A long post....very long.

Ok, I have lacked getting on here to post about my last few weeks. Not good, I know. So here is a little run down of the past few weeks just to get you all started. I met an awesome guy at church a few weeks ago! I had an awesome birthday. I loved the YSA conference. I have the best cousin ever! I love the Rocklin YSA ward. I finally got a job. I really want to learn as much as I can before I get married. I am excited for winter. I want to do a TON of crafts for winter and for family and friends. I love my garden! Photo shoot with my little sis(Finally!) -Breath.- Here we go!

So the Sunday before my last post I met an awesome guy! He was such a gentleman! He is strong too! I found out when I shook his hand. Yep, very strong. As I walked to the door to leave 10 minutes later I heard him say from behind me "Let me get that for you"(the door that is) And for some dumb reason I jumped to the door first and opened it for myself. Lame right! Then as he was still holding the door open I kinda said  "Oops, next time" then giggled:(. I feel like such a loser for that! I should have let the door close and walked through the door which he was still holding open for me! Ah so lame, I feel awful! I am never going to get married to anyone if I have a repeat of that. He was so sweet and Jumped to the door to open it for me and I didn't even think twice:(. So ya lame. He came to FHE. Ya, he has a very lovely laugh...just saying.

My birthday was awesome! I woke up had my little sister tell me happy birthday and give me my gifts to start the day off. I got a tube pillow that has rainbow zebra/cheetah print fabric. I also got a lanyard for my keys, it has a pretty blue polka dot shoe on the cord base. I also got a huge bottle of Olive Oil from my dad and some cliff bars. I know what you're thinking! Olive Oil? Yes. Because I Love to cook! as previously mentioned in earlier posts. Me and my parent's went to Elephant bar for dinner where we got Calamari and salad for dinner. I got a special treat for desert. A blueberry apple crumble. All I have to say is that I might have to work at elephant bar to get that amazing recipe. It was so yummy! After dinner we picked up my older sister to go to a wedding reception(Yes, another reception). It was fun! The reception took place in the bride's parent's back yard. I loved all the flowers! So many beautiful flowers all around. The cake was good. There was a lot of fruit. Yummy fruit too! The bride's dress was very pretty. It was fun. Then we headed back home to celebrate my big day with my family. My sister's made me a red velvet cake! It was yummy but didn't have a lot of chocolate in it. It was still good though. To end my day I watched Brian Regan and some other comedians to have a little laugh. I was up till past 12 laughing my head off. My mother didn't enjoy the loud laughing that was coming from down the stairs. So I tried my best to keep quiet( that didn't last long). Then my dad came home from grocery shopping so I helped then went to my room to get ready for bed. After about 20 minutes of listening to my ipod, I turned it off and five minutes later a spider wanted to commit suicide in my room by dive bombing me in my almost sleep. I swat it off my arm to the floor. It landed in the magazines that were on the floor. I sadly didn't find it till a couple of days later-squished between Victoria and Oxygen magazine. Church the next day was fun! A good lesson in Relief Society.

The YSA conference was a lot of fun! I really enjoyed it. There was a service activity on Saturday which I did with some other girls. We tied quilts! I loved it! I stabbed my fingers so many times. They didn't really bug me until I got myself in the thumb. Ouch. This guy asked me out on Friday and I am pretty sure I only said yes to be nice:( I need to be less nice with certain things. Like dating. Don't say yes just to be nice. Ever!!! After the movies on Friday a bunch of people went to Mels. I had fun. We took up two whole corners( the waitress asked  the couple that was sitting on one side of the booth to move for us. I was tricky being around all the milk shakes. I so wanted to just grab one a inhale it. I had not had ice cream in a while so I was ready to steal from someone. It's ok now. I am over the ice cream. The YSA's that were at Mels are so funny! I haven't laughed so much from friends being random in a while. It was nice to be around people who have the same standards as me! The fireside on Sunday was really funny! Well the speakers were. The really awesome guy was there. He was standing right by me talking to a guy and I didn't even say Hi. I kinda chickened out a bit that night. Stupid nerves:(

