PIG TAILS!!!

That's right every one at 7 1/2 months old Evelyn can rock some pretty awesome pig tails! Her Daddy LOVES them, and so do I! I can't believe I can already style her hair...they grow up so fast.

Also, I am blog retarded how do you post a picture in the middle of your post? I can only do it at the top... kind of annoying.

I also need to get motivated to go the gym. Am I the only who finds it harder to go to the gym when I am not eating well? When I am eating healthy I want to go to the gym, probably because I know the scale will be nice to me, but after graduation I am a little nervous to look! I am only writing this so I will be accountable to go TODAY!

Reeses Cookies

The actual cookie!

Okay, I am only sharing this recipe because if I knew one of my friends had this recipe and DIDN'T share it I would be upset! They are so good and the best thing about them is they taste great a day or even 4 days later. Also, because every one has easter candy left over maybe you can use reeses' to make cookies!

Ingredients:

1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup peanut butter

1/2 cup sugar

1/2 cup brown sugar

1 egg

1/2 teaspoon vanilla

1/2 teaspoon salt

3/4 teaspoon baking soda

1 1/4 cup flour

15 reeses peanut butter cup minitures

Makes approximately 30 cookies

Directions:

Cream butter, peanut butter, and sugars together with an electric mixer. While mixing add the egg and vanilla. Combine dry ingredients in separate bowl (salt, baking soda, and flour). Add the dry mixture slowing to the other ingredients. Mix until you can not see any of the flour mixture. Next, take the reeses miniture and take off the wrapper (obviously) and cut the reeses in half! Do this with about 15 minitures. Then form the dough into 1 inch balls. Place half the reeses in middle of the ball and cover the reeses completely with dough. Bake at 375 for 7-9 minutes or until the edges are golden brown. Cool for 5 minutes and TASTE HEAVEN!!!

Graduation, Temple Square, and Easter

Evelyn all ready for Graduation

Danner Clan


The Oswell Group!

This was after commencement

The family is gone and the house is really quite once again. Well besides Evelyn's little noises. Graduation was a good experience. I definitley walked for parents. Commencement was fine, a little warm, a little long, but it was cool to see everyone there. Also while walking in we spotted Elder Scott, and my friend Steph was snapping a picture and he noticed...AND...he waved! So that was exciting!

Graduation was very early! It was at 8 AM and we had to be there at 7. I can not tell you anything about the speakers but I can tell you it was so fun to see all my friends graduate and to walk with Jeff. Jeff graduated from the Business school in Business Managment but he walked with me so our family could see both of us graduate. Jeff's parents and brother T.J, and sister Jennifer. Then my parents came as well. Taking pictures after graduation was also fun. After graduation we went to Tucanoes which was amazing! The Brazillian grill is SO good, I could not get enough of the pineapple.

We also went to Temple Square on Saturday because Jeff's brother and sister had not gone before it was so nice and the grounds looked beautiful!

We had so much fun with everyone. And of course Evelyn was the apple of everyones eye! She loved going outside with grandpa Danner and enjoyed all the attention!

Getting ready for company

Jeff and I are graduating on Friday. My parents are coming all the way from Washington, and Jeff's parents and brother and sister are coming too! We are so excited. My parents have not seen Evelyn since Christmas, so she has changed so much since then. Jeff's parents saw her in February but since then she sits, and rolls, and talks (babbles).


I have been busy planning meals for 8 people. Man, I have a whole new respect for people with big families, it's a lot of work and you have to make a lot more food. I'm excited though because I finally have an excuse to make Reese's Peanut Butter Cup Cookies, yep that's right there is a mini reese's inside the cookie. If anyone wants the recipe I'll post it on here.


We have also been busy cleaning, not that I don't clean my apartment but I have been deep cleaning just incase anyone opens the window and looks at the window seal. It is just a good excuse to do cleaning that you have been meaning to do.


In other news Jeff has one more final tonight which is really just a presentation until he is DONE with BYU. It is a little surreal, we are growing up and moving on. Okay, I will post about our wonderful visit after every one leaves.

We have a BLOG!

Oswell Family

Evelyn Mae Oswell

Okay so I have actually had this blog for over a month, but I just have not written anything. I didn't think my life was interesting enough, or funny enough, or cool enough frankly. However, there are a few people out there who may want to know about my life. I have a little ADORABLE girl, Evelyn. I have been married for 2+ years to Jeff. We currenltly live in Orem, Utah but will be moving to Vegas soon for Dental school. Yes, that is right I am a "Mormon Sterotype." I graduated in Elementary Education (sterotype #1), my husband was a business major (sterotype #2) and he is going to dental school ( sterotype #3). Not to mention I LOVE cooking, baking, scrapbooking, crafting, and shopping. ( sterotype 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8) Now I have a blog so that should be #9! But it's okay I have come to terms with it all.

However, probably like every one else I feel like I'm different and unique in my own way. Okay so I have started a blog... what to talk about. Let's get down and honest. So this weekend Jeff had a HUGE group project and was gone for like 6 hours on Saturday and I was bored so what did I do... Evelyn and I went to the Mall, naturally. I wasn't going to buy anything but then I found a cute dress at Forever 21, and it was only $11.50, so what did I do I bought it. Side note: this would not seem like a big deal to ANY one else but we are POOR...really poor but what is a girl to do when she has Nordstroms taste with a Target budget (it's probably more like walmart, but I'm still in denial) Okay back to the story I bough the dress and I didn't tell Jeff and Evelyn can't talk so I was in the clear. THEN relief society talks about honesty...I felt guilty the WHOLE time so I finally told Jeff and luckily he wasn't mad. Why wasn't he mad probably because I told him after I had fed him a delicious dinner, cookies were in the oven, and we were cuddling. So here is the lesson timing is everything! No, not really the lesson really is it is just better to be honest, and it helped that he liked the dress and it was only $11.50. So that is my first super random post!

Other facts: Evelyn is 7 months old, she was a month early so a little behind, sits, rolls, laughs, smiles big. Likes: sweet potatoes, carrots, bananans, and anything we are eating.