Social ineptitude

Sometimes Kallam comes home from class and says things like...."Everyone in my building is so NERDY" and then I say "You're an engineering student sweetie" and everyone knows exactly what I mean. Even Kallam, bless his heart, often does not speak the same language as me. And i'm not talking about his mean bilingual-ness. I mean, he'll tell me a joke, and I wont get it. He told me one last week that I assume was about math....I still don't get it a week later. :) So we laughed SUPER hard this week when we found a short clip from a cartoon about engineers that pretty much summed everything up. Its only 60 secs but enjoy!

Lost phone pics

Lately I had a phone break. I had gone almost two weeks where I would charge it, and then it would completely die after a 3-5 min conversation with someone. Most days I had to choose between calling Kallam for 4 mins on my lunch break or being able to dial 911 on the way home if ever needed. Most of the time I took the chance, but 4 mins, REALLY? A girl cant live like that. So on our microscopic budget(tuition hits us hard a few times a year) I down/up graded to a phone without a camera. I was devastated to think that a few of the pictures that I never had the gonads to erase would be lost forever. Kallam saved the day and up loaded them on our computer 5 mins before making the switch. But I got to thinking that no one had really ever seen these but me, and random and fuzzy as they are spacing any where throughout the past 6 years that I've had a phone, someone out there will enjoy them. :)


This is the picture that Kallam sent his family to tell them he was "official" with someone. His sisters didn't really care and just wanted to know what kind of shoes I wore. I guess they can tell alot? Apparently I passed so flats or mary janes are safe to say just in case anyone else ever needs to answer that question.

I have always wanted to order the giant piece of cake at claim jumper, its like the size of my entire torso and the pic does NOT do it justice. But....I have a deathly cheap husband. I will never forget how loved I felt when Kallam ordered this for me when I went to the bathroom one night. 

Us boxing while we were engaged at college

 And us in hawaii on our honeymoon

 This is a halloween costume that we didn't get any other pics of. When Kallam put on that ninja suit and awful wig, it was like he became a different person. He was so funny and confident that some people at the party didn't recognize him.

These girls saved my life my first semester of college. Lame boyfriend + no friends = awful. This was my first night out with my new found friends at a huge bonfire. Still friends to this day in fact. Needless to say lame boyfriend is not around. 

 My nieces when they were very small on our trip to Florida.

  

Some of you may know that I paid for college by working at an observatory 3-4 nights a week. My job was to fit as many kids/accompanying adults onto a motorized space ship that showed them a video and moved their seats while inside. I may or may not have been expected to wear a fake lab coat and other space ship launching necessities. I also may or may not have snuck  a bunch of my friends in on a weekend, one of whom is mocking me in this picture. Don't break that pressure gauge off Erin....its also fake. 

The annual Mud-bowl happens each year at EAC, this was also one of those home-sick/save me moments with my awesome friend Erin. 

And finally two pics with my most amazing cousin mary. One where she came to visit me while I went to BYU, the other trying on every pair of sunglasses in party city. 

THE END

The 4th day of July

Probably a widely known fact that Independence day is my FAVORITE holiday. It has good food, no pressure to get the perfect gift, family and awesome fireworks. Here are a few shots that we got with our friends and family that we met up with in Winslow to watch the largest fireworks display in all of Northern Arizona.

Wow....we're so cool with our sparklers. 

Heart stars and ....lips? Apparently I didn't get the memo that we were copying lucky charms. Lets just pretend its a horse shoe shall we?

 Sorry its so fuzzy Randi, the setting on the camera got switched somehow. 

 And....sorry you're headless. But its a great one of the kiddos!! :)

 Now some of my favorites of the show. 

The Winslow Galaxy...

 You didn't know you could see the Northern Lights in Winslow? Psh....think again!

 And just in case you didn't feel like you were there enough...video!

The Grand Finale!

