Monday, January 14, 2008

Don Marco

A friend of mine sent me a forward about an amazing artist.
Don Marco was born in Northern Minnesota in the late 1920's. His interest in art was evident even before starting school. As a young adult in the Army Air Corp, he began his life's career in Air Traffic Control, which continued until his retirement from Honolulu International Airport in 1973. Much of his spare time was spent as a professional artist. Before retirement, Don started developing a technique to create fine art, using Crayola Crayons. Shortly after retiring, he published his first print. Living in Southern California, his work was in demand, including commissions from Burt Reynolds and a one-man show at his Dinner Theater in Florida .

Here are just a few samples...

Eagles

Christ

John Wayne


End of the Day

Friday, January 11, 2008

Stuck

Persuasive ESSAY!!! Yikes!

For English class I need to write a persuasive essay. It should be 2-3 pages long. Of course I'll probably just end up doing 2 pages. I need to come up with a topic and I have no idea what it should be. So give me some ideas!

Maybe something we disagree on, and I can persuade you otherwise! lol

~~ update >>> I've come up with 4 different topics. So please vote on the poll. Thanks! If you have another topic you can still suggest a it.

Thursday, January 10, 2008

Another Birthday

Today is my sister's birthday. She is now 3.7417 x 3.7417 well about that anyways she is 14!! In 2 more months I'll be 4x4.

So you're probably wondering what I got my sis for her bday. Well I got her a $20 watch for Christmas and she didn't get me anything!! :0 so anyways the watch is for Christmas and her bday. I'm like now you're going to have to get me a big bday present to make up for it! :)

Wednesday, January 09, 2008

No more politics, just think!

Are you democratic or Republican? Are you conservative or liberal? Do you think abortion should be illegal? Are Republicans for or aganist gun control? What are your views? These are some of the questions I've been asking myself in Civics class. It is so good to think that in heaven we won't have to deal with all this mess anymore, never again. Well this class ends on the 24th I think so then I'll be moving on to PA history. Which will be pretty cool I think. But won't it be even more cool when we get to heaven we'll study everythings history and we'll have all the facts at our fingertips and be able to ask God questions, and always get a sure answer because he knows all and sees all. God Bless!

By the way I decided I'm a Conservative Republican and I'm aganist abortion (of course, those poor babies!) and for gun control! yeah!

Monday, December 24, 2007

Lanaya eating a cupcake



Getting ready for Christmas!

We’ve had several snow falls, but the snow is mostly melted now, since it rained a lot yesterday. I wish we could have a white Christmas, but it doesn’t look like we are going too. It is 43 after all.
Tomorrow is Christmas! I have been really enjoying my Christmas break. And all the preparations are almost complete!
The Tree



Cupcakes
Chocolate "Greek" pie

"Greek" stuffed peppers

Red and Green for Christmas


We'll be making greek pizza tomorrow. I'll probably post the recipe and pics when we actually make it. You make it with pita bread and spinach and a special kind of cheese and red peppers, so it's green and red too. More later...

Wednesday, December 19, 2007

SIGN IN A STORE WINDOW


This sign was prominently displayed in the window of a business in Philadelphia . You are probably outraged at the thought of such an inflammatory statement. However, we are a society which holds Freedom of Speech as perhaps our greatest liberty. And after all, it is just a sign. You may ask what kind of business would dare post such a sign.

Answer: A Funeral Home (Who said morticians had no sense of humor?) You gotta love it!

God Bless America

Getting Better



I had a cold last week and had to skip some school. But I'm getting better and plugging along in my schoolwork this week. I can't beleieve Christmas is so soon! Here is a picture of our tree:

Monday, December 10, 2007

wow

I can't BELIEVE it's only 15 days until Christmas!

NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I woke up Saturday morning, tumbled out of bed, went to the closet to get dressed for church. I came out and Mandy was crying soooo hard. My mom came in the room teary eyed, and sat on my bed. She told me she had bad news and I should sit down. Jeffery died. I was in shock. We took him to the vet just last Thursday for some medicine for his mites. He was supposed to get better, not DIE!!!!! How could this happen? I started crying, and kept crying and didn't even have a bite for breakfast. I just sat on the couch and stared out the window. Lanaya and Brentley didn't cry. They didn't even seem sad. They just accepted the fact that rabbits die. But he was sooo young! just a 2yr old bunny. They must not have been very attached to him. So we finally got on our way to church and got there just as the choir was starting to sing. But I couldn't sing, neither could my sister. So just my mom went up. We didn't even go into the sanctuary. We just sat in the nursery and listened to the sermon from there. The people were all sad to hear that our rabbit had died, but the choir director didn't even care! She didn't even care! All she cared about was that we were going to sing in choir! She doesn't care if we have a good time. She doesn't care if we want to. She just doesn't care about anyone except if she looks like a good choir director in front of the whole church. Well guess what, I'm not doing choir next year. I like to sing but I hate the songs she picks, she picked the same one we did last year! We definitely did a better job last year, and she even had a neat little skit to go along with it. But she made the angels, my sis mandy and gabby, hold their arms up in the air for a whole 30 minutes! That was just cruel!!!!! And tshe made us all squish together and stand on a small step. AND we have to wear these STUPID BLUEBERRY GOWNS to sing in!!!! I almost fainted I was so over heated. And they are so dorky and they aren't long enough, but mine is too long for most of the people! I'm taller then most of the people in church, only 1 of the boys is taller then me and my mom and I are the tallest ladies in the whole church. Whenever I'm around the growups they're always commenting on my height!! It is SOOOOOOOOOOOOO annoying!!!! I like being tall, but why do they have to make it such a big deal? And then we went down to sabbath school. And of all things Linda had to use "losing a pet" as an example. And pretty soon everyone was talking about the hamster that died etc etc. Of all days to talk about such a thing. Then the teacher had to use Josh as an example and pick on his height. So he went over to the Junior class and they said he was too tall for them and so he went to Primary and they let him stay. Poor Josh. I don't think he's really short and he is really smart and has such nice curly black hair. His mom is from Brazil. We had to stay at church all day to "save gas". Mandy and gabby practied their piece for the talent show like 1000 times, whoops put 2 2 many 0s in there. lol. They practiced more then the instruments who played along with choir! And mandy and I practiced our piece 2 times. And about the choir, I have a terrible cold, and my voice is just about gone now. So I like lipped some of the high notes I couldn't hit. Noone could tell of course because the silly trumpets and trombones drowned our voices out. lol. Not that they sounded much better. The best part of the whole day was when Mandy and I played "The First Noel" with mandy on piano and me on violin. We did it without music (of course) and then at the end, when the people we done clapping my mom stood up and told everyone that we taught ourselves how to play and that we had never had any lessons. Then we had the white elephant gift exchange. I ended up with some stupid yellow slippers with blue dogs on them and some medium size ladies work gloves that are too small for me or my mom or my sister so they're no good. My sister got some mint m&ms that she shared 1/8c with me. lol. My dad got a corvette! Yeah right, it was some type of silly joke. It was an ancient old beat up bike with corvette written on it. Don't know HOW he's going to get it home or if he even wants it. I don't know if it has any value to it since it is rusty and banged up. But it's probably more then 4 decades old. lol.
sorry for not using proper paragraphs.
Last night I cryed so much I couldn't get to sleep until like midnight. Then I had to get up at 7:30 this morning. Haven't had breakfast yet... wonder what I should go eat.. well better let you go now, this has probably been the longest post yet! bye

Wednesday, December 05, 2007

Christmas Shopping

I'm going to go to town with my mom now... should be fun! I love shopping!