My amazing cousin bought me/ my mother/ my sister a Cricket! I keep messing around with it. It is a lot of fun and I can't wait to get more cartridges for it! I guessed before she gave it to me that it was one. Don't believe me? Ask my Mother! She will tell you I am not lying. The night she gave it to me, we hung out looking at different blogs for wedding ideas. It was a lot of fun even if we didn't really talk. I love my cousin! Like A Lot!!! :)

I have been attending my cousins YSA ward for almost a year now( next week will be one year). I love it! I have made so many amazing people and gained so many superb friends. It is awesome! the leaders are awesome and so are the YSA's that go. It is fun to go to the same ward as my cousin and scout out our perfect Nephi's(Prince charming's). I really enjoy the ward. And I am not going to lie, there are some REALLY handsome men in that ward! Ya, a lot of them.

We have known a family since we moved here to California from Utah and the Father of the family is a Dentist. He offered me a job. And oh how excited I was when I read the message. It isn't full time but  it is still working. I will get as many hours as I need to get my RDA. I am so Excited! I start on Monday morning. Woo hoo! Finally a job in a Dental office. And a office that I know will be fun to work in! So ya, I am really happy right now.

So for schooling I am going to take one class at the local college just to do something with my time outside of work. While I work and take my class I want to learn as much as I possibly can at home. I will pick a subject for the week and read all about it. I want to do this to help me keep learning before marriage and little ones come into the picture. I am excited to start learning more!(Nerd? Yes!)

I love winter. Why you may ask? Let me tell you of a few things that make me love Winter. Snow. Christmas trees. Family. Soup. Gifts(for myself and others). The cold weather. Long sleeve shirts. Blankets. Hot chocolate(Of course!). Rain. Serving others. Last but very much not least. The Saviors birth. I love everything about winter but I love being able to celebrate the saviors birth. Teaching and learning all about My Savior! Who doesn't love Christmas. Ooh and I love singing Christmas songs!

So, I love crafts! Like almost as much as I love my garden and my hair! Making things with my hands is so much fun and I really enjoy being productive like that. I want to make little crafts for everyone! I love sewing so I think I might end up with a ton of Christmas and winter pillows, blankets, table runners and whatever else I can think of.

My sister and I did a little photo shoot yesterday. I was like 10 minutes long. I loved it. We dressed up into dresses and did hair and makeup. After the shoot I messed around with one of my pictures on Gimp 2. It turned out pretty awesome if I do say so myself. Here it is. I just messed with the brightness and contrast.

My California Fusia bloomed yesterday! I love it! So pretty and I cant wait till it gets bigger. I love my garden.:)

So to end my really long blog post I will inform you that I am really enjoying my life right now. I hope you all are enjoying yours as much as I am!



Love,
    Sarah Boo <3

P.S. I am going to go cook something for desert!

Food!!

So a couple of days ago I made some biscuits. I have to say....... they were awesome!!!  Here they are.

Aren't they just the cutest things ever!! They were so yummy too! A little honey and some vegan butter, oh yes:)

They are so easy and quick to make. Really simple too. I am glad I have another recipe to add to my cookbook!

I follow this blog called Eye it Try it. It is awesome! Pure homemade healthy goodness. You can find it here. 

I made the  CCCCP. It is a cookie pie. I won't suggest it for people who don't like healthy food. It has chickpeas in it, like a lot of them (2 cans worth.) It was really yummy to me. I have a taste for natural and healthy food and apparently not a lot of people do. If you do. Try the CCCCP. If you don't, don't waste your money or time. My little sisters didn't like it(except the chocolate chips, which they picked out). Surprisingly though, my little brother did, but then again he will eat anything you put in front of him. This is what My CCCCP looked like fresh out of the oven.

Looks good right? Maybe only to some of you. Its all good though. I loved it! I need to make a cake. I haven't made one in forever(like two months)! I want to make a cake that is healthier than what I normally make. I can't wait to cook more food from the blog. I really want to eat way better than I normally do. I have a love for pesto right now. I love that green goodness to death at the moment. If you haven't had it I recommend you try it! I want to make some at home. Like a really big batch of it. I love food! Like way to much. If i didn't exercise, I would be a hippo. A hungry hungry hippo.>:) I guess it is not that bad to love food. Right? I mean, everything gets eaten. Its food so it shouldn't be that bad to love. Hmm. 

