Spring Training Game

We went to an Oakland A's Spring Training game last weekend! It was so much fun! And since Joseph lives just down the road from the stadium we walked down there and it made for such a nice day!! We even got shirts!

I hope to go again with Joseph and learn more about Baseball! He was a good teacher!

Baking baking baking

So I've done a lot of baking lately.. It's just so fun and therapeutic!

I made a homemade Chicken Pot Pie and it was delicious! I used my moms recipe from when were younger, and it wasn't as good as it was when she would make it but I was missing one key ingredient.. my mom! haha

It was a good comfort food and I will be making it again : )

Then it was Raji's Birthday and I was asked to bring dessert.. so I made a Red Velvet Cake from scratch!

I was nervous to make it for the first time by myself since my mom makes it perfectly for all of my birthdays and I couldn't possibly imagine making it that delicious.. but everyone loved it!! (I still feel it could have been better, but still.. Mmmmm)

I am.... the Pampered Chef

I went to a Pampered Chef party at my friend Johanna's house and cashed in on Pampered Chef stuff!! I have wanted that covered baking dish for a long time.. especially cause I hear how my mom cooks all this yummy food in it all the time!

Then some other fun things!

I love it all and I feel so.... Pampered.. in my kitchen now!!

Beach Cruisin.. Minus the beach

My sweet brother Jordan bought and put together a Beach Cruiser for me!!!!

I'd been bugging him for one for a long time... so he told me to pick one out and he brought it over to my house. I went for a test ride and it was Magical!!! I forgot how fun it is to ride a beach cruiser!! I love it so much and it's fun to go on lil rides around my neighborhood. Can't wait to get a bike rack so Joseph and I can go for bike rides in Tempe together.

Noggin

Yup, that's a picture of my brain... after freakishly bad headaches, dizziness and some other bad symptoms I went to the doctor who decided to have an MRI on my brain. I ended up having two and got the pictures on a DVD. They said I have two cysts on my brain that are benign and in areas that shouldn't be causing my headaches.

Anyways.. I've since then gone to a Neurologist and found that there is some pressure behind my eyes and I will need to have a Spinal Tap in a week to measure the pressure and have the spinal fluid tested for some other things. Fun.... not so much. Surprisingly I am not too nervous.. yet.
I will update after I have the Spinal Tap done. Pray it's nothing too crazy.

My painting

Joseph is an artist... he has a lot of paintings in his house and I have asked him to paint me a picture. So one Sunday he finally decided to do it. All I said was that I wanted a painting on a guitar. He sat down and painted this cool picture for me..
So sweet!! I love him!!

Valentines day!!

So.. Valentines day was so fun this year!!

I did a 14 days of Valentines day for Joseph!

It was super fun to do and he loved it.. I didn't take pictures of a lot of the days but Joseph took this one of three of the days and posted it on FB.

Then.. I got to go on a scavenger hunt for my gifts from him!! (I love it when he does these things!!!) I got a Swivel and Store, which is awesome! Everytime we see the info-mercial for it I would say how awesome it is.. so he got it for me.. then I hit the motherload when he gave me a KitchenAid!! Oh yeah! It's amazing!!

The breaking in project was a couple batches of sugar cookies for Valentines day!

Jumper to Shirt

We went shopping and I got two cute shirts at Forever 21.. what I actually got was a a jumper and a shirt... now let's be real, I will NEVER wear a jumper. So my first thought was, well I'll just make it into a shirt. So I did!

Before

After!!
I like it!!
What do you think?

Christmas was here!

The weekend before Christmas was fun and busy!

I went and hung out with Rach and my lil babies!

I was making them giggle so much it was hilarious!!

Christmas day was full of fun!

It was however, the first Christmas without my family.. so that was hard.. but I tried to make it as normal as possible..

I woke up early, put the tv to the channel with the fireplace and music, started making the quiche and then went and woke up Brianne and excitedly yelled out, "wake up it's Christmas" (all Home Alone, Lost in New York style) Joseph came over too to join in on the Christmas morning festivities!

We first looked in our stockings that mom had sent for us! (Lots of Pier One stuff, glad she had that job for a little bit!)

Then we opened our presents! A Chia pet from Brianne, pajamas, sweater, a special family cookbook and perfume sent from mom and dad. Then was Josephs gifts, Zumba fitness for the Wii and.... a scrapbook he made of us.. I know!! So adorable!! I cried when I opened it (like a baby!) He had kept it a secret (by throwing me off and telling me it was a cookbook.haha.) and you could tell all the hard work he had put into it. Also, what he wrote in there melted my heart! Sigh.. It was perfect! I got Joseph a robe with his last name on the back.. He loved it!

Then the rest of the day was spent going to Joseph's family's houses and celebrating all day!

We ended the night at his sister Sarah's house. We played games, ate yummy food and hung out altogether. Then Rhett came up to me and wanted to make a gingerbread house... so we did and it was FUN!! He called the frosting "glitter".. that was cute! Here is the finished product..

It was a fabulous day and I had a good time with family and friends!

Next up, New Years and resolutions!

'Tis the season to be Jolly!

So we'll start out with Mr. Joseph's Birthday!

His mom and I went in on a golf bag and golf clubs for him!... he thought he was just getting this bag of golf balls and a play golf club at first..

then his mom brought out a golf bag and then I had the boys (Rhett and Tyler) help carry out all the clubs! I think he loved it!