Friday, November 30, 2007

Haircut

I got a haircut and perm on Monday. I really like this new style! It's my first perm ever!

before...
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atfer...
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Thursday, November 29, 2007

Today I did my homework. After I finished I headed down to the laundry room to put some loads in the wash, we have a lot of laundry to catch up on, after I cleaned my room (under the bed) and the closet (in the corners) so we have like 6 large loads. Been trying to keep the washer and dryer running all day. Then I cleaned Jeffery's (my rabbit) cage out. He has to be kept indoors in the cold weather so we recentley bought an indoor cage for him and he stays in the launry room. Then I came upstairs and worked on more homework. Then I baked potatoes and made potatoe salad, and did I mention I folded all the laundry, well, that was clean... I'd better go do some more so I g2g... God Bless!

Did you know?

The main use of coal in the United States is electricity! That's right!
yeah, that's the kind of stuff I'm learning in Earth Science class... and that's where I learned about carbon and diamonds... go to previous post: http://alyssas-place.blogspot.com/2007/11/diamonds-and-graphite.html

Christmas Quiz

1. Wrapping paper or gift bags?
wrapping paper
2. REAL OR FAKE TREE?
fake, the real ones are too expensive, and they just die, it's killing the poor beautiful tree!
3. When do you put up the tree?
sometime after Thanksgiving
4. When do you take the tree down?
Sometime in January or February or whenever we have time

5. Do you like eggnog?
not real eggnog, but I like holly nog, a soy alternative
6. Favorite gift received as a child?
carpenter set
7. Do you have a nativity scene?
no but my mom does
8. Hardest person to buy for?
dad
9. Easiest person to buy for?
mommy
10. Worst Christmas gift you ever got?
a puppet
11. Mail or email Christmas cards?
both
12. Favorite Christmas Movie?
Unaccompanied minors
13. When do you start shopping for Christmas?
December, last minute! that's me, always procrastinating
14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present?
Don't know
15. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas?
cookies
16. Clear lights or colored on the tree?
red and white
17. Favorite Christmas song?
The First Noel
18. Travel at Christmas or stay home?
stay at home, maybe invite friends if they're not too busy
19. Can you name all of Santa's reindeer?
no, just dasher and vixn and oh yeah rudolph!!! the one with the red nose! you know, the red nosed reindeer song thing... oh its SO annoying neways...
20. Angel on the tree top or a star?
Definitely a gold star!
21. Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning?
ASAP as soon as dad gets home from work... usually evening
22. Most annoying thing about this time of year?
people ripping the paper before chirstmas and trying to peek in when you're rapping and noesy little bros and sisters telling you what mom got for you...
23. What I love most about Christmas?
Remembering Christ's birth


Hope you have a wonderful Christmas Season!

Sunday, November 25, 2007

Dry cleaning

On Friday my sister came out of the closet with a dress in her hand. "It says dry clean only, what does that mean?" she said.

Friday, November 23, 2007

Little Women

One of my favorite classic stories is Little Women. I've been a member on Flixer, a movie site for awhile. I just decided to go on today and make a quiz about the movie "Little Women." I took the pictures from the 1994 version of the movie Little Women. So here it is:
My Little Women Quiz

Thanksgiving


I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving. I did, except for being a little sick in the stomach and a slight headache. I did not get sick from over eating though. I have been a little sick since like tuesday. Maybe it was a good thing or I might have over eaten! We made 4 pumpkin pies and 2 apple pies. Sorry no pics I was too lazy to take pics lol. Please vote on "your favorite holiday" poll. Mine personally are:
#1 Christmas
#2 My birthday
#3 Thanksgiving

Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Free Rice

I just helped give a hungry person 500 grains of rice. I didn't get off my chair, or even spend any money. I just went to this website Free Rice and answered 50 questions correctly. It wasn't hard, I did use this website to help me... help As you're enjoying all the food and fun at Thanksgiving time, think of the hungry people all around the world. Go to this website and help!