Any who..... I love my garden! I love life! I love The Church! I love The Mormon Tabernacle Choir! I love to do crafts! I love to exercise! I love my family! I love my friends! I love everything! No matter how bad life gets, it will always get better. Why you ask? Because I am a Daughter of God and there is a plan set up for me and all my family and friends and all the people I have never met and will probably never meet. I will be sealed to the Man I love for time and all eternity. I will have people to spend forever with. I will be the happiest ever after this life. So no matter how bad it gets here, I know my happiness with be ten fold in the next life. I am a Daughter of God and I am happy with my life.  

Week-sorta-end

So my Galiolous bloomed this week!

They have the most beautiful color for a flower! I love them. My Mexican Day Lily should bloom in the next couple of days. It just might fully bloom tomorrow! It Is the yellow one in the front of the picture. I love my garden:)

So, there was a fire on our street today. Our street raps around and the house that caught fire was at the end off the street behind my little brothers friends house. We all thought it was their house but it thankfully was not. Sadly it was the house of a retired couple who had one of their children with their family living with them. The car they were driving a little before the fire happened was starting to over heat so they went home and parked it in the garage where it exploded after being home for a while! The fire cause the two rooms about the garage and attic and then the kitchen. We walked over to the house and offered to help them get supplies that they would need for the next little while. A lot of the other neighbors are going to help out too! I am so glad that the family was able to get out of the house and get to safety.

I am so happy with my hair right now. It is getting so long!:) I love my hair, not as much as I love my garden, but ya...I love my hair:)

So I didn't go to my interview that I had talked about before. The morning of, I got a call from a member of our ward and she wanted to know if I would like a job as a full time nanny. First off, the job that the interview was for was part time and would give me from 5 to 40 hours a week. So they would have to be busy for me to get good hours. Second, the job would only happen if I was lucky(there were about 300 other people who I was going up against). So I prayed about it to find out what I should do. I ended up saying yes to the nanny job and cancelled the interview. So now I have a job and I start in august!! I am so excited:)!!! I have some time to do whatever before I start so I have been as productive as I can be for the last couple of days. I am one very happy person right now.

XOXO 

     Sarah

P.S. My birthday is in 8 days!!! The big 1-9. My last year as a "Teen":)

My garden. (And other things)

So about three days ago my first Rain Lily bloomed!!! I didn't even see it until I had watered a bunch of my other flowers. Here it is!!

So I am really exited to have more flowers in my little collection of bulbs and seed plants!!

I cant wait until my Gladiolus' bloom! I believe that they will bloom either tomorrow or the next day.My neighbor gave me some bulbs and flower seeds and a plant! I got 2 different lilly plant seeds Martagon Hybrids in red and orange with brown spots. A Spider plant, a  bunch of Crocosmia bulbs that had some blooms already on them, three onion bulbs(non-edible) that will have a purple flower that should bloom sometime at the end of Summer or the beginning of Fall, He also gave me a plant that I forgot the name of. I am so excited to see my garden expand! I Love flowers so much. I think I will take flower seeds and bulbs over a diamond ring:) My marigolds came back in one part of the container they are in! I am happy to know they are back. I hope my Lilly of the Valley will grow next year. It didn't grow this year but I am not going to give up hope for it(It could grow next year if I take care of it right. Right?)    

I have a job interview tomorrow afternoon!!! I really REALLY hope I get the job!:) I would be going back and forth between two positions at the store. I really need a job so I am hoping and praying I will get it! Wish me luck:)

I went to two wedding receptions this past weekend. They were for a friend and my cousin. One was set up in a really big room with the whole space decorated and the second was in a small space but was really well decorated. They were so pretty and lovely. I loved them both. The first was really decked out and the second was more simple and had very little to it,  but they were both so beautiful!! I am going to be going to another reception this weekend and the theme is A Summer Picnic. I am excited to see what it will be like. The grooms mother was telling us about how little they did for the reception. The week after that Is my birthday!!! The big 19!! My last year as a "Teen." I cant believe I will be twenty next year!! Scary stuff right there! :o

I forgot to blog about my Vintage Yellow Velvet Cake. It was supposed to be Red Velvet but we had no red food colouring. Here is the batter and the finished product (in cupcake version).

