Digital Scrapebooking

Anyone that knows me, knows I love to scrapbook. I even tevo Scrapbook memories on the BYU channel. They always have an section where they do digital scrapbook and I started to get interested in it. One day while I was at work, I researched it and came home and downloaded the trial version of Adobe. I've fallen in love with a new hobby. Not like I don't already have enough hobbies. I love the thought of being able to make a layout and change colors, textures, and pictures and have another page already done. I've downloaded all the papers and embellishments for free and now I'm learning how to make my own. You might wonder how much it cost to print of a 12x12 page, but it's not much. I get them all printed at Costco for $2.99. Not bad thinking of everything I would need to purchase. You can even print out a 12x18 for the same price. My goal is when we have kids to print off the 12x12 for me and then 2 6x6 of the same page for the grandparents. Whala! Christmas and birthday gift, done. I do bring the pages home and add more ribbons, buttons, and flowers, just to give it some texture. Here are the pictures of my first 3 pages.

Deer/Elk Stroganoff

We purchased a Crock Pot with all the gift cards we got from our wedding and have loved cooking in it. Loren is a hunter and we have tons of frozen deer and elk meat in our deep freeze. I found a recipe the other day that used both the Crock Pot and all that frozen meat we have, and it came out wonderful.

Deer/Elk Crock Pot Stroganoff
1 1/2 pounds elk roast
1 1/2 tablespoons steak seasoning
1 teaspoon rubbed sage
1 small onion, chopped
4 cloves garlic, chopped
1 (10.75 ounce) can cream of onion soup
1 cup water
1 cup sour cream

1. Season the roast with the steak seasoning and sage, and place into a slow cooker along with the onion, garlic, cream of onion soup, and water.
2. Cover, and cook on Low until the meat is easily shredded with a fork, 5 to 7 hours. Stir in the sour cream, and cook 30 minutes more. Shred the meat before serving.
3. Serve over rice, noodles, or potatoes.

Looking in our window!

A couple of nights ago, we came home to a frog looking in our window. The wood pole was a support for our window air conditioner, that we hadn't put away yet. But it was so weird that the frog took the time to climb up this long pole to sit on the top. We haven't seen any frogs around our place until this one. It was just too weird not to blog.

Yummy

I went to cheesecake factory the other day and instead of getting cheesecake for dessert I got their layer cake. It is the best thing I've ever had. The cake consisted of layers of brownie, chocolate cake, fudge, coconut walnut frosting and cheesecake. The picture doesn't do it justice, probably because I had already eaten half of it. Thank you Cheesecake factory for putting all of my favorite desserts into one.

Halloween Night

Happy Halloween! Hope everyone had a good night. We decided to stay at home and pass out candy, since we were in a neighborhood and expected kids. We didn't get a single tricker treater until 8:00pm, and we ended up only getting 3 knockers. We were expecting more with the amount of kids around our neighborhood, but I guess they didn't want any candy. A nice photo of me and the cat. He helped carve the pumpkins and light them. I thought it would be good to get him in the photo too.

Loren wanted to make his pumpkin a little happier this year. I dedicate my pumpkin to the neighborhood cat.

Friday's Recipe

I'm going easy today and giving you a quick and easy chip dip for the holidays.

Chip Dip
1 container Sour Cream
1 packet Ranch Dip

1. Stir together
2. Serve with ruffles.

Totally Bumbed

So...after two weeks talking back and forth with the guy who was going to buy the jeep, everything fell through. I guess he got pre-approved through Wells Fargo 2 months ago, and when he went back in, they wouldn't follow through with their pre-approval, economy and all. He then went to a credit union and got approved for $5000. He offered us the $5000 plus payments, but no way...he could totally jump ship and we would be out. We told him about our credit union (they didn't do any of those funny housing loans and they are sitting pretty right now). We are now crossing our fingers to see if things go through. I just hope this all wasn't a big scam. Do you think it was?