the evening I got to hang out with Jocelyn and Kristen and have a hot tub night. And we got mango salsa!!! Jocelyn got me addicted to mango salsa.. and you can only get it in the states! No fair!! :)

That's all for today! Have a wonderful day!

Cookies, Colored, Crazy

Thursday was my cousin and friend, Desiree's birthday. So, we decided to celebrate in the morning by making JamJam cookies. Lately we have decided to use different cookie cutters depending on the holiday nearby. So we decided to make little chicks. At the bottom of this post are two of our classic singing videos made just for your enjoyment. Let me know what you think! :)
And as you can tell by these pictures, I dyed my hair!! I have never really dyed it before, except for a couple streaks when I was younger, so I was definitely branching out! I have always wanted darker hair, so I figured I'd give it a shot. On Sunday night my mom dyed it, it dried and it was the same color as before. haha. So the next day I bought some more hair dye and it actually worked this time! It has a reddish tinge which I think is a result of the combo of the two dyes, but i LOVE the way it turned out! And it makes my eyes look really blue which is fun!




This weekend has been kind of crazy with having to work lots and sing on worship team at church. I got called a couple days ago to fill in at church this weekend, but it's been a lot of fun so far! It's Palm Sunday and so we have a pretty stellar drumline which peps things up a lot! Listening to the sermon tonight I am once again reminded of the fact that some of my beliefs don't match up with what I know to be true in my head. I need to make it heart knowledge and come to a place where I actually believe these things. So, I am entering into honest dialogues with God. Funny how it's still so hard to be brutally honest to God, yet, I struggle with it.

Anyway, have a happy rest of the weekend!!

My latest countdowns:
Days until Lindie comes to visit: 9
Days until classes are over: 26
Days until my last shift at Starbucks: 29
Days until exams are over: 36
Days until I leave for Guatemala: 44