A Saturday of Surprises!

I know I haven't blogged in awhile, but just as I started thinking this,I had stuff to blog about! On Friday Marc text me and told me that he had plans for us for Saturday, but I couldn't know what it was. All he said is I could pick some stuff out and it wouldn't be too expensive. I don't like knowing surprises are coming, I think of everything it could be, then let myself down when it isn't as big or elaborate, or as exciting as I imagined. But of course my mind started running, I have been wanting to go to Sprinkles cupcakes here ever since I went in California, could that be it a trip to get cupcakes? One of my favorite clothing stores, H&M is getting ready to open their first store in AZ not to far from us, maybe we were going to their grand opening, but no, I just checked, they open in October! We can't be going to a movie, there isn't anything we have been dying to see. Every time I asked Marc kept telling me I was wrong! Finally Saturday morning makes it's way. Maybe a water park, do I wear a swimming suit and risk looking stupid if our adventure doesn't involve swimming? Before jumping in the shower, I tell Marc he has to pick out my clothes since he knows where we are going. Lying on the bed, shorts, a top and flip flops on the floor, well, I wear this everyday... this doesn't help my racing mind at all! After I finish getting ready he poses me with a question, "do you want to eat breakfast here or there?" A perfect opportunity to get more clues out of him, "Well, what can we eat if we eat out?" I can't tell you, it will give it away, ok..."Are we eating lunch out too?", his response, "If you want..." Still so confused! We decide to eat a small breakfast incase we decide we want to eat while we are out. After eating it is time to go, I ask before leaving, "Do I need to bring the camera incase there is a good blogging opportunity?" After a small chuckle, he replies, "if you want".

We get in the car and start driving south on the 51. All I can think of is the Air Port, but I doubt we are taking a day trip to a far off land. We exit off the freeway at Cactus, um, I am really lost! As we drive I see a cute park with a ton of tents! My first thought, "Oh how cute! We should go there one day", wait that's it! "Are we going to a Farmer's Market?" Very proudly Marc replies, "Yep!" I love my husband! He is such a great guy! One of our favorite activities in Rexburg was going to the Farmer's Market every week. He was waiting at the dentist when he saw an ad in Phoenix Magazine about Farmer's Markets here. He got online and found the closest one to us. We went and had a free slice of Great Harvest Bread, which we had no idea was in Phoenix, and we tasted lots of other yummy treats! After making the rounds we decided to buy some fresh green beans, homemade beef jerky, tabouli, and fresh fire roasted chilies! It was a fun little adventure and extra points to Marc for being so creative! The great thing about the Farmer's Markets in AZ, they are open every Saturday! So we now have a fun little Saturday morning date!

When we got home from our fun little adventure, Ben and Danielle were getting ready to go to the lake. Her uncle was taking the scouts out on his boat and another leader had a boat, only 3 scouts showed up. So we hurried and changed and went out to the lake for a few hours. There was a huge storm heading in that brought an early end to our trip, but it was fun! Marc and I went on the other boat and went tubing! It has really been YEARS since I have been tubing! We had so much fun! Marc went in the tube the first time with two of the scouts. He had a great fall! His feet flew over his head and he had a nice little back flip into the water. After about 30 minutes the boys were ready for a break. Then Marc and I got in with one of the boys. Marc flew out, after he got in we were going fine, then all of a sudden we took a hard crash and all three of us flew out! The water was so warm though that it felt nice to take a little swim! It was a fun afternoon! Here are a few pictures of Marc tubing, I didn't get any of me, there is also one of Marc and I, don't mind his duck like fluff, that was after air drying from being in the water!



We had such a fun weekend! It is always nice to spend time together and relax!

Fruit Pizza!

Every Sunday Marc and I have been having dinner with my family. This last week, I offered to bring the dessert. My mom told me that the missionaries were coming so I needed to plan a little extra. I had a hard time deciding what to make. I wanted to make something a little on the healthy side, but still a tasty treat. I settled on fruit pizza. It was so delicious! I haven't made it on a couple of years, but I would eat it all the time if I could! For those of you that have never made it, here is the simple recipe for you to try!

Fruit Pizza
Crust: Sugar Cookie
Your favorite sugar cookie recipe, or a pre-made sugar cookie dough to save time

Sauce
8oz package of cream cheese
1/3 cup sugar
vanilla to taste

Bake the cookie dough on a pizza pan or cookie sheet. Mix all ingredients together for the sauce until creamy. Spread over cookie. Top with your favorite fruit. We used a peach, kiwi, strawberries, and blackberries.

