Month: July 2014

Happy 4th of July!

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Happy Independence Day! Patriotic fruit pizza was a great way to celebrate – made this for our work BBQ yesterday. It was a pinterest inspiration success. Used a sugar cookie base, mixed cream cheese with powdered sugar and melted marshmallows for the middle layer, and found some deliciously fresh berries to top it off. Almost looks healthy, even though it’s not :) Also made peanut butter chocolate bars (one of my favorites!) and sangria (mmm…). If I were ever to make a list of the things these people are good at other than pharmacy… eating would definitely be at the top of the list :) Oh, and I’ve decided sangria is the perfect solution to wines you’re not a huge fan of. I had two open bottles of white wine in the fridge that neither of us liked enough to finish. But… mix them together, toss in some  fruit, let it sit… and you have a delicious drink no matter what the wine tasted like before. Win!

Camping With Pups & Lessons Learned

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For my birthday this year, we went camping out at Curt Gowdy State Park. I really love that place! We’ve been accumulating camping gear for a while now, but haven’t actually made a trek until now. So it was our first experience camping together AND our first time camping with the pups. Lesson learned #1 – If you’re going to camp in Wyoming, where strong wind is the most common type of weather… make sure you don’t forget the tent stakes! Luckily, we weren’t too far out (that’s why we chose Curt Gowdy for our first trip… not too far from home if we needed anything or had any puppy emergencies)… so I ran home to get the stakes while Danny placed heavy objects on the tent to keep it from flying away and sat with the pups (and got sunburned). As soon as we started setting up… all Finn wanted to do was help… Zoe not so much. She was content sunbathing in the grass :)    Lesson learned #2 – pups WILL get themselves tangled …

My First Year of Sewing: A Review

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It’s my sewiversary! Ok, so maybe that’s not a thing. But it could be! :) On July 1st of last year, I got my sewing machine in the mail (yay!). I got the Brother XR9500PRW machine from their Project Runway series (got it on Amazon for $179.99 at the time – now it looks like it’s even a little cheaper). I bought it as a birthday present to myself because I wanted to try a new hobby. It had very decent reviews – and seemed to be highly recommended for beginners. It’s nothing fancy, but it’s been a great machine so far. Only complaint is the needle threading system – it worked wonderfully for a while (I thought it was the best invention on the planet while it worked!) then something got bent or off somehow and it doesn’t work anymore. To be fair, I haven’t really tried to fix it yet, so maybe when I do it’ll be just fine. Also the lettering/monogramming is nothing to write home about. But overall I’d definitely recommend this machine …