Daily Life

I have some random pictures we've taken, that aren't an exciting adventure, but I want to document them still to remember them. Also, to show a little of our normal life outside of all our trips. :)

Marc is really good to help me out in the kitchen if he comes home and I'm cooking. This was on a Sunday after church. (Side note: Our church building was full of mold, so they have to do some serious renovations. We were only there a couple months before they closed it and sent us to another church house. Now there are four wards in that building, so we go to church from 3pm-6pm. It's a little weird, but has it's perks as well as down sides.) This Sunday we wanted to make schnitzel for dinner.

 Making schnitzel was also one of our first dates. So we're pretty pro now.

 Notice my nieces birthday card for me is still on our fridge.

 Schnitzel with potatoes. Mmm

I bought this cute bag in Costa Rica. I had a cool bag from Chile that my brother sent me from his mission, but I was working with a lady in my ward for young women's camp at her house. Apparently the fabric was really tasty to her German Shepherd. He was just sitting at our feet, and we didn't notice what he was chewing on, until there was a loud rip! He had eaten most of the shoulder strap and was working on the tassels on the corners. There wasn't food or anything in it. Weird! So I was in need of a bag that would fit papers and notebooks. This one is working really nicely.

I was called as the yw stake camp directors assistant. It's been fun so far, though we've had some curveballs lately. (The whole camp has to change date and location due to the dedication and open house of the new Fort Lauderdale temple.) Anyway, I was put in charge of decorating granola bars like missionaries for a stake youth activity. This was as good as it got for 140 granola bars.

We love cookie dough and ice cream in our skillets, but we decided to try it with brownie batter. It turned out pretty delicious!

There are a lot of varieties of birds here. This includes a lot of vultures. We were driving through a parking lot one day and saw this. If any of you remember the movie Jungle Book, I had to take a picture of this. I'm pretty sure they were saying, "What do you wanna do?", "I dunno, what do you wanna do?", "Now don't start that again!"

 This isn't a very great picture, but when it rains here it really pours. The streets turned into rivers as I was out driving. 

I like to grow my hair long, but after awhile I get tired of it and chop it off to donate it. I was over due for chopping it, and so I was trying to decide where to get it cut. However, Marc really wanted to try cutting it, so I let him. I did make him watch a couple youtube videos first. He didn't do too bad, but I have slowly been trying to make it even. It's still a little crazy, but good enough to go into public. 

We took a day trip to Key West with the camp director I work with and her husband. Her husband is in the high council and it was his turn to speak in the Key West branch. We went down with him to meet with the young women about camp, because they are three hours away and have only been able to video chat into our meetings. It was a fun little trip. Last minute her husband needed another speaker, so he asked Marc since Marc was coming as well. :) Marc was a good sport and agreed and did a great job!

 It's weird to have December with eighty degree weather. I feel like it is still June and so no time has passed since we came here. However, to bring the Christmas spirit they planted white and red poinsettias all over and have put up Christmas lights. This is the entrance, you can even see Santa and a reindeer on the roof in the background. 

We had a great Thanksgiving with some families in our ward. There were about thirty of us, so it felt a little like home with lots of people. This is the only picture I took though. I made potato dough rolls from scratch since that's what my mom would always make. They turned out pretty well, I thought.

 I made us Christmas stockings as my first real project on my new sewing machine. It was pretty fun!

Lastly, I took a picture of this fruit as I walked by at our apartment complex. It is odd to have fruits growing that I don't even recognize. I assume it is a fruit anyway. Is it a durian? Is it even a fruit? Winter is definitely different down here! Maybe I'll go for a swim :) Though I don't think they heat the pools at all, so the water is starting to get a bit of a chill to it. Which is nice and refreshing... and then I go sit in the hot tub, and then back in the pool to cool down before I walk back to our apartment.

Oh! Look who came to visit while I blog. This guy is crawling up our screen.