more food

So, I have been planning on making these for the Ward Halloween party tonight, for a while now. Ever since I got this little recipe book in the mail. Today, I made them, cuz the party is tonight.

I made Slim-Filled cupcakes!

And they are delicious! Although I am bummed about it, cuz I work tonight, so Shark will be dropping off my awesome cupcakes at the party, before he goes hunting with Steve.

POTD for 10/22/2010 is : my foil muffin cups! This was my first time using them for reals. My friend, Ang, used them and said they were the best thing ever. I bought some a while back cuz they were cheaper than the regular muffin cups. With the foil ones, you don't need a muffin tin, you just set up as many cups as you need onto a cookie sheet, and load them with the batter. It was pretty awesome to put 24 cupcakes on 1 baking sheet!

Off to work I go!

Love to all who love Halloween cuz it means LOTS OF SUGAR! ♥

Sabotage by who?

IT'S MYSELF!!

Ok, so you know how I posted that I would get more pictures taken, cuz I'm such a bum, a sloth really. Well, yesterday I was making my infamous (yes infamous, so yummy you eat a TON, and then the spice hits you, and you have to down a whole gallon of milk...) Shrimp Noodles, when Kurt texted me, saying, Brian found a camera in his car, is it yours? I replied, is it a Canon? It probably is mine. Why would it probably be mine? CUZ I CAN'T FIND MINE!! Yeah, I sabotage myself all the time. I set goals and then take away the means to accomplish them.... Well, I found a way to accomplish this particular goal, once I realized my camera was indeed left in Brian's car, I went to my fall-back, my cellphone!

Anyways, so yesterday it was raining, and Bandit was going nuts, I decided to take him for a walk anyways. So we walked to the elementary school 2 blocks away and walked around the walk/run path behind the school. Once I was on the path, I left Bandit off his leash. No one else was around for him to chase, and he needed to get his energy out. Once off his leash he ran and ran and ran. If he was a ways away, I'd shout his name, and start "running" towards him, he'd bolt at me, and veer away at the last second (good thing I wasn't really running at him, or he would have plowed me over!) and then I'd start "running" away from him, and he'd bolt ahead of me again. He loved it, and all I could do was laugh. We were outside for about a half hour, it was good to get out and walk a bit. Bandit was soaked, but he loved it. My shoes were soaked thru (even though I dodged the puddles), my sweatshirt was dry on the inside, but dripping wet on the outside, and my jeans were soaked as well. When we got back to the house, I figured Bandit would just lay down and fall asleep, NOPE. He immediately charged Trigger and they started play fighting! But, this morning, I could tell my little dog was really tired.

When I turned the light on this morning, Bandit moaned and rolled his face into his pillow (yes, my dog has a pillow, 2 actually, and a blanket!) He didn't want the light in his eyes. Such a goofy little snobby dog.

Around 8 or so, the rain turned to snow, and it accumulated fast! But the time Shark got home, around 9:30 pm, there was about 4-6 inches stacked up on the deck railing. I didn't get a picture last night, because my fall-back doesn't have a flash, and I didn't think about it this morning. (I didn't even grab my lunch!) But I did take a picture this morning from the City.

I drove Shark's truck today: my truck had more gas in it, it snowed and his trucks drives better in the snow, the snowplow snowed my truck in- Shark said he had to lay on the gas to get over the wall of snow. But he started his truck, and it was all warm when I jumped in to go to work. :) There was about a foot of snow on the deck this morning.

Note to the curious : Don't EVER move! Transferring medical files from state to state is such a pain! I'm just putting that note out there, go ahead take it.

I have an appointment scheduled for next Thursday, April 15th at 2pm, for an Echo and then to talk to the doctor right after. The appointment is at Primary Children's, I'll have to try really hard not to stare at the Pneumatic tube system... Cuz I know where it's routed and where it goes... So now I just have to : 1) make sure my medical files get to Utah by then 2) make sure I have insurance to cover me. Those 2 things are coming very easily!! Ugh!! I'm hoping these go easier than they started out to be...