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

YEAH!!

Mom and Dad have decided if we're going to move or not. The answer is... NO! Yeah!!!! I am so happy, as is my sister, and I think everyone is happy the decision is made.

seagull slideshow

Mandy throwing away our good bread

Mandy wanted to see the seagulls up close, but then they got a little too close! lol

Friday, November 09, 2007

at virginia beach

I'm in the motel room at virginia beach. It's the first time we've had a room with a beach view. I'm not going swimming. The pool is only 4ft deep. :( We had pizza last night. We had a whole pizza leftover so that's what we're going to have for breakfast or maybe lunch. There's a pizza place across the street from the motel so we just walked there. I have school today but I don't know if I'll be able to do it depending on what mom and dad decide. Well at least monday is a holiday so I'll have time to catch up then. We're leaving sometime Sunday, hopefully be back in time for fall festival. We should be. ttyl

Wednesday, November 07, 2007

official poll statement

so the poll is closed now.

5 people voted swimming
3 people voted skiing

Hey guess what! I like swimming too! You can even do it all year round (well, if you have an indoor pool).

Check out the new poll: Favorite time of the Day

random stuff in my life

My life is pretty random right now. So tomorrow we're leaving for Virginia Beach. Can't wait to go swimming! (in the hotel swimming pool of course!! haha tricked you!!) hehehe anyways.

So there's this house, another house. It's a bit bigger then the one we're renting right now. And it's got more land. And it's cheaper. and it's "nicer"... all around... so if they let us, if they say yes, we are going to... well my parents are going to rent it so you know what that means... ANOTHER MOVE

yikes.

(I don't like moving) And another thing. They don't allow pets. I don't want to give my rabbit and dog away. But it's looking like we might have to... :(

Tuesday, November 06, 2007

Diamond Park

MURFREESBORO, Ark. - Chad Johnson has found about 80 diamonds at Crater of Diamonds State Park, but on Monday he nearly threw away his largest find yet. A cube-shaped rock plucked out of his sifters turned out to be a 4.38-carat, tea-colored diamond.

Johnson, 36, made the dig Saturday at the park and left his equipment in a locker. When he came back Monday morning, he made the discovery.

Crater of Diamonds State Park, which opened in 1972, is the world's only diamond-producing site open to the public, and visitors can keep the gems they unearth. The largest diamond found at the park was the 16.37-carat Amarillo Starlight, a white diamond found in 1975.

Johnson's find is the second-largest diamond uncovered at the park this year. In June, a Louisiana man found a 4.8-carat stone. More than 700 diamonds have been found there this year.

Since moving to Arkansas from Iowa in February, Johnson said, he was living off money made by selling diamonds. He only recently took a job at a convenience store, partly because he "got tired of selling diamonds to make ends meet."

Park officials declined to speculate how much money Johnson could get for the diamond. Johnson suggested he expects much more than what he is used to getting.

"If someone offers me that much money, it's theirs," Johnson said.



I would love to go to that park!

Friday, November 02, 2007

Diamonds and Graphite


Did you know that diamonds and graphite are made out of the same chemical, carbon? How then are they so different? Graphite is used in Pencils, and diamonds, well, we all know how valueable diamonds are.


Diamond is the hardest mineral known to man, Graphite is one of the softest.
Diamond is an excellent electrical insulator, Graphite is a good conductor of electricity.
Diamond is the ultimate abrasive, Graphite is a very good lubricant.
Diamond is usually transparent, Graphite is opaque.
Diamond crystallizes in the Isometric system and graphite crystallizes in the hexagonal system.

Okay, most of that is probably all Greek to you, if you haven't heard of words such as "opaque" and "cobalent bonding". But it basically means that they are made out of the same element, carbon, but their atoms are bonded together in a different structure.