 It was so yummy. I loved the colour!( Yes, I spell colour funny!:) I got it from my Canadian mommy!) The yellow was so pretty. I used the whole bottle to get it that colour! My family couldn't wait to have one! Cake never lasts in my house. Especially homemade cake from scratch!:) It was delicious! 

So I have never been on a date before and I have 12 days to hurry up and go on a date before my 19th. I would like to have been on a date before then but I highly doubt I will go out before then. If I can't go out before my B-day this year I REALLY hope that I will at least by the end of this year! I don't want to hit 20 and still be able to say that I have never been on a date. That would be very awful. I got my first kiss this year. (It sucked. No... the guy sucked!!!--They both sucked--. I am pretty sure he just wanted to make out with me) When I found out that all he wanted to do was kiss me I practically ran away as fast as I could! I went straight to the temple and made up my mind to NEVER allow that to happen ever again!! He treated me like crap and I will never ever fall for something like that again. I will never allow someone to have such disrespect for me again and I will not lower my standards for an immature guy... EVER! The worst part is he said he was going to ask me out... but never did! I was like " Wow you have the gall to kiss me but don't have the courage to ask me out on a date?? What is this world coming to??!! Are girls never going to get married? I want to be a mommy but can't if all the guys are immature like this! Where are all the perfect guys hiding?? I need to scout them out for me and my girls friends. Then we wouldn't have to worry about the whole dating sucky guys thing! Ah, the world would be such a better place if we didn't have disrespectful immature guys around. So enough of my going on and on about what I think about guys of the world.

I am going to start my running tomorrow morning!! I think I will just jump straight to three miles a morning. I want to run at least 4 1/2 by my B-day. So I have to start soon if I want it to happen.

Love,

    Sarahboo <3

P.S. Sorry for all the blog shouting. I had to vent for once ( I never really do vent to people, so ya :] ) 

So...

I kinda really hate being out late because I tend to start acting all weird and I can become really rude and not realize it till someone points it out. So I don't want tot be out late anymore. I will be the one who stays home when there are late parties, because I don't like this whole two faced person thing that happens late at night. It's really not fun to have someone point out something like that when there are a bunch of people watching. So....ya.

Happy Day!

So my dad fixed the backyard fence and had a lot of extra fence boards left over and said that I could make a compost bin with them. Today I made the bin. It has no top or bottom. It has awesome little handles on 2 sides for lifting it when you need to turn the compost. I was all sweaty after I finished but I was way to happy to have a compost bin to care about being sweaty. So excited to have it!


                                                                             Here it is!

It is so cool! It is made from red wood fence boards. Took like 30 minutes to build from scratch. I added the bags of fruit and veggie scraps to it and cant wait to see them turn to compost for the family garden we are going to start!

I decided I NEED to get back into running. I have to keep myself going before I turn into a lazy butt. I love to run and one day would like to run the Boston Marathon. I think that would be grand. My aunt Nancy has run it a couple of times. I want to also do the Tough Mudder. I think that those would be the best long term goals for my running plan. I will start with some local runs then work my way up the running ladder.

I got some Ginger and a Spaghetti squash from the store along with some flavored tofu to start incorporating into my diet. I really want to eat better. Less meat and sugar and no more store bought crap or fast food( I rarely eat fast food though:) ) If I am going to be running I NEED to eat better! I need to know how to cook better for me and my future family, I don't want chubby kids(chubby babies are ok though:D )

XOXO
        Sarah

My Future part 2!

So I decided that I am not going to get a real degree through a school. In my last year as a high school student I had the opportunity to attend 49er R.O.P. for Dental Assisting. I graduated from the school and loved it. It was the best thing for me to do! I have yet to find a job with an office though. I am going to do some serious job hunting this month. I want to work off my last hours to get my RDA. I need to take my coronal polish class then I can take the RDA exam. I want to work for my RDAEF2 which is a Registered Dental Assistant Extended Functions level 2. That is the highest level one can get as a Dental Assistant. I want to get my RDAEF2 because if I go to dental school for Hygiene and I end up not liking it I will have to pay for DA schooling again because while I was in school there was a rule passed that said that anyone can't be a DA and a DH at the same time anymore. So I don't want to go to school to be a DH and then end up not liking it and having spent 30k on schooling and then have to pay to be an DA again and waste time of my life on something I don't want to be. So I am done with my schooling at a college for right now.

