I'm ecstatic!!

So it's been 71 long stressful days but we are FINALLY under contract!!! I can't wipe the silly grin off of my face. We actually had a kid that was really interested but then he started getting kind of flaky and this morning an agent called and wanted to show our house. So I met her and her client there and about 3 hours later she called me to tell me they were putting in an offer. The offer is great and we accepted! It's such a weight lifted off our shoulders. I hope everything goes smooth with the buyers loan process and hopefully we'll be out in 3 weeks. We are so blessed and grateful and I know it's because we are obedient and steadfast in following the commandments and especially paying a full tithe. It's probably a little premature to be posting but I'm just so excited I can't help it!

Cupcakes in all their glory...

Darin went out of town on Monday for a few days and so I thought it appropriate to completely divulge myself into doing something totally girly. Since cupcakes are the new rave I decided to try out my own gourmet mini cakes. Alright, alright the batter was made courtesy Betty Crocker, but I did make my own cream cheese frosting. And it was SO good. (Probably because it was made with a stick and a half of cream cheese and 3/4 a stick of butter. Not to mention 2 full cups of heavenly powdered sugar. Good thing I have high metobalism.) It was especially fun putting the frosting on with a pastry bag. They were pretty simple but turned out yummy and semi cute. I'll have to try taking things up a notch on my next Martha Stewart cooking moment.

So then I'm sitting there trying to think of the best way to get a good picture and this insanely brilliant idea pops into my head. "I should put a cupcake on the floor and make Diesel lay by it and pretend like he's sad (because he always looks sad) because he can't have one." So I get them in position and am laying there on my carpet when reality hits me and I realize how completely retarded this is. So I sit there by myself with my dopey dog and crack up hysterically over what I'm doing. I think, "There's no way I'm posting this stupid picture on my blog." But then of course I decided I had to because somebody might actually think it as funny as I did. So here's the picture. I put it in the smallest format to make me feel better about how pathetic I am. =)

Returned With Honor!

Ok so this is a lame cell phone picture, but I forgot to take my camera to the airport. Darin's brother, Preston, returned home last night from his mission in Honduras!!!! It's so great to have him home and I can't believe it's already been two years. It seems like just yesterday we were saying goodbye. He was a little freaked out because he now has a 20 month old neice he's never even met and he said everyone looks older haha. He was sad to leave the people and service of Honduras but is excited to be home. We are proud of you Preston!

Running with Scissors

Where do I even begin on this book? Some reviewers describe this as a book of humor. I wouldn't. Although there are moments of irony and the characters sometimes do or say ludicrous things, as a whole it is not a funny story.

This true story covers the years of Augusten's early adolescence when he lives with his mentally ill mother's shrink and a host of other loonies in a large ramshackle house in the 1970s. Augusten's casual yet dramatic voice carries us along as he experiences adulthood thrust upon him too soon - sexual abuse by a pedophile who also resides there, and being encouraged to fake a suicide attempt so he can drop out of school early are only two of the several mind-blowing events. This book was just disturbing and if I wasn't so obsessive about finishing books all the way through I probably would have stopped half way. Very disturbing, and if I were you, I wouldn't go there.

Attention Readers!

So I'm completely obsessed with reading. Darin gets mad at me sometimes because I constantly have my nose in some book. I thought it would be fun to put an update of the books I read so that if anyone else needs ideas of good books to read you can come to my blog! I probably read at least 2 books a month so you should have a wide selection. My most recent book was

This book was really good. In a nutshell it's about a girl that doesn't ever want children and finds a guy that feels the same way, but then things change when one of them changes their minds. It's about what happens to the perfect couple when they suddenly want different things. It’s about feeling that your life is set and then realizing that nothing is as you thought it was. It’s about deciding what is most important in life, and taking chances to get it. But most of all, it’s about the things we will do--and won’t do--for love. Super cute story. I would probably rate it R mainly because it drops the F-Bomb a few times. This is the same author that wrote "Something Borrowed" and "Something Blue" if any of you have read those.