Winter is here!

So winter is finally here! It's cold and icy with fluffy snow! Some of the best things come with winter: skiing, great food, Christmas, New Year and so much more!
   
      Winter has to be one of my favorite times of year. Soft fluffy snow, air so cold you can see your breath. This time of year has to be the most wonderful!
   

      Last night I went to see the lights at one of the mormon temple! (I am not mormon, sorry if I made a mistake) The lights were so pretty!  As you can see! Two of my best friend were with me, Courtney and Jack! We had a great time talking, admiring the lights, singing christmas songs and eating donuts.                                        
     Another reason winter is great is because of all of the great food! I love making pies, cookies, peppermint brownie and mousse tiers! But thats just the some of the sweets! You can forget the mash potatoes, roasts and homemade bread! Food has to be one of the best things ever!! (I might be addicted to bread!)

     Last but definitely not least would have to be all of the music and festivities!   Everything from "JingleBell Rock" to "White Christmas" and feasts to dances!  I love going to christmas parties and hanging out with bunch of amazing people, seeing family and friends that I haven't seen in years agian! The social aspect of winter is absolutely great!
   
      Winter is one of my favorite times of year! All of the music and food, friends and lights, snow and cold weather! This is the best time of year!

Quotes, Sayings and Little Blurbs!

Quotes, sayings and little blurbs have a way of helping me out of my sad times, calm me with I feel like im going to burst. This is a list of my top 7 quotes, sayings and little blurbs and the reasons why these became my favorites! In no particular order.

7.

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In my life it feels like my parents are always not letting going to someone's house or trying to get in to my business. I know that they do this because they love me but when you have no siblings and four parents (Mom, Dad, Step-Mom, Step-Dad) this can get very stressful and like they don't trust you completely (Which I have issues with people not trusting it me.) It's very hard to deal with so this "blurb" is very easy to understand.



6.

Picture Credited to nattstadcdnThis one once again plays on to the parent thing.

"Abby, Clean your room!" 
I have a VERY messy room and sorry but I don't enjoy cleaning.

"I'm going to change the internet password if you don't get off the computer right now!" 
Listening to music and watching shows online are two very large parts of my life that keep me getting up in the morning. So being online is a big thing for me.

"Who you texting? Is it a boy? Let me read." 
No. It's my life. It's not like there's bad stuff on my phone it's just I like my privacy. So what if it's a boy. It's not like we're dating. He is just a friend.  No, I don't like him like that.

And yes I am crazy about one guy and I know that there is no way he feeling even remotely the same. But thats not going to stop me.


5.

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People make excuses for when they make a mistake or at least when they think that they made a mistake, myself included! So when it read this it reminds me to be honest to myself and there are no excuses when it comes to what I did because I was just being myself. Myself may not be perfect but this is who I am.









4.


Im a lot of things and I am a likable person to most people. But some people really don't like me. So this reminds that I can't be liked by everyone so not to act like someone else just to please them.















3.

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It's true "Only in the darkness can you see the stars." ~Martin Luther King Jr. There will be dark days ahead but though the darkness I'll be able to see what truly matters if I don't already see it now.


















2.



It's true I do want to be your favorite hello and your hardest goodbye.  I want to find this person in my life who I will never forget and who will never forget me. Is that to much to ask?












1.

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When I read this for the first time I cried. At that time I was about to "hopefully" give up on something that I had held close to my heart for years and had forced myself to keep trying to let it go over and over agian, but I never could completely. So I cried because I felt like for the first time in my life I had permission to chase after this "something" that I had tried so hard to throw away and forget about.  I love this 'blurb' so much because it gave me something that I could have never thought possible. Im still chasing after this "something" and I won't give up. I love this "something" very much.



So these 'blurbs' have giving me little pieces of my sanity back to me, when I didn't even know that I had lost them.  So what helps you?

What is sugary, sweet, and scrumptious?

SWEETS!!! Yummy, candy and cakes. I love to cook desserts, everything from caramels and lollipops to cakes and cobbler. Im going to show some of my favorite recipes, such as homemade lollipops and peach cobbler. Be warned These recipes are very very yummy and bad for you you!!
These are not my recipes! I found them on the internet!

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So lets start with Peach Cobbler recipe:

4 cups of peeled, sliced peaches

2 cups of sugar divided

1/2 cup of water

8 tablespoons of butter (2 sticks)

1 1/2 cups of self-rising flour (not normal flour)

1 1/2 cups milk

Ground cinnamon

Ok lets get started on cooking this bad boy.
 1. Preheat oven to 350º F

 2. Combine peaches, 1 cup of sugar, and water in a saucepan. Mix well. Bring to boil, let simmer for 10 minutes. take off heat

 3. Put butter in a 3-quart baking dish (You can use other sizes but nothing smaller than 3-quart) place in the oven.

 4. Mix remaining ingredients sugar, flour and milk. Mix milk in slowly to prevent clumping. Pour mixture over the butter. Do not mix. Spoon fruit on top, gently pour syrup on top. Sprinkle cinnamon on top. Bake for 30-45 minutes

 5. Serve with whipped cream or vanilla ice cream

I absolutely love this recipe because it has much personality in that is sweet but not overwhelmingly and just the perfect balance of fruits, bread and sweet yummyness.

