What's 4 Supper?

I love our teens. they are a good group of kids. Last weekend, we took 26 teenagers to up state Pennsylvania to Snow Camp. Now I realize I'm from maine, but spending a whole weekend playing in the snow is not my idea of a fun time. Neither is staying up late listening to giggling girls till 1 in the morning. THANKFULLY, it was not my girls that were loud.

Upon returning from snow camp, both brian and i spent the next few days in bed sick. when I say a few days I mean Brian is still fighting to get rid of a cold. that being said, thats why the lack of posts for the past almost two weeks. But i'm back. So ANYWAYS.


Ok, so I did this post a while ago. but it needs to be done again.

So for those of you who own an, ipod touch, iphone, or ipad, or WANT one. You need to read this.

There is this awesome app called "What's 4 Supper". It's got all of these great features.

You can plan out the means for, well really as far in advance as you like.


You can put in your grocery list and check it off as you put it in your cart. NOW. not only can you do that, but it will also organize the data for you based on where it's found (example Cheese would be in the Dairy isle). That way you never have to back track.

Also, you can program it to list the items by isle. So it gets even more organized. WOAH!


PLUS, on top of that. It has a "Kitchen Helper" it's got tips and tricks, measurements, substitutions and more.

I love this thing.

However, it's not free.

It is (i think) 5 bucks. But it's TOTALLY worth it. I carry my phone with my to the store and just check things off my list. and I always know what we will have for dinner and I never end up spending more money than needed.

That and I never lose my grocery list because well, it's my phone.

If you dont have it. you totally have to. it's awesome.

ok thats all, you have to get it. it'll change your life!

-j

It's a party!

Note: the party is actually at 10648 Long Leaf Ln. Waldorf MD 20601.
thats all for now
-j

Just another day being a pastor's wife.

I love my husband. And I love our youth kids.

I love my husbands creative mind. His relational personality. (He's why I go to dinner parties, he talks and I just sit there. It's glorious.) I love that he's a dreamer. ( I also love that I'm a doer). I love that he has the ability to see the world differently than I do......

With that being said.

Brian last week put on a youth conferance for the youth in the area. It was at the college. And let me tell you it was a blast. The kids played a huge game of capture the flag over the college campus which  I think is at least 6 acres.

Friday afternoon I asked Brian,

"So hunny, what are you going to do about flags for capture the flag"....

You know those moments where you immediately regret saying something. Like you knew it was going to come back to bite you?

yeah, it was one of those moments.

For those of you who don't know. Brian and I moved last weekend. A lot of stuff we got rid of or left in our apartment for the next people to use.....


Brian looked at me... looked past me at the window. Looked at me again and said... "How attached are you to your curtains.

..yup word regret. like word vomit only not......





So there ya have it. My curtains were turned into flags for capture the flag.

I love my husband. I really do. And I love my wife life.

thats all for now.
-j

pomp and circumstance and party

ok everyone, i have a question. And I need some feed back.

In May both Brian and I will be  walking for graduation. I will be turning 23 and my outta town bestie will be walking with us at graduation as well.....

What do people do for college graduations?

My friend mary had a party, and invited our professors and I gotta tell you, it was fun. We sat around the table and swapped stories and remember whens and gained last bits of wisdom from our profs.

So again I ask...

What do people do for College graduations?

What the norm?

I will make any excuse to throw a party. I love hosting and theres nothing more then having every one you love in once place at one time.

Do people throw parties? Is it just a word of mouth? Is it a formal thing? Am I allowed to do whatever the heck I want because it's my party? Is it silly to go all out?

Let me know you're thoughts, I'd be interested to know. Ok thats all for now.

-j

The Craft of Christmas Past

hehe. I hope the title made you laugh. cuz it made me laugh. and yes, I do realize how lame that is.

Anyway. Because Brian and I are so poor, I have to get "crafty" (no pun intended) with our gifts. So this year I made a lot of my gifts.

I made this for my Sister in law. She's an elementary school teacher. Ok here is how I did it.

I took a canvas. And hot glued crayons on it. For this one I took the paper off. For the bottom one, I left the paper on. It all depends on what you want. 

ERRRRRRRRR

Rewind. 

FIRST, I printed out the words. "Mrs. Duncan" from my computer. I taped it to the back side of the canvas and took a paint pen and traced the letters. I am sure a sharpie would work. But I liked the paint texture of the paint pen. 

NOTE: I had to use my phones flash light to see the letters through the canvas. 

THEN. I glued the crayons. or if your brian (Kray-ns)... *I love him, he's my favorite*

After you glue them to the canvas next comes the fun part. Blow drying them. Thats what makes the colors run. It's important for all you OCD people out there (me included at times) that there is no wrong  way to do art. There are no mistakes. It doesn't always end up looking like you want, but it will always be cool.

So i heated the wax until it was a big puddle, then i stood the canvas on it's end and let the colors run down. 

It turned out pretty cool. I covered her name with a piece of paper so the wax wouldn't flow onto her name...

For this one vvv... I did the same thing. Only I glued flowers to the end of the wax. See isn't it pretty. I made this for my other sister in law. 

I made one for my mommy. It looks kinda like a snow flake but I guess I never took a picture of it. Fail.

If you haven't tried this, you should. I must confess however.

I stole the idea from brians little sister. She's the real art genius in the family. So shout out to Jesse. You Rock!

Thats all for now. 

-j

Soup, It's whats for supper.

Brian and I are in the process of moving. Not only are we in the process of moving but we just returned from Maine. Not only are we in the process of moving and just returned from maine but Brian started full time this week, so he's been gone..... a lot...

My Point?

We have no food in our house. No Joke. I'd show you a picture but I'm to lazy to get up, find my camera, and take a picture.

We've eaten out or had a frozen meal since we got back to our apartment last Sunday night. (We've had chipotle twice already).

We have milk, but no cereal. Peanut butter and jelly but no bread. A freezer full of frozen vegetables but just that one piece of chicken.

Ok I digress.

One of the meals I bought was this .

Tomato Florentine & Tortellini with Chicken...

Oh.

My.

GOSH!

It was so good. Like Olive Garden Good. It was just enough for Brian and I to be full and still enough he took some to work this morning. If I was thinking I would have gotten some bread and a salad. That would have made the soup go a little further.

It'd be perfect for a sunday afternoon. Or a crazy night. We have a lot of crazy nights. Like tonight, I dont plan to see brian until 9pm.

Anyway, you should try them. They are amazing... Now I want to go to Olive Garden... Soup, Salad and Breadsticks for 7 bucks. Any takers?


Thats all for now
-j

New Years Intentions.

I stole the idea from another blog I read. But I couldn't tell you who it was because I've looked at so many different blogs over the last 24 hours. So not resolutions, but intentions.

I have things I want to accomplish this year. Practical goals, that at this point if I could accomplish one I'd be happy. Ok so here goes.

1. Never stop growing in the Lord
2. I want to get back into shape by graduation (May)
3. Succeed at selling Pampered Chef
4. Generate enough interest in this blog to get out of blogger. Maybe onto wordpress?
5. Make a divider curtain for our apartment
6. Go to Maine at least once before Christmas.
7. Organize my crafting supplies
8. Have a big girl camera to take better photos.
9. Get my church to accept the C.R.U.D. and hold to it.
10. Save up to buy a photo editing program

... anyway thats all i can think of.

right now my goal is just to have this house packed up before saturday with out going crazy....


.... i'm totally going crazy...

thats all for now
-j