New Blog

I took this picture in San Francisco last December, Jon is supposed to look afraid of the wheat, can you tell?
For the past few months I have been trying to think of a good way to share my gluten-free cooking experiences with other people having the same struggles. The past few weeks I have been asked by a few family members with newly celiac disease diagnosed friends if I could give them some kind of literature, but the truth is everything I have learned is in my head or piled in a giant stack of unorganized papers on my desk. This new blog is my attempt to not only share my experiences (good and bad) but to organize my information for myself as well as anyone else that might be able to use it. As of now I haven't posted anything I am still trying to get my head around why I decided to take on yet another project, but my summer classes end soon so I hope to get things moving soon. Feel free to visit at cooking-gluten-free.blogspot.com (the first name I tried, this must be something I am supposed to do) please let me know if you have any ideas. Just for Melanie - one of my first posts will be the fabulous chicken that Curt made for us, I hope this is okay.

Happy Birthday Jon!

Monday was Jon's birthday, the big 26! Love to remind him that no matter what he will always be older than me (even if its only 9 months). Because we both had exams on Monday (and more spread through the week) plus we both had to work on his actual birthday we settled for a fun lunch date.

On Tuesday Jon went golfing (his new favorite sport) with Taft, Colby, and Taft's friend Josh

Tomorrow we are planning a day of birthday fun which probably means if its sunny going to the driving range and if the weather is bad Jon will love staying in and playing with his new computer. His real birthday present was me letting him order parts for a computer he is putting together himself. Not too bad when all I do is give permission and he does all the work. Happy Birthday Jon, I love you!

One Spare Moment

So I finished my last two finals for spring semester yesterday morning. My next class starts on Monday so I thought I would take some of my small amount of spare time to catch up on my blog. Here are a few fun things from the past semester that I didn't have time to post:
In April we were able to attend the Saturday afternoon session of General Conference in the Conference Center. We forgot our camera but here is a picture from my camera:

We have had a few opportunities to babysit my nephew Lincoln he is so adorable!

This semester was a lot harder than I had anticipated, but I survived. One more down, three more to go!