And the Final Count is......

634

Yep thats right, I have 634 postcard, well around that, I know I'm missing a couple.

They are from all over the world.

My family knows I collect them so they send them to me when they are out and about visiting other places. I got more then 100 when I went to Europe.

I hope to make it to 1,00 before I die.

Peas in a Pod

These are my wonderful peas, they plant it self has almost reached the top of the trailace, and I'm not sure but I think the plant is dieing :(

But I'm hoping to get a couple peas off of it before it dies.

Here is one of the fist ones to almost be done.

Showing how it grows on the vine.

     Here are the green onions and green beans, there aren't any green beans growing yet, but it is getting big.

Food!!!!!

Some of you may know that I love baking. Well sometimes I go a little extreame. Like when I was cravng lemon shrimp, and it tasted soooo good that I made it for dinner. (pictures below, rescipe on a different post. "Lost Arts"

This one is with shrimp.

With chiken. Family loved it. 

Well I got off work and my family wasn't home and I was craving something with lemons, and I wanted to bake something. So I started baking and my parents came home and were like "Its 10pm what are you doing?" My respone, "Baking"

So even though its late, when I want to make something, I make it. I ended baking at 12:30 or so.

But it was well worth it.

Both recipes come from Christmas Recipes from the Lion House.

Cranberry Nut Loaf.

2 cups Flour
3/4 cup Sugar
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup oil
1 egg, beaten
3/4 cup orange juice
1 tablespoon grated orange peel
1 cup chopped* fresh cranberries
1/2 cup chopped nuts
*I used whole dried cranberries

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
Mix flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a mizing bowl.
Add egg, oil, orange juice, and orange peel and stir just to moisten.
Fold in cranberries and nuts.
Grease bottom only of 1 large loaf pan or 2 small loaf pans.
Pour batter into pan(s).
Bake for 50-60min.
Cool slightly; loosen sides of loaf from pan and remove.
Cool completely before slicing.

Oatmeal Apple Muffins

1 egg

1 cup flour

3 teaspoonscinnamon

1teaspoon nutmeg

1/2 teaspoon salt

3/4 cup milk

1 cup raisins*

1 apple, peeled, cored, and chopped

1/2 cup vegetable oil

1 cup quick-cooking oats

1/3 cup brown sugar

preheat oven to 400 degrees F.

Beat egg.

Sift together flour, baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg, and salt.

Combine all ingredients, mixing just to poisten.

Spoon better into greased muffin cups 3/4 full.

Bake for 15-20min.

Makes 12 muffins.

Butterflies!!!

For my sisters birthday we wemt to the butterfly garden at the Safari Park aka Wild Animal Park.

And it was amazing!!

There were hundreds of butterflies, and they would land on you, zoom inches past your head.

Its open till the 24th of april, so I plan on going again.

Its kinda hard to see the butterflies because they are dark, but here are a couple.

I look retarted, but I didnt want to scare the butterfly off my backpack.

3 Long days!!

So my Birthday was this past Friday, and lets just say it was a really long weekend.

Heres what it was like.
Friday.
7am: get up/get ready
11:15: Best friend comes over.
12:10: leave for park.
12:20-2:10 eat and play at park. He made the same thing we had on our first date. Awwww...... (and he made me the most wonderful card I have ever gotten)

2:20: at home getting stuff to spend the night at my other friends house.
3:30-5:45: go to the store to get candy and go see John Carter. (super good!!!)
6:00pm: get dropped off at my friends for a party

It was a super good cake, it had a nut and cream frosting inbetween the layers, it had a creamcheese frosting. OH MY GOODNESS!!!!

I LOVED IT!!!!!

6:30-9pm: Party and get ready for the dance.

9:30-12am: Dance!!!!

My Friend wearing my cape. (the theme was super hero)

Kinda shows you how dark the dances are.

After the dance hanging out.

Saturday

12am-1:30am: Clean up.

1:30-3: Dennys!!!

8am: wake up and get ready.
10-12:30: Shopping!!!

I got my sis two necklaces for her birthday! I'm going to take her bowling for her present from me, well atleast her big present from me.

1-5: play. cast party, and clean up.

