time on my hands

honestly, i have had a lot of time on my hands lately. so much time that it feels like i spend most of it trying to decide what to do. i'm really bad a making decisions. here are a couple things i have finally decided on doing lately (thanks to my friends).

i realized the other day that lindzi and ashley (bff's) are into holidays. this is a good thing. unlike me, they give you gifts at christmas, send you cards on valentines, dress up for halloween, and celebrate easter for three sundays in a row. i didn't do ANY of those the last go around. that's pretty pathetic. since i didn't celebrate easter for three weeks this year, i have to thank lindzi for inspiring me to celebrate it at least once!

she had ash, terese, and me up to her house to decorate cookies and easter eggs. i learned one thing this night...i should stick to eggs, cookies aren't my thing. lindzi posted all the pictures up on her blog, and since i struggle with uploading photos on this thing, i will just direct you her way for the bulk of the photos. there is one you need to see though.

exhibit a: why i should never ice another cookie


terese, lindz, and ash didn't help with my icing skills either. they totally put me to shame. at least they will never forget what mine looked like. there was the one with a half inch of icing, the bunny with a goatee, and the play-it-safe-polka-dot.

luckily my icing skills did not spill over into my dying skills. thanks to LIVING (not martha, you know she's not really the one doing it) we had some cool dying techniques. this is totally snobbish to say, but my eggs were pretty awesome. i was so proud of myself, the next night (saturday, i'm cool) I dyed eggs by myself pretty much the whole night.


so i guess i actually celebrated easter for TWO nights.

now onto the bread...two of my old roommates, terese and bryn, and i had talked about making bread for months, but we were all talk. one fateful night, WE ACTUALLY DID IT! and guess what!? it wasn't nearly as hard as i thought it would be! we used my aunt lisa's bread recipe which you can find on my cousin jake and his wife amanda's blog Call Me Cook (check it out!). we came up with really creative name for us...bread club. next bread club recipe? i vote on homemade poptarts! not exactly bread but close enough for me.