Should it stay or should it go?

Nathan wants every ones opinion about his hair. We were in the car the other day and he realized how red his beard was. So he wants to know should he shave off the beard or the head?

Rhubarb!

Ruth gave us some rhubarb at the beginning of the month and we made rhubarb crisp. It was way good! Well a few weeks ago they had some more rhubarb for sale at the store so we bought some and made another crisp. Nathan came over and helped me make it, we also made some chex mix because we were in a mood to make things. Both treats were really yummy!!

Here is the recipe for Rhubarb Crisp, I doubled it and put it in a 9x13 inch pan.

1 cup Flour
3/4 cup Oatmeal
1 cup Brown Sugar
1 tsp Cinnamon
1/2 cup Butter, melted
4 cups Diced Rhubarb
1/2 pkg Dry Strawberry Jello-O

Sauce:

3/4 cup White Sugar
2 tbs Cornstarch
1 cup Water
Vanilla

Preheat oven to 350

To make crust, mix flour, oatmeal, brown sugar, cinnamon, and melted butter until crumbly. Press 1/2 of the mixture into the bottom of a 9x9 inch pan.

Cover with chopped rhubarb, then sprinkle with dry Jell-O. In a medium saucepan, combine white sugar, cornstarch and water. Cook until thickened and clear. Add vanilla. Pour over rhubarb pat remaining crumbs on top.

Bake at 350 for 1 hour.

Graduating!

Just so you all know, if I was attending my graduation ceremony it would be tomorrow! So tomorrow is my official graduation.

Last Saturday my dad taught me how to pour out a patch a fudge. It was quite heavy but I was able to do it without burning myself.


This Saturday Eli Smith had his first day of work at the Fudge Factory. He was taught how to stir the fudge on the table. It is a really hard process and takes a lot of practice to end up with a perfect loaf of fudge. His first batch he stirred on the table was plain chocolate. He did pretty well for the first time ever doing it. He did not make a huge mess, but my dad did have to step in at the end to finish it up. A couple batches later he started to get the hang of it. It will still take practice but he still did pretty well. I told him I would take pictures so I could put a blog up about it and I did.

Flowers!

As usual this is a late post. For Mothers Day Nathan had the idea to get Mom some flowers. He heard from Bob and Tom, that proflowers.com was having this deal that you could get two hundred blooms for a really good price (my mom reads this so I can not say how much), they arrived Friday afternoon and I put them in some water and a couple of hours later they bloomed quite nicely. Katy wanted me to put pictures up but I am not a good picture taker so you will have to live with what you get. Also Tacy wanted me to take pictures of the tulips she planted while she was here so there are some of those as well. Enjoy!

FINISHED!

I am done with school FINALLY! My last day was on April 23rd. I graduated with my Certificate in Culinary Arts. The next graduation ceremony was in May, but I wanted to get home so I'm not attending an official graduation. And last week I received my certificate in the mail.

Sage flew out to Utah to drive home with me. I planned on surprising my mom, I told her I was
leaving on Monday the 27th, but we really left on Saturday the 25th. So we arrived home Sunday afternoon right when my parents left for church. Nathan and Bryan helped me unload my car. I just sat around the house waiting until five for my parents to get home from church. When they got home my mom was really surprised she actually just stood speechless for a while, and then said "You lied to me!". It was funny.

That's really all that is new. Which is why I have not undated in 1,013 hours, and some odd minutes. I am back to working at the fudge factory, which is pretty boring these days because it is not that busy. So on a great occasion Shannon comes and visits me and during this time we discuss the latest excitement in our lives. Which is currently the movie Bride Wars. WE LOVE IT! It is such a funny movie, you all should watch it sometime.

That is all the news I have for the day, and probably for the next few days!