Enjoy your apples, Lady!

Stood in line behind a lady who paid $3.49 for 2 apples at Alb's.

WHAT?!

Who DOES that?

If I was eating an apple that cost me $1.75, I wouldn't enjoy it a single bit.
It would actually make me sick with every bite.

Anyone with me on this?

Green Gators, Chomp 'Em!

Eclair no calorie cake... not!

Chocolate Eclair Cake!!!
1 cup water
1/2 cup butter
1 cup flour
4 large eggs
1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
1 large box (5.1 ounces) vanilla instant pudding
3 cups milk
1 8 oz. container cool whip (you won’t use the whole container) or one batch of homemade whipped cream
chocolate syrup or homemade chocolate sauce

Instructions:
Preheat oven to 400. Lightly grease a 9″X13″ glass baking pan.
Eclair Crust: In a medium saucepan, melt butter in water and bring to a boil. Remove from heat. Stir in flour. Mix in one egg at a time, mixing completely before adding another egg. Spread mixture into pan, covering the bottom and sides evenly. *If the sides of your pan are too greased you won’t be able to get the mixture to stay up the sides so make sure to just lightly grease.
Bake for 30-40 minutes or until golden brown (Mine only took 25 minutes.) You may want to check it occasionally-you don’t want to overcook the crust, it will ruin the cake! Remove from oven and let cool (don’t touch or push bubbles down).
Filling: Whip cream cheese in a medium bowl. In separate bowl make vanilla pudding. Make sure pudding is thick before mixing in with cream cheese. Slowly add pudding to cream cheese, mixing until there are no lumps. Let cool in fridge.When the crust is completely cooled, pour filling in. Top with layer of cool whip however thick you want it and serve with chocolate syrup. *If you want to make this even better use homemade whipped cream.

Recipe: http://www.the-girl-who-ate-everything.com/2009/06/chocolate-eclair-cake.html

new cheer team! 2013

My softball team is lime green

I am trying to come up with something as catchy as last years Tidal Waves yelling Tsunami at the other teams...
so throw your green ideas my way, but hurry, we practice on Friday.


reduce reuse recycle Go Green
go green or go home




Hot Green Peppers (or Hot Green Chili peppers)?

burn it down their throats. go hot green peppers
show them some heat, go hot green chili peppers
tsssssss! like a sizzling sound...



Gators?

Chomp 'em!
Show them what they are: gator bait, gator bait! with chomping of arms.


Green dragons?
Fire it up!
Smoke 'em!


Green Hornets?

Sting 'em
I guess the opponents could say Swat 'em, so this won't work.
but this is sure a cute uniform!


Green Waves?
We were Teal Blue Tidal Waves last year and it was fun yelling, "Hit it hard, TsuuuuuuuuuNAMI!"
We could use the same cheers as last year...







Green Giants?
Green Aliens?

Holy Freaking Freezer Frenzy!

I decided to do a favor for my Hubby and I defrosted the freezer without him...:)

I had Kinz hold the hair dryer to melt the biggest chunks of ice while I carefully scraped the rest of it away.

We put all the food in ice chests like always, then put it all back in organized and neat after the freezer was all towel-dried out.

I turned the freezer back on, and it came on like always.

Four days later, we stocked up on chicken while it was on sale at Costco. We went to put it in the freezer and found the freezer was off!!!

I figured I had punctured a hole in the freezer lines, and all the freon had leaked out, then burned out the compressor, so we'd need a new freezer.

A frantic call to mom for freezer space was a no go. She has 3 freezers, but no space in them. ?

We turned on the freezer upstairs in the empty apt. and shoved it clear full of chicken and veggies.

We turned on the freezer in the travel trailer and filled it full of pies and Popsicles.

Then I went on a cleansing spree for the freezer in the side by side. If it was frosted over, it was tossed. If it was a mystery, it was tossed. If is was a  .20 frozen banana waiting to be made into banana sour cream cake, it was tossed.

In my hurry, I shattered the light bulb in the side by freezer.

While I tried to remove the light bulb, I sliced my finger.

While I tried to carefully, carefully put the light bulb pieces in the garbage, I dropped it, and it shattered all over the floor with barefoot me and barefoot kids all over the place.

I pulled out all the space wasting baskets and shoved the freezer full of all the roasts and ice cream.

The big bag of chicken thighs were icy to thawed, so I had Kort put the lot in the crock pot and turn it on.

(I purposely put all the expensive stuff in the big freezer where it stays cold the longest, cause we have had kids leave the freezer open for days before, and I know where the meat needs to be to stay frozen.)

If it could be refrigerated like cheese and butter, I packed the fridge with those.

Hubby pulled the freezer out from the wall and touched the wires that run to the compressor, there was a spark, and then the compressor turned on. ? ? ? ? ? ?

Now, the freezer is working just fine.  ? ? ?

Whew, right?

But, in the mean time, I hate tests, I always FAIL them...

Kyson goes back to school after Christmas break.

Old history pictures for my kids

I remember the dike break at Quail Creek at around midnight on Dec 31, Jan 1 1989 that washed this old bridge away.


This is my dad, Danny. He loved to go deer hunting. He loved that old Dodge truck. His skin was always that dark year round.

One year, someone turned in front of him on Bluff and Blvd, and his truck was totaled. I remember he cried that day.

history: old photos of hometown

The Dixie Academy Gymnasium was part of the original St. George Stake Academy campus, also know as Dixie Academy. The gymnasium was completed in 1917. It included a swimming pool, athletic dressing rooms and a basketball court. Outdoor events, such as football games and track races, took place on the surrounding grounds. The space is now home to the Town Square bell tower and splash pad.