Here are some pictures of how our turned out. I must say this is a tasty summer treat, and if you put enough fruit, it can be kind of healthy! Enjoy!

Lunch with the Girls and Watermelon Cookies

Saturday my mom, sister, grandma, aunts, and cousins got together for a "girls day". We met up at Tempe Market Place and ate lunch at Paradise Bakery. After a delicious lunch, the little girls and their mom left and the rest of us went to see "Julia & Julie". So cute! But like my mom says, for a Saturday matinee, my 13 year old sister and I were the youngest two in the theater. The average age was about 60, and there were maybe 15 guys! The movie was so cute, I would see it again! After the movie, my mom, sister and I walked around and spent some good mom and daughter time together! After lunch we took a group picture, this is all the girls on my moms side, minus my moms sister and her cute 4 year old. It was so much fun to have a girls day!

Yesterday my sister in law was having an open house for the preschool she is starting. She needed cookies, so in the mist of cleaning and getting the preschool room ready, I made these cute summer cookies!


I will admit I was blog stalking and found them on someone's blog, but they were so fun I had to try. We made sugar cookie dough and dyed it green. I rolled them out and used a cup to cut them since we didn't have a circle cookie cutter. Then I cut each circle in half before baking them. We frosted them with pink frosting and used mini chocolate chips for the seeds. I hear they were a hit, but I have eaten a few and they a were tasty! I forgot to take pictures before they were served, so some of the seeds are missing, but you get the idea! I am glad I got to try them before summer comes to an end!

Cupcakes, Airplanes, and Friends!

A few months ago I made Crab Cupcakes. A friend of mine saw them and asked if I would make cupcakes for her luau birthday party this last weekend. Even though it was still a month and a half away, I agreed. I started thinking of all kinds of ideas for them. We finally decided on flip flops and umbrellas. I made 48 pairs of flip flops out of fondant. After the birthday girl and I looked all over town we couldn't find the umbrellas, so I took matters into my own hands and used my creativity and photoshop to make these:

I did have a few umbrellas left from the crab cupcakes, so I added one for the birthday girl to have a special one. I found some tiki color pages and used them for the template for the ones I made.

I think they turned out pretty cute. I hear they were a hit at the party!

Saturday was also the Rexburg Air Show. Air Shows are something that my family always went to. My grandpa LOVED planes and love to share that with all his family. Our friends Steve and Christine came into town and we went and watched the show in the park. There were some pretty cool planes. It was so loud. We live a little less than a mile from the airport here, it is just a tiny private plane airport, but it was so loud all day! I only got a few pictures, but the planes were doing some pretty cool tricks.


They did tons of formations, loops, spins, one even stalled in the air and hovered for a little while. It was a lot of fun to be outside! The weather was perfect and decided to hold the rain until after the air show! Over all it was a fun and busy weekend!

Ultimate Chicken Noodle Soup!

I love trying new recipes and being creative. Luckily so does Marc, he also loves to help me cook, so I feel like I can take on a little bit more challenging recipes. Last week we were watching Tyler's Ultimate on Food Network. He was making the Ultimate Rainy day lunch. He made amazing brownies, grilled cheese with mozzarella and pesto, and the Ultimate Chicken Noodle Soup. In place of the chicken he used chicken apple sausage, and in place of the noodles he used torteillini! We both love soups and got really excited to try it. When we made our dinner list it was the first thing on there. It has been raining for about a week and sounded so good, especially since it hasn't been higher than 60 degrees! We were so excited we couldn't wait until Thursday like we planned, so we made it Sunday! Delicious!! Mine did not look quite as pretty as this

We will definitely be making this again! It really is a time consuming meal. I put Marc on meatball duty and I took over the rest. If their weren't tow of us it would have taken about 3 hours to make. If you do the meatballs before of have someone help you, you can put them in in the right step. Marc said he bragged to everyone at school about how good it was! It is kind of expensive if you have to buy a lot for it. Most of it we usually have but happened to run out before we made it! I halved the recipe and there were still too many noodles. Anyway, here is the recipe. Let me know if you try it and what you think!

