Day In The Airport.

Well as my blog before stated. My flight back home got delayed by not just 2 hours but 3. I thought it was going to be the worse day of my life. Stuck in an airport for 6 hours with nothing but my laptop. But me having my lap top made me popular cause people wanted me to try and find out what's going on with our flight, and that is how I became friends with 2 guys. We bought a deck of cards and played for a couple of hours. So the day turned out not to be so bad, especially because I won every game. I even got ice cream out of it.

Poker Faces.

stuck.GRR

Oh if only I had known my flight would be delayed 2 hours. Then I would not be sitting all alone in the airport. I would be shopping with my sisters, spending all my money on things I don't really need (so this could be a good thing). But since that isn't the case I figured I could blog about the christmas holidays with my family in texas.

It wouldn't be a beazer christmas without some poker(rumoli) and beer(root beer of course)...

the traditional white elephant gifts. Some were a little outrageous this year. In case you can't tell that is my dad in the picture sporting a floral shirt and floral pants, which is a big fashion no no, but to add to it he adds flip flops and socks. He really took the biscuit there.

Mama Beaz pretty in pink calling princess kami on her princess phone.

Then we went to the show homes and let me tell you I've never seen such beautiful homes. There wasn't one house that had everything I would've wanted but Of all the houses I saw I think I could piece my dream home. First picture is of my favorite living room the next is of my fav bathroom.

This is at the Alamo grounds. It was pretty interesting. We went on a cute liitle river ride. I'm sad to say that I still don't know anything about the alamo. I spent most of my time taking pictures of these two.

walky walky.

Here I am in beautiful Houston Texas. The sun is shinning, birds are chirping, and alligators are chomping (so we are told). We went on a sunday walk to get out of cooking dinner and to also be away from all the food and candies so we actually had an appetite later.

All of the girlies. Crystal almost fell in a few times running to get into the picture.

Jumping pictures are a must

Sisters <3

Temple Lights

This weekend I had the pleasure of going to temple square with some of my favorite people in the world. My sister and her best friend shelby, my favorite yoga loving chocolate eating room mate nikki, and 2 of my bestest friends in the whole wide world karli and nelson and my brother. We went and looked at the beautiful temple lights and the nativities from around the world.

I just love nelson. He is one of my best guy friends. As you can tell we are so happy together.

Karli was getting in touch with her japanese side

The salt lake temple.

I wish it was easier to take pictures of all the lights, i just don't think a photo could justify but they are beautiful, and so are my friends.

My room mate nikki. I just love her we have so much together and have a lot in common so it's great. It was freezing cold so I had to get myself an apple cider, a perfect addition.

I just love my family. I'm highly enjoying my time in texas with them thus far.

Update.

Just so anyone who happens to read my blog knows I have great news! The other morning I walked into the bathroom and happened to look on the floor and what did I find?! The diamond from my turn your luck around ring! It must have fallen on the carpet somewhere and eventually got dragged in there because it was right by the door and my mom had said she'd even swept the day before. This ring has proven how lucky it really is. :)

CHOCOLATES!

For the last few years my mom has made chocolates at christmas time. And let me tell you making chocolates is a lot harder then you might think. No wonder they can be so expensive! But they are so good and so worth it. Right now my favorite is hazelnut, probably just because I love the flavor of hazelnut more then any other flavor.

Rolling out the fondant.

Beating the fondant with a stick. This take some serious arm muscle.

Dipping the chocolates.

Rolling them in some coconut. Not gonna lie coconut is pretty good. Right up there with hazelnut.

Finished Dark Mint Chocolates.

Blizzard Continued.

It's the next morning of the first blizzard of the year. And it's been a Doozy. There is at least a foot of snow with drifts as high as 6 feet tall. I was suppose to go to work this morning at 8, but there wasn't a chance my little saturn was going to get out of the driveway. There were already 3 people stuck outside my house so I didn't even bother trying. I called extra and told them I'd come in if somebody would come and pick me up, but there wasn't anyone willing so I got a snow day from work. So Madison, Eric and I went out this morning and walked in the winter wonderland and took some pictures.

Main street after they plowed. The sides of the road are insane. Snow is piled everywhere.

Trees at the temple.

BLIZZARD

There a storm a brewing in Southern Alberta! It's been a good one so far. I'm hoping it keeps up all night, with the 50-70 km winds that have been forcasted. That way I might not have to go to work tomorrow cause I simply won't be able to get out of my driveway. I tried to take some pictures, but it's not very easy at night.

Homemade Christmas Sweaters

Last year there was an ugly christmas sweater party. Me and Jennica couldn't find any in the thrift stores so we came up with the genius idea of making our own. We found some christmas oven mitts and stockings at thrift stores and then used old christmas decorations to complete the outfit. Our sweaters were definitely the best at the party. The main reason I'm blogging about this is because not only do i want to show off my excellent work of art but my sister wanted to see them cause she was thinking of making her own and obviously needed my sweater as inspiration.