I played my first few years of city rec basketball in this gym. While I was in 5th grade, we used to run around the track as it was back then, just a dirt path it seems like.





The St. George Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was completed in early 1877 and originally featured a smaller tower than was planned in the original blueprints. Lore holds that Brigham Young, the president of the church at the time of the templeÕs construction, disapproved of the shorter tower and shortly after his death in August 1877, lightning struck the temple, burning only the tower. It was rebuilt with the taller tower that Young favored and that still stands atop the temple today.







The Big Hand cafe was built by George Pace on the northwest corner of 100 North (presently called St. George Boulevard) and Main Street in the late 1920s. George Pace bought the distinctive sign in the shape of an enormous illuminated hand and it quickly became well known throughout Southern Utah. The Big Hand closed in 1967 and later the land was developed into Ancestor Square by GeorgeÕs nephew Brooks Pace. In 2012 (date) Randall and Nicki Pace Richards (great-granddaughter of George Pace) opened GeorgeÕs Cafe in the same location, naming it after the original Big Hand Cafe owner.






A narrow tunnel was constructed through the north end of the ridge between Middleton and the central part of St. George during the 1920s. It remained in use as part of Old Highway 91 and the Arrowhead Trail until the cut was made through the ridge in the 1960s for the construction of Interstate 15. The tunnel is now privately owned and used for storage. Twin Lakes Drive now passes by the tunnel, leading north into the Red Cliffs Desert Reserve.






The tunnel is blocked off now. My dad used to take us through the tunnel on many a Sunday drive.




The home of Erastus Snow, president of Southern Mission of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, once stood on the southeast corner of 100 North and Main Street. Known as the Big House, Snow often hosted LDS dignitaries from Salt Lake City there. The Snow family later sold the home to Samuel Judd, who operated it as the Hotel Dixie. Eventually 100 North became Highway 91/Arrowhead Highway and is now known as St. George Boulevard. The Big House was demolished in the 1930s and replaced by a service station. Zions Bank now stand on the corner.






The St. George Lions Club took on the project of improving the road to the Sugarloaf (Dixie Rock) on the Red Hill above downtown St. George from 1918 to 1922. They used horse-drawn scrapers to construct what would become known as Skyline Drive. In the past decade or so, a variety of construction projects have drastically changed the access to the Red Hill, including the rerouting of Skyline Drive so it intersects what is now called the Red Hills Parkway northwest of its previous location shown in the historic photograph.







The Virgin River Bridge along present-day River Road was built in 1908 to allow access to the agricultural area south of the river. It was originally painted red and known as the "Red River Bridge." The bridge washed out on New Year's Eve 1989 when the Quail Creek Dam failed and the modern bridge on River Road soon replaced it. 


We drove across this bridge on many a Sunday drive. I was nervous every single time.









The St. George Amusement Co. Electric Theater was built in 1911 to show early motion pictures. In 1930 its name changed to The Gaiety and it later became the first air-conditioned building in St. George. After a renovation in 1991 the name returned to the Electric Theater. It stopped showing movies in 1999 and has served as a concert and entertainment venue since.



I went to quite a few movies in this place. One of the first times, I lied to my dad and told him I was going with a girl friend. Then I met my boyfriend there. We were 11. We watched the animated version of The Lord of the Rings rated PG. I wasn't allowed to watch rated PG shows. We went with DuRae and his girlfriend, Neidra. I ended up having 7 kids with that boyfriend...





Construction began in 1867 on the old Washington County Courthouse in St. George and it was completed in 1870. The courtroom occupied the upper floor, offices were on the main floor and three rooms in the basement served as a jail. Now, the building houses the St. George Chamber of Commerce and the Washington County Historical Society. Three new courthouses have been built since this first one.

When I was little, I was always nervous to walk passed this building, cause what if a prisoner excaped just as I walked by?








This is on 100 E. Tabernacle looking toward the Tabernacle. The Electric Theatre is also in this picture.






The Sunshine Service Station and the Sunshine Cabins catered to tourists in the 1930s at the corner of what is now St. George Boulevard and Bluff Street, one of the busiest intersections in St. George. SmithÕs supermarket, Walgreens and other businesses now form an urban landscape at this location. 






Settlers from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints came to Washington County in the mid-1800s to grow cotton as part of the churchÕs Cotton Mission. This cotton factory in Washington City was started in 1865 as a single-floor structure. Additional floors, as shown in this historic photo, were added in 1870. Today it still stands but now serves as a Star Nursery location.












The historic road between St. George and Santa Clara was sandy and prone to deep, sticky mud around the washes. The historic photo shows improvements to what was then known as the Arrowhead Trail in 1918. It was later replaced by Highway 91 and eventually Sunset Boulevard and Santa Clara Drive. The area shown in the photos is just south of Sunset Boulevard and west of Sand Hollow Wash, near the border of Santa Clara and St. George. Part of the old Arrowhead Trail still exists in Santa Clara but the new photo was taken at the east end of Hafen Lane.

Kyson's Peeps!

His roommate Kellstin, and his new good friend from across the hall, Dusty.

Kellstin has Aggie everything you can think of hanging ALL OVER their apartment. Flags, banners, a Christmas tree, (yes, in March, a Christmas tree) He is the one in the sun glasses.

Dusty is the girl with the beard :0  :)

They get in line for the Aggie games 5 hours ahead of time to get front row seats!

princess cake my daughter wants