Garland fun!

Scrap fabric Garland

I stole this Idea from a friend of mine. It was such a good use of all of my 

extra fabric that I couldn't resist! 

It is for sale on my Etsy shop but I just might end up keeping it for myself! There are a lot of decorating usages for this puppy! 

Speaking of Puppies..... I decided to take a break from studying today  and go for a run with the dogs. Well it just so happened that Trogdor didn't want to run to save his life. Nastia and I had to drag him. He didn't like that very much and ended up peeing ALLL over Nastias face. Ewwww... Needless to say, they both got baths when we got back home. 

Life in Colorado is good. Some days are really cold and our house is always cold. It is a really nice change of pace from cooking our butt off every second. School is going well. I have two tests on Thursday so this week will consist of a lot of studying! 

Halloween Pillows

Here are my latest Holiday Pillow covers! I have so much fun making them! Who knew I would love fabric so much!?

(sold out)

Check out my Etsy shop, Suggalemons

http://www.etsy.com/shop/SuggaLemons

The last adventures of Bama

 Our last two weeks in Alabama were crazy... Seriously So many things happened all at once. My parents came out on Aug 1 and helped us pack up most of the house! We did get to do a lot of fun thing though!
 
     Ever since we got to Alabama I had wanted to go to the Pebble Hill Plantation in GA.  It was such a cool plantation! It was used as a hunting plantation so it was really different compared to all of the other plantations I have seen.

               

I also have always wanted to go fishing off the the pier at Panama City Beach! It was so cool to watch everyone catch all kinds of fish! Dad and I both caught one! The winner of the coolest catch when to my dad. He caught the fish by wrapping the fishing line around the fishes tail! Ha!

 

Fishing was a good compromise for my parents. My dad hates water but my mom wanted to go to the beach! 

Brady had a LOT of out processing stuff to do (Thank you army for not getting us orders until the last second) so me and my parents killed some time by going to the Botanical Garden in Dothan.
It was really cool! There were theses MASSIVE banana spiders on almost every tree. Plus there was like 6 in each web! I made my mom be brave and stand behind the spider and put her hand behind it so I could get a good picture. When the spider decided to move we may or may not have screamed like little girls!

  

On the not so creepy side here is a picture of the butterfly garden! 

Next came family day at the air field. Brady got to show us around the hawk!  

 

A few hours after family day was the ball! This was a really cool ball for us because both of our parents got to come too! Dave and Linda literately got off of the air plane 40 minutes before it started! They made it just in the nitch of time.

The next morning was Brady's graduation! Sadly, I didn't get very many pictures! But It was really cool to watch Brady graduate! He worked so hard and deserved this SOO much! So proud of him!

 

Right after graduation we headed down to Panama City Beach to go on a air boat swamp tour! We also got to meet Bubba! He is a gator that thinks he is a dog. He just wanted his owner to hold him! Weird right?  

Oh did I mention that this crazy day was also our 2nd Anniversary? So in order to celebrate our anniversary we went to J Micheal's for dinner! We wanted to go there because that is where we celebrated our 1st anniversary.  

My parents took off the next morning! 

Dave and Linda helped us finish packing up the house. Then we headed down to Destin Fl for a night! We stayed in a awesome hotel! It looked like a old huge southern mansion! I didn't take very many pictures on my phone. I will have to put up the other pictures when i get them developed.  We had a lot of fun boogie boarding!

While we were in Destin we went to a restaurant called McGuires, an Irish pup with AMAZING food! They had over a million one dollar bills hanging from the ceiling and walls!

We also had one last get together with some friends! We made so many good friends in Bama! I really do miss them SO much!!! 

The morning we were leaving for Colorado we found this GIANT turtle! We also said good bye to Libby and Eddie! We miss them a lot too! 

I never thought I would miss Alabama! We had a lot of great adventures that I most likely would have never gotten to experience other wise. Roll Tide! 

Sweet home Colorado

Brady and I finally made it to Colorado! It was a LONNNG drive from Alabama. Brady had to drive the Penske and I had to drive my car. The dogs slept most of the time. 

Are we there yet? 

Once we finally made it to Colorado we stayed with Brady's friend Brandon until we found a place to live. Brandon is Brady's friend from basic training! He has two mini Dachshunds, Mr. Chuckles and Lance. Lance loves to give kisses... So many kisses...

We were lucky to find a great place fast!

This is our lovely home! It is about the same size as our house in Alabama. It feels bigger because it has two stories. Speaking of our house in Alabama... We have a renter in there now. I hope that she takes care of it just like I would! Anywho! One of my favorite things about our new house is that the living room/kitchen is purple! They must have known that I am a sucker for purple!!!

Since we got here we have mainly been unpacking and I have been getting all my school stuff together. However, today we got to go play and explore a little bit. We took the pups and went to the Garden of the Gods! It is called the Garden of the Gods for a reason! It was sooooo pretty!

 

Colorado Springs is a HUGE city! Brady and I both were shocked about how big it is! It is kind of nice after living in podunk Alabama. We were excited to find a Fazolis!  I was very sad when the Fazolis in Utah went out of business! 

I am sure we will have a lot of adventures to come! Stay tuned for updates!!!!

Etsy

I've Finally gotten around to getting an Etsy Shop set up! I am so excited about it! I hope that it will pick up and I can get my fabric paid for! It will be so much fun to have an excuse to be crafty! 

