I Love to See The Temple... Lights!

Friday night Greg and I grabbed some dinner and then drove to SLC to see one of my favorite things.  Lights on the Temple grounds.  Unfortunately I wasn't going to my favorite lights, The Washington DC Temple lights.  These worked for now until I go home :)  We met up with Diana and Katie as well and walked around until my toes felt like they were going to fall off from the cold! Here are some pictures of the lights :)

Me, Diana, and Katie

Sign Language for Ma-g and Me - Joy

Spanish for Greg - Amor

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Home Cookin' Weekend

This past weekend I wanted to make this yummy dish that I got from Kim Harrison's mom who actually got it from her mom.  I got it at a recipe exchange and I have loved it ever since!  Well so I decided to make it for Greg and me.  It has still lasted to this day it is so much food!  since I am a poor college student this works for me because it was about 15 bucks for about 5 days worth of dinners including other eating too.  Then I think on friday Greg and I went to target and he bought.... a turkey... a WHOLE 20 LB TURKEY. Why you ask... he wants real turkey sandwiches!  Haha oh goodness.  The turkey took forever to thaw and took just as long to cook.  Greg was probably up until 1 am cooking and pulling appart the bird. Well needless to say we had a weekend of good cooked food and have enjoyed it throughout the week :)

Me the Domestic Goddess... I get it from my mommy ;)

    

THE TURKEY

                                     

Pecan Pie

For Thanksgiving break I was lucky enough to go home and see all of my mom's side of the family but before that Maggie and I had spend about 8 hours in the SLC airport.  Here's the story... so Maggie and I got to the airport early so I hopefully didn't have to drive in the storm.  Driving to the airport there were clear skies so we were both wondering if there was going to even be a storm.   OH THERE WAS!  After we tried to change our flight to an earlier one... there wasn't one... we sat there with about an hour delay which wasn't bad but the plane that came in was broken.  The flaps on the plane were damaged from the high winds so we had to wait for another plane to come in which was going to be now a 9:30 pm departure... GREAT!  The people coming off the broken plane looked horrified from the flight and one lady said that it was so bumpy it wasn't fun it was just scary.... EVEN BETTER since I am afraid of turbulence!  Well since we had a long wait for the next plane of course what do I do... SLEEP :)  only for a little though then I watched as the snow piled up and the wind was blowing it parallel to the ground.  The wind was so strong that the food things couldn't be raised up on the risers because they would blow over... that signaled me to get dinner! After I had bought my food Delta gave us a voucher for food so that means I went and got a Cinnabon :) YUM! needless to say I was very full on airport food at that time.  Well eventually we got on the plane and I feel asleep off and on while Maggie did some work and was on the internet... yes the plane had WiFi which was pretty cool and it was free because of the holiday.  We finaly reached our house at 5:30 am EST... I slept until 2:30 that afternoon :)

Well, that night I got to see some Whitman friends which was great and always something I look forward to.  Then the next day, THANKSGIVING :) we got up to the smells of my mom cooking turkey.  We had a early dinner so we went over to Tootsie and Pop's house where the house was filled with the smell of food :) always makes me happy. One thing about my family is when we are together we never stop eating. So we had artichoke dip and shrimp (because the crab was bad... so no crab dip which made me sad) as appetizers and since we were cooking all day we all just pick at everything!  I stand right by the turkeys and eat little pieces here and there.  Debbie, Todd, Geoffrey, and I skinned the cooked turkeys pretty well :) we love the skin especially on the fried turkey!!  Then when it comes to dinner time I am usually almost full...haha... but I still managed to eat a full dinner :)  Then of course the pies come out!  Maggie and I take a large slice of pecan pie... oh it was sooooooooooo good :)  By this point I am in a food coma and I go home and pass out while Maggie the Christmas elf decorates the house.  I wake up and the whole house is put together and it looks great as always... I love when a house is decorated for Christmas it makes me so happy.  I love the glow of Christmas lights in a house.  Well since I took a long nap I couldn't fall asleep until about 3 in the morning so I just looked at old photos which some Maggie has put up on Facebook.

Ma-g and me :) 

the older cousins

One of the tables

everyone together! minus Tootsie because she is taking the picture :)

On Saturday Keva's Parents hosted a surprise birthday party for her which was tons of fun.  It was good to see friends from high school and to have a yummy but spicy dinner! hahah :)  It was so funny when the did the skit about Keva and my favorite part is when they did her laugh! I about died laughing! (pictures possibly coming later....)

The next morning was Sunday so I went to church and my grandparents were talking and Pop put me on the spot.  I sent him and email about one of the conference talks about names and how I was happy to be named after him and he used it for his talk.  I am glad that came in handy for him and also made and impression.  Here is the talk if you would like to read it.  Then Maggie and I flew back to Utah with another 1 hour delay because of snow and driving back to Provo from SLC was not fun either it made me want to be back in Maryland really bad :(  Thank goodness I will be back in about 3 weeks! Can't wait just have to get through these things called finals... ew....