So far so good. More later today I guess. ☺

♥- love to all who are scheming on thing, that's a sabotage

St Pats and slurpees

So, today, I had an intereview... at a craft store.... everybody I've told says "You Collards will be poor if you work there." We'll just have to see how I did... Then I went to drop off an application at a hardware store up in Ogden. I'm not naming any names, but it's a store that Shark and his dad love, and everyone I've told says, "You Collards will be poor if you work there." So, yeah... Looks like we're destined to be poor....I say, if we're happy, who needs money?!

My job-searching adventure got a slow start this morning. There was a semi-oil-tanker-truck roll over on I-15, in the northbound lane. So, of course, I was heading north to Ogden, and all the traffic from the highway was detoured onto Main Street... I had to be creative in my route to get to the craft store. Thank my stars I know my way around Clinton/Roy (sorta). I made it. After the searching, I headed to Clinton City Recreation Department. Clinton City was having their Senior Luncheon. I told Shark's mom that I'd help sever the cute little old people, in exchange for food. It was pretty fun.

Anyways, yesterday was Shark's best friend Smitty's birthday. Smitty's wife, Polo, planned a dinner-out with a bunch of his friends and their wives. We went to Red Robin, and then we went to get Smitty his annual birthday Slurpee. Shark did NOT wear green, I did. So when he realized it was St. Patrick's Day, he went in for the pinch, only to be shot down, because I was wearing green. I pinched him instead.

Oohh!! In all my searching, and organizing, I decided to just give up and clean up our room. I got a box of hangers from the garage, and started hanging up the clothes that were still in boxes on the floor. And lo and behold - under the hangers was : my flat iron, my shampoo (I bought new stuff), my make-up, our tooth-brushes (we got new ones), and our dog shampoo (he's started to smell kinda...). So yayayay!! I found it! Now to get the room cleaned up all the way and organized. I also need to find some of my pictures, the walls are blank!!

We had lots of fun going to dinner with our friends. Now I'm just waiting on a picture of us at dinner.... Once I get it, I'll re-post!!

POTD for Wednesday is : the whole gang together!! Happy Birthday Smitty!!

Love to all you Irishfolk!!

Back to daily

Here is my next re-adventure. I hope to go back to blogging daily. We'll just have to see how this goes for now. And it might all change in the next week or so, depending on if I get a job.... {Cross your fingers!!}

So, in regards to Sunday's post, I have cute ideas for little baby girls, but have no fear, I have cute ideas for little baby BOYS too!! I'm not sexist! So, if my friends have little boys instead of little girls (and even if their boys aren't so "little" - I've got cute ideas!!)

Anyways, so today - we churched, but we "ward-floated" - which means, we went to a different building for our meeting. It's not hard to do, because it's Utah, and there are churches ever few blocks or so. So Shark and I decided we'd go back to the single's ward (that's where the 'magic' started!!) It was pretty fun to see everyone again. After the meeting we stopped by the parents' house for food. The parents' house is 2 blocks away from the single's ward building. Shark wanted cake and ice cream and cookies and meat. I decided to make homemade oreos. And in spirit of St. Patrick's Day on Wednesday, I used Icing Coloring to make the cream cheese frosting GREEN! It was very fun and the oreos turned out great!! 

And I just found out that a friend of mine is having a boy! Yay JeNeil!! So, the new task for Heather and I is : cute baby boy things!! The gears are already turning!!! 


POTD for today is : green oreos!! SO delicious!!

Love to all --

Monday Night Football....planning....?

Saturday night Shark shaved for his interveiw tomorrow. Well, he half shaved.... He ended up with this.

This will NOT be staying, not if I have anything to do about it!! He assures me that the 'stache won't be staying for the interview... He's pretty cute, and I love him, but I love him with a goatee more than I love him with a mustache....just a little bit more...

So Shark has always worked at the City Recreation department, well, he's worked there since he was 8 or so. And of course, it makes perfect sense for him just jump right back in!! So, since his mom works there, and everybody who has ever met him has l♥ved him {it's true!!} he started going to meetings right away. Today was no expection. He had a football meeting tonight, and they were going to film about coaching practices. It was pretty fun, yes I went along too. Although, not much filming went on, more like talking about it, and I just sat in the office the whole time, blog-stalking. Well, among my stalks {suddenly I feel sparkly....} I found a washer necklace! I've seen these lots before, but I guess I always thought of washers as tools.... hardware.... not fashion. Well, I broke down, and bought some washers, and some $1 ribbon from JoAnn's {double-sided ribbon, too!!} and decided to make one!

