Stinkin' Cute Signs

My super cute cousin is getting married this week.  I was her first babysitter...I'm just sayin'  Anyways, I offered to put together some cute signs for her reception.  Just scrapbooked signs for the food table, and then larger signs for the designated food "areas".  Check 'em out...

Thanks to Susan and her lovely vinyl machine. I think they turned out pretty cute.

A food post because of my dad

This is a food post, which I would normally save for my food blog - Cre8ToEat; however, this is mostly a blog about how awesome my dad is.

I, in some fit of insanity, offered to cook teriyaki chicken for the ward luau which was scheduled for Saturday, Feb. 19th.  Mostly I offered because I can't stand bad teriyaki chicken.  I also offered to make some Hawaiian style salad dressing. Agghh!!!

So this last week was crazy busy (way crazier than usually). I've been working late every night.  I bought 8 giant bags of chicken thighs from Costco on Thursday and stuck them in the fridge at home (thankgoodness for the extra fridge in the garage).  Friday after work and before my RS Presidents meeting and before all my VT sisters were coming over for game night I went shopping for teri-marinade ingredients.  Had my meeting, had my fun VT friends come over.  We played games until 10:30pm at which point I chased them all home.

This is where my dad flies in with his super cape.  My dad helped me make marinade and get all 160 pieces of chicken de-iced, and into the marinade.  We're were up until midnight.  I went to bed with cold stiff fingers.

The next morning at 7:30am, we got up and played an hour of Wii fit - he kicked my butt at golf and hula-hooping. Then he fired up the grill and the two of us spent the next 3 1/2 hours grilling chicken.  I know that had my dad not helped me I would have been in tears, and only half-way done, by lunch time.

My dad ROCKS!!!!  I bought him a Chipotle bowl for lunch to thank him.

By the way, everyone at the ward party LOVED the chicken.

Same old, same old

OK - so here's an update on my life

• Work is moving along, doing a lot of web designing, some graphic design, campaign analyzing, and sitting in meetings (guess which is the least productive part of my day)
• Still staying busy with my calling as Relief Society president. In fact, I just reached my one-year mark, Yahoo! I've experienced a whole lot of growth this past year, some of it less painful then other parts.
• Hey, good news...just paid off my car! I bought my Hyundai Santa Fe brand new in February of 2005. Other than a few dings (because of its amazing super power of invisibility - I'll have to tell you more about that another time), it's been a wonderful car, and now I expect to have several more years of wonderfulness (without having to make monthly payments on it).
  

• I have really been trying to do more cooking and baking. Last year I just kind of put it all on hiatus while I figured out how to do my new calling and so this year I'm tackling cooking and baking with a vengence. I've been experimenting with backing bread. If you haven't recently, you should stop over at my food blog and check it out.