 This is the Link: http://www.etsy.com/shop/SuggaLemons

Take a moment and check it out! I will be adding new things to it often!

I just got done with some fun pillows today! They are my favorite so far! I am going to make some for my own couch!  Here is a little peak :) 

 Front view:

  

Back view:

Side view:

Adorable right? 

Dinner Rolls

Remember these?????

Yup they are as yummy as they look!

I am FINALLY getting around to posting the recipe for those who wanted it! Sorry I am so slow! 

I got the recipe from my favorite cookbook, Our Best Bites. If you don't have this cookbook you need to get it right now! I have used this cookbook more than any other book I own. The recipes are simple and delicious. 

What you will need is:

                            2 cups WHOLE MILK

                                    *Whole milk is essential the the lightness and flavor

                            1/2 Cup +1 Tablespoon sugar, divided

                            1/3 Cup Butter

                            2 teaspoon Kosher salt

                            2 packages (4.5 teaspoons) active dry or bread machine yeast

                            2/3 cup warm water

                            8-9 cups all-purpose flour, divided

                                     *I used whole wheat flour and I only needed 7 cups

                             3 beaten eggs

Steps: 

              1. Combine milk, 1/2 Cup sugar, butter and salt in a pan. Heat until the butter melts. (Taste   this... It's yummy)

              2. Allow this yummy mixture to cool until it is lukewarm. This step is important because if it is to hot it will kill the yeast.

              3. While the mixture is cooling, dissolve the yeast and 1 Tablespoon sugar in warm water. Let stand for about 10 mins. If the yeast hasn't bubbled, you will need to redo this step.

              4. In a large bowl, Combine 3 Cup flour and milk mixture. Beat on low for 30 seconds. Add Yeast mixture and beat on high for 3 minutes. Add beaten eggs. 

               5. Stir in as much of the remaining flour as needed to make a soft dough. The dough should be very soft and coming away from the sides of the bowl, but still stick to your fingers. If you add to much flour the rolls will become very heavy and dense.  Place the bowl in a warm place, cover with a clean towel. Allow to rise for 1 hour

               6. Punch down dough. Turn dough out onto a lightly floured surface. Divide in half. Spray your glass pans with cooking spray. Roll first portion of dough into a rectangle and cut it into 12 equal-sized pieces. Shape each piece into a ball and place it in the pan.

               7.  After all the dough pieces are in the pan, cover with a clean cloth and allow to rise for 30 minutes. Preheat Oven to 375 degrees F

               8. Bake for 15-18 minutes or until golden brown

               9. After your remove from the oven, rub the rolls with a cold stick of butter

Go ahead and eat a few when they are fresh out the oven! You won't regret it, I promise! :) 

Home is where the heart is!

         I was so blessed to get to go back to Utah/Idaho for a week and a half to see my Nephew Tayton get baptized and my new niece Blakeli's blessing. I had SO much fun! Going back to work really sucked. :(  

         When my parents picked me up from the airport we headed straight for Siegfried, My favorite German restaurant! After that we headed to Levi and Kali's house so I could meet baby Blakli! She is such a pretty, perfect,sweet baby! She makes a lot of cute faces when she is awake!

She looks SO much like a Winward! 

          Saturday was the Baptism/Blessing. It was such a special day! We are so lucky that Tayton is still here with us. We are SO thankful that he is doing good all things considered. 

  

            Saturday was also Tayton's birthday! Happy May the fourth be with you day! Very appropriate for a little boy that LOVES Star Wars! Rylan and I had fun celebrating and ate way to much cake!

         
             After the party, Brooke and I went to City Creek and shopped our little hearts out! It was so much fun to catch up with Brooke! She is my best friend and like my sister! I stayed the night at her house in Logan that night... We stayed up WAY to late. I was falling asleep standing ha!
            Sunday morning I headed up to Idaho to see Brady's side of the family. I had way to much fun playing with Wyatt! He is getting SO big. He is adorable. We went to the zoo and Reeds Dairy.

           

Had some fun taking pictures! 

Tuesday night my Dad took me fly fishing up Ogden Canyon! I had never been fly fishing before so I was pretty excited to go and spend some time with my dad! 

  

We even caught our own bate! We rolled rocks over in the river to catch these creepy little stone flies!

  

We didn't have much luck! We only had two bites the entire time! This beautiful fish was the only one we caught!

        Wednesday we went up to Logan and did some shooting!  We shot a little H&R Magnum pistol!  

Folks, You don't want to mess with my momma when she is shooting this gun! She is one good shot (I can't say the same thing when it comes to her and the 12 gauge)!

Shooting the 12 gauge made me feel like I was a true redneck! I loved it (besides the fact that my shoulder almost fell off afterwards). 

    Friday Tayton had another surgery. I got to have this pretty lady all day long! We had such a fun girls day and she wore me out... We went to the Willow Park Zoo. She is so smart!

After the zoo we played at the park! I think that I did about a million under doggies! This girl could swing for hours! 

Friday night Bryn and Andria came back down. We headed out to Crystal Hot Springs! The kids wanted to drive with Aunt Kayla. I felt like I was driving a Clown car! These are some crazy, cute kiddos! 

Tanna came with us the airport. She was a real happy camper as you can tell... She "just wanted something fun to do." She forgot her happy meal toy at the house. Boy her life is real complicated. 

    Utah is one of the most beautiful places EVER! I had so much fun with everyone!