Dutch Oven

Today at my school my friend and I got to compete in a Dutch oven competition. It was so much fun! A couple days ago we practiced trying it a couple times. We made Egg Rolls and rice. We tried to make fortune cookies in the Dutch oven but it didn't work so well so we weren't able to make them. We ended up buying them from the store. We wanted to match each other so the day before my friend and I went to Wal-Mart and we got matching shirts and cheap jackets for in the morning.

The day started at 6 am and we quickly packed the truck with the items that we didn't pack the night before. We got there at 7 and we started setting up. Our stand was called “Little China”. Dad had to leave to get everyone else off to school and we started the Egg Roll filling. Our next step was heating the meat and sautéing the vegetables. It was probably one of my favorite parts. We didn't have to burn our own coals; they provided them for us which were very helpful considering how long they take to heat up. Dad came back and the filling wasn't quite done so we played UNO to pass the time.

One time when we decided to pick up the lid to check on the meat the oven mitt was too close to the coals and it started on fire! It was such a surprise. So we now own a burned oven mitt. Sorry Mom! Judging started at 11:25 so just before then we made the rice and rolled the egg rolls. It worked! We fried them in the Dutch oven and sad to say some of them broke but we gave the ones that looked the best to the judges. We fixed up our old red wagon and we rolled the Dutch ovens to the judges. We answered their questions and I thought we did a good job. By the time we got back from judging they (dad and my friend’s mom) had already started to sell our food. (We weren't allowed to start selling until our judging was over) We already had customers before we got to our booth!

The customers could buy a combo meal which was 2 egg rolls, rice, a fortune cookie and a drink. It was so much fun. With Dad's selling skills we sold all that we had which was over 100 egg rolls! Once we were done we went into the school auditorium to announce the winners, we didn't win but that's not what mattered, we had fun and if we had another chance to do it again I think I would.

Seminary Inspired

In my seminary class my teacher challenged us to read the scriptures every day in the month of February. Our reward would be one of these little wire men, that he would make for us. I missed a couple of days and that meant I wasn't eligable for the prize anymore. But when he showed them to us they were so cool. I believed that I could make some just as cool. So I went home and my Dad found me some wire and I bent it and this is the result. Aren't they cool?

Summer, Where Art Thou?

Hey, I know I haven't written for a long time. (in fact, not since last year). I am going to try to write more often. I have been so busy. A new year starts a new semester at school. Christmas vacation was wonderful! It went by way too fast for me. It was hard to get back into the routine again.( as well as getting up early again :) It's a big relief to get back and then get new classes like PE.........inject sarcasm here~~~The new semester starts and I get new work all over again. Good Grief! January has been very cold. I wished it was Summer ...NOW!
OH! The reason I am so excited for summer is because this year for youth conference our stake gets to go on Trek! I have never been, but it sounds awesome. Dad says I should do some major toning to get ready for the long walk. Also, he promised that he would teach me to waterski. I have been aching to do that for so long. Dreams of popcicles, fireworks, and ice cream dance through my head. Come, come, come to me!

Braces?

Yippee! I have had my braces on since I was 7. Now doing the really tricky math here. It's been 7 years! My teeth feel so wierd and I feel like I don't have any teeth in front. Let it be known through out history that I got them off on October 19th, 2010. I pitty those who will have them and I am so excited for those getting them off. I hope I won't ever have to have them again.

KSL Book Festival

This story and pictures would have been up a lot sooner if I wasn't so busy with school and the process of getting cell phone pictures on a blog was so confusing. One Saturday, we went up to the University of Utah because my mom had listened to KSL and they talked about a Book Festival so we decided to go. We listened to stories, got free books, and bought a way cool t-shirt. We watched some cooking demonstrations from the Lion House, The Food Nanny, and my favorite (the real reason I wanted to go) Wendy Paul! She made the recipe Black Forest Cupcakes (from her book) and had samples of a cookie in her new cookie cookbook. It was called Chocolate Chip Pudding Cookie. They are sooo good! So I just had to get a picture with Wendy. The bottom picture is of her during the demonstration. It was so much fun. I hope that they do it again next year and I will definately go again. Thank you Wendy!

What does every women want?

Today I went with my sister and my mom to the South Town Expo Center to see "What Every Woman Wants" expo. They had a lot of purses, weight loss treatments, jewelry and spa booths. I was very very suprised that there wasn't any chocolate! That's what this women wants! My mom got her eyebrows waxed and it looked so painful and it was so fast but when she got off the bench after she was done her forehead was bright red. :) Then we looked around for a little while and I bought two necklaces. One of them came with earrings. I felt a little powerful buying them on my own. I felt so proud. It was so much fun. Now I have seen for myself WHAT EVERY WOMAN WANTS.

First Region Dance

Last Saturday I went to my first Region Dance. I thought it was going to be so weird because I didn't know whether to wear a dress or a skirt. I really didn't know how to dance and what kind of dance. When I arrived, there were girls from my ward and from my school and I was so happy. I tried very hard to act as if I had already been to one but it didn't work out so well. I challenged some of my friends to ask a guy to dance on a ladies choice song. They said they would do it if I did it too. I did ask a boy and they stood at the side and giggled and watched me. Then it was their turn to ask. The last song of the night just happened to be a ladies choice. We saw a group of guys in the middle and my friends walked up to them and asked if they wanted to dance. They said they would and so it was my turn to stand at the side to watch and giggle. It didn't happen. One of the guys that my friend was dancing with told his friend to ask me and so I danced with him. It was so much fun. I cannot wait to go to the next one! The night ended with a shake at Iceberg with the Bishop and my friends. It was a blast!