Tootsie Roast

Me and katie have been wanting to do a campfire night all summer and we finally planned it. We gathered a crowd, food and went up.
Ted was the one picked to start the fire... He did a great job.

We went all out with the food. Hot dogs, chips, marshmellows, cookies, drinks, starbursts, and tootsie rolls were involved. Matt won the award for the perfect marshmellow roast and smore presentation. He had serious skill.

So one day I had this thought come to me.... Startbursts are great on the campfire... I love tootsie rolls more than starbursts... I wonder if tootsie rolls would taste as delightful. I bought a bag of tootsie rolls so we could give it a try.

I am not going to lie. It didn't turn out as good as hoped. It was still fun to give it a try. The taste doesn't really taste different roasted. Let down.

Overall the night was great. Ah I love the mountains!
I love campfires! I always feel outdoorsy when I am at one. That is about the most outdoorsy I get. We had a great group and the night ended with a bang. Three forest rangers put an end to our night at 9:40... who knew that the canyon was closed so early.

Vegas

For the weekend of the 24th I decided to go on a rode trip to Vegas with my cousins. Thursday we loaded up our stuff in the car and headed down.

It was a great get a way. We went shopping, ate good food, went to a high school musical 2 play, more shopping, a few sonic trips, speed scrabble slash take two and movies. I love vacations, even if they are just for a weekend.

Ta-da

Much to my mothers dimay, my room has been hot pink for the last couple of years. Since I am not longer a permanent resident at my parents household, my mother requested (or required) that I repaint my room before I go back to school in the fall. It took a while to agree on the new scheme for the room, but I think it turned out quite nicely.

So here are the before pictures......

and after.......

I decided that it would be fun to switch up the furniture arrangement while I was at it......

I think it turned out nicely if I do say so myself......

New Job!!!

My old roomate Marchelle has been working for this Katelyn&Co. for a couple of months and suggested my name to her boss. I interviewed last week and got the job! I am super excited. The company makes baby accessories. Here is a little bit of what I will be making... Bows.....

Tutus ( I am not going to lie, I am most excited about learning how to make this one)

and interchangable Headbands.

The company makes a ton of other stuff. You should check out their website.

www.katelynandco.com

Bucketlist....

Katie already blogged about this, but I thought I would post a few pictures from my camera.

Yay for completing things of off our bucketlists!!!

reunited

I met up for dinner with my old roomates Sarah and Shell. I forgot how much I have missed them!

Gone but not forgotten.....

In honor of the recently deceased Michael Jackson Katie, Melissa, Morgan and I held a funeral in his honor. It was actually more of a celebration of his life. We began with eating funeral potatoes... A must have at any mourning session.

Black and white cup cakes were made in his honor. We combined the cupcakes with white chocolate, dark chocolate, and milk chocolate ice cream. To finish off the services we all made t-shirts to honor him while watching his music videos. Here is how mine turned out.