Texas has

sheep! I looove sheep, I love lambs, and I love how fluffy soft they are. I saw this trailer of sheep in front of me when I was driving home after I saw a movie, and I had to take a picture... while driving.



Sheep are just so cute, and so lovable. I had learned a couple cool stories about them from Brother Merrill, my religion professor while I was at BYU and I don't know if I can remember them correctly, or even remember. They are referenced so much in the scriptures, that I cannot help feel connected to them. We are all sheep in the Lord's flock, if we're lost, he'll come search for us; we just have to want to be found.

These sheep aren't lost, or found, they're just in a trailer going to get sheared. :) I just love sheep; ewes, rams, wethers, hoggets, or lambs, they're just so lovable.

Favorite Colors - what do they say?

I found this 'quiz/tell-all' on Mauri's blog. She always has fun stuff on hers. I wanted to be fun and attach my two recent favorite colors on here to see what it tells about me. Are they accurate?

What Your Favorite Color Green Says About You:

Balanced --- Relaxed --- FlexibleCompassionate --- Philosophical --- HumbleLoyal --- Inventive --- Unique

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and can't forget ORANGE!
What Your Favorite Color Orange Says About You:
Joyful --- Enthusiastic --- OptimisticOutgoing --- Accepting --- ConfidentLoud --- Unruly --- Impulsive

and can't forget ORANGE!

What Your Favorite Color Orange Says About You:

Joyful --- Enthusiastic --- OptimisticOutgoing --- Accepting --- ConfidentLoud --- Unruly --- Impulsive

What Does Your Favorite Color Say About You?

What Your Favorite Color Orange Says About You:Joyful --- Enthusiastic --- OptimisticOutgoing --- Accepting --- ConfidentLoud --- Unruly --- Impulsive

While on the subject of orange, I thought I'd show my bloggers the 'abstract flower' I did for my light blue room. My neighbor Chelsea and I agreed that orange would work well with it. So here is it. It was fun! I was in the mood to paint, so I pulled out my paint, brushes, and cheap canvases and was done in a few minutes; of course, planning every brush stroke. Be a nice critic.

cookie disaster

So tonight Mark was supposed to bring over a few people who he needed to plan tomorrow's flight with, and I decided to be a good homemaker and bake some chocolate chip cookies. Our oven has always been... disfunctional...and it always decides to act up when I am under the gun. When the oven from the 50's decides to act up, it can do one of two things: the gas turns off, or it gets far too hot. Today it got too hot for the first batch..as you can notice on the left; the edges are dark brown and the centers are too doughy. That means it was cooking too fast. Then for the second dozen of cookies, who's catacomb was this stupified oven, they didn't even get to rest in peace because the oven turned off. You can tell it turns off by lighting one of the burners on top and you can hear the oven whistle back to life. I did, and it started to whistle. I then set the timer for 3 more minutes, because these cookies were still what you would call 'dough'. Then it got too hot, too fast...they burned too. That is when I started to throw the cookies off the sheet onto the cooler. Notice the mess! I'm laughing at it now, but boy was I frustrated with my dumb dumb for an oven. Anyone else have a tempermental oven?

drop night and showers

Last night was mine and Mark's drop. I won't be mean and keep you in too much suspense for too long, so I'll make this short and sweet. Mark will be flying the C-17! Where? Alaska!! We will move (PCS) to Alaska and report probably beginning of February. That is only my guess though, so I will have to post when for certain. We didn't think Alaska was a possibility; it was our first choice, but everyone knows it's rare to get your first choice. If I could figure out how to post a video, I would. But I'm still pretty naive when it comes to computers. Mark and I were both so excited. and in shock.

They did it like an NFL draft. They put up a picture of that particular plane they were going to 'draft' for and then they would call the name. Then after making fun of them and their better half, they would announce where they are going to begin their Air Force Career. So here is Mark's Air Force Draft shirt... and I have to disclaim that I look a bit different in this picture because we were standing RIGHT under one of those nasty lights that gives you the effect that you're Squints on The Sandlot when he's telling his "The Beast!" story



Mark and are are already thinking of how we are going to make it to Elmendorf, AFB, Anchorage, Alaska. It will be in the dead of winter, and probably icy. So we may fly, we may drive, we may have the air force move us, or we may move ourselves.

Today was a fun day! I had a babyshower for my friend/neighbor, Chelsea. Then Mark and I bummed around when he got home after he passed his civilian's pilot license test for the beach aircraft? I'm not sure if that's correct, but it's the same plane as the one he's been flying for the past 6 months. Then I saw a commercial for dip and chips, so I started to crave it. We went to the commissary and then we came home, took a nap, and woke up to a thunderstorm!