Fruit Cake

At extra foods I've had the pleasure of unloading and displaying about 25 boxes of various fruit cakes. So I've come to hate them a little bit. While putting them out today I used one to help me stand up and it made me think about the many uses of fruit cakes.

1. As already proven they can help you stand up when you are having a little trouble.

2. You can use as a yoga block or depending on if you get plain or nuts on top you've got 5-8 pound weights.

3. You could play various sports with them, like rugby and football.

4. They'd make great siding for a house. Brick is out, fruitcake is in.

5. Door stoppers.

6. Chew toy for your dog.

I'm sure there is plenty more that it is good for besides giving it to friends who will rewrap it and give it to their friends, but those are just a few that I thought of. I bet you are just dieing to go buy some fruit cake now. The possibilities are endless.

Bad Luck :(

So my turn your luck around ring's luck stopped working. Namely because the diamond fell out! I was not happy when I found out. And I've had a string of bad luck since this dreadful event. Starting with

1. The ring breaking

2. My cell phone fell out of my pocket into the toilet for the second time. Luckily this was just the beginning of my bad luck otherwise maybe my cell phone would've stopped working or got flushed down the toilet. Here it is sitting in a bowl of rice drying out for the night.

3. I dropped a glass casserole dish on my foot from about 6 feet in the air. Next day I had to use crutches.

4. This is about the worse my luck ever got, and it was bad. I went and saw New Moon. Thankfully I didn't pay for my ticket otherwise it would've made the situation worse. The only plus was jacob's black body.

Right now I'm in the search of a new diamond to replace the old one and to some how fix my ring. I don't know if I'll be able to but I'd like to turn my luck around.

Purse dog

I always wanted a yorkshire teacup poodle, because they were so tiny and cute and could fit in your purse. Well with the growing size of purses I realized I don't need a yorkshire teacup poodle to have my own purse dog. Lola works just fine.

CLoudy With A Chance of Meatballs

The other weekend me madison and shelby went to the show cloudy witha chance of meatballs. Madison And Shelby were a little weary about going because the name sounds kind of lame, you just don't really have any idea what it's going to be about. BUt they trusted me and took the plunge and watched it. And it was hilarious. I seriously looooved it. I highly suggest it to everyone. It was a 3d Version so of course we got to wear some sweet glasses for the whole show

Pure Joy.

The other day I had gone to Lethbridge with my sister Madison and her friend Shelby. In passing I had mentioned how much I love the perfume princess by vera wang but could never bring myself to buy it because it was really expensive for a little bottle. Ironically Shelby had a BIG bottle of it, that she didn't even want and she said I could have it! I am now a proud owner of princess and shelby is my favorite person in the world. It looks like my turn your luck around ring is really working!!

curling

A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to try my hand at curling. What an interesting sport. First few rounds were alittle trying. I wasn't sure how much I liked it. I had no idea how hard to throw the rock and it was just weird. But after a little bit it got better and I actually scored a few points. And surprisingly I never fell on my face because in case you didn't know you have one shoe thats a slipper so you have zero grip on the ice and my other shoe might as well have been a slipper. But it was really fun and i enjoyed my first experience.

Shirley Temple.

So my roomate was throwing out a bunch a stuff and I found a little treasure. FOAM CURLERS. I had my mama put them in and the result was super springy curls. It made me think of shirley temple and her little pin curls

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Turn Your Luck Around

My dearest friend Kimber went into an antique shop and when she went to make her purchases the lady at the counter gave her a little present. She said it was a turn your luck around ring. Everytime you are having bad luck you simply spin the diamond around and you will start having good luck. I asked if I could wear it the other weekend and kimber let me keep it! I was so happy. Now I will always have good luck.

art winter scene

Last night I finished the winter scene I've been working on for 3 weeks in art classes. It's amazing how much time goes into a painting. I had no idea this single painting would take me so long. It's also crazy that i can replicate a picture. I look at it beforehand and think how in the world am i actually going to make this. It's impossible. Mine will be some sort of stick figure version. But in the end it always turns out, thanks to rolande (our teacher) who patiently works with me and gives me tips and even takes over occasionally so that I'm happy with my painting.

Jack-o-lanterns

Yay for halloween and pumpkin carving. I don't think I've carved a pumpkin in easily 5-6 years. So I'm not going to lie, I was very rusty and my pumpkin certainly showed that. It had about 4 different faces. It started off with a witch on a broomstick. But then I poked out a part of it that wasn't suppose to come out. So I switched to the other side and tried my hand at a spider. It was going real well till it met the same fate that my witch did. By then I didn't really care what happened to my pumpkin so I let Travis Prete's nephews draw all over it and then carved out their drawings and their cute little hand prints. It was reallly fun though. I liked the uniqueness of my pumpkin and all it's flaws. Travis and Megans turned out really well though. Travis's was some extreme carving. So extreme that even though he followed all the lines it's a little difficult to tell what it is.