Recipe-Key Lime Cupcakes

Ok, having the 5th person ask for the key lime cup cake recipe that was so stinkin good was the last straw that pushed me to finally get on here and post it. I wanted to make sure and post it before summer was over because I think of it as more of a summer cupcake that is refreshing....like lemonade or something. There are alot of recipes out there and I combined a few ideas till i thought it was right. Here it is :)


1 box LEMON cake mix( i'm a cheater I know, but it was tasty!)
1/2-1/3 cup lime juice
1/2-1 box lime flavored gelatin mix(keep tasting it till you like it, but you want it to be sorta strong cause the frosting will tame it down)
few drops green food coloring if desired to make it look bright! ( I used the gel but liquid would word fine)
I just followed the eggs, oil, and/or water measurements that were on the back of the cake mix i used, because they are going to differ a little.

Frosting
2 pkg softened cream cheese
1/2 cup butter
2 cups  powdered sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla, or a little more if it needs it.

Like I said, I will be making these again sometime because I thought they were different than the usual but still amazing.

ENJOY!

FUN.

FUN. is a band. Flagstaff was lucky enough to see them in concert last week. I was lucky enough to take Kallam to his first real concert(because Josh Groban does NOT count). Our friends Necia and Tyson even got to come to the concert with us!

We even went down to the standing room only section so we could be super close!

Just in case you didn't feel like you were there partying with us enough, i've included the video of them performing one of our favorite songs. Hats off to Kallam for controlling his urge to dance while the song was being played so that it wasn't shaky. You may even recognize the song from the radio, cause its EVERYWHERE. Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRiDmBJN3rU&feature=youtu.be

Needless to say, Kallam is fully converted to concerts, and FUN. was fun. (I had to)

Dr. Seuss cupcakes

I recently did cupcakes for a friends baby shower and thought i'd share. They turned out pretty good, but thought i'd share my experience in case any of you wanted to give them a try!


These are "thing 1" and "thing 2" inspired cupcakes. I spent quite a while getting it fluffed perfectly. All the tutorials online failed to mention that frosting makes the cotton candy melt.

1 hour later....

So make sure to put the cotton candy on right before you bring them out. :)

These were key lime cupcakes that were "green eggs and ham" They were delish! If you ever have the chance to make key lime cupcakes with cream cheese frosting....for heavens sake DO IT! I will be using the recipe again for sure. It included lemon cake mix and lime gelatin mix with lime juice.

Mustache, coasters and potatoes

This is Kallam blogging for the first, and most likely the last, time ever! I am doing summer school right now which means that I spend about 10 hours a day at school doing homework. Its lots of fun. Just for fun I have been experimenting with facial hair. As you can imagine this has made me irresistible to Kayla. Just kidding, but I did get a lot more compliments than I was expecting. These are my latest looks.

The civil war general look

The Hulk Hogan

Kayla and I just got back from Six Flags where we had tons of fun and Kayla only cried once! I got to talk to some Filipinos in California.........there are over a million to be talked to there! The manager of our hotel was Filipino so I got us the hook ups with some more towels delivered to our room. I have wanted to go to Six Flags for about 9 years, so it was really great to go back and get a good dose of adrenaline. I love ADRENALINE............Kayla, not so much but she did really great and we had a good time. We even spent $16.34 on a souvenir cup that had free refills all day (I always wanted one of those cups so I could look cool like everyone else).

 The people that we rode with had a tire blow out on the way home that ripped off the whole back bumper. We felt pretty bad for them but glad we were all safe. 

We've been making some good friends that we went shooting with the other day out in the forest. This is his potato gun which was amazing!

 I was having fun trying to shoot both shot guns at once!

In other news, I sold my jeep..........twice! So now I am looking for one again. I am not sure why we sold my jeep but I am sure God has a reason he just hasn't told us yet, although we were able to upgrade so to speak. But now that I am jeep-less again we have enough money to pay my summer tuition! Who knew school was so pricey???