Nana's Birthday!

Today is Nana (Clyda- aka Patrick's mom) Thurman's birthday. This picture was taken a while ago when we both had been at work and happened to wear similar colored scrubs. Kevin insisted we get a matching picture. Anyway, I love this woman soooo much. When I was going to school at BYU she was seriously my mother away from home. She is the perfect example of being positive, serving, forgiving, always being happy, and loving. She is amazingly talented in singing and playing the piano. I look up to her so much and am so thankful to have her in my life. She is such a fun Nana to her grandchildren and is always so supportive to all of her family members, including me even though I'm not officially a family member (but I've known them long enough to consider them my family). I hope to grow up to be like her some day. Happy Birthday Nana!

Characature

Guess who this is? My friend was in the BYU animation program, and I told him he should do a characature of me. I've always wanted to see what feature people would choose to dramatize of me. Well he actually did it and this is what he came up with. What do you think? Is there a resemblence?....

True Colors

There was an online personality test (the kind where you are either Red, Blue, Yellow, or White) so I decided to see what I tested out as. Here are my results:

WHITE (Motive: Peace)

Whites are motivated by peace. They seek independence and require kindness. They resist confrontation at all costs. To them, feeling good is more important than being good. They are typically quiet by nature, process things very deeply and objectively with great clarity. Of all the colors, whites are the best listeners. They respect people who are direct but recoil from perceived hostility or verbal battle.
Here is a small list of careers and jobs people of your type tend to enjoy doing (this is not a list of all the jobs possible)

- Management

- Dentist

- Engineer
- Accounting

- Pharmacist
- Auditing

- School Principal
- Efficiency expert

- Computer programmer
- Organization development

So the explanation of white really does fit me. There is nothing I HATE more than confrontation and avoid it at all costs! I don't know if any of those careers look like something I would be interested in (at least they aren't anything near the occupations I have chosen). Anyway, it was a fun test and interesting how it kind of captured some of my personality

A Way Overdue Get Together

This week I was able to have a little get together with some of my closest friends, Kathryn and Carly. It was long overdue. We made a yummy Cafe Rio dinner together and and just visited (with a little Youtube video sharing). It was so nice to visit and catch up on what is going on in our lives. It is just crazy to think that we are "grown ups" still and not in High School anymore. It is also fun to see how we all three are in different stages of life, yet the same age. I just wish some of our other friends weren't out of state to be with us. There were some good laughs and I hope we don't wait as long for our next get together, I love my friends!

(So I know I posted a picture of the three of us, but we struggled in getting one we all agreed we liked, so I posted a collage of the others just in case they were fans of a different one. But the one I put above I feel was the best of all of us...hope I was right!)

(I had to post this picture of Kathryn's little Cole. He was cracking me up! At first he wouldn't smile at me but by the end of the night I got one out of him. Success! Hopefully next time we can actually become buddies. Like I mentioned we are all at different stages, it's just crazy to me that this is actually my friends child! Maybe some day I'll get over that, but not likely. haha)

Lauren Elise Thomas

My cousin, Heather, had her baby 4 weeks early! Luckily the baby and mom are doing well. They decided on the name Lauren Elise Thomas. Taylor (Lauren's new dad) was joking that since she was born on 9-02-10 (like the old TV show 90210) that they should name her Beverly, as in Beverly Hills. I thought it was funny. Anyway, she is 6 lbs 5 oz. I wonder how big she would have been if she went full term- and she would have had a fro by then! :) I love how she was able to grow hair before she entered the world (my friends keep making fun that I'm obsessed with hair, sorry I like hair and have been trained to notice). These pics are just a few that were taken at my hospital visit to my new niece (ok, she's not my niece, but the closest I'm gonna have for a while at least so I WILL claim her).

Butterfinger Cupcakes!

My mom asked me to make cupcakes for my cousins homecoming because she was going to be gone for the evening and wouldn't have time. They took me a while since I'm kind of a perfectionist when it comes to spreading the frosting evenly and making sure each cupcake has the same amount of topping etc. Anyway, they were really yummy (if you like Butterfinger candybars) and easy to make. There's crunched up candy bar in the cake mix and then more on top. I added to it by putting 1/3 of a fun-sized butterfinger on top (kinda like a cherry-except yummier) :) If you're interested in the recipe here ya go:

- 1 box yellow cake mix
- 3 eggs
- 1/4 C. oil
- 1/2 C milk
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 cups crushed Butterfinger candy bar

Mix together cake mix, eggs, oil, milk, and vanilla. Add 1 cup crushed candy to batter. Bake at 350 degrees for 15-18 minutes or until cake springs back when lightly touched. Remove from oven and cool completely.

Frost (I just bought the already made Butter Cream 'whipped' frosting- come on, its all about the "semi-home made" haha) and top with remaining crushed candy bars.

Enjoy!