My Final Baby Shower

Jenna, Rachel, Liz and Kendall threw me a baby shower last week. It was so much fun! We are getting so anxious and excited for November 30th! Or earlier, if he would like to come early, which I WOULD LOVE.

Holiday Boutique

This is an invitation for anyone that lives around here. My aunt and I are having a joint house party for anyone who wants to get a little Christmas shopping done early. I will be selling my Scentsy products (to see more information on them my website is www.scentsy.com/2779) and my aunt Kristie will be selling jewelry that she makes. Her jewelry is super cute....I would say it is stuff you would see in a Sundance catalog. If you are interested the party will be this Saturday, November 10th from 10am to 2 pm. Just stop by whenever you have time. It will be at her house in Spanish Fork. Her address is 1372 East 290 North Spanish Fork, UT. You take the Price/Manti exit from I-15 and head east. Turn left at the light where there is a Tesoro gas station. That will take you straight into her neighborhood. I think it is the second or third left, and her house is the first house on the left. Hope to see you Saturday!

It's Been A While Sorry!

The last week has been pretty busy. My mom is in town for my baby shower, so I have been having lots of fun with her and my sisters. We are getting so excited how close my due date is! The date is November 30th, but I have a feeling he might come a little early (or maybe that is just wishful thinking). We had a doctor's appointment yesterday and I am already dialated to a 1.5 which makes me excited. The doctor said the baby's head is down really far, so everything looks great for delivery at this point. Keep your fingers crossed! Here are some pictures of what we have been up to the past couple weeks. Enjoy!

Me and Zach at the Warren Miller Film in Park City


Drew got his mission call! He is going to Baltimore, Maryland Spanish speaking. Drew is my sister-in-laws (Anne and Ali) brother. We love him and are so proud of him!

Mom, me and the sisters waiting for a delicious dinner at PF Chang's.

Me and my cute Mom

Me and Rachel

Why I Love the Fall

Although I am not one that gets into Halloween at all, I do love the fall. As pathetic as this is I think I love it so much because I have some really yummy recipes using pumpkin. I am pretty much obsessed with pumpkin flavored desserts. Today I bought the most recent Real Simple magazine and there was a recipe in it for these pumpkin cookie sandwiches which looked to die for. I went to the store and bought the ingredients and decided to bake them for pure enjoyment, since I have nothing else to do these days. I am sad to report that they were a little disappointing. I actually did not like them at all. Weird. But I wanted to share with all of you my two favorite recipes that never fail for a yummy pumpkin dessert. Enjoy!

Pleasin' Pumpkin Bread

3 1/2 cups flour
3 cups sugar
2 cups of cooked mashed pumpkin (canned--make sure you get the pumpkin and not pie filling)
1 cup vegetable oil
1/3 cup water
4 eggs
2 tsp. baking soda
1 1/2 tsp. salt
2 tsp. cinnamon
1/2 tsp. nutmeg
1/4 tsp. cloves
1/4 tsp. ginger
chocolate chips (this is optional, I think they are so good in it and just put in as much as you want!)
Put flour, sugar, baking soda, salt and spices into a large mixing bowl; mix well. Add pumpkin, oil, water and eggs. Beat until well blended.
Divide the batter equally into two greased 9x5x3 bread pans
Bake at 350 degrees for about 70 minutes.

Pumpkin Cake Roll

3 eggs
1 cup sugar
2/3 cup canned pumpkin
1 tsp. lemon juice
1/2 tsp. salt
3/4 cup flour
powdered sugar
1 tsp. cinnamon
1 tsp. ginger
1/2 tsp. nutmeg
1 tsp. baking powder

Beat eggs for five minutes. Mix in sugar, pumpkin, and lemon. Add flour, spices, baking powder, and salt. Grease 9x13 cookie sheet that has sides on it. Line the cookie sheet with wax paper. Grease the wax paper. Pour mixture into cookie sheet. Bake at 350 for 15 minutes. Let cool for 10 minutes. Take a dish towel (needs to be flate without any texture on it, I actually used a dinner napkin instead) and cover with lots of powdered sugar on the counter. Turn the pan over onto the towel and remove the wax paper so the cake part is face down with the wax paper still stuck to it. Remove the wax paper. Roll up the cake with the towel still attached (sounds weird I know but just trust me). Let stand while rolled up for one hour. Unroll the cake

Make the filling:
1 cup powdered sugar
2 3 oz. packages of cream cheese softened
4 Tbl. margarine
Beat together. Then spread onto the unrolled cake. Roll up again, this time without the towel. Wrap in plastic wrap and then foil and refrigerate for a couple hours before eating.

Blake and Ali's Big Day

This past week was Blake (Zach's brother) and Ali's wedding. It was so much fun, and everything was perfect!

It's Crunch Time!

I am finally getting all the baby stuff together now that we are back from Maryland and settled in our new place. It is so much fun! Here is the baby bedding I just ordered. It took me forever to find something I really liked....but I LOVE this!

My New Adventure

Ever since we have come back to Utah from Maryland I have been really bored! I am not used to not going to school or working at least part-time. It's a nice break...but I have had to adjust to say the least. So I decided I wanted to get some kind of new hobby or something to do. Well, here it is! I thought I would tell everyone a little about incase anyone is interested. I learned from my friend Ashley about a company called Scentsy. They sell products to make your house smell good...or even your car. I bought some products for myself to see if I liked them, and ever since then I am pretty much obsessed. Basically they sell warmers, which come in lots of different styles. They have a light bulb inside and plug in to the wall, so there is no fire or wick that anyone with kids needs to worry about. On the top of the warmer you place your wax. It melts really fast and pretty soon your house smells AMAZING! I am burning one called Spiced Orange Harvest right now and I am in love with it. It smells like wassail a little bit. Anyways, they are such a good price and last a really long time. So if anyone is interested you can visit the website at www.scentsy.com or email me at katie.hillstead@gmail.com. There are TONS of scents to choose from. Who doesn't want their house to smell good???