Graphite Diamond

Okay, now you might think I'm weird, but I like to take objects lessons from everything, even my earth science schoolwork! So, what I got out of this is we are all made out of the same element, human flesh. But we can use what God has given us to become something useful for him. We might have talents (carbon) that allow us to become a diamond. Or you might have different qualties and gifts that allow you to become a different gem, maybe a quartz. Your job is to do your best with whatever gifts God has given you... no matter if you're a diamond, or graphite, or a quartz or a pearl, you're all beautiful in God's eyes, and you have the ability to do wonderful things for his glory.

Thursday, November 01, 2007

Loves Comes Softly

I have 3 of the Loves Comes Softly movies:

Love Comes Softly

Love's Long Journey

Love's Enduring Promise

And I'm planning on getting the two newest ones:

Love's Abiding Joy

Love's Unending Legacy



Click here for a review: http://www.pluggedinonline.com/movies/movies/a0002914.cfm

My dad won a free trip to Virginia Beach. We'll be gone from the 8th-10th. I'll be taking my laptop with me to try and fit in some schoolwork. Don't know how well that will work. We'll be staying at a place called Dolphin Inn.
Nov 5, which is next Monday, is the last Day of the first nine weeks of school. I have managed to keep all my grades pretty good. My school's grade book has gone wacky so I don't know my exact grade, but I should by Monday, the day when everything is SUPPOSED to be graded, but PAcyber school has been having SO many tech problems, it's very annoying sometimes. Sometimes it won't even let me go in to do my homework! oh well... at least it does today...

I don't know if I've mentioned this before, but I don't like Science class, not one bit. Algebra class is okay, but challenging. English is lots of fun though. And Civics (government) that's pretty fun too. Maybe my grades will reflect my dedication... lol... we'll see.

Tuesday, October 30, 2007

A true friend is someone who knows you're a good egg even if you're a little cracked


These egg shells were cut with a high intensity precision Laser Beam. This gives a very good idea of what can be achieved with a Laser Beam. From this can be surmised what laser surgery performed on one's eye is all about. Is it any wonder how one's vision can be improved in just a few moments? Science is sometimes wonderful, and it's still on the frontier of gaining new knowledge.

Watermelon carvings

I got these pics in an email forward today and thought they were so cool.


the horse is my favorite! :) there are more... but I didn't want to post too many pics.

Monday, October 29, 2007

So Cute!

Did you ever feel like the ducking who just didn't fit in? Just know you're always beautiful in God's eyes.

Thursday, October 25, 2007

Big Full Moon


This is from a space website CLICK HERE
Thanks for forwarding this to me mom.

Left: A big, bright perigee Moon. Right: A lesser apogee Moon.

Tonight's full Moon is the biggest full Moon of 2007. It's no illusion. Some full Moons are genuinely larger than others and this one is a whopper. Why? Read the answer below.

The Moon's orbit is an ellipse with one side 30,000 miles closer to Earth than the other. The full Moon of Oct. 25-26 is located on the near side, making it appear as much as 14% bigger and 30% brighter than lesser full Moons we've seen earlier in 2007.

In the language of astronomy, the two ends of the Moon's orbit are called "apogee" and "perigee." Apogee is the farthest point, perigee the nearest: diagram. This week's full Moon is a "perigee Moon" with extra-high "perigean tides."

The Moon is 14% bigger, but can you actually tell the difference? It's not so easy. There are no rulers floating in the sky to measure lunar diameters. A fun experiment: Take a friend outside Thursday night and ask if they notice anything unusual about the Moon. Explain perigee after they answer.

So small - Carrie Underwood


And yes, that is me.


Wednesday, October 24, 2007

dead fish

My/our (mostly my sister's) betta fish died today. He was pretty old. He wasn't too special, just an ordanary fish who ate fish food and swam all day, and got mad at his reflection in the mirror. Well my mom came in our room and was like "what smells so bad in here?" He was a small fish and he is in the far corner, so I didn't notice. Anyway now he's traveling down the water slide in the bathroom. And that's that.