Ingredients
For the soup:
Extra-virgin olive oil
3 cloves garlic, smashed
2 large carrots, chopped
1 medium onion, chopped
2 ribs celery, sliced
1 bay leaf
4 fresh thyme sprigs
3 quarts low-sodium chicken broth
5 parsley stems, plus 1/4 cup finely chopped flat-leaf parsley, for garnish
4 black peppercorns
Kosher salt
Grated Parmigiano-Reggiano, for garnish
For the meatballs:
1 medium onion, diced
Olive oil
6 links organic chicken-apple sausage meat
1 egg
1 teaspoon fresh thyme leaves
1 handful fresh parsley leaves
1/4 cup grated Parmigiano-Reggiano
2 pounds frozen cheese tortellini, store bought
Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
Directions
For the soup:
Set a large stock pot over medium heat. Add olive oil, half the garlic, carrot, onion, celery, bay leaf, and thyme and gently saute until fragrant, about 5 to 7 minutes. Pour in chicken broth, add parsley stems, black peppercorns and salt, to taste. Bring to a boil then reduce heat to simmer while you work on meatballs and tortellini.
For the meatballs:
Caramelize the diced onion in a saute pan with a little olive oil over medium heat. Add the sausage, egg, onion, thyme, parsley, and cheese to the bowl of a food processor and pulse until they all come together. Season with salt and pepper. Heat a skillet with a few tablespoons of olive oil until just smoking. Use a small ice cream scoop to drop meatballs onto skillet. Cook, turning, until golden brown.
Drop tortellini straight from freezer into soup. Cook until they float. Once meatballs are browned, add to pot of chicken broth. Bring to a simmer and cook for 2 or 3 minutes. Give soup a final seasoning and serve in shallow bowls with a small shower of Parmesan, olive oil, and parsley.

We didn't add the extra olive oil, and used dried thyme, but next time, we are going to do it all! Have fun and enjoy!

Oh, and Today is Marc's birthday, despite the fact that he wishes it were not! Look for pictures and updates for that!

Crab Cupcakes

Our friends are moving to Arizona this week. They decided to have a little dinner party with all of their friends. When I RSVP'd I said I would bring dessert. Cupcakes are pretty easy to make, but I wanted to make them special. Their 3 year old saw a picture of their apartment in Phoenix and thought they were moving to the beach because of the pool and palm trees. When you ask her what is at the beach she says "crabs, pinch pinch" and makes her hands into pinchers. That is quite the long intro, but she gave me the idea to make beach cupcakes. I couldn't find any I liked online, so these are all to my credit. Here are some pictures of the cupcakes!


I used a box, and a can of frosting, but I think they are pretty cute! I frosted them, then dipped them into graham cracker crumbs for sand. I made frosting for the crabs then used chocolate sprinkles for the eyes. Then to make it a little more fun and beachy, I added drink umbrellas!


They were pretty yummy too! We are sad that they are leaving, but we are glad we will be living just as close to them in AZ as we have been for the last few months! But now I am thinking I should go into cupcake business?!

Easter Cupcakes and a Fun Friend

I really wanted to make a fun Easter treat, but I didn't want to make a whole cake since it is just the two of us. I saw a fun idea to decorate Easter cupcakes in my 500 Cupcakes cookbook. I decided I wanted I wanted to try them, especially since it "required" Cadbury Mini Eggs, which are pretty much my weakness at Easter time. I made them last night. The cupcake didn't turn out so good, I don't think I will be using the recipe again, but I mostly wanted to decorate them. I think they look pretty cute what do you think? It is supposed to look like a little birds nest. You used shaved chocolate for the nest, I also saw that you could use baked pie crust, but, I am a chocolate addict!



Also, on Tuesday we took some family photos for our friends the Marshalls. We spent the warm afternoon at the park and on campus taking some good shots. When we got in the car to go to campus their little girl Belle was sad that we weren't in the car with them, they told her we were lost and they had to find us. She started saying Marc where are you, Melissa come back, I miss you too much! Of course she said it like a 3 year old would, but we are glad she likes us. When we were walking back to our car she wanted to walk with Marc, so I took a few pictures of them. She was holding onto his back pocket the whole way, it was really cute! He will make such a great daddy one day!


It's not just Marc that Belle likes so much. I was over there today for a little while, it was really rainy last night and everything is wet, so I took my shoes off, I stood up to leave and was talking to Christine, I turned around to put my shoes on and Belle had taken them into her room to hide them so I couldn't leave! I asked her where my shoes were and she took me to her toy box in her room. I took one out and but it on and she threw the other onto her dresser. We are glad that our friends kids like us as much as their parents do.

