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Monday, May 21, 2012

life through instagram: 5-21-12.

Since most of my pictures are from instagram, and I use it so frequently, I've decided to make "life through instagram" a running feature.

I promise they won't all be pictures of my dogs (even though those are always the best pictures).

This floppy beauty is just waiting to get packed away to head to Florida for A's wedding. So. Excited! It does get to stick along on an outing for another friend's bridal shower this weekend too. What a lucky hat.

I am blessed to have so many wonderful friends, and two of my best best best friends sent me this BEAUTIFUL flower arrangement to celebrate my graduation from nursing school. Seriously, how sweet are they? Thanks S & J!

I am officially DONE with nursing school, which if you're keeping track, means I'm now Molly, BSN. If I pass my boards (cross your fingers and toes!) I'll be Molly, RN-BSN. Seriously. cross your fingers AND toes. This picture was from our pinning ceremony.

Remember when I told you I had wonderful friends? My nursing school savior Chelsea gave me a SNITCH for graduation. What a perfect gift. I am a little embarrassed that people know how much I like Harry Potter...but okay, not really.

Like I mentioned, my mom and I graduated on the same day! She finished her Education degree. Go mom!

Remember how I told you S & J were so awesome? They also sent me this super sweet graduation gift...I am obsessed with all of it. Especially the blinged out graduation card :).

I had to head to St. L to fill out some paperwork...for my new JOB and thus my new apartment! While I was there, Sam and I headed to lunch. I can't wait to make this a regular occurrence :).

Sam's parents have a pool which I plan on taking advantage of...who wouldn't when it looks this peaceful!?

Bella isn't so sure of all this talk about moving, and such.

Since I've been in the process of packing, my room was a mess. I did my favorite thing: throw everything on the bed and sort it out from there. I think it makes it so much easier to put everything in one big pile and pare down from there.

I-70, how I loathe thee. It's a terribly long and uninteresting story, but I had to drive back and forth from KC to STL on this road twice in 48 hours. Let's just say do not let your TB test expire when you're starting a new job.

I should also mention it is not any safer to take pictures while driving than it is to text and drive. So, don't attempt this. I never claimed to be brilliant.

Monday, January 2, 2012

A visit from S&J

After finals, two of my very best friends, Sara and Jackie (S & J, obviously) came to visit me. We hadn't seen each other since last January (eek!) so to say that we were excited to see one another is an understatement.

We did a lot of exciting things that other people may not think are quite so exciting, but hey, that's why we're friends, right?

The first night they were here, we went and saw The Nutcracker at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts. It was so lovely! We all love the ballet and this was actually the second that we've seen together.

The Kauffman Center is gorgeous. It's brand new and if you're ever in the KC area, I recommend you check out a performance here, because the architecture and design is almost as exciting as the show.

Seriously? How pretty is this?


A sunset view of Kansas City

The next day we spent our day doing some Christmas shopping, some baking, and some knitting!

The master candy cane sprinkler.

We had some enthusiastic helpers in the kitchen!

Our sugar cookie log sprinkled with a LOT of sprinkles

First day of school picture! With a cute little owl backpack.

And on our final full day together, we headed to the Plaza for some shopping. I was super lame about taking pictures while they were here, but I know between the 3 of us we have some good pictures.

I miss you both so much already, and can't wait for a next trip together!!! Love you guys.

Friday, December 23, 2011

pinterest challenge #2

Day #2 of the Pinterest challenge.

My two best friends came in town this week (another blog post will be devoted to this lovely occurrence) and we got to work baking some of our favorites, and also tried out some new cookies. We found these beauties:

via Our Italian Kitchen

and set about making them. Our finished version definitely isn't as pretty, but hey, we tried!

I forgot to take pictures before, but we did a semi-homemade version and rolled two packages of sugar cookie dough together and then covered in sprinkles.

They turned out kind of trapeze-like when we cut them, but that's okay

These got HUGE when we baked them. Not sure how to remedy that problem.

These were pretty decent, but I don't like sugar cookies so I'm probably not the best judge. We split them in 3 to each have some and my brothers devoured mine, so I'm assuming they are pretty good :).