A New Hobby

Finally school has ended for this semester . . . for Jane anyways. I am still going to spring semester, just taking a few classes to try and speed up my graduation. Speaking of graduation, last week we had some of our family members graduate and had lots of family to visit. It was fun to have nephews and nieces in town to play with (mostly nephews!). But now that Jane is freed up from the stress of school she has decided to take on a new hobby based off of one of her favorite new tv shows, cake decorating! While she will work up to the glamorous cakes seen on "Ace of Cakes" and "Last Cake Standing" she decided to pick up a little cake decorating kit from the store and try it out. Her first creation was a race car cake . . . not that I had anything to do with that. Take a look at the work in progress:

She made the frosting from scratch and used the kit's many different color combinations to get that race car red she wanted. It turned out to be much more difficult than expected to get the exact shape, but maybe some sharper knives would make it easier? She learned a few tricks from reading books and watching her shows on how to get the frosting to glide on nice and smooth. When it came to the fine details, like the wheels and tires and headlights and other trim, I was given the task of painting those on. However, once I was given the frosting painting tool thing (You can tell I don't know the technical term) it was hard to give it back to Jane. But after we were all finished we were quite pleased with our work!

It might not be as professional, but hey, at least it resembles a car!

Goodbye Liz, Hello BBQ!

So let me just start off by saying, I just forgot the password to get into our own newly created blog. After attempting to remember it and input many different variations I gave up and just clicked the embarassing "forgot your password?" link. After many tedious steps here I am back in action. Last week we said goodbye to our missionary, Jane's old roommate and best friend Liz (the just under 5 foot one). She is going to the Seattle, Washington mission and just entered the MTC. We are already guilty of trying to accidentally find her at the temple. Our route to get home conveniently drives right past the MTC and the temple, although it techinically doesn't make a lap through the parking lots, we seemed to end up there. So far no sighting. Liz will be great missionary and hopefully bring some sunshine of the gospel to rainy Seattle! Liz just missed out on or weekend BBQ this past Saturday. We decided since a lot of our friends were parting ways for the summer we would have a BBQ to send people off for the summer in all of their various directions. Some are going home, some are getting married and some are just staying put. The weather had been great up until about Wednesday when someone decided to be funny and make it dump close to a foot of snow! It was halfway through April are you kidding me? Luckily it had melted by the time of our party. We grilled a roast and chicken over a charcoal grill, with nothing for seasoning but rock salt. Sounds weird, but soooo delicious! Thanks to our friend Isaac for enlighting us to this delectable treat. It was a big hit, even though it took a little longer than expected. But it was so much fun to get together with all of our close friends one last time before everyone heads their separate ways for summer. Anyways, enough for here, its finals week! Maybe next time I will remember the password . . .

Jane doesn't do it and I have free time . . .

So here is the thing. We love to go and look at our family and friends blogs and see what they are up to, although usually it just turns into stalking in order to get the latest gossip. With that being said, we figured it would only be fair to let everyone else in on what we do with our lives. However, our life is relatively boring. We both are in school, and when we are not there we are here, a giant semi-empty house that we are living in until its owners come home from their mission. (A totally sweet deal). But when something exciting does happen, maybe, just maybe, we will let everyone know. And the fact that Jane does most of the blog looking, you'd think that she would be the one to do the blogging and what not, but that is not the case. I am going to go ahead and volunteer myself, since at the moment my schedule permits me to have much more free time than her. I could spend it going running or pumping iron, but really who does that? Okay so lots of people do, including my brothers but mostly my physically fit sisters and "can you believe their that old?" parents. I will get to that, but for now let's just take it once step at a time.