Our Church building & Temple

I've wanted to get a picture of our local church building for a while and found a perfect opportunity to do so today. My family has pictures of almost every place that we lived growing up; our school, house, church. Yesterday at Church, it was extremely windy and cold. Today is a great sunny day! A great day to celebrate President's day. 

                                                          68th Ward, 4th Stake of BYU-Idaho

                                              Rexburg Temple

Bath Salts!

This evening we decided to make bath salts! We hope to sell them at our local Farmer's Market this year. We made orange/lychee, vanilla/pomegranate, lavender, and my top favorite peppermint! The ironic part of all this is.....We don't have a bathtub! 
We use natural essential oils for fragrances since I'm highly allergic to fake commercialized scents. I had a scent/fragrance free bridal shower before we were married. Growing up, any scented bar of soap, bath salt, perfume, ect. were all gifted to my sister who willing and excitedly accepted them. 

Snow!

It snowed about 4 inches last night. We awoke to a white calmness about our apartment complex. Lucky for us, Church now starts for us at 1:30pm, so after Antonio came home from his meetings the car was already cleared off and ready for us to drive it. I took some pictures on the way to our building and some after Church let out. 

I thought we should put antlers on the front hood of our car in the pile of snow collected there.

These are the HUGE piles of snow that the snow plows have pushed to the sides of the Church parking lot. I'm happy they at least plow it! Since our complex is a different story.

Sour Dough Bread, Bears, & Breadsticks!

I have a sour dough starter that I'm having to keep track of. Like a bossy little plant...keeps me feeding it with flour and water. I decided to made rolls out of the sour dough starter. Then I made a 2nd batch of bread and turned it into bread sticks. The leftover dough I decided to make into two adorable bread bears. I used craisins for their eyes! Wow...Did I make the house smell scrumptious! 


We have an itty bitty little kitchen, so most of my cooking space is on top of the stove. 

                                
                                    I started rice in the cooker for Hawaiian Haystacks for dinner.

                                                         Laying out greased cookie sheets!

                                                                  Washed the dishes.

                                 The left dough rising has the sour dough starter in it. The right
                                 just the yeast foaming.
                                

                                                             I dabbed the tops with butter.

                                                                Hot out of the oven!

                                                             2nd Batch almost done rising.

                                                                           Breadsticks

                                                      My seasoning mixture! I love Winco!

                                                                 I coated the bears with egg.

Egg bread bears

                                                                            Bread sticks.

Barley Water

I heard from a nurse on Wednesday at Madison Memorial Hospital about the health benefits of Barley water. She swore by it, so I attempted to keep the idea in my brain for researching later. 


http://www.natural-homeremedies.com/blog/health-benefits-of-drinking-barley-water/


This link said that Barley is an antioxidant, helps cure childhood asthma, prevent cancer, digestive remedy, helps constipation, diarrhea, nausea, lowers cholesterol, prevents gallstone formations, cures current gallstones, helps to control glucose levels and those who have diabetes, helps arteriosclerosis, prevents heart related disorders, can help with seizures, and other attacks. 


How do you use it? Boil with a ratio of 1 barley to 5 parts water. Strain off barley and use it in a soup or other foods. Drink 1 glass of the water everyday. You can add lemon or fruit flavoring if desired. The barley has a plain flavor similar to noodles. I added it to my macaroni & cheese this evening. It was most delightsome!

Tootsie Roll Recipe!

Just experimented and made my first batch of Tootsie Rolls!

1.5 teaspoons butter

2 Tablespoons cocoa powder

2/3 c powder sugar

1/4 teaspoons vanilla

3 Tablespoons dry milk

2 Tablespoons corn syrup

This made about 36 pieces of candy!

Sealable sandwich bag (freezer – quart sized if you have an aggressive squish-er)

Tape to seal the bag--not necessary if you are a gentle squeezer!

Combine ingredients! I had to add a little more corn syrup & butter. Squish like crazy. Take out, shape using powdered sugar, and wrap in wax paper! Eat!

Tootsie Rolls!

So I've been reading about some really fun ideas on a blog called "Fun on a dime". I found a recipe for making homemade tootsie rolls and decided to try them out even though it was about 10:30pm and my husband looked strangely at me. 


I get these crazy ideas in my head and have to try them though I probably should've waited till the next day and just gone to bed....But what is life, without some Adventure!