Russian Food and General Conference Weekend

We heard about a Russian restaurant called Ida-Russkie in Idaho Falls. Since Marc served in Ukraine he really wanted to try it. The food is all the same. We never got around to going until this weekend. We went with our friends Steve and Christine and their cute little girls. When we found the restaurant, we were pretty disappointed to find out that they closed at 4pm, it was a little after 5. Marc went in and began talking with the owner, the restaurant is in a little office area and there is no door. He said that we wanted to try some food, she asked if we could come the next day, which we couldn't. Marc told her that he had served in Ukraine. She immediately "chastised" him for not speaking to her in Russian. She then told him that she would make us dinner and showed him on the menu the things she would make for us. We went in and sat down and she began bringing us food. We started with borsch, which is a beet and cabbage soup. It was delicious! Here is Marc eating his borsch, it was a very nostalgic moment for him, he said the smell and taste reminded him of his mission.

We then had gollopse (not sure about the spelling) which is basically a meatball made with ground meat and rice wrapped in cabbage, with a sweet red sauce. Yum, it was so tasty! Here again is Marc eating and enjoying his mission memories, and excited that he can still speak Russian fluently!

The last and final course was blini, or a crepe with tvorog, which is a type of cheese. Marc says the cheese isn't very good, but we had strawberry and chocolate mixed in ours and it was so good! I could eat it all the time! Here is Marc showing off on of his favorite treats!

The tvorog help fill our friend Steve's April part of his New Year's resolution to eat a new food, we were glad we could help him, and spend time with their family. As we were leaving Marc saw this dog in a car and couldn't help but take a picture, I'm posting it just for him!

Saturday between sessions of conference we made a huge traditional conference breakfast of homemade cinnamon rolls, breakfast casserole, and fruit. We invited Steve and Christine to come over and help us eat it. We watched Ratatouille while we ate. I took this cute picture of Belle cuddling Marc on the couch watching her movie.

We had a great weekend! Thanks Steve and Christine for hanging out with us and letting us watch your cute girls!

Snowy Dinner, Lychees, and Being Stuck in the Dark!

Sunday when we left for church it was really windy and cold. Luckily we have church at 9am because around 2 or 3 we could hardly see out our windows, the wind was blowing hard and it was snowing. We were planning on having steak for dinner, but when we looked at our grill we saw this,

We decided to broil the steak so Marc didn't have to sit outside, and we really didn't feel like brushing off the grill. Unfortunately, we won't see weather higher than the 40's for awhile still!

My brother is serving a mission in Madagascar. There is not a lot of native food there that we have here in the U.S. One of his current favorite foods is lychees. Not the blood sucking creatures, I promise! It is a fruit, you can get it in the U.S, but it is canned. I found it at the store and really wanted to get them, just to try. They taste like pears, but the texture is really tough. Marc had them on his mission in Ukraine, he did not like them, so I was kind of scared. Here are the pictures we took, it's okay to laugh, and the faces I made were mostly because Marc would tell me to then sneak a picture!




Monday night at around 10:15 our lights flickered and went out. We knew most of the town was out of power because it was pitch black in our apartment! We looked out side and it was really dark, it was also cloudy, so there wasn't even light from the moon. We can see the highway from our bedroom window, and the other side of the highway as far as we could see was really dark too. We watched a movie on the computer while we waited for the power to com back on, but at midnight when it was still dark, we decided to go to sleep. It didn't help that it was in the low 20's and the heat wouldn't work, so we packed blankets on the bed and went to sleep. I woke up a few hours later when I heard the TV in the living room turn on, I knew the power must be back, but don't TV's stay off if the power comes back on? Marc got up to adjust the heater and turn off the TV, he looked at the time, it was 2am, four hours with out power and heat. Thank goodness for modern living! We used our phones to help us find the flashlight, but electricity and heat are much better!

I also forgot to mention that I got my hair done at the Paul Mitchell Hair Academy on Friday, I had highlights put in, Marc dropped me off on his way to class and was worried about me getting home, it isn't that far a walk. But I got done about the time he got home from class five hours later. It was long, but I love it. You can see the new do in the pictures above!

That is what has been going on with us. We are hoping the warm weather comes back, Marc has finals next week, then he starts his last semester of college! We can't wait!

Strawberry Chocolatey Goodness!

