SCHOOL

Can I brag for a minute, my good grades lead me to recieve a WONDERFUL phone call this morning from WSU, I recieved an academic scholarship!!!! YAY!!! it was a little amount but considering my school is already  paid for, this amount I get to pocket, so basically Weber is paying me to attend school! ha ha Today is just fabulous!!!!   While speaking of school, I have a fabulous health class which i love and learn so much, i'm constantly telling Spence new fun facts, for instance, while a man is running and giving 50% power a woman has to give 73% to just keep up with him. Sadly us women are made SO differently, also we can not run as fast due to the angle of our femur bone to our bodies... interesting! Well if i want to cook dinner I better get my school work done, english paper topic : can we really justify war?  think about it, it's a crazy subject and MANY opinions out there!

Hadlee Rose Dining

Yes i'm a chef! ok maybe not really but i'm sure trying. It's amazing the things i'm learning, for instance did you know that tomatoes should not be refrigerated? yes i NEVER knew that, also I could tell you what fruits/veggies you should buy organic and which ones don't matter! I know what Feta, Ricotta, Swiss, shredded mozzerella, grated parmesan, shredded paremesan cheese all are ha ha i've never cooked with so many different cheeses! Never really liked cheese that much quite honestly, but now it's my staple food in meals!    I won't go into detail on all that I've cooked up but my husband did make the remark last night "vegetarian meals really are delicious" AHA if I can convince Spencer, the BIGGEST meat lover to say such a thing i must be amazing! Totally kidding!    One meal I would like to mention is Potato Gnocchi, what an interesting food! It's a cross between pasta and a dumpling and quite a process for someone whose use to immediate satisfaction food! But all the time was worth it! and as for tonight goes, well my shift today was cut at work due to lack of pay roll hours, sad, but now I can prepare a quite romantice dinner for Spencer and I, I think i might even use our dinnerware that my Mom bought us for our wedding (it's still packaged up from the wedding never been used) along with a beautiful table cloth, candlelight, and a chick flick to follow haha so on the menu is Stuffed Acorn Squash, beautiful strawberry salad, and for desert Pecan Phyllo Spirals! mmmm wish me luck!  Oh and don't worry i'm still asking people in the grocery store what certain items are, phyllo dough? what does fresh basil look like? how do I know what a good Acorn Squash looks like? and even asked if there is such thing as pre shredded swiss cheese? (that last one I still haven't found I just buy it in the block)

Times change

 What happened to dresses and heels? Oh how i want to bring dinner out of the oven while wearing a conservative (but with an adorable print) dress, heels, jewelry, and my apron from Anthro! They wore dresses everywhere and I LOVE it, I think i'm going to wear dresses more and even cook in them!!

Also on a side note if you have never read Martin Luther King Jr.'s letter from Birmingham City Jail, you need to! It's beautiful and has so many great quotes and ideas.  
 "We must come to see that human progress never rolls in on wheels of inevitability. It comes through the tireless efforts and persistent work of men willing to be co-workers with God, and without this hard work time itself becomes an ally of the forces of social stagnation. We must use time creatively, and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right." MLKJr.

Random

I have so many random thoughts, ideas, and pictures! Bare with me ha ha speaking of "bare with me" Spencer and I are giving our "welcome to the ward" talk this sunday, it'll be interesting! luckily I go first and get to do the introductions for spence I both have two TOTALLY seperate stories about our dating past, needless to say mine is a little bit more sweet then his! :)  Also we have a calling, drum roll please....... CTR five, 8 boys, 0 girls! Very loud and rowdy, apple and orange slices along with crackers will be the weekly treat to help keep their mouths busy, last sunday one kid made anothers' lip bleed! After our first week can you say birth control?! kidding... kinda ;)

First off i'm partial to change and as Spence and I were laying down one night we decided we are ready for a change in decor. In this area Spencer and I could be no different, he wants the cream, burgundy or red, brown, tan, colors, like what below. This does NOTHING for me, pretty color yes but I want something that WOW's me, interesting to the eye! 

 I'm a fanatic for wallpaper! haven't lived anywhere where i can actually use it yet (rentals) but when i can, oh  man will I be in heaven. I love loud colors and prints are my favorite! Vintage with a modern twist!

So how do we compromise? i've been wondering this past weekend what we coul do, well today at Anthro I came up with an answer. Wish I had pictures of my vision but i can't find anything quite right! especially since i can't use wallpaper for it. Anways i'll give spence his cream walls, one will be covered in this amazing wood work I found and white picture frames and the other wall I will rubber stamp a light yellow design on. Also we don't have a headboard so i'm debating painting one on the wall! or making it out of plywood and material, we'll see. Of course this is all ideas i'm throwing around in that head of mine.

