Crafts

I've been doing some fun crafts lately. The first one I started was a menu board. I saw the idea online and really liked it. At the time, I normally planned the weeks meals out, but just wrote them on a plain old index card and put it on the fridge. This is much cuter! At the top, it says MENU in green sparkly letters. There are meal cards, which I chose to color code (yellow = chicken, pink = ground meat, red = fish, etc). Each card has a main dish, a side and a vegetable on it. The yellow box holds the meal cards that we haven't eaten yet. Then they get moved to the clips when they're on the weeks menu. After we've had it, the meal card gets put into the pink box. Keep going till you've used all the meal cards, then start over again! On the back of each meal card is a list of all the ingredients I need to make the meal, it helps when I'm making my shopping list.

From 2012-02-23 Alli Crafts

The other craft I made started at a Relief Society activity. They taught us to make these hot pads that have the "rag" style of sewing on them. They told us to just let the edges have the "rag" look as well, but I really didn't like them. So I bought the boarder tape stuff and sewed that on. It was my first time ever using boarder tape stuff; it's harder than it looks! My stitch lines are FAR from straight! With practice I'll get better :)

From 2012-02-23 Alli Crafts

San Diego Scene 5

Saturday, February 18

Today's SD Scene adventure started off with lunch in Ocean Beach. We went to a local burger shop that is supposedly ranked in the top 5 hamburger shops in SD. It was really good, we liked it! The atmosphere was fun, the walls were covered in license plates from all over the US, actually, there was a small handful from other countries as well. After we ate lunch, we walked out the Ocean Beach Pier. We had a lot of fun on the pier! It was a GREAT spot to watch surfers. We surfer-watched for quite a while, it was fun! There were also a lot of fishers on the pier. After the pier, we went a few blocks away to Sunset Cliffs. They were definitely beautiful!

After that we went to the SD Zoo Safari Park. We had a lot of fun there! We liked it TONS more than we thought we would! We really liked how open everything was, they tried to make everything feel natural. All the fences were made out of wood logs, birds just waddling around the pond, etc. Another thing that was a favorite was the remote control boats. Ammon bought me one turn (like 3 minutes), I tried to hand him the token so that he could put it in the machine and start off with it, but he said no, he bought it for me. So I put in the token, and before I could even touch the steering wheel, Ammon was showing me how it worked (as if I couldn't figure it out on my own - it was very basic!). It was very cute how much fun he had with the boat, watching him concentrate and play. After a while he gave me a turn, but it shut off a few seconds later. He promised me that next time we'll both get our own boats :)

San Diego Scene 4

Saturday, February 11, 2012
We celebrated Valentine's Day today, because it's just too crazy on the 14th! We had a wonderful day!

We started off the morning by going to Torrey Pines to watch para-gliders. It was really cool to watch them. It looked like a lot of fun!



Then we went to a beach called Children's Beach. They originally built this beach for kids to swim at. They built a wall to help block the huge waves, thus making it more safe for younger kids. However, after building the wall, they found that something else liked this beach...seals! So now Children's Beach is also known as Seal Beach! There is also a walking path that goes around the park. It was a colder day today, and the wind didn't help!



Next we went the SD Zoo and almost finished going everywhere! There are only a few areas left that have been unexplored by the Dietz family! As the seasons change, so will the exhibits though, so we won't get tired of the zoo! There's always something new to go see! We first took the sky tram to the back of the zoo, then walked to the front. Then we took a bus tour of the zoo. We learned some interesting things, one being that Flamingos are not naturally pink. But wild flamingos eat a type of shrimp that turns them pink. At the zoo, they don't have that type of shrimp (they didn't say why) so they feed them a flamingo feed that has pink dye in it! Interesting, huh!



After the zoo we went to Olive Garden for a wonderful meal! We had a fantastic Valentine's celebration!

Bike Riding

Ammon has started biking to work. It's about a 7 mile bike ride. He says it's really fun once he gets started, but getting out of bed and out the door is really hard to do :) He bought saddle bags for his bike, and always uses his lights. He's come home soaking wet a couple of days now, but if we KNOW it's going to be raining, he'll drive instead. Here's a picture of his ticked-out bike ;)

Valentine's Day

I had a really fun time making Valentine's for all of my nieces and nephews this year. Here's how they turned out. Keep in mind, I did not come up with these ideas, just copied ideas off of the internet. I am a great "copy cat" crafter, but I'm not very good at originality!

Allison's Birthday & SDS 3

On Allison's birthday, the Johnson family came to help us celebrate! They came to our house first, where we got to show off our new place for the first time to family! Ryan and Elise had brought a very good lunch! After lunch, we ate a piece of traditional German birthday cake that Lina had made which was also very good! Then we packed up and headed to the San Diego Zoo.

JD and Maia loved the zoo! There were a few animals that they couldn't see very well because they didn't move, but the bright colored ones and the ones that moved they could definitely see! We had a really fun time!

After the zoo, the Johnson's headed home and Ammon and Allison headed to to Little Italy in Downtown San Diego. We had fun walking up and down the streets. We picked an Italian restaurant to have dinner at. The evening was wonderful!

I had such a wonderful birthday! Thank you to all my family and friends who made it such! I love you!