I love the beach... Don't you?

Last week I kept saying, "We should go to the beach!". So on Friday after our rehearsals we headed over as a family first to the glider port in Torry pines. Here are some pictures from there.

When I see something REALLY interesting it catches my eye and I just have to take a picture! That's what I did with the pics below!

One of the gliders taking off

My mom & Dad

My Dad

UM, Does this look relaxing OR what? Too bad it was off limits to spectators!

The beautiful ocean

Oooh I love this picture! Thanks to editing I love it more!

We decided to take a little hike and we saw some really pretty views.

Evan walking down the trail

Mmmm, this says spring to me

So then we drove over to La jolla. We parked right next to this motorcycle with a SPARKLY helmet! It was so awesome I had to take a picture. Don't see this every day!

The La jolla cove cave

I was in LOVE with these flowers and the fence. So I hope you find beauty in these pictures too!

Me!

My Dad, my Mom and Evan

Sunset

Then we went to BJ's for dinner (I love their pizza) and then found out Sprinkles (The cupcake place I have been wanting to go to) was down the street from BJ's! So we waited in the 25 min line and got our cupcakes!!

It was a fun afternoon and I really need to go to the beach more often!

Alyssa

I haven't gotten to take pictures of my cousins lately but yesterday Alyssa was willing so I jumped at the chance! I was LOVING the lighting! Thank you Alyssa!

















And I couldn't leave this one out. While I was taking pictures of Lissie, Cammi really wanted to get in the pictures!

A baking post!

Yea!! I haven't done a baking post in a while...So here it is! Up first is......

Valentine cookies you will want to make, (and um, eat!)

So for some time I have been looking for a good royal icing type of frosting recipe. Well I can't remember which blog I clicked on and it took me to this awesome recipe on an awesome blog!
Click HERE to see this REALLY easy icing recipe! It's not royal icing but it is way easier to make I think! (I never have tried making royal icing though). And then once you read how to make the icing you can get cute ideas on how to make your valentine cookies! HERE is her post on her CUTE cookies!


I will say this icing was difficult for me to work with at times! AND frustrating but it was worth it! (It also took a looong time.) I didn't like how some of them looked with plain incing but then when I piped words on them they looked cuter. I wished they looked perfect but they don't but that's okay. Oh and my favorite thing is that even when the icing dries (it takes a few hours once on the cookies) the cookies still stay shiny and glossy! BTW- For the cookies I just used a cookie mix.

THE COOKIES
(Cus I know you all love to look at 500 pics of my baking, right?)
(PS. Sorry for the glare on some of the pictures)

Aren't they cute? You can leave me a comment and say so. :)
Happy Valentines day!!! Let me know if you try and make these cookies... or any valentine cookies at all! Oh and did you notice in some of the pictures the paper in the background? Did you like that?I decided to try that today!

My next post will be cupcakes. Like AMAZINGLY yummy cupcakes.

January photos

Here is my January colloge for my picture a day project. Sorry it is kind of small! Hope you like it and I hope febuarys will be a little more intersting. You can always go to my flicker too to see each picture.