Our neighbors were outside playing in it in their swimsuits, narrowly avoiding all the close lightening. Mark went out to scrub down the car, to rid it of it's bug supply on the front. Our neighbor filled up a basin with water and snuck up on Mark!


Mark fought back, and we called it a tie - because Mark's water was freezing. GO MARK!


Oh, and one of my loverly tomato plants fell over. I hope it wasn't it's last Texas storm:


good day!

fresh flowers and green tomatoes

I love fresh flowers in my house. There is something about bringing the outside in that makes it fresh. Hence fresh flowers. These are my recent fresh flowers that are about to be no longer fresh. I'm not even sure what kind they are, but they came in a boquet with purple daisies.


Then, as you may remember, I have two huge tomato plants that Mark and I planted a few months ago. They have survived multiple Texas storms and had a few close calls, but it just made them stronger. So here is a picture of some tiny tomatoes that will soon join their brother and sister tomatoes inside my belly! These are ones the squirells have not reached...yet. Buckwheat needs to work on his tomato guarding skills!



My favorite thing to do with these tomatoes when they're grown is to slice them up and let them be the T in 'BLT'. Oh my.. that sounds delicious for lunch!

curried coconut chicken

This recipe has been my absolute favorite for about a year now. Ever since Mauri recommended it. Even Mark likes it! Usually with him I have to stick to more traditional recipes and dinners. This has been a hit in my branch, my neighborhood and my heart. Ok, I know that sounds cheezy. It's actually more of a spicy flavor.

If you don't like curry, you should like this. If you don't like coconut, you'll still like this. You'll just have to take my word for it. Try it and if you don't like it, I'll send you an consolation prize in the mail.


Yeilds: 6 servings

Ingredients:
3 large boneless, skinless, chicken breasts, cubed
1 t. salt and pepper, or to taste
1-1/2 t. vegetable oil
2 T. curry powder
1/2 onion, thinly sliced and chopped
2 cloves garlic, crushed (I ommit the garlic completely)
1 (14 ounce) can coconut milk
1 (14 oz) can stewed, diced tomatoes
1 (8 oz) can tomato sauce
3 T. sugar

Directions:
season chicken pieces with salt and pepper. heat oil and curry powder in a large skillet over medium-high heat for two minutes. stir in onions and garlic, and cook one minute more. add chicken, tossing lightly to coat with curry oil. reduce heat to medium, and cook for 7 to 10 minutes, or until chicken is no longer pink. pour coconut milk, tomatoes, tomato sauce, and sugar into the pan, stir to combine. cover and simmer, stirring occasionally, approximately 30 to 40 minutes.

serve over rice and enjoy! people will be very impressed.



Tonight I had my neighbor over for dinner because our guys were night flying. She so kindly snapped this delectable picture. Thanks, Chels!

San Antonio's Independence

For the July 4th Holiday last week Mark had two days off work,which were Wednesday and Thursday (kind of hard when they're in the middle of the week!). On Tuesday, Mark surprised me with a trip to San Antonio the next day! So that night we went and saw Ratatouille (really cute movie), then in the morning we set off for our little Independence Day celebration. When we got to Sea World, it was still raining like mad, so we had to buy ponchos and be dorks for the first half of our visit until the rain cleared. I wore the wrong shoes and my feet were all blistered so I had to bend the backs down and RUIN my shoes. :(. I'm not going to attach a picture of us - because after all that rain and humidity, I think we looked pretty dang nasty! haha. But here is a picture of a Beluga and her baby - they're really tiny, so look close:
there ya go. :)

Here is me and a horse behind - I had to take this picture! I miss horses...


And if anyone can tell me how to attach pictures normally like everyone else can, please help! I can't remember how I did it in my "Hobbies Shmobbies" post; I'm using photobucket HTML code and then resizing - is that normal? :o) So anywho, after Sea World, Mark and I went to the downtown part of San Antonio to check into our hotel room - Mark hadn't told me where we were staying, but when I saw it I was so impressed with him! He found this great hotel at a military discount and grabbed it. Here's a picture of our hotel room from the little garden thing, then me and the pretty fountain, Mark on the river walk, and then us together at the river walk. :D

The next morning we went to the Alamo to remember the independence we got in Texas - every time we go, we're always impressed. It's a very neat place.

After the fun excursion we headed home and reuinted with our little pup who our neighbors were watching for us. Hope you all had a fun Independence Day!! :D