Schooooool’s Out For the Summer!

You guys, it’s happened. I have survived one WHOLE year of college! At times, it seemed dicey, and holy cow I can’t believe it’s already at the end, but I’ve made it and it’s over. Today was my last day of finals. I had my math final this morning, and my film final this afternoon. Then a few hours after they were over, I got my scores. My math score…

I missed 8! Out of 30! Oh my gosh I had no idea I would do so poorly! And I felt so good about myself, coming out of it! And of course I’ll never know what ones I did wrong and how I did them wrong, and that sucks, but that’s all right. Luckily, they allowed the math tests to be graded on a curve, so we got to add 5 points to our tests. So I only ended up “missing” 3, which left me with a 90%. So now, my grades in that class ended up being an A! And in English/Writing, I ended with an A, and in Film, my final (I only missed one question!) ended up with an A, and in my history, my final (an essay question) wasn’t too bad, so I ended up with a 4.0 this semester!

This is literally the first time in my whole life that this has happened. And I’m so jazzed that all of my hard work and all of my freak outs this semester were worth it, and my grades reflected that. And now, I get to enjoy the summer!

A New Batch of Cards

All right, I have my cards for card swap done before the time, I am so excited and proud of myself. Let’s take a look, shall we?

My happy birthday card ended up looking pretty fancy, and the template of it was just to do a teal and gray card. It’s not too bad, I don’t think. And the good job card is…passable at best, it’s not a favorite, but that’s all right too. Onto the next ones, I say.

Weekly Darth

The bonus of having snapchat, is that the person who sends you pictures gives them a caption to perfectly describe what’s happening better than you could. That happened this week.

Amazing, and totally perfect.

Apparently he literally refused to move.

My sister told me that she was following Darth around, and reporting his movements like a news reporter. Then, she made an entire news feed out of her family and animals. I didn’t get to get pics of everything, sadly, but this one was too good to not save forever. She looks like the old-timer that’s going to retire soon, and he’s the young whipper-snapper who’s psyched to get his dream job. I’ll be watching that news team.

Hungry Hungry Hippos

Since becoming a young women’s leader, I’ve been going to their activities, like a leader should. Usually we’re doing a service activity or something for camp, or some missionary things. But tonight, we had an activity that was just…fun. The kids all combined and played a life-size version of Hungry, Hungry Hippos. The kids were given helmets, and skateboard-type things, and small laundry baskets. A giant bunch of balloons were placed in the center of the cultural hall.

Then the kids had to roll on the skateboard thing into the center, grabbing a balloon that corresponded to their team color. If you got a green one, you could pick a team to lose all their balloons, if you accidentally snagged a black one, you lost all yours.

It was so much fun, and got quickly into fighting, cheating, and general horseplay. It was a lot of fun though, I wish we leaders had been allowed to play!

Ward Party Shenanigans

We had our ward party tonight, a “Spring Fling”. I was in charge of the cupcake table, which just consisted of me standing there and handing out cupcakes and individual bags of candy for kids to decorate their cupcakes with. Lots of work, I tells ya. At the end of the party, we had a pie-eating contest. Husband joined in, and he chose a pumpkin pie. Big mistake, he found out. The pumpkin pie is so dense, it’s hard to eat quickly. He got second place (losing to a teenager, so it’s not too bad), and a gal in our ward snapped this.

His face properly conveys how bad it was ha ha. It was a fun night, and I’m just glad I had the sense to stay out of the contest!

Weekly Darth

Darth continues to be a cutie this week, of course.

Honestly with these glasses, I can’t even.

Captain baby is on the case.

This is his default tantrum move, and it makes me laugh so hard. Tantrums never have been so cute.

Baking-palooza

The kids in my neighborhood come over on Sundays now, after church, for chatting and eating of treats. So I’ve taken to baking treats on Saturday night, to have treats for them, or else they’ll just eat anything we have, so it’s best to be prepared. A few weeks ago, I made Rice Krispy treat brownies:

And they were amazing. Then this weekend, I made some Rolo Cookie bars:

(yes, they were cut into too quick for me to take a pic!) And then I made some peanut butter s’mores bars.

These were all winners, I think the rice krispy ones were my favorite. Because there are 3 treats here, I don’t want to post the recipes to all, because it would take too long. I’ll post the links to the recipes, in case it strikes your fancy.

Rice Krispy Brownies
Rolo Bars
S’Mores Bars

Weekly Darth

Even though we’ve seen a lot of baby this week, I’m still doing my weekly segment. We left Seattle today, and now are staying in Boise tonight, so we’re missing good times yet again.

I got this picture this week, after changing him into this dashing outfit.

He got tiny aviators, can you even believe how cute he is?!

I was tickling him for this goldmine. Look at those tiny teeths!

Still in Rainy Washington

We’ve been visiting baby and parents, and having fun. We started by having Easter fun, as I’ve said, and then Monday was mostly chilling, and Tuesday, Husband and I went to the Seattle Temple, and did a session there. It was scary for me, and the workers there told me afterward that I needed to relax, and that’s ok.

Then today, we went to the zoo and baby could literally not care at all.

 

But that’s ok, we had fun anyways.

Happy Easter!

We are visiting baby this week! So of course, for the holiday, we had to celebrate with him, and dress him up.

We could not get him to stay for very long, so I got this too, and it was amazing. He’s a cutie.

Weekly Darth

Ok, baby really brought the cute this week.

He’s definitely trying to seduce with his chunky legs in this.

Gah look at this cute face!

He just woke up from his nap here, so if you look at his cheek, you can see the lines from the blanket he was sleeping on, but he’s still so happy, I just can’t stand it.

An Easter Stamp and Chat

Tonight, for Stamp and Chat, we had decided in advance that the theme would be Easter treats, and I was excited to see what people would bring. I chose deviled eggs, but with an Easter twist. Behold:

You just make them like normal, but you soak the eggs in the egg dye for a minute or so, and it makes it pastel! They were delicious.

Anyway, then came the cards and food. We made cutie cards:

And then our treats were amazing!

We had ham, the eggs, rolls, fruit, rolls, and jell-o! We had a whole meal and it was so freaking delicious! I definitely ate way too much and it was an amazing meal of amazingness. Can’t wait for next month!