I wrote your name

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Saturday, October 20, 2007

Tuesday, October 02, 2007

Shelter in the Storm

I've been reading the book "Shelter in the Storm." I just want to share a little of what I read this morning.
page 46
As your conscience has been quickened by the Holy Spirit, you have seen something of the evil of sin, of its power, its guilt, its woe; and you look upon it with abhorrence. You feel that sin has seperated you from God, that you are in bondage to the power of evil. The more you struggle to escape, the more you realize your helplessness. Your motives are impure; your heart is unclean. You see that your life has been filled with selfishness and sin. You long to be forgiven, to be cleanesed, to be free. Harmony with God, likeness to Him, what can you do to obtain it?

It is peace that you need- Heaven's forgiveness and peace and love in the soul. Money cannot buy it, intellect cannot procure it, winsdom cannot attain it; you can never hope, by your own efforts to secure it. But God offers it to you as a gift "without money and without price" (Isaiah 55:1). It is yours if you will just reach out your hand and grasp it. The Lord says "Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool." Isaiah 1:18 "A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit also will I give you." Ezekiel 36:26

You have confessed you sins, and in your heart put them away. You have resolved to give yourself to God. Now go to him, and ask that he will wash away your sins and give you a new heart. Then believe that he does this because he has promised. This is the lesson which Jesus taught while He was on earth, that the gift God promises us we must believe we do recieve , and it is ours. Jesus healed the people of their diseses when they had faith in his power; he helped them in the things which they could see, thus inspiring them with confidence in Him concerning the things which they could not see - leading them to believe in his power to forgive sins. This He plainly stated in the healing of the man with pasly: "That ye may know the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins. Then he said to the sick of the palsy, Arise, take up they bed and go unto thine house." Matthew 9:6 So also John the evangelist says, speaking of the miracles of Christ, "These are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name." John 20:31

Sunday, September 30, 2007

yawn...

Well it's a school day tomorrow so I had better go to bed now...

later...

Going to go shopping now with my mom, will be back later, and will have the video posted later this week. My mom wants me to get a haircut. Do you think I should?
This morning for devotionals I read the whole book of Ruth. I really like my new bible that I received at my baptism with my baptismal certificate.

Saturday, September 29, 2007

High Sabbath

Today was the best Sabbath of my life. I'll be posting some videos and pictures soon.

Friday, September 28, 2007

preferences quiz

I got little quiz this from my friend A.J.'s Mom's blog.

Lace or Ribbon? Ribbon
Mountain or Beach? Beach
Reading or Writing? Writing
Cookie or Cake? cookie, usually more healthy
Baked or Mashed Potato? baked, with soy sour cream
Scrambled or Fried? Scrambled
Fruit or Vegetable? Fruit
Spring or Fall? Spring, My birthday is in Springtime!
Roller Skating or Bowling? Bowling, I'm pretty good at it
DVD or Theater movies? DVD
Wood or Glass? wood
Blue or Green? Green
Chocolate or Vanilla? Vanilla, with chocolate syrup!
Quilting or knitting? Quilting
Early Morning or Late Night? Early Morning
Coffee or Tea? Tea, coffee is awfully terrible tasting and it's bad for you, who would want to drink that yucky stuff?
Watermelon or Strawberry? Strawberries definatley! They're fun to pick and eat.
Lunch or Dinner? Both!
Cold Cereal or Oatmeal? Oatmeal
Song or Dance? Song, I love to sing!
Carpet or Hardwood Floor? Carpet, it's softer.
Red or Pink? Pink
Cat or Dog? Dog
Pretzels or Chips? Chips
Iced Tea or Lemonade? Lemonade
Non-Fiction or Fiction? Both, if they're Christian
Rose or Daisy? Daisy
Sunrise or Sunset? Sunset
Comb or Brush? Brush
Pottery or Basket? Basket
Pen or Pencil? Pencil, they come with erasers, and unfortunately, pens don't.
Couch or Chair? couch
Country or Victorian? Country
Farm or Ranch? Ranch
Braid or Ponytail? Braid
Cash or Check? Both are nice
Chocolate Bar or Jelly Bean? well a small bean has a lot less calories then a chocolate bar, so I'll go for the bean, as long as it isn't a yucky purple one! lol
Coke or Pepsi? Neither, they have caffeine! yikes!
Hot Dog or Cheeseburger? Big Franks, cooked over a campfire! yummy!
Blinds or Curtains? Both
Dress or Pants? Dress
Sun or Moon? Moon, it doesn't hurt your eyes when you look at it.
Adventure or Comedy? Adventure mixed with a little bit of comedy!
Cloud or Star? Star
Lake or River? Lake
Half Full or Half Empty? Half Full
Truck or Car? car, perferably a volkswagon beetle!
Bath or Shower? Shower
Clothesline or Clothes Dryer? Clothes dryer
New or Second Hand? New
Gum or Lifesaver? Lifesaver
Email or Handwritten? Handwritten
July or October? July
Barefoot or Shoes? Shoes, I've cut my feet too many times going barefoot, but I do go barefoot around the house.