I will do that TOMORROW!! Today's POTD is Shark's new creeper 'stache....↑

Love to all who ♥ barbarians.... I do!!

deadlines and POTDs

So, I gave Angie a horrible deadline, that she had to get her blog updated before we left. Well, considering when I gave her the deadline, she hadn't posted about Christmas yet, she did pretty dang good. She got thru the 24th of Feb. That's pretty awesome!! She's just pretty awesome altogether.

And since I haven't posted any Picture of the Day's for about a week, here goes. Pretty sure I do not have enough pics for the entire time we've been MIA, but I got something. These pics are kind of awful, they are taken with my cell phone.....

Thursday : 2.25.10 is : picures from the Adams Mystery Theatre. I finally got them onto a computer. :)

Saturday : 2.27.10 is : Bandit and Shark sleeping... Way cute and it just kind of happened.

Sunday : 2.28.10 is : The room in Steve and Heather's basement that is now our "house"

Monday : 3.1.10 is : Bandit helping me unpack.

There is no POTD for Friday, we stayed the night in Laramie. So imagine a wide open field with lots of flocks of antelope, and a big highway running thru it. There you go, you just imagined Wyoming. Congratulations.

Love to all who helped and gave us love --

New finds!

So in packing, I've been throwing out tons of stuff, and that means finding tons of stuff. For example, I found the photo of Shark and I on the cruise ship {our honeymoon!} and apparently I can't scan in it, I've still got to find the disk for the printer to upload that to the new computer.

But I did find how to create a heart on the computer, using the keyboard!!  If you go to this Yahoo Answers page, it's got all the info. I find I have to the hold the ALT and the FN key, hit the number I want {usually 3, on the number pad} and then let go of all the buttons. ♥ Ta Da!! So there you go.

Shark and I Nintendo'd after church today. It was pretty fun. We just completed level 3, meaning : we beat the game, but are now going back thru to get the star coins. :)

Today's POTD is : the leftover cookies we brought to church today, and my crown!!

We teach the 4-turning-5-year olds. They are so fun! We usually bring a treat, a coloring activity, and a game. That fills our time cuz the kids are always like "I got a puppy" "My mom loves cookies" "Yeah, my mom loves cookies too!!" "I have to go potty." "I have to get a drink" Today we made crowns that had tons of stickers on them (that's took up most of the time today, stickering the crowns) and the crowns said, I have been born of goodly parents. Cuz we talked about when Jesus was born. We have leftover cookies cuz Shark hasn't found them yet, and because the kids were stickering their crowns, no time for food when stickers are involved.

Oh, and here's one of the little dog. I was making the cookies today and opened the box, and Bandit took it right away. I then proceeded to put the box on his huge snoz.

Love -

Nice relaxing Saturday

So - today was a great day! Shark and I slept in as much as possible before the little dog came and attacked us. I made some cinnamon rolls, and we caught up on Lost (online) and watced the opening ceremonies of the Olympics (online). Then our friend Angie called, saying it was nice day out and that today would be prefect for getting some more pictures. So after a little bit, we went over there. But by the time we got over there, it got really windy and it had started to cloud over. I guess we're just doomed for taking pictures. But we got some good ones! ☺ We then went home to play with our little doggie, and then headed back over for dinner. We then all played PowerGrid. I asked if we could turn on the Olympics too, on mute, and we watched and played. It was pretty fun! Here are some pictures from the latest batch.

And here is today's POTD: bandit being goofy!! He's sticking his tongue out!!

love to all - and thank you so much to Angie!! ♥

Valentine's Day!!

Ok, so here is the POTD for today : The roses Shark got me, along with the Welch's sparkling grape juice, and the champagne glasses we got as a wedding gift. Tonight was a great night, thank you honey!!

Happy Valentine's Day!!

love to you-

I can remember everything else!!

Yeah, I didn't even know what day it was yesterday, I thought it was the 10th, nope it was the 11th. All my days are blurring together!! But I am going to recap the past 2 days for everybody.

