Weeks 24-28

As you can tell, I have been a little preoccupied with other things besides blogging the last few weeks.  As you can also tell, I have been taking plenty of pictures during that time!  I am still doing the photography challenge and now I can give you the ones that I missed!

Week 24 - Enchanted

Week 25 - Light

Week 26 - Forgotten

Week 27 - Journey

Week 28 - Take Flight

better than a snack pack (Cream Puffs)

I remember once when I was little, my parents left town and I got to stay with my friends down the street.  One night after dinner, Mrs. Sale brought out dessert.  Any dessert would have been good but this dessert was homemade vanilla pudding with whipped cream on top!  My sisters and I still haven't stopped talking about it.

So, it's a little surprising that today was the first day that I made some of my own.

...then I put that into some cream puffs - in short, I promise this will be better than a snack pack :)

the 2nd installment

the first bundle of pictures

Here is the first sampling of pictures from Nairobi and all of the camps that we went to (Amboseli, Ol Pejeta, Ol Kinyei, and Olare Orok) - they are organized in that order, as best as I could remember.  I hope you enjoy the pictures even just a fraction as much as I enjoyed being there!

A Taster

We made it back safe and sound from our safari (well, most of us - but I will explain later) and it was even better than I could have ever imagined!

We saw almost all of the animals, including the big 5!  Plus some cheetahs and some giraffes, a bunch of zebras, and about a million wildebeest!  Unfortunately, I haven't been able to get all of my pictures organized yet but here is a little taster for you.

More to come soon :)

See you in 2 weeks (+ a parting gift!)

Tomorrow, I am going to New Jersey to meet my parents and sisters and then Sunday morning we are going on to Kenya for a safari!  I have been looking forward to this for a year and a half now still can't quite believe that it's here.  

I think I have everything packed up and ready to go.  I'm sure I forgot something, but hopefully it's not too important.  

So, I apologize in advance for the posts that will not be coming your way for 2 weeks - but stay tuned because I promise it will be worth the wait!

But before I go, I wanted to give you something sweet :)

APPLE CRISP

6-8 Apples - peeled, cored and sliced

1/4 c. Water

Salt

1 stick Butter

1 c. Sugar

1 c. Flour

1 tsp. Cinnamon

1.  Place apples in 9x13" casserole.  Pour water over top and lightly salt.

2.  Melt butter.  Add sugar, flour, and cinnamon.  Stir gently with a fork until crumbles form.

3.  Cover apples with crumble mixture.

4.  Bake at 350˚ for about 30 minutes.

*I make mine with extra crisp on top (since that's the best part anyway!), and it tends to take longer than 30 minutes to cook up (more like 45).

The Wild West

Remember how I told you I would post the rest of my pictures soon.  Well, I lied.  Working really gets in the way of everything else.

Yes, you read that right, I am now working - well for one more week, then I go on Safari!!!  I didn't want to get to too overwhelmed, you know :)  Yesterday, Austin and I spent the majority of the day in Target getting the last of the stuff that I need for Kenya.  You wouldn't believe how hard it is to find clothing that is not bright or white.

Anyway while I was at home, I went to Gage's graduation (Austin's brother) and his graduation party.  It was a pretty standard high school graduation, but it felt weird to see Gage finished with high school!  I first met him when he was only 12 years old and since I am the youngest in my family, I've never experienced that before :)

Other than that, I went for a walk on one of the trails by my house and took some pictures:

Then on Saturday afternoon Austin, his grandpa, his dad, my dad, and I went out to Echo Canyon to go shootin'!  I shot 5 pigeons this time and I got to fire a muzzle loader!

Other than it being too short of a weekend, it was pretty perfect :)