6-10pm or later: cleaning up the house.

1:30am: go to sleep.

Sunday.

10-1: Church

1-5: cooking and cleaning.

5-7 or 8: PARTY!!!!!!!!

We had a BBQ for dinner, but because of the rain we had it indoors.

My mom made my cake, it was devils food, it was SUPER good!!! and I loved how it looked!!!

All 19 candles, I feel soooo old.

"There is Sunshine in my Soul today...."

I have always loved clouds, I mostly love the way the sun makes clouds look.

Here are some of my Favorite.

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Everything Has A Name

   You have met Prometheus (camera) and Fiona (violin), well I would like you to meet Julius and Tony.

    I have this thing where I name objects that I use a lot, that way if I'm looking for something I can just ask my family where Julius is and they will know what I'm talking about. I also think its super fun to names things.

Julius: My Kindle.

    And here is what he looks like. Not very atractive I know, but has been the most enjoyable book reading device I have ever used, I spends hours just looking at books. My favorite thing about him is that amazon has SOOOO many free books its crazy, and there is nothing better then free books,

    Here is Tony, he is named after Tony Hawk pro staker!! The one I have is the black and white one. I started wave-boarding three years, and I actually broke my wrist falling off of one of these. Which was REALLY painful. But I got up and kept going. I am scared to wave board sometimes because I am afread that I may fall again. Which doesnt help with riding it because you have to concentrate on the ground. One small rock and stop your board and believe me when I tell you, you will keep moving. 

CHOCOLATE!!!!

I am not a big fan of chocolate, but for the bast couple months I havent been able to get enough.

I am willing to eat any chocolate, but the thing I'm craving the most is truffles, OH MY!!!! I got these dollers one this past Christmas, and they were SOOOOO!!!!! GOOOOD!!!! And now I want them, but they dont have them! :( So I will have to do with Symphany bars, but the ones witth the almonds and taffee pieces, oh so good!!! Right now I want brownies, but I dont want to have to get up and make them. Because then I would have to clean up after, and I really dont want to do that. So I will have to settle for the symphany bars.

The Lost Arts

     I have talked about homemaking before, but I have had an interesting expeirence with homemaking since I last mentioned it.

     I like to go on my Kindle and look up books, and if they are free I get them, well I was looking at cooking and sewing books, and I found a good number of books free that were written in 1912, and I talked with my mom and we agreed that I could make a meal from the cook books once a month, I'm excited to get started on this, and see what comes out, and how it tastes.

     On tuesday I was babysitting and I was talking with their mom on our way to drop me off and we were talking about cooking and sewing. And she said she wishes that she would have learned at least 40 different recipes, because when she got married she didnt know how to cook. I found this rather interesting because I have talked with a lot of poeple and they could care less about it.
   I was really excited to find someone who wishes she learned homemaking skills at a young age.

I will keep you posted about the homemaking foods, maybe you will get pictures ;) of course you will get pictures!! And I'm going to start putting really easy recipes on here too.

First Recipe.

Lemon Peper Shrimp with Linguine (if you dont like shrimp you can use chicken.)

Ingredients

• 1 (8 ounce) package linguine pasta
• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• 6 cloves garlic, minced
• 1/2 cup chicken broth
• 1/4 cup white wine*
• 1 lemon, juiced
• 1/2 teaspoon lemon zest
• salt to taste
• 2 teaspoons freshly ground black pepper
• 1 pound fresh shrimp, peeled and deveined
• 1/4 cup butter
• 3 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley
• 1 tablespoon chopped fresh basil

*I didn't use white wine, I just used the broth.

~I ate it with grilled veggies.

Directions

1. Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Add linguine, and cook for 9 to 13 minutes or until al dente; drain.
2. Heat oil in a large saucepan over medium heat, and saute garlic about 1 minute. Mix in chicken broth, wine, lemon juice, lemon zest, salt, and pepper. Reduce heat, and simmer until liquid is reduced by about 1/2.
3. Mix shrimp, butter, parsley, and basil into the saucepan. Cook 2 to 3 minutes, until shrimp is opaque. Stir in the cooked linguine, and continue cooking 2 minutes, until well coated.