Love, Marriage, Weddings and Happiness

So, I don't really 'Blog' but I'm trying. I don't really ever have a lot to say for the world to know. So lets talk WEDDING.
I'm getting married May 21st at 10am in the Logan Temple. I am so excited! And so ready, I've been waiting to marry my best friend since..well since forever..and now its happening. I couldn't be happier. If any of you guys know Erik he is a gem; truely the best thing to happen to me. I hope all of you get to meet him sometime in your life, he will truely bless it and make it better.

Anyways, so some random things about the Reception.

The reception (May 23rd) is going to be outside. I love spring weddings outside.

It's going to happen in mid morning at 11am. I hope all of you guys can be there, its going to be beautiful.

Random things..

Poloroid Camera's

Wild flowers


and Lace

Horses

The Human Figure

Anatomy of the Human Body

Thoughts about the children in our community

So I've been working with Youth around Utah County for going on 3 years, and I've never really understood the impact one person can have on a child. And I've come to realize that Youth in our community, not to mention around the world, are being abused and neglected. And its horrifying to realize that kids that WE know are being abused. Just the other day I was at work reading the news and on the front page was a picture of one of the Dads whos child comes to where i work. He was put in Jail for beating his kids with a golf club so severly that the pain and actual purple and blue bruises were shown on there faces at school. The teachers notices something was wrong and called social services who looked into it and found what had happend.
Because of these and other incidents that i have read/seen/whitnessed has made me realize we need to be careful what we do and how we act. It also has influenced me to Volunteer with this group called "Be the voice of a child" its an oportunity to "Be a voice of abused and neglected children through Court Appointed Special Advocates. Represent them in court to help to secure their rights to a stable environment" I know its not much but its something small that I can do to help our community and the children in it.

Lemon Poppy Muffins

So this recipe came from one of the recipe books i posted on here called "Baking-From my home to yours" by Dorie Greenspan.

Quintessential Recipe Books

When I was about 16 years old my Dad got me this recipe book thats called "The Classic Cookbook" AKA "The Cook Books BIBLE" along with "The Dessert BIBLE". I really liked this recipe book because the author Christopher Kimball gave reasons why he liked the recipes, and the history behind them and what made them better than all the other recipes out there. I suggest everyone get it.
Also I just got a couple more recipe books in the mail from my dad (who's a chef) which i find to me staples to have in a cooks kitchen. One of them Being a french cook book called the "Silver spoon"



A Baking Book called "Baking from my home to yours" By Dorie Greenspan has fantastic recipes. And the last but not least "Starting with Ingredients" by Aliza Green is a beautiful recipe book.



And of course the simplest homiest to the point recipe book called "Better Home Cook Book"