Oh Christmas Tree

Even though we won't be around for christmas, Daniel and I thought that we would set up a Christmas Tree anyway. We made our own decorations or paper snowflakes, gingerbread men and women and red ribbon. Daniel made the top gingerbread ornament. We had a lot of fun and the corner with the tree smells really good!

Busy Bees

Thanksgiving was such a nice break from school, though Dan and I both agree that we should have done more homework than we did. We went to Idaho Wed and then went to Oak City on Friday. It was fun to meet all of Daniel's family and as always it was fun being with mine.
Monday found us at school again with tests and hours of homework for Dan, and two Concerts, Rehearsals, homework, and my 15 page paper for me. Somehow we never have that much time to ourselves.
This week I have spent I-don't-know-how-many-hours practicing and playing my violin. The Chamber Orchestra played Gloria by Vivaldi with the choir so we had a rehearsal Monday night and a concert on Tuesday. Then the Orchestra concert was on Thursday (which was totally amazing!) I had a lot of family there and it was good to feel the support.
I also volunteered to playing the Messiah this year. Boy Was I wrong to do that! I love playing it but it hurts! Last Sunday I had a three hour rehearsal and the same Friday. Saturday was the first performance and we have another one tonight. I love the violin, but many is my shoulder sore!.
Now Dan and I are faced with finals. Hopefully we will have studied enough to pass them all! Wish us luck!

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Funny thing...

I always find it funny that students pay to go to college then are so excited when teachers cancel class or beg to have class cancelled. It's just cheating themselves right? Well it is a short week and funny thing is that I only had 1 out of 4 classes today and then tomorrow only 1 out of 3 classes. What a nice break!

Stupid Upgrades...

Firday was a very frustrating day for me in English. It was the day we needed to turn in our works cited page and my teacher is really strict about it. He even has a ruler with him to check the margins. Well I can do almost anything on word 2003, but the lybrary was the 2007 version. It totally messed me up and kept changing the margins on me when I went to print and would but in a triple space when I only wanted a double space. Oh my goodness it was frustrating! No matter what I did I couldn't get the title to be exactly 1" from the top. So my teacher thought I was very dumb and said that I had to turn it in anyway and lose points on it because I couldn't work the computer....dumb technology.....

Just going through the Motions...

Our week here at Snow college has been somewhat uneventful. It was full of studying and tests. I had a concert to polay in on Friday, the Founder's Day concert. It was a neat production composing of all of the performing arts. The Orchestra played Night on Bald Mountain again and the chamber orchestra played with the choir while the Snow college dance team danced. It was a vivaldi piece so it was pretty neat.

Saturday Dan humored me and took me to see High School Musical 3. I loved it! Other than that, our week was somewhat uneventful.

Yummy!!!

I just found a new recipe that We absolutely love. I was browsing through my Simple and Delicious magazine and came across Chicken wtih Curried Rice. It reminded me of Our favorite restaurant, The Himalayan Kitchen, by temple square. So I made it tonight and it was so good! you have got to try this one out!

Chicken with Curried Rice

3/4 lb. boneless skinless chicken breasts, cut into 1/2-inch cubes

1/2 c chopped onion

1 TBSP olive oil

3 c frozen chopped broccoli, thawed

1 can (14 oz) coconut milk

1 can (10-3/4 oz) condensed cream of celery soup, undiluted

1 c uncooked instant rice

1/3 c water

1 TBSP curry powder

1/4 tsp salt

1 medium tomato, chopped

In a large skillet, saute the chicken and onion in oil until chicken juices run lear. Add the broccoli, coconut milk, soup, rice, water, curry and salt.

Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 10-15 minutes or until rice is tender. Garnish with tomato. Yield: 4 servings