Renner's favorite word is..

"Cook Cook"

It mean's / cookie.

{But truthfully, it's just an arrowroot biscuit.} 

Who doesn't love cookie?

I have been obsessed with No-Bakes.

Chocolate.. Oatmeal.. No baking involved..

It's a girl favorite treat.

Well, at least mine.

This is my all time favorite, go to recipe, when I am craving something

delicious, sweet, and chocolatey.

No-Bake Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies.

1/2 Cup  /  Butter 

(you can use coconut oil. i've done it before.)

2 Cups  /  Sugar

1/2 Cup  /  Milk

1 1/2 Cup  /  Chocolate Chips

1/2 Cup  /  Peanut Butter

3 1/2 Cup  /  Quick Cooking Oats

 2 tsp.  /  Vanilla

Directions /

1. Add the first 4 ingredients in a sauce pan.

2. Bring to rolling boil, and boil for 1 minute.

3. Stir in last 3 ingredients. 

(make sure peanut butter is melted)

4. Put wax paper/foil on cookie sheet, and drop spoon fulls on the sheet.

5. You can either put the the cookie sheet in freezer for 10 minutes, 

or just let sit out until it is cool.

6. EAT.

This recipe was found in my old, old Young Women's cook book.

It's one of my absolute favorites.
I just changed a couple of the ingredients.

Like chocolate chips, instead of cocoa.

And the coconut oil, instead of butter.

My Five Favorites.

My Top 5 Favorites Apps. 

I have a lot of apps on my phone that I hardly ever use. I usually go through a round of using all of them, but then I will get 900 pictures of Renner doing the exact same thing, and can't bare to delete them. So I delete the apps. But these ones I never do - 

1. Instagram. 

This is probably my favorite app. I'm on Instagram probably more than Facebook. I love photography. It gives people an outlet who don't really have a lot to say, but still want to express themselves, a way to do that. The majority of the pictures I have on mine is of Renner. 

2. Facebook. 

Although I try not to use it very often, I still do. I love to connect with my old high school buddies, or my distant relatives. And I love seeing how they all are doing. See their families, and how everyone grew up. 

3. Anyplay. 

You can't find this on the AppStore sadly, I've tried to find it for my mom's phone, but it's an amazing music app. It lets me find any (and I do mean ANY) song that I want to listen to, and I can put them all on a playlist. I don't have to download any songs, or buy them. It just takes the songs from different websites, and complies them all on it. It's wonderful. I use it every day. 

4. Pinterest. 

We all love Pinterest. There really isn't anything to say but - its Pinterest. Can't ever go wrong with it. 

5. Afterlight & A Beautiful Mess. 

I'll just put these two together because they go hand in hand with me. I LOVE them both. Afterlight has amazing filters, and different things you can do with your photos. & ABM lets you write things on your photo with amazing fonts & even doodles. - which their doodles are so dang cute. 

Okay, I will add one more as a little something extra ; 

6. What'sApp. 

I use this to text all of my family & friends in the States. It's incredible! Seriously one of the greatest texting apps of my life. I've tried a lot of them, but this is my favorite one. It has super cute backgrounds that you can change on your text screen. You can send voice messages. It's just awesome. I love it. 

Goals. Goals. Goals.

I have never been one to set goals, much less complete the little ones I actually do set. It's always been a huge fault of mine. Maybe fault is the wrong word, but its definitely a big shortcoming of mine. And I say that with the utmost honesty. But ever since we have had Renner I have felt a switch click on. Kind of feels like an electric surge through my body. I've felt more motivated, and confident in completing the tasks and challenges that have been placed in front of me.

So continuing with that frame of mind, and picturing me really never completing an important goal, minus graduating High School and Seminary, imagine my surprise when I was overwhelmed with this extremely strong prompting to complete a very important goal. That goal was to completely finish the Book of Mormon from start to finish. (For those who have no idea what that is, or have heard of it, and might not think its worth your time, I promise you it is.I encourage you to click the link, and find the truth for yourself.)

I have read the BOM plenty of times, even went through it for seminary, but never have I sat down and really read or studied what I was reading. I'm barely making it out of 1st Nephi now, and I can see the difference in my life. I have felt more at peace, more loving, and even feeling stronger in my testimony. There is more of a light in my life. I have lived without this light for so long in my life, and only had a brief experience with it when I was younger, and while living in Texas. But now its a different feeling. Being married to Keagan has been an incredible change, and has brought so much happiness in my life I can't even begin to describe, and having Renner has made it even more blissful.

When we found out my Dad was sick with cancer, and maybe only had a few months left I felt like someone just punched me in the gut. So I did what a lot of people do in troubling times; I clung to the scriptures like they were my life raft. Then after he died I dwindled away from them. Read them only when necessary, or just at church. Never just for me, or for my family. My guess is because I was never brought up with the thought that they are there for you to read at anytime. To either receive personal revelation, help keep you afloat with difficult times, keep you feeling strong, or just make your life brighter. Ever since I made it a personal goal of mine to read and study them its made me happier. Not that I'm an unhappy person, but it just makes everything around me feel lighter, and feel closer to my Heavenly Father.

Growing up I was clueless to a lot all of the basic stories of the Book of Mormon, and even a lot of the Bible stories that most people know. So while making it my goal to read it, and not just skim it, I'm going to really study, and focus on what is being said, and pray when I am struggling - Or just ask my amazingly, sexy husband. But the thing is I'm not just doing it though for my own knowledge and spirituality, although that is a huge part of it, I'm mostly doing it for my family. They deserve it. Leaving it at that, let me share my favorite scripture: Moroni 10. It brings me a sense of hope, and reverence.

All Hallows Eve.

Like I said in my last post, I love Halloween. Not sure why, but it gives me great joy in dressing up and running around getting yummy treats. Here are just some cute photos of this years craziness. 

I don't have my mantel back yet from the TV plague, but I have vowed to have it back by Christmas.

 I love these awesome crows. Found at the dollar store no less. The jars I have had around my house that were from various pasta, pickles, and hot fudge sundae jars. Also, the super rad labels can be found on my Pinterest.

 Found this beautiful glass skull at Target. We finally got Targets in Canada YAY! I'm pretty excited about it. Anyways, the skull is filled with margarita mix stuff. I just loved the color is was rocking. Turned into Dragons Blood.

 Bottled in Bulgaria - Harry Potter reference anyone?

Our Superbaby.

We went as Lois Lane & Clark Kent.

Sorry for the terrible photos. I had to sell my pride and joy Nikon D5100 a few months ago. We are in the process of getting a new one. But for now my blurry iPhone photos will do.