On Saturday Marc went grocery shopping and I stayed home to get some house work done. I think this is the first time Marc has gone shopping for our weekly trip all by himself. I was a little worried about what he would come home with, but he got everything on the list, and only bought 4 boxes of cereal that weren't on the list. He even saved over $24! He said that they were having a huge sale on General Mills cereal and he just couldn't pass it up! Too bad Sunday was Fast Sunday, all day long I kept thinking about the Coco Puffs Combos, the Honey Kix, the Strawberry Chex, and the Chocolate Chex, it did not help the rumbling in my stomach.

At about 10:30 I had a bad headache, which no matter what I do, always comes on Fast Sundays all day long! I should have just gone to bed, but Marc suggested I have some cereal and medicine. I was so full from our yummy dinner with the Briggs, but I couldn't pass up the idea of the Strawberry and Chocolate Chex mixed! It was delicious! Not something I would send the kids off to school with, but for a late night snack it was tasty! I suggest you go find these and keep them on hand, it was so good! In the end, he did a great job shopping, and got some yummy stuff!

Cheap Lunch!

Since Marc and I both studied/are studying advertising we love commercials, sometimes, and love creative advertising. Since the Superbowl we have been looking a lot into the publicity stunt from Jack in the Box. For those of you who may not know, Jack, the mascot, was hit by a bus and is in a coma. You can watch video clips, and leave messages for Jack, and keep up on his condition at hangintherejack.com I was looking at the updated stuff and found out that today, Feburary 24th, is FREE TACO DAY! Their tacos are super unhealthy, but they bring back memories from many adventures for both of us, so, we printed out our coupons, and headed off thinking we were going to have to battle the crowds, we were wrong! There was no one there! They were not advertising the tacos, you had to check in on Jack to know! So, we got our tacos, and some fries, and both ate a not very healthy lunch for under $2! It was fun to get out for a little while, and get free food! So, if you have time and want tacos, they are handing them out if you have a coupon until 11:59 tonight!

More Cookies!

I had so much fun decorating the cookies Monday night, and we had tons of frosting left, so I made a few more cookies to give to the girls I visit teach. They turned out so cute I just had to post some pictures!





Maybe I should take this up as a hobby? Cookies anyone?

A Sweet FHE

I have been wanting to make and decorate Valentines cookies for awhile, but sometimes it just takes so long! Plus, we didn't need to have a ton of decorated cookies just waiting for us to eat them. We decided to invite a few friends, the Marshalls, the Briggs, the Hawthornes, and the Christophers, over to help. I made the frosting and cookies earlier in the day so they were ready to go. We asked everyone to bring sprinkles and/or candy to decorate with. We had so much fun chatting and decorating. I think more cookies went home in stomachs than on plates, but they looked so good you just had to eat them! Belle had so much fun playing while we decorated. She kept getting the really good colored things all over her hands, we tried to take a picture, but she got a little camera shy!

Here is how we set up the room before people came over,


Here we are decorating, we only got one picture and not everyone made it in...


Here is my plate as I was decorating, I didn't know Marc was taking the picture,


And this is what they looked like, Shaylen got really creative and made a 3-layer cookie, it looked so yummy!




We had so much fun with all our friends, and eating the cookies! Thanks to everyone who came and played with us!

Apple Pie!

Marc's family has a tradition that Marc wants to have in our family. Every Christmas morning his mom makes turnovers. She usually buys the Pillsbury boxed ones, but those can be hard to find. Luckily, for Christmas we got a wonderful Barefoot Contessa cookbook! We found a recipe for turnovers and decided to give it a try before we made it a tradition. They turned out wonderful, except we had quite a bit of filling left, we followed the recipe! While we were at the store we saw that pie crusts were 50 cents! So we decided to use the rest of our turnover filling to make pie. Of course this doesn't fit into our healthy eating, but it was delicious! The turnover called for dried cranberries, so we put them in the pie too! It turned out so good, except we aren't eating it so good! If you want some come on over! It was so fun to make together!

Midnight Snacks!

I have been trying to eat healthier the last couple of weeks to get rid of the holiday weight. Unfortunately, part of losing weight is craving food, not like I was starving myself, I just get hungry more. I have been trying to eat healthy snacks, but sometimes it is so hard! I am so glad I have a wonderful husband who supports my new diet! Last week at about 9 o'clock, I was really wanting to eat. I kept telling my self that I didn't need to eat that late at night. I was too tired to just go to bed, and watching Food Network just kept the cravings coming. I think Marc got sick of it because at about 10:30 he got up and made us both a snack. He told me I had to eat it so I wouldn't complain anymore! About 5 minutes later he walked out of the kitchen with this

This is only about half of what he made, we ate it before I decided to take a picture of it. He was so proud of his ants on a log, he even convinced me that the chocolate chips were healthy!