Feb 10th (for real) - Wednesday. Shark called into a radio show at like 5 am (he has his early meeting) and he won 4 tickets to see Edge of Darkness, it's that new Mel Gibson movie. So yayayay....? I stopped by the library today, I needed the next book the Sisters Grimm series. They had it!! Then we just hung out. One of my roomate (and best friend) from college called me! {Yeah, I'm still working on that gift, yo} and it was so good to talk to her! So, the POTD for 2.10.10 is : my big huge pile of books I got at the library. [I know it's blurry, but I kinda like it that way]

Feb 11th - Today was unusually busy, I got up (not early, mind you) and just as I was finding my keys to head to Wal-Mart, Ang called and asked what I was doing. She had just dropped Ryker off at class, and was around town. So we went to Wal-Mart together and then went to McDonald's for $1 sodas and Cinna-Melts. Once I got home, I ordered some pizzas, and then headed down to ex-work, I planned to have lunch with some friends from there, I brought Bandit, cuz they wanted to see him. I made it just in time to get the pizzas and then just in time to work, they had just started their lunch break. Then we headed back up home, and I started to clean. I had finally talked Ang and Gerrit into letting us babysit!! We watched their boys for a few hours while they went on a date for Valentine's. The boys are so fun!! Shark played Punch-Out on the Wii and Ryker was playing along, pretending to be the bad guy. He would "get knocked down" too, but after Bandit licked his face a few times, there was no more knocking down. Kai loved petting Bandit, and loved running and have Bandit chase him, he was very interested in Bandit's water dish {don't worry Ang, I watched him very carefully!} Bandit was excited because there were new people. We put in Harry Potter and Ryker sat down to watch that, but to him every witch or wizard was bad. Kai helped me make cookies for V-day. Angie and Gerrit brought Sundae's for us when they came to pick up the boys. So the POTD for 2.11.10 is : the cookies we made!!

Today, Shark asked what my plans were, and that I wasn't sure. He then said, it might be a good idea for me stay around the house today.... I love when he's sneaky.

Great! I just started yet another series that is not yet complete. That makes 3! Fablehaven's last book is coming out next month, The Sister's Grimm has at least 1 more book, and technically I haven't started it yet, the 13th Reality only has 2 books out so far, the next is coming in October. I might just have to search the bookshelves at the library to find something new!

more to love later - and love to all

breakfast and a haircut

Today, my friend Angie asked  if I wanted to go get breakfast at iHop with her this morning. I agreed, I never turn down food, especially if I don't have to make it!! ;) It was lots of fun just hanging out with her and Kai, and just eating food and talking.

Tonight, I gave Shark a haircut. This has been my duty since marriage, which is fine, I don't mind at all. But as of late, I have slack horribly on my duty. Tonight, I fixed all that. I cut his hair. All I can say is, it was about time. I had intention to cut it a while ago, but never had the follow thru, I'm horrible at procrastinating. Wait, if I procrastinate alot, does that make me good at procrastinating? Oh well. I got pictures of the before and after. And apparently my haircuts make Shark evil.....

And I have a POTD for today. When Shark left for work, he shut the back door, and the C fell. The C is always falling, whenever I shut the microwave door, a cupboard, the fridge door, the oven door, the back door, it's always falling. So the C falling is the POTD for 1.9.10.

love-

Love and a craft

Today is Monday - I called about our gift card. We're planning on going to the Adams Mystery Theatre, it sounds like fun, and awesome Michelle gave us a gift certificate. So we're trying to plan that. But one thing that's hard about planning Valentine's Day is 1) this year it's on a Sunday, and 2) do we plan 2 things in February, 1 on V-Day and 1 on our month-a-versary. We decided to celebrate v-day at home, get some Martinelli's, maybe dip some fruit in chocolate, watch a movie, have a candlelight dinner. :) And we're going to redeem the certificate on the 19th (our month-a-versary).

Here's a cute little craft I did today. I got these little tile magnets from Michael's (they were $0.20 each for a 2 pack!) So I picked up 4 packs, 2 of the same black and white ones. I have been staring at them for weeks, trying to figure out what to do with them, and I finally picked out that I wanted to Mod Podge them, but what to MP? It hit me, Valentine's day is coming, why not heart and LOVE? So ta da!!