Ok for those who haven't seen Julie and Julia, first off go rent it, darling show! It's about a lady who starts a blog as she works her way through Julia Childs cookbook "Mastering the Art of French Cooking", she gave herself a year to make every recipe in that book, 524 recipes! As we watched it last night it left me wanting to do something such as Julie did, make my way through a cookbook! And I want to try new vegetarian recipes, for those who know me i'm not much of a cook, AT ALL! This year I really want to cook more, plus Spence is sick of our random meals i'm sure :) 

 Well I recieved this vegetarian cookbook for our wedding from my fellow Veggie lover, my cousin Talise! I'm debating making my way through this recipe book, of course adding meat everynow and again so Spencer doesn't kill me! but they have cheap, easy, and fun recipes i'd love to try! I don't know just a thought after watching the movie last night!



HEART



Wonderful dress, i love the colors and pattern! I have to admit I'm scared to try it on and fall in love because heaven knows this doesn't come cheap. It'd be perfect with a mustard colored cardigan or even a coral color to give it a splash!
 



Just got this skirt in at Anthro, LOVE it, love this whole outfit! isn't it amazing? so simple yet chic, and i love the mismatched patterns, it does my heart good!



If you read my before post about Flare jeans, well I tried them on and LOVE them. Be aware of buttons on hip pockets if your a bit hippy like myself they accentuate that area, also make sure there are no long pockets in the bag for that brings in the mama jean aspect, ugh. No offense to all the mom's but you kmow what I mean by that. Other then that, they are SO cute, fun, new and very flattering as long as their the correct style.

The AG Farrah is amazing for us tall ladies! and the Joe's Provocateur is an AMAZING alternative to skinny jeans for shorter gals! both at Anthro of course :)




Time for some family pics!

Finally putting up a few pictures on the blog, not just clothes and decor, though those are my loves also ;) And more pics will come... hopefully ;)

My family came to visit for Thanksgiving, Everybody! even Katie Chad and Eli!  We had so much fun, went so Sea World, made a delicious Thanksgiving dinner, Visited the beach a few times though sadly it was freezing! Despite the freezing water Spencer, Lindsey and Chad all got in the Ocean to go boogie boarding, and they even swam right next to a dolphin! For us spectators on the sand we freaked out, thinking it might be a shark (especially katie) it was hilarious and for them worth the cold to be able to see such a thing!

For family night spence and I made gingerbread houses, as you can see only a picture of  his is up, mine went to the dumpster! after hours of cooking and preparing we butchered everything and our houses wouldn't even stand, well except spence somehow managed to get his to stay up but mine kept falling so the perfectionist in me got frustrated and threw it away so i wouldn't have to look at it! ha ha good times!

Snmall glimpse of my painted wall in our rental home, i found a rubber stamp and used that since wall paper is a NO-NO in rentals! we are still in the process of finishing decorating!

Also for Christmas Spencer, Me and  his parents went to the Light boat show in SD, it was fun to see all the decorated boats and the music playing! Not use to seeing boats with lights just trolling through the water instead of driving in a car with the heater on looking at lights on houses covered with snow! Definitly a different christmas with out the snow and all the family parties but hey it was fun!

To feel something is your right;

to pass it on, your obligation  (theanthropologist.net)

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Flare back in? ahh at first I was terrified, my thighs in flare? please no! but I have to admit the high waist is a love of mine and as i continue to look over the new trends my views are starting to change! Going in early to work, at Anthropologie (where the above photos were found), and i'm going to try me some flare jeans, the Farrah! wish me luck ;)

NG finds

Nasty Gal, new store i found and love! (shopnastygal.com)

Create

Are we not all creators? and is not our desitination to do just that, create? To find within ourselves something that we can't keep to ourselves but have an obligation to share. To give life to something as simple as a paper, whether it be in words or a paper plane. Give movement to a song, bring someone to tears with words, move forward with thoughts created. Everything we do creates something. We are all artist, it's just a matter of foregoing the typical connotation that comes with the word artist. An artist is Michelangelo, the man who painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling, correct? no. I mean yes he was an artist but we have to unattache such pieces and people as the art and artist and broaden it to include our lifes, our creations. We create our lifes, every decision we make has an effect or in other words creates something. We are all artist and creators. Period. We find joy with in this realm of creating.
Point, never say your not creative, artistic, or talented, it's in our very nature.

Decor

Getting our apartment Oct. 15th (YAY) and playing with some ideas for decor!



Wish i could have this white couch but for now a white couch cover will  have to do! I just picked up some old school green chairs from an estate sale here in Cali, pictures of my "real life" things will have to wait until we get our apartment (the chord to download pics is packed away)



I will be rubber stamping my walls (since apartments don't let you use wallpaper)
I love this print and also the one below, I just need to find them now

Given my walls won't look this perfect with me doing it by hand but i love this look with the white couch.
And to decorate this wall I want same color as wall empty picture frames all over it (like the white on white above)