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 Do you like lollipops? Because lollipops are one of the easiest candies to make and very fun and tasty!

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So lets start by getting our ingredients together.

So you're going to need:

2 cups sugar

2/3 corn syrup
3/4 cups water

Food coloring

Flavoring

Lets start cooking

1. Start by lightly greasing a baking sheet or cookie sheet and getting a bunch of toothpicks

2. In a large saucepan put your sugar, water, and corn syrup. Mix well.

3. On medium high heat cook the mixture in till on your candy till it reaches 310º F on your candy thermometer. Stir often.

4. Add flavoring and food coloring till it's how you like it.

5. Take off heat. Put spoonfuls on the baking sheet quickly! Place toothpicks in candy.

6. Let cool. They will cool very quickly.

7. Enjoy

This is a real easy recipe that doesn't require much effort. and is great for a simple sweet treat.

I love to cook no matter what it is. So I hope you enjoy these recipes!

You know you're in Love when you can't fall Asleep because Reality is finally better than your Dreams!

Oh the wonders of being a teenage girl... (hand on head)

What do most teenage girls dream and daydream about? I'll give you a hint it's the most simple and the most complicated item/idea ever created or thought of?     It's True Love or just Love. 

"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams!" ~Dr. Seuss

You really want to find "love" well just keep on wishing because we are teenagers! And finding that would just make everything to serious right? Well all I know is that "Girls Just Want To Have Fun, Ohh, Girls just wanna have fun" (I bet you just sung that song). Love is overrated. But Oh that feeling when your heart starts beating fast and you get that pain in your chest like someone has your heart in their hand. I love that feeling even though it hurts. What do you do when you get that feeling? Because I still don't know how to deal with it! I guess just eat ice cream or flaming hot cheetos. Food is the answer to everything. Most of the time I try to focus on a show or music or somthing of that sort, to get my mind off the subject. The other half I let myself become taken over by the feeling and daydream about could happen... (Not like that). I guess you could say that I'm a romantic!

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Finding my highschool sweetheart, wondering who I will marry one day. All of these thoughts that run though my head and possibly though my heart. All of my drawings and little notes to myself. I am love stuck by someone, I'm not completely sure who yet though. Oh I am an lovestruck Idiot, But I'm happy with who I am and I'm always going to be this way! Oh being a teenager sucks.  Please Comment if you feel this way too!!

What is Black and White and "Read" all over?

A book of course!! This is a post all about my favorite MUST-READ books and series. I don't have a top 10 because all of these books are just whole lot of fun, suspense, a little romance (more than a little), and fantasy!

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Hush-Hush series


The Hush-Hush is a series has five books and is about a fallen angel named Patch and a girl named Nora. This story takes place in Coldwater, Maine. The storyline begins with the arrival of Patch at Noras school; Nora is drawn to Patch, even though when her best friend confronts her about this she claim not to even care about him.

The story is filled with supernatural occurrences, powers and creatures. Hush-Hush is just the beginning of a supernatural, fast paced, teen novel.
 


Mortal Instruments

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The Mortal Instruments series is a total of six books and is written by Cassandra Clare. This series is about a girl named Clary Fray who finds out that she is a nephilim; a half-angle and half-human creature; also called Shadowhunters . When she first meets Jace, another shadowhunter, he tells her what she is and she feels strangely drawn to him.

This series revolves around Clary and Jace and their story of finding the Mortal Cup, keeping the world from being tossed into chaos by Valentine, killing demons and fighting forbidden love.


Infernal Devices series

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The Infernal Devices series is a prequel to the Mortal Instruments that centers around Tessa, Will and Jem. The series takes place during the year of 1867 in London.  And is also written by Cassandra Clare.

Tessa has lived in New York her whole life until now. When she finally gets to London (the place that is to be her new home) she is kidnapped by a pair of sisters called the dark sisters. After six weeks a man named Will Herondale comes and rescues her. This is the beginning of a story about clockwork armies, vampires, werewolves, magic, shape-shifting, warlocks and a triangle of love.

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Starcrossed

This a book for readers of the series of "Percy Jackson & The Olympians" written by Rick Riordan and consist of three books. This series is based on greek mythology and the Trojan War even though it takes place in modern day times.

The story revolves around a girl named Helen Hamilton who lives on a small on island of the east coast. When a new family moves to town there is much gossip and rumor but when Helen first meets Lucas, one of the sons of the family, she tries to strangle him and doesn't know why.  As the story progresses you find out that Lucas's family and Helen are Demigods; Descendants of the Greek Gods. This is a 'very' romance filled series, so boys I might avoid this one.

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The Carrier of the Mark



To control the elements of Earth, Fire, Water and Air is an amazing power to behold but to control even just one of these elements is terrifying.

Megan has just moved to Ireland and started at Saint Basil Academy when she meets Adam DiRis who seems to be drawn to her despite his usual aloofness. When he confronts her about his interest in her, Megan learns that she is a Carrier of the Mark; the embodiment of the element of air and therefore she can control Air. Adam Controls Water, his sister controls Earth and his older brother controls Fire. Control the elements control the world.






Well this has been just a few of my favorite book series! Thanks for reading!




Check these out as well!!

 Ruby Red by Kerstin Gier

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The Seven Realms by Cinda Williams Chima

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Hex Hall by Rachel Hawkins

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