It was alot of fun to make these, and super easy.  And then I went kinda crazy adding words to the collage, it's all about Love, baby!

Today's Picture Of The Day is : Girl Scout Cookies!! We got our girl scout cookies today, and they look awesome!! Woot Woot, so excited!!

love -

Superbowl

Yeah I'm ready for some football! I love football, even if MY team isn't playing. We went over to Angie's & Gerrit's for their annual Superbowl party. It was lots of fun, and there was tons of food!! At the beginning, Gerrit asked who everyone was cheering for : who they wanted to win, and who they thought would win. Me, being the football fan that I am, thought these two questions were synonymous. I thought the Saints were going to win, and I wanted them to win. And guess what? The Saints did win!! Woot woot! We had a bunch of fun with friends, and it was fun making fun of the commericals, and debating about them. What we were supposed to do with Gerrit there, really? Anywho- I thought the commercials this year were kinda awful. Not near as good as in past years.

I didn't get much packed today, we had churching to do. And then the Superbowl party we HAD to go to ;)  We love hanging out with our friends, we love their kids, and have tons of fun just chatting with them, and playing new games. :)

Today's POTD is : Snow. It started to snow, and this is our snow-covered Sunday paper. (Shark told me, Girl, look at the paper and smile, because we did NOT deliver it!!)

love -

baking and cleaning

So, today after sleeping in a while and then Bandit sticking his nose in my face, I got up and finished cleaning the bathroom. It looks great! I'm so happy with it. And then after that (and dropping the ground meat and the silent auction thing off at Belle Creek) I started making treats!! I made a bag full of s'mores on a stick, and I tried some little heart shaped berry pies.

Here is the silent auction thing. It's a chickenwire message board. I made it silver (I didn't have anymore black spray paint) and I painted the clothes pins silver too, and then tied ribbon around the clothes pins. I didn't put any names, any words, nothing but ribbon, twine, and a star.

I didn't get any pictures of the s'mores on a stick, cuz you've already seen those. But I did get pictures of the berry pies, I had to be quick, Shark had that hungry look in his eyes. I just made 5 of them, so far, I was just trying it out at first. They turned out pretty good, there are some changes to be made, but I'll have to find time to try them again.

So the POTD for Saturday is : my cute little heart shaped pie. This is the last one on the tray, Shark and I ate them all, I'm glad I thought to get a picture before they were all devoured.

love to all -

Birthday wishes and boxes

Today is my brother's birthday!! Happy Birthday Timmy!!! You're an awesome brother, and I love you!! You've taught me so much, and I look up to you! Hope you have a great 25th birthday!!

I had my mom send me some CD's with pictures of me growing up, I think I had her send them for the wedding video or something. So I've got pictures of when we were little!! Yayay!

Today I went and got some boxes from Home Depot, they've got some pretty big ones for pretty cheap. So today, I put the DVD's in a box. I also started to clean the kitchen floor, but after it not getting clean by mopping AND by scrubbing with a washcloth, I sort of lost ambition... I have some of those Magic Erasers, so that is what I'll try next. I think those things are awesome!! I had washed out a brush when I was using the chalkboard paint, I washed it out in the bathroom sink, and for almost 2 months, I had little specks of chalfboard paint in my bathroom sink that would not come out. I bought the Magic Eraser, and the specks came out!! I don't think the sink looked this good even when we started renting the place! So I'm pretty sure my eraser will clean the kitcheb floor... :)

POTD for today 1.5.10 is : our DVD's in a box. This is just most of them, I kept some out cuz Shark and I are movie people!! And again, it thinks the picture is horizontal when its not. I tried to fix it....

Love --

Baby Blanket

So, I posted some pics on my Facebook and hid them from my brother and sister in law. I know thats mean to do, but I was showing my mother in law and some friends from work, what the blanket looked like. Well, I finished it earlier this week, and mailed it out. I wasn't going to post anything really about it until she had gotten it. Well, she got it today and called me. I loved making this blanket, it was so much fun picking out the colors and the fabrics and making the blocks was so fun!

