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I think these could be a new fave! They will be right at home in Sweazy where we love everything orange. I even had one for breakfast :).
Orange Creamsicle Cookies
2 1/2 cups all purpose flour
3/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 firmly packed brown sugar
1 large egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 tablespoons orange zest 2 cups white chips
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
In a small bowl, combine flour, baking soda, and salt; set aside.
In a large bowl, cream butter and sugars until light and creamy. Beat in egg and vanilla until smooth. Gradually add flour mixture until combined. Stir in orange zest and chips.
Drop rounded teaspoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheets. Do not flatten cookies; it will make them dry. Bake 8 – 10 minutes or until golden brown around edges. Do not over cook! Cookies will be plump. Cool for several minutes on cookie sheets before transferring to rack to cool completely. Store in airtight container.
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Last weekend I went to the Pasadena Flea Market with my dear friend Laura. I wish I had pictures of the solid wood children’s chairs she found, but I don’t. Here are my finds.
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One of my dear, sweet RAs got engaged last weekend. I’ve known JP longer, because he was a summer intern in our office two years ago, but Noelle has become very dear to me this year. I’m rejoicing at this awesome pair becoming a permanent pair. They both love the Lord and want to please Him and I have no doubt that they will be able to do that together. At our leadership meeting this week in the dorm, we celebrated JP’s popping the question with pop, popcorn, popsicles, and pop’ems.
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I love the thoughtfulness on campus for Valentine’s Day. People baked up a storm in my kitchen for other people. The guys from our brother dorm also came and surprised their sister wings. One wing wore all black and came in at 3:30 in the morning. Unfortunately, many of the girls on the wing they were surprising were awake and they got caught, but that is part of the fun. The put bubble wrap down the hallway and hung hearts and candy from the ceiling. They also put up advertisements for dates for one of the single guys in their dorm with a bio and tear off numbers at the bottom :). Another brother wing braided streamers and were thoughtful enough to ask ahead if there were cork boards or white boards by each door so that they would know whether they needed push pins or tape. Their willingness to craft and their thoughtfulness of the girls in the dorm warmed my heart. It was also very sweet because each treat the girls on a wing got whether it was from a brother wing or from their RA or ARA, I got one delivered to my door too. Here is a link to a video of one of the wings being decorated.
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In case that doesn’t work, here are some sub-par iphone pics that don’t give you the full effect of the festivities :).
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… I’m glad that her mom sends me pictures so regularly. I do admit, however, that the texts make me wish I was there fighting with all the fam over who would hold her.
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It’s been nice to be cooking again. I haven’t been gourmet; the meals have been simple. Instead of practicing entertaining, I’ve been practicing hospitality and you know what I don’t think anyone has noticed. It could, however, be a phenomenon of being around people who regularly eat caf food and think that anything homemade is spectacular or magical. Tonight, this is what was on the menu. I am going to use this again in the future. Simple but delicious.
Chipotle’s Basmati Rice Recipe
Here’s the recipe with some changes I made:
1 teaspoon butter 2 Tbs. fresh cilantro 1 cup white basmati rice 1 1/3 cup water 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 Lime
In a 2-quart heavy saucepan, heat butter over low heat, stirring occasionally until melted. Add rice and lime juice, stir for 1 minute. Add water and salt, bring to a full rolling boil. At boiling, cover, turn down to simmer over low heat until rice is tender and the water is absorbed, about 20 minutes. Fluff rice with a fork.
Crock Pot Santa Fe Chicken
- 2 chicken breast frozen
- 14.4 oz can diced tomatoes with mild green chilies
- 15 oz can black beans
- 8 oz frozen corn
- 1/4 cup chopped fresh cilantro
- 14.4 oz can fat free chicken broth
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- 1 tsp onion powder
- 1 tsp cumin
- 1 tsp cayenne pepper (to taste). I had to use 1/2 tsp of chili powder because I didn’t have cayenne on hand and because I didn’t know how my guests liked spice.
- salt to taste
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I love these. One of the Sweazy girls paints on shoes for gifts.
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- Adrienne and Raqel visited my family with me. My dad cleaned the house because he thought Adrienne might be a boy
- Spent Valentine’s Day with some of my favorite peeps: Joe and Heidi, Karrie, Dave and Tricia, Lisa, and Jess Stucky and then attended the big band concert
- Hosted Women to Women with Heidi
- Enjoyed the Idiot Abroad Dinner Club
- Had an informal interview on the beach for my dream job without realizing it
- Saw West Side Story :(, Beauty and the Beast :), Bill Cosby, The Gettys, as well as Miracle on 34th St. at The Million Dollar Theater in L.A.
- Discovered Cleo’s a trendy Middle Eastern restaurant close to the Pantages
- Enjoyed “Game Nights” and a bacon feast with RED, Adrienne, and Phil
- Made 500 cake pops and bars for the Ladies’ Tea at Church
- Went to Iowa and celebrated my Grandmother’s 90th birthday with the Wilhite Clan.
- Road Trip with Jessica Wiley Frederickson for Sarah Marquez Wiley’s Baby Shower
- Spent Easter with RED, Adrienne, and the Dennis Family
- Helped with Breakfast for Year End Show
- Said goodbye to dear friends: Jones Family and RED.
- Settled into my first apartment
- I became an RD after Dave and Karrie sang a job offer and after Joe gave me the RD Pep Talk
- Had my first and hopefully my last root canal
- Attended the Grand Baby Wedding for Bel and Bella
- I ran out of gas
- Survived August and learned a great deal about God as my rock, my defender, and advocate who knows my concerns, my needs, my fraility and my sin and despite all of that saved me and chooses to allow me to participate in His ministry
- RD, RA, and SLS Retreat and WOW Week
- Became friends with Sarah, Noelle, Natalie, Kaylin, Rae, Summer, and Stacey
- Had many house guests including Raqel, Kellie Zerlang, Laura and baby Garrett, Cynthia and Jodi
- Played Gotcha for the first time
- Went to the Pasadena Flea Market and became a fan of Good Will
- My sweet niece, Isabella, was born
- Became reacquainted with old friends
- Went back to school
- Completed C.E.R.T – Community Emergency Response Training
- Introduced to Dr. Mario, the best game ever :)
- Watched the Keller boys for a weekend when Mabel was born
- Celebrated 3 more holidays with the Kintner/Ramirez/Allen Families
- Started a new tradition of retreating to Mount Hermon for a few days after Christmas
So thankful for the days God ordained for me.
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Okay, so I’m not staying at a Bed and Breakfast this week, but I am staying at a friend’s home at Mount Hermon. They are gone, but I am here. The hikes, the sleep, the quiet, the reading, the pinning, the video-watching, the outdoors, the indoors, and opportunities to hear myself think have been lovely. I haven’t slept as well since I don’t know when but definitely not since moving into the dorm. On campus there is continual life and noise. Even with the students gone there are fire alarms, car alarms, tennis players, knocks on the door, grounds crew people outside making noise, a crow flying into my window over and over in the morning to wake me up… I’m so thankful for the couple who see what God has given them as an opportunity to serve others and minister through hospitality. It makes me dream of someday being able to do the same. A retreat house up here would be nice because it’s only an hour away from the fam and because I am more of a mountain girl than a beach girl, but here they have the best of both worlds since the beach is only 30 minutes away :).
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- Love, love, love.
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- Wherever I live, I’d love to have a guest tree house like this :).
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Does it come as a surprise to anyone right now that I despirately need to do homework?