Fall baking

My camera doesn't take the best pictures but I am so happy that I was able to take a little break from studying to make pumpkin chocolate chip cupcakes with cream cheese frosting! They are pretty good if I do say so myself! All I did was mix a pumpkin bread mix from Trader Joes with some chocolate chips. It was easy.I even got to use the Halloween cupcake liners that my mom sent me:) I love fall baking!

I love my job!

While I try to make it through college I still have to earn my keep. Thankfully I have been able to do that by babysitting/nannying (what's the difference?). Lately, I have been hanging out with these two cute girls! We have so much fun together. We paint nails almost every time I'm with them and we get to do fun art projects, (thanks for the idea mom:)As you can see we made pumpkins with scary faces. This picture below makes me think that we have another Picasso on our hands.

We hung them on the door for all to see. The girls are laughing really hard in this pic because I would set the timer on the camera and run to get in the picture. Apparently I run funny because they laughed a lot when I did it:)

It's Fall!

It feels like fall. I can tell because it is just cold enough for me to start wearing these guys around. I am happy:) I think I will even make soup tonight for dinner because that's what you do when it feels like fall, right?

Fun week!

My sister came to visit us last week and although I had a terrible amount of homework and tests we managed to get a few fun things accomplished. This first picture is of my sis and I representing Standford at the USC vs. Standford game. It was so fun.

Josh especially liked the game which was neck and neck until the end when Stanford scored and won!
We went and had a fun afternoon in Sausalito. The ice cream was amazing and please notice the new side bangs courtesy of my hairstylist sis:)
My sister has a passion for street art which I have to admit is kinda fun and exciting. The famous but unknown artist Bansky, did a few street art pieces in SF so we took a little time tracking them down.
The street art is cool and the funny thing is, the art pieces are on weird alley ways and random buildings so it was fun to try and spot the art.
I love my sis, I wish she could come more often! Back to the books, boo.

What would you grab?

This is a similar image that I saw while driving home last night. You could see flames from 20 miles away! A natural gas line in San Bruno, CA exploded last night leaving so much damage that it makes your stomach turn just thinking about it. I couldn't do my homework last night because I kept thinking about those poor San Bruno residents that don't have a home anymore. I am so glad to here that all of our Ward members are safe. I hope none of their homes were damaged, but with flames reaching 1,000ft in the air and 120 homes already counted as "damaged" it would be a miracle if none of their homes were in need of some kind of repair!

I couldn't sleep last night, I just kept wondering what I might grab in the seconds before I had to flee my home? I started thinking about really dumb things like my favorite pair of shoes or little keepsakes that my mom has given me over the years. Then I thought about important papers and legal documents that thankfully I have in the same place so it wouldn't be hard to grab. Even though I was up most of the night thinking about this I still don't know what would be the best thing to grab in the seconds that I might have. Hopefully I would save myself first and hopefully I will never have to find out in real life what I would grab! What would you grab? Think about it, it's not easy to answer is it?

I am grateful for my testimony of a loving Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ. That's what I thought of the most last night. I pray for the many people affected by this terrible accident!


Picture by The Chronicle

Labor Day 2010

My best friend Bobbie came with her husband to visit me and J. We had so much fun! It was a beautiful day in SF unlike last Sat. when we went to the sutro baths. Today we went to the Japanese Gardens in Golden Gate park (anytime before 10am was free, yay!)

Dave, Bobbie, Me and J at this cool fountain outside the De Young Museum. As you can see Bobbie and Dave are hard to hang out with because they are tall and beautiful:)
The rock gardens were impressive
coolest bridge ever, super hard to climb though. That's us at the top, the sun makes it hard to see.
Like I said, impressive!
So fun! Thanks for coming to visit Bobbie and Dave!

Another San Francisco adventure!

This is where we begin. It's the 18 acres that Adolf Sutro (I don't actually know who he is?), anyway, he built a house and stuff on top of this cliff looking down into the ocean. This area is close to Golden Gate park. We also made our way down to the Sutro baths, a famous San Francisco land mark. Lastly, we went to this huge windmill down in Golden Gate park. This walk was really fun, even though it was kind of foggy and cold.


This is J, me and our friends Maddy and Jessica (thanks for taking pictures Thomas:) This view is from where Sutro's house use to be.
The Sutro baths look inviting
This is a picture from inside a huge rock right by the ocean. There was a cool hole where we could see the ocean.
Windmill. So in love with this! It was a great day


P.S. This is what the Sutro baths use to look like back in 1906
THen and Now.I got this picture from foundsf.org
That castle is now where the Cliff house restaurant is.