The pattern really is forgiving, and that's what I needed in my 2nd quilt. The first one I made was NOT forgiving. I love how this quilt turned out, and it was alot of fun making it and creating the blocks. I added creative things, like Whitney's name on the back, in quilted letters. And I de-wired some ribbon for the binding, I think I will use ribbon forever for binding blankets, it was so easy!!

I haven't seen baby Whitney yet, I've heard her over the phone, and I've seen pictures. And I can tell everyone, that I {personally} and so excited to have a little baby in the family!! She is such a blessing to our big Collard family, and I know that her entire family is grateful for her. I can't wait to meet her!!

POTD for 1.4.10 is : Bandit. We sold our futon tonight, and we had tons of blankets on it that just got thrown into our room. I walked into our room to find this :

King of heap!! What a cute little doggie!

love -

Im not depressed, I made my bed

There's a siren that goes off everyday at 11am. I didn't know that until now. At least I don't think so. No wonder Bandit is ok with loud noises...

Anyways, I read somewhere, that people who make the bed are less likely to get or be depressed. So HA! Today's POTD proves that I am not depressed, right?!

And no, I didn't make the bed just to prove this point. I washed all the sheet and put new pillow cases on. See Shark's Optimus Prime pillow case? Don't let him deceive you, Megatron is on the other side. Lately all I've been doing is cleaning and throwing stuff out. I've done pretty good, if I do say so myself. I started with the laundry and the craft room, because the craft room has always been my doom. So, I started there to get that out of the way. I sorta floated to the other rooms of the house, but so far, the craft room likes like the most work was done there. :)

hmmmm... action

So, I've noticed I didn't post yesterday... Sorry. For those of you who look for a daily post. You can imagine things have started to happen. I've started to throw trash away!! Amazing! Sorting papers and tossing the unwanted, consolidating notes, scanning and saving. Today I'm cleaning out the spare room, going thru my craft stuff, The Closet, and the desk. We're also documenting what we really are taking with his. Know anyone who wants a futon? A desk? A couch (it really is a comfy one!!)? An entertainment center? A 7ft conference table [we used as a kitchen table]? A birdnest chair with ottoman? Let me know, we can totally get you the hook up!! Cuz we have decided, we are only taking our bed, our little kitchen table, our dressers, our shelves, our lovesac and our filing cabinet. Oh and the washer and dryer we got, most rentals I've looked at have hook ups. So yeah... anybody want our furniture? Also, do you know anybody who's got some boxes?! LOL! I'll be looking on craigslist for free boxes.... So yeah, that's what I've been up to.

Ok, so I have been getting stuff done. But I can't post about it, until I at least mail it! I have my project done, but I need to mail it today.

All I've been doing is cleaning. POTD for yesterday is : Shark welding. I like this one most of all, because of the shadow on the door.

love all -

POTD and a new day

Today is day 1 of my unemployment. With any luck, this phase will only last about a month. Who knows. LOL! Today, I finished the blanket, yes this post is going to published AFTER I mail it, but might as well get something done today. POTD is the finished blanket.

I LOVE IT!! {But for some reason my Picasa thinks this picture is horizontal..} I absolutely adore this blanket, and can't wait to have girls of my own.... Don't worry, that is not a hint, we're really just worrying about moving right now. Family will come later, when we're ready. :) On to cleaning my house, and getting things into boxes... :) Yayayayayay!

Love to all -

Sunday SUNday SUNDAY!

Not mcuh really happened today. We got the word out about us moving. It looks like some plans got made with friends, hanging out this month and crafts and stuff. As Shark and I were getting ready for church this morning, Shark walked out of the room, and looked at Bandit. Shark asked if I put the rabbit like that, I said no, didn't you? Nope. Apparently, Bandit was having a tea party with his bunny. This was how it was set up. {This is also the POTD for 1.31.10}

How cute is that?! Funny little dog put his bunny on his bottom and they were staring eachother down!!Bandit carries his bunny by the ears sometimes, and we're guessing that's how the bunny came into the sitting position. I put some words on it.

Oh, I also watched Phantom of the Opera for the first time. It was pretty good, it was a beautiful movie, the masked dude was kind of a jerk, but hey, you can't win em all, right?

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