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!

What a Wonderful Husband I Have!

When Marc and I first met 4 years ago, I was on the Dance Committee for the school. I got free tickets to every dance and was expected to be there. Shortly after we broke up one of the first times... there was a dance that I had to go to. Since we were still good friends I asked if he wanted to come with me. Marc doesn't like dancing, so we sat and talked the whole time, we didn't even get our picture taken! Marc says we did dance, but I was much better about writing in my journal back then and I wrote that we didn't, the journal never lies! I teased him about it forever! Being a dancer, I love to dance, it really doesn't matter where I am. After we got engaged I would tell him we had to dance at least once, I didn't want our first dance at our reception to be our first dance ever! I think we danced once! Even after we got married I would beg him to dance with me, but he really isn't into the dancing thing, even with me. So, a few weeks ago Marc came home with some really pretty flowers, see Flowers, Sushi and Pumpkin Cookies, I also tease him about not buying me flowers, he is just shy, even with me. When he walked in the door with the flowers I was sitting on the couch. He came up to me and said he had a question for me, then he asked me to go to the Fall Formal with him. I was so excited because he really did want to go! We had a lot of fun dancing. The school Jazz Band played all night, and one of the Vocal groups sang throughout the night. Marc actually danced with me! We had so much fun! We felt kind of out of place, everyone else was kind of awkward, there was maybe one other married couple there. Marc even let us get our picture taken! I don't know if you can tell, but I have cute red shoes on! Marc tried to match me too! It was so much fun to reminisce on the past, and now I don't have to tease him about dancing with me! He even let me teach him how to swing dance! What a GREAT Husband I have!
The dance was about 2 weeks ago, but here is the picture!

Election 2008

My dad sent me this e-mail the other day. I showed it to Marc today and we both had a good laugh. Right now we are watching the SNL Presidential Bash. Tina Fey really looks like Sarah Palin, and it reminded me of this e-mail. I decided to post it because it makes me laugh everytime I look at it. You can tell me what you think!

Incase you can't read what the caption says, it says, "Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Alaska anymore"!
It really doesn't matter your political views, this is really funny! I just can't stop laughing! It wasn't until Marc pointed it out that I realized Obama, Biden, and McCain were all pictured as well! Gotta love Photoshop!

I should also mention that I got a text message from a very republican friend of mine, saying that to prevent long lines at the polls, all Obama voters have been asked to vote on Wednesday. Can you tell who I support...



McCain, Palin '08!

If you are in Arizona, don't forget to vote YES on prop 102!

Picture Tag!

Here are the rules: You have to post the 4th picture in the 4th folder in your pictures folder. Then give a brief description before you tag a few others.

And the Picture is...


I worked at Dillard's in the Men's Fragrance department about 2 years ago. One of my favorite jobs! We always had so much fun! My family loved it too, I would come home smelling like 80 different types of cologne, but they also reaped the benefits of free cologne and perfume! This picture is actually at our store launch party for KISS Cologne. It was a few days before halloween. Our Manager had all the girls in both Men's and Women's come in early. We had a Mac make-up counter in our store, for those of you who really know Mac, they usually wear ridiculously large amounts of make-up. Anyway, they did all of our Make-up for the day free! My eyes were so dark! Anyway, the corporate company wanted a picture of all the launch parties across the country. So this is both the Men's Department, and Women's. We all had t-shirts that said "You'll Never Forget Your First..." on the front with "KISS" and a crazy picture on the back! Here is the creepy part, this crazy guy came in who is a die hard Kiss fan, he had his 5 year old daughter dress up like one of the band members, and I am pretty sure he was in the store all day. We took these pics, and as we were finishing he made us stay where we were and put his daughter in and took another hundred pictures. A few days later he came back and told us that he sent a picture and a story to Gene Simmons (the lead singer, for those that don't know) personal website! Well the picture and a little story were posted! That is why the picture is such bad quality, I had to save it from the website! Anyway, that is my little story...enjoy!

P.S. I am on the top left, crazy huh! The crazy guys daughter is in the front, with the full make-up. Poor kid walked around the mall like that all day!

Now I tag...Beth, Ainsley, Katelyn, and Jaimie

Have fun!

Pumpkin Carving!

This last monday for Family Home Evening Marc and I decided to carve pumpkins. We went to Brolium's, an Idaho grocery chain, because they were selling them by the pound, and not a flat price. All the smaller ones were gone, I guess it was a popular night to carve! We ended up getting two that in total weighed about 50 pounds, but we spent less than $10! We covered the table in newspaper and started. Marc does not like pulling the "guts" out so he did his best! The pumpkins were huge! It took forever to hallow them out and carve them, not to mention the fact that our good knives are in Arizona, so we were using some pretty dull ones! We had fun though, Marc made a pretty big mess, I am thinking when we have kids, the pumpkin carving will take place outside!

Here we are preparing our creative thoughts, or to cut up the pumpkins...


Here are our pumpkins when we were through!



Happy Halloween!!!

Rexburg Temple at Sunset, and Yummy "Bat Cave" Cake!

Marc is taking a digital photography class this semester. Since we both really love to take pictures it has been a fun thing to find places around town and take pictures. Thursday night there was an amazing sunset, and we were hoping that Friday night would bring the same. So, we packed up the camera and tripod and headed for the Temple. We got some pretty good shots, but unfortunately they turned out pretty grainy. Marc wants to play with them in Photoshop, but I was looking at some of them today and decided I would post a few. We might go again, but when we left the Temple a little after 7 it was in the 30's, so we will see if we get back up there soon or not. This is one we took right after we got there, the sun was just starting to set, but the silhouette of the Temple it so pretty!

This is us standing in the field, Marc had to run out to me, the field was so dusty! We both left with messy shoes, and quite the rock collection, there were a ton in my shoes!

We are so blessed to have such a beautiful place so close to us!

We also had our ward Halloween party Saturday night. We made a yummy chocolate bundt cake, that Marc calls "The Chase Family Secret Recipe" We decided that since there was a dessert contest we would get a little creative with the cake. We called it the bat cave. We put a bat stencil on it and powder sugar to add a few bats on it, then we put dry ice in the middle, unfortunately we put too much in the cup so that when we added water it froze into one solid block! The cake looked so lonely on the plate so we added a few candy corn around it! Unfortunately we didn't win, but I promise, this is more than just a chocolate cake! It is so yummy! Marc was so glad we had some left, he isn't very good at sharing yummy treats with others!

No Office = 2 Hour Video Game Session

We were very excited to watch the new episode of The Office last night, but for some reason there was an Idaho debate on. We were both very bummed and needed to take out some of our frustration. We finally found Mario Kart for our Wii about two months ago, and shortly after realized that we could set it on a setting to play every single course, there are 32. We figured it would take us about 2 hours, but we were ready. The time flew by pretty fast, and we basically dominated! Marc came in 1st with over 400 points, and I came in 2nd with about 300 points. It was kind of fun just to play, and it brought back many childhood memories for both of us. I don't know when, if ever, we will do it again, but we were both so sad that there was no office on, we had to take our frustration out on Mario, Luigi and the gang. It did help, although I was pretty upset, I am pretty sure that everyone was ganging up on me the whole time, I mean really I got hit every time anything was thrown! Marc and I decided to team up and help each other out, it actually worked pretty well! We are always up for a little competition though, so if anyone wants to play let us know!