Then Tuesday night I had a RS Presidency meeting. They had dinner for us, but the sugar cookies were bigger than the meal and I needed something more. When I came home Marc said he would make me dinner. I told him I wanted salad with tomato and hard-boiled egg. We had a bag of salad in the fridge, (again to help me eat better), Marc added a little cheese and Goldfish crackers to what I asked. He was so happy of his salad! So, I took a picture


This was before he tossed it, he really didn't add that much too it. After I ate my delicious salad, Marc told me that he likes our blog because it is the only place he gets recognized. This isn't true, he knows how much I love him, especially when he makes me yummy snacks!

Popcorn Making and Family Home Evening Adventures!

I decided a couple weeks ago that I was going to make carmel corn and take it to our friends in the ward for Christmas. So Sunday night we made a list of people, visiting teachees, home teachees, the rest of the Relief Society Presidency (I am the secretary), and our friends. We decided that we should hand them out this week since school is ending soon, and we are planning on leaving for the break soon too. We went to the store to gather the few supplies that we didn't have, and set to work. Marc had some homework to do, so I popped the popcorn in our stove top popper! This is what it looked like after I popped all that we thought we needed.


It is in a paper grocery sack, but that it part of the recipe! Don't worry, I'll add it at the end. Next you make the carmel, the best part, it can be done in the microwave in just a few minutes! As I was making the carmel, Marc decided he could put his homework on hold, I think he liked how it smelled! He helped me pour the carmel into the bag, and then shake it up! Here he is working hard on shaking it! We should have used 2 bags since we doubled it!


Then we set it out to cool, and I forgot to take pictures! We then divided it into all the bags to hand out, and realized that it wasn't enough! So, we decided to make one more batch, we knew we didn't have enough brown sugar, so we decided to drizzle chocolate on it! I will apologize to anyone who had it, because I didn't like it too much! I don't know what happened, but it was really gooey even after letting it sit, we used a little in each bag to top it off. I have had it before and it is pretty good! I don't know where we went wrong! Here is what the chocolate popcorn looked like,

Then, we loaded up the bags, and put little Christmas tags on them. This is what they looked like after we finished putting them together.


We then headed off into the cold night air! I forgot to mention that when we woke up Monday morning there was a couple inches of snow covering EVERYTHING (snow pictures to come soon)! So, we made our way to each apartment, luckily we all live in the same place, and delivered the popcorn! When we got home we checked the temperature, it was a toasty 24 degrees! I bundled up pretty good! But my nose was pretty red! Here I am after coming home from our cold adventure!


Here is the recipe, it is super easy, and fun. It goes really fast, and makes yummy carmel corn!

10-12 cups of popped popcorn= 1/2 cup unpopped (Don't use microwave popcorn, air popped is the best!)
Place popcorn in a paper grocery sack.
In a glass container combine:
1 cube butter
1 cup packed brown sugar
1/4 cup light Karo Syrup
Microwave on high for 3 minutes, stir, microwave another 2 minutes
Then stir in
1/2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp vanilla
Pour over popped popcorn, fold down top of bag and shake.
Microwave on high (in the paper bag) 1 1/2 minutes.
Shake and microwave 1 minute.
Shake one last time, then pour onto a greased cookie sheet to cool.

Let me know if you make it and what you think! Marc was surprised that it went so fast and tasted so good!

Amish Friendship Bread!

A good friend of mine gave me some Amish Friendship Bread. For those of you who don't know what that is, it is a bread that takes 10 days to make. You let it sit on the counter and ferment. Then after ten days you mix it all up, and divide it out. You keep one for you that is ready to make, then give the rest of the divided bread dough away, unless you want to be baking bread every 10 days. Anyway, it is a vert yummy sweet bread that would be perfect for a breakfast treat! I now have two loaves of delicious bread, and 3 bags of bread dough. I would keep doing it, but I don't really want to bake in another 10 days since we won't be here anyway! So if you are in Rexburg and need something to do in 10 days, let me know before Wednesday and I can drop off a bag and the recipe. You can't make the bread on your own, you have to have the dough given to you and the work partially done. It is fun if you have never done it before, so if you want some let me know! As an added bonus, it makes the house smell so good! I made it while Marc was in class and he could smell the cinnamon when he walked in the door! Since I really want to get rid of it, if you are in AZ and want it, I will bring it to you since we will be there for Thanksgiving. Let me know!