April Culture Club

Crystal hosted April's culture club and it was amazing. She started off

with cooking us a super yummy breakfast. Then she discussed many of the

gardening tips and techniques she had accumulated through the years. We learned 

about how to make raised planters, what soil to use, how to compost, what veggies to

plant and how to plant them, natural pest control, how to harvest water, how to design 

and hook up your own drip watering system. She had informative hound outs and

 took us out to view her amazing veggie garden set up she had created in her 

backyard. Then she gave us a  few tomato plant seedlings each as a favor.

Thank you so so much Crystal! I learned so much and am excited to implement

all that you taught. You are one talented chicka. 

 

March Culture Club

For March Culture Club activities we first went to Art and Soup,

we loved this event so much last year that we wanted to go taste and view 

beauty once again. It never ceases to amaze me how talented

the local artists are that come show at this event. 

     

 we viewed viewed art accompanied by a talented youth quartette. 

I was going to try one last time to get these gals to experience Holi,

the festival of colors at the krishna temple, but the weather turned out 

stormy and cold and they all opted to go out to breakfast. It was my 

first time at the Original Pancake House, and my tastebuds absolutely 

LOVED it. Im always eatin' good with these ladies.

February Culture

For February Culture Club we met to have a dinner, game, and craft all

centered around the color RED.

We ate red velvet cupcakes, black forest trifle, red and white striped lobster ravioli,

cherry tomato and mozzarella pearl salad, red fruit salad, and berry sodas. 

I put together a fill-in-the-blank quiz of quotes from classic

romantic movies. The winner won a package of RED goodies.

Then we started crafting, making felt ruffle wreaths.

 We have wanted to do this craft for a few years now but

every year around this time every craft supply store sells out 

of heart shaped foam wreaths. But this year I ordered ahead.

I also taught how to tie multiple loop wired bows, and ribbon roses.

 Everyones' wreaths turned out fabulous.

Valentine's dinner

We were home on actual Valentine's Day, but I was too sick to 

go out or do anything too fancy. So I made a love pizza,

pound cake with strawberries, and some root beer floats.

A few days after I also made a few of these cameo cupcakes for those who 

missed out Pride and Prejudice Book Club. They were vanilla bean and

filled with Cherries. I had a bunch of fondant I really wanted to use. I was pretty

happy with how they turned out.

Assssspen.

(the title of this post is supposed to remind you of the movie 

Dumb and Dumber, I kept quoting this movie to Reece during the

whole trip, but unfortunately I was the only one laughing)

Reece and I took a road trip to Aspen to go skiing and visit friends for

out valentines day get away. We listened to the first of the Mistborn series

on tape while we drove, oooo I have good memories of the drive now, thats

such a fascinating book.

 We stayed the first night in snow mass at a cosy little condo, 

we went skiing the next morning. We went on the longest run, 5 miles!

you take a chairlift most of the way but then have to hike up the rest of 

mountain. The hiking was all exposed windy and extremely cold, kind of 

miserable actually. I was getting over a major flu and cold so I was getting

tired very easily. We then skied down, it took two hours. We went slow and

I also had to stop frequently because I didn't feel 100% but I still wanted to 

say I skied at aspen.

Afterwards we went and soaked in the Glenwood hot springs, it felt

sooooo good. Warmed our frigid bodies and soothed my sick aching 

body.

Then we toured Aspen's downtown. We window shopped the fancy shops

and had some yummy BBQ for lunch.

We then met up with my friend Angie and some of her friends for dinner

in Vail. It was absolutely wonderful to catch up with her, she can 

always make me laugh till my sides hurt. We then drove to Denver,

it was a snowy night and I was developing some pretty painful canker 

sores and a sore throat, so we were relieved when we pulled in to stay

at the four seasons down town. The room was so luxurious and calming.

It is such a beautiful hotel.

our sinks in the bathroom even glowed. 

The next morning we met up for breakfast with my other amazing girlfriends

Kate and Ali. I LOVED catching up with them and hearing about their life in 

Denver (Menver). I miss them in UT but Im so glad they are having such a great 

time in CO. 

I was able to give all these gals christmas presents that I had picked up

for them on our trip last summer. I gave them beautiful painted leather 

fans I had bartered for on the beach in Bali, and a CD since Ive been making

my friends mixes since we were in high school.

Afterwards we drove through some neighborhoods to get a good look at Denver 

before we drove back home.

Unsinkable Molly Brown's house.

The capital building. It was such a beautiful day. 

Driving home was fun... pleasant weather, nice roads, and we were able

to finish our book on tape and loved it. Happy Valentines Sweetheart!