Thursday, September 27, 2007

Baptism

My sister and I are going to be baptized this Sabbath. I'll be posting a video and pictures. :) Hopefully anyway. If I can get somebody to take the video. Maybe Korah will...

Another Picture

A picture I took of myself.

Thursday, September 06, 2007

I collect pennies



I have 27 pressed pennies, most of them from zoos.

Stop taking my picture!


no, seriously I asked my sister to take a picture or my hair cause some of you wanted to see the highlights.

Tuesday, August 21, 2007

My sister and I

Banana Creme Pie


I made Banana creme pie for the first time. I got the recipe out of the vegetarian cookbook. My mom has had the cookbook even since we became vegetarian and she's never made it so I decided to make it and boy and I glad I did! It's delicious!

Banana Crème Pie
10 whole graham crackers, ground into fine crumbs (I used a blender to grind them).
¼ cup sugar
6 TBS melted soy margarine

¾ cup sugar
5 TBS cornstarch
1 ½ cups regular soy milk (or rice)
1 teaspoon vanilla
½ teaspoon salt
2 TBS soy margarine
½ pound firm tofu
4 large bananas
1/3 cup coarsely chopped, roasted almonds (opt)

Combine the first three ingredients and mix thoroughly. Press along the bottom and along the sides of a 9.5 inch pie pan to make crust. Bake at 350 degrees until lightly toasted, about 20 minutes. Let cool.

Combine the sugar and cornstarch, then add the soymilk, (or rice) vanilla, and salt. Whisk until well blended. Add the soy margarine and boil over medium heat, stirring frequently, until very thick. Refrigerate until chilled, and then blend in a blender with the ½ lb tofu until smooth and creamy.

Slice the bananas over the cooled crust. Pour the custard on top. Sprinkle with the toasted nuts, and refrigerate until firm, at least an hour.

Photobucket is working again!

Here's sone of the videos we took of the fireworks. The voices you might hear are Korah, Levi and my sister.



Monday, August 20, 2007

fireworks

I was going to post some pictures and videos of the fireworks we watched saturday night. But apparentley photobucket is having some matience issues so I'll have to wait until later today or tomorrow...

Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Fun with Ally, AJ and Mandy

Here's a little mix of some of the videos and pictures of my sister and I in Indiana. You can see I added a few things to the pictures, I hope you think they're funny. I didn't do any of them to be mean, just to be goofy.


Hope you enjoyed watching us have fun!

I hope to visit AJ again next year!

wooooohooooo

comments

oops I was just moderating the comments and actsadentally hit reject instead of accept. I only got 6 hours sleep last night. Keep posting comments and next time I'll try to hit the right button!