XOXOSarah

My future!! (So far)

So I had been thinking about moving out of my parents place for the past two months but didn't know where to go or how to do it. I also changed my major from Dental Hygiene to Nutrition. I decided the best place to go for it would be BYU or some other school in utah. So I am planning on leaving sometime in August. Hopefully I will get a job here for the time being or just babysit a lot till I leave. I really hope this will work out for me! My Facebook buddies have been really supportive of my decision since I announced it today. I have a very good friend who wants to leave for UT the same month as me. He hopes to be able to get into BYU too! We want to try to leave here at the same time. I need to get my parents on board for this. They don't really think I will be able to get in or even pay for it! It's hard to hear my parents say something like that, especially when they are always telling me to go for what I want. So it is really weird and hard to try when you don't have support from your own family. I am really exited to leave. Start my life on my own. See what Heavenly Father has planned for me out there:) Maybe marriage? Babies?!?! Haha whatever happens works for me:) BYU. Hopefully my new school. Utah. My birth land. Money. Something I don't really have right now. Time. I got my whole life ahead of me. Might as well start it in Utah, at BYU, where I can learn about me and this amazing life that I have been so blessed with.

Summer!!

Ah. So I am finally going to post about what has been going on in life. Its been a few weeks since I last posted so I thought it would be right to post now. Its the end of the my second to last week of school. I finished my last speech for my public speaking class on thursday and had my second exam in sociology that day too! It was so much fun to finish my last speech. About half way through the speech I realized that this was it, my last speech in the class. It was awesome cause I read a lot from my first four speeches but for this last one I barley read any of it. It was more of a reference while I was speaking. I finished then was like, "Woah, I'm done!" It was intense!! I loved the class. I kinda want to do more speeches:) In sociology my teacher had 5 activities that we were supposed to attend then write papers on. All of the activities were either overlapping with the classes I had or they were inappropriate so I didn't go to them. I lost 25 points in the class because I didn't do them. The down side was that in the class there were only 100 points, and I am pretty darn sure that I didn't do so well on the exams so I think I might walk away with a D in the class:( Kinda sad. If so I will have to take the class again( I need C's or better for my major) My aerobics class has really helped me with getting back into running. I am able to run 2 miles straight now! I ran for 19 minutes straight. It was amazing that I could run for that long. Just my body. No electricity. No engine. Just me, myself and I:) And that was at 12 o'clock in the afternoon, when it was hot outside. I really want to see if I can run the full three mile loop around our neighborhood after I finish this post. It's really cool/cold outside so I think I might. At least try it on for size:) I want to be able to run at least 5 miles by my birthday at the end of July! I hope I will be able to get to 4 1/2 if not 5. I want to run a half marathon next year. I think that would be a lot of fun to do:) So I am looking for a job as a DA right now. I hope to find one before the summer starts. I need a job really badly:( Um, lets see what else is going on. Ooh I organized my closet and I REALLY love it!! It's so nice and clean:D I want to be able to play my guitar better by the end of summer. I want to be able to play the piano a lot better by Christmas. I want to go on a date before my 19th b-day! Yes it's true, I have never been on a real date before! I know right? It's so lame!! I have been on a fake date for a game with some friends. We changed dates every ten or fifteen minutes. It was fun, but still not a real date. Um, well I am being summoned to help my dad so I have to finish this post. Live & let live!

Love,   Sarah:)

Alive!

So about 20 minutes ago, I decided to just up and go run a mile. It was really random and a stretch considering I have never run a mile straight in my life. So I quickly changed into my capris and runners and left for a run. I was so determined to run the whole mile that I set marks along the way. I made it all the way to the 1/2 mile mark, then realized how far I had run without really thinking anything about it. I had run a half a mile in a little over 6 minutes and I didn't know if I would be able to run the rest, but, I did! I saw the hill where my run would end and was so happy I had to just stop for a sec once I got to the top, not to catch my breath, but to realize that I just ran a full mile!! I haven't ran in over a year and I was able to just put on my shoes and go! I feel So Alive!! I hope I will be able to run more this week. It was a blast!!

XOXO Sarah