So at this birthday party we played a game called "Famous Joe's" and his mom so awesomely put Joseph Smith in there just for me to get right! I thought that was cute! Then there was a sing a long game where you had to guess missing parts of Christmas songs. The first game we played though was "The price is right" game. We had to match the prices on paper to the items. In these fabulous prizes was a kit of different mustaches... we all put them on and a picture came out of it of the Sorge Family!

We were all laughing pretty hard! It was hilarious!!

Then Joseph and I had gone shopping and on a date and we took our annual pic in front of the Christmas Tree at Temple Marketplace.

And I got these sexy jeans for an early Christmas present!!!

Also making this time Jolly is all the baking.. I made (for the first time) Mexican Wedding Cookies last night and I think they were delicious.. and worthy of this photo shoot by my tiny pink Christmas tree at work..

Sigh.. so good! Well got to get back to making cinnamon rolls for people at work!

So stay tuned for Christmas post! (The first Christmas without my family) We will make it just as awesome!

Christmas tree and Tamale Fest

Oh, lately there's been a whirlwind of things going on and not enough time to let them really soak in..

It feels like lately I've had so much going on and no organization of it all.. I need to work on that.

Anyways, I did do something that made the world slow down a little bit and made me feel all warm and fuzzy, I set up the Christmas tree at my lil house!

So here it is.. Christmas Tree 2011!! Complete with a tree skirt and bow topper (courtesy of Hobby Lobby 50% off Christmas deals!!)

After that I went over to Lacey's house for Tamale Fest 2011! That was a blast! Audrey and Brayden came, there were lots of chips and salsa, tons of tamales and people that felt like family!

It was a good night! I tried to get this picture with Brayden of him and his cute "cheese" face but he decided he'd pick his nose instead.

Besides that, just working on school and workin on keeping it all together..

Next up..Somebody's having a birthday!!!

Thankful

Things I am thankful for: (a couple days late)

~My family and their health and safety...Especially the ones all the way across the country.

~My boyfriend.. he's always there for me, makes me feel special and we have a good time when we are together. (also he takes all the crazy that comes along with me.. what an amazing guy! : ) I'm also grateful for his family too for loving me and taking me in.

~My friends that are so loyal and good to me. Sometimes I get a little down but I remember I have some really great friends I can count on.

~My roommate, I have been blessed to get a great roommate that I get along with and puts up with me.

~Technology.. so I can talk to my family everyday.

~My house, I love that I have a haven of my own to come home to, cook in, and decorate. I also love that I have a place to have friends over and a place that people can stay if they need.

~My job. I'm grateful I have a job that I like. I love that I have a family there that helps me out and makes going to work fun! I also love that my best friend and boyfriend work with me.

~The Gospel. I am glad I have the Gospel in my life. I'm grateful for its steady foundation that it gives me and the knowledge that there is a plan for me and that Heavenly Father loves me.

Overall... I'm just a thankful girl and I need to remember this all through the year..

Wrapping up NY trip (a month later)

So... the rest of the time I was in NY I spent all my time with my momma.. we went and explored fun places, ate at fun little restaurants and just had a really good time! The family also went to a Cider Mill.. that was fun!

There were so many fun and memorable things that happened.. I can't name them all! But here are some pics and captions to document some of these times!

This pic (from a horrible angle) is at Whistling Tea Kettle in Ballston Spa, the most delicious lemon curd crepe and panini I've ever had!!

That's mom and I in front of this adorable lingerie shop in Ballston Spa! Yeah... it was so cute!!

Oh this? This is the chaise lounge I wanted that was half off but cost double the price to ship.. boo.. doesn't it scream "Chelsea!!"

Went to Eagle Mills and saw how they made cider and tasted delicious cider donuts!! Then we had to pose with the wood cut-outs.. it was too funny not to do!

This pic of me and Syd makes me crack up! We were laughing so hard trying to take a pic was near impossible! So this was the best one of us trying to hold in laughter.

And here is me and my momma at Cohoes Falls. We drove around (every day it felt like) looking for these falls! It was an adventure and worth seeing when we found it!

This is my parents house! Cute right?! My mom has it decorated so cute inside!! I got a lot of ideas!

And that.. is me on their swing in the front yard!

Fun times!!!

Miss you mom and daddy, Syd and Spenc!

Thanks for showing me a good time!

New York City

We got there Thursday night.. it was a humid day in the City.

We took our stuff to the Hotel, On The Ave.. Super nice hotel!!

Then we ventured to the Museum of Natural History

Saw some dinosaurs (well, their bones) and walked all over that place!

We saw beautiful skylines everywhere we looked! The Empire state building is in this one!

A pretty cathedral..

We both posed in front of all the madness that IS Times square.. We had lunch at a little brick oven pizza place in TS.. it was delish!

We then went on a pedi cab ride through Central Park! (I LOVE this picture of us btw!)

There was a movie being filmed there this day so we were in a Pedi-cab traffic jam for a while.. it was interesting though.. cool cars, motorcycles and this movie was said to have some big stars in it! Didn't see any though.. There was a huge crowd to try and see them tho!

Looking up at the Empire State building

Looking back while on a Double Decker Bus tour! That was fun! We saw the whole city and learned a lot about the history!

Battery Park

Tons of people were there to see memorials for September 11th..

All in all our time in the city was AMAZING!! Thanks to Joseph for putting up with me on the humid days and walking (what felt like) 30 miles all over the city with me!!

One word: Crun-stellation.... Holy moly.. A concrete from the Shake Shack that we shared.. It was the best ice cream creation I've ever had.

There are more pics I'll have to update this post with when I get them from Joseph.