Murder Mystery Party

 We are huge fans of Murder Mystery Parties.  We found this one at the local Flea Market here in Ashton for a whoppin' FIFTY CENTS!

The Watersdown Mansion

Set in England

We had a great time attempting British accents.

We invited three other couples and the night was a success!

Prosper Alvin Bates, Esquire -- Luke 

Dame Allison Bigh -- Rachel 

Her an Authoress getting more ideas for her next book, "The Knife" and he a friend who golfs with him, also we found out his illegitimate son!

 Andrew - Dr. Malcolm K.T. Praktiss

 The deceased's doctor 

Margie - Eiaguielle R. Aminmund

 The deceased's secretary

Donald J. Brooks—Andrew S.

A City Banker and the deceased's nephew.
Florence Wing Brooks – Morgan
The wife of Donald J. Brooks and the heiress to the fortune of The Earl and Lady Wing.

 Keith and April Morse-  Roger S.B. Astird & Miranda T. Shetes

He also an illigitimate son and her an "actress".

Figuring things out throughout the night!

Reading our information for Round 2!

For the food we ate some good stuff.

Appetizer - Spinach dip and bread made by Morgan

Salad - Ceaser Salad made by April

Main Course - Meatloaf and Roasted Potatoes made by Margie

Dessert - Chocolate pie with Milky Way inside - made by the Erickson's

 So who do you think the murderer was? Yeah it was this guy!

The whole group!!!!  

What a fun night! 

Sunday Drivers

 

Sometimes Andrew and I like to just drive around on Sundays!!

I suppose you could call us, Sunday Drivers!

But when you're surrounded with the beauty we have around us.....

 

I'm pretty sure you would be.....

a Sunday Driver too!

Dinner for My Love

 While Andrew was at Priesthood Session I was at home making dinner for him when he got home!  I put a bed of lettuce down with fajita seasoned chicken on top.   Then I put some diced tomatoes mixed with rotell on top of that.  It was all finished off with sautéed onions, sour cream, and some chutney that Andrew's mom gave us!  It was delicious.

I was way excited for the drinks.  I took some strawberries, sliced them up and put them in Sprite.  I let it sit there for a while.  This made the strawberry flavor seep into the soda!  Also quite delicious!!!

I must say, I love my Andrew!

Yummy Zucchini Soup

A little taste of Fall right in a bowl!
This is what I call YUMMY!
Zucchini Soup with potatoes, carrots, onions and deliciousness!
9 grain bread from Bountiful Basket!
Talk about GOOD!

Basket 411

Are you getting your Bountiful Basket?  If not, you totally should!  Hopefully it is available to you where you live.  If you are getting your Bountiful Basket, you definitely need to got check out THIS blog.  I love it.  It shows you recipes you can do with the basket of that week.  Basket 411 is definitely MY friend!!!

Here's to eating more fruits and veggies!

 

Check out that shirt! 

It is one of my favorites.

I picked it up at Goodwill

when I was in college.

That means I have had it for

ELEVEN YEARS!

At first it was in my dress up box,

and then I realized,

"Uh, hello it is a pretty good lookin' shirt!"

I started to wear it!

It became one of my favorites!

Well, with time all clothes start to wear DOWN.

As was the case with this beauty.

I didn't have the heart to throw it away.

So, I made it into this.....

A PILLOW!

Now I can keep it with me always.

 I laid out the shirt and decided where I wanted to cut. 

To make it easy, I just cut across the middle.

That meant I had two less seams to make.

(Or so I thought)

 I ended up having to cut off one of the ends because

it was laying right.

That is all good.  

Everything turned out just right.

I sewed it all up and stuffed it with some stuffing.

And now I have a NEW throw pillow that looks

extremely nice in our BEDROOM!

See....

Doesn't it just fit in so wonderfully?

I love it!

So glad I thought to do it.

Maybe you should make a pillow out of one of your shirts!

Conference Weekend Traditions

 

What about this plate of goodness?

How about some sweet potato pancakes and apple cider syrup?

A Conference weekend tradition I started up about 4 years ago.

Thanks Ariana for the recipe!

We eat this Saturday morning before the first session.

We have friends over.

Once we have our own kids, they will look forward to Conference Saturday morning

Wouldn't you???

PS:  What do you think of my picture taking skills.
I posed the pictures and everything!
I am trying to take really creative pics!
How did I do?

I also started a new tradition with my note taking a year ago.  The first time I wrote it on paper and this time, I took notes in my Microsoft Word and then went back and took out something from each talk that would summarize the whole talk.  Some talks I picked out a few!  Then I went and put them all together in a fun way.  This way I can just look at it and see the main things that I got out of conference.  Did you get any of this out of conference?  What else did you get out of it?  What are some of your conference weekend traditions?  Please share!  I would love to know!  

Here's to the next 6 months!

A Fall Craft

A little bit of Ashton inside of our home.

We like it!
We love it!
We  have it!

All we did was went out to fields that were already harvested and grabbed the wheat that the combine didn't pick up.  Brought it home, put it in a vase and tied a bow around it.

So Easy.

So Beautiful.

So FALL!