Crescent Creations

Everyone check out my food blog. I am doing a fun experiment through Pillsbury and myblogspark.com. I just have to recreate one of the three recipes listed on my food blog and post about how it turned out. In turn for the publicity they are getting, they send me free dough and a free holiday serving platter so that I can make and serve the recipe. Here is the good part:  they will also send free dough and a platter to one of my food blog readers. I wont be having the giveaway until I make the recipe, but when I do all you will have to do is comment on the post with the new recipe for a chance to get the giveaway. In the meantime, go vote on which recipe you think would be the best on my food blog: www.ediblexperiments.blogspot.com

The Colors of Paradise

Last Sunday I went on a walk with my little sister in my backyard at my parents house. We took these pretty pictures of the willows while the sun was setting.

Original Thai

Gillian Grant is visiting America again. Benjamin introduced her into the gospel on his mission to Wales. She took us out to Original Thai (main street in Rexburg). It was such a fun time! We got satay chicken appetizers and Benjamin got half of a crispy duck. It tasted sooooooo good!!! I got a pineapple duck curry. We love Thai food! I highly recommend Original Thai. Thanks Gilly!

Crispy Duck
(I know it might sound strange, but it was soooo yummy!)

Pioneer Song

This is the journey I will be making this semester. From the east to Willamette Valley, Oregon.
Well, not really, but I am so excited to be in a play this semester about a group of pioneers who travel the Oregon Trail. It is an original musical written by BYU-I's very own Omar Hansen. The show opens on November 17th. I am feeling very healthy this semester and it feels so great to be on the stage again.

Projects

We have had so many projects going on to get ready for the new semester that starts in two days. To name a few:

New Monitor and Desk
For Benjamin's birthday we got a new computer screen. We love it! We hardly ever watch TV and our DVD player is broken so we decided to just watch DVDs on our computer. We bought this desk at DI and painted it black. It is nice to have our bulky old bubble screen and TV out of our tiny apartment.

New Window
To continue the previous story...we put the old TV in the van to take it to DI. We set it on the middle seat. Before we made it to DI we made a sharp left turn and the TV crashed through the window on the sliding door of our minivan. There was glass all over the street and in our car. It was a mess. The cheapest quote we found was for $500. Luckily there was a matching window for $60 at a scrap yard and Benjamin and our friend Scott Peterson figured out how to install it. They did such a good job and it saved us a lot of money!

Colonoscopy
I got my third colonoscopy last Thursday. The procedure went very well. It was the best one so far! What the doctor saw: A healthy small intestine (yay), no signs of fistulas (yay), a very inflammed colon,
What this means: Chrons is very unlikely, I don't have colon cancer, I don't have bacteria overgrowth, and I do have severe pan-ulcerative colitis (effecting the entire large intestine).
We are still waiting on the results of the biopsies. The results were nothing less than expected, but nothing scary either. I am feeling a lot healthier lately and I am hoping that remission is just around the corner.

Deep Cleaning
Benjamin and I have been so busy since we moved in here last January and we never got the chance to really organize everything and clean things really well. It looks like a bomb went off in here, but we are making progress. Speaking of which, I need to get off the computer and back to work :) Only two days until school starts! yikes!

Snow Bird

Benjamin and I got to go to Snowbird again this year. His parents reserved it for a week for their anniversary, but they stayed in California longer so we went for the first few days of their reservation. Thanks so much Kaye and Ben! We also got to eat at a really cool Brazilian grill called Tucanos, visit grandpops Romney and the Whiting bunch, and celebrate Benjamin's 23rd birthday. He got a new computer monitor. It is so nice. We fixed up a D.I. desk and got ride of our huge, broken, bubble TV. Now we use the computer to watch movies.
Happy Birthday Benjamin!

A week of leave.

My brother Riley got to come home for a week after he graduated from Airborne. It was so great to have him home for a while.We had fun going to lunch, playing lazer tag, watching movies, and just hanging out. He is in the 3rd brigade of the 82nd Airborne division. He will be in North Carolina for a while. The rest of his brigade is in Iraq right now, but they are almost done, so Riley wont be deployed for quite a while.