Favorite New Thing

This is a window just to the right of our front door. After being here a few days I knew I wanted it covered at night. I started looking around in the housing to see what other people had to block the view. Driving through one day I noticed some stained glass looking stuff. So I got on Amazon (my favorite place to shop) and searched for "stained glass window cling." Voilà! Up popped up this amongst a few choices. I was so excited to get it and now I love looking in that direction all the time.


I'd love to have stained glass windows in my home. One day I will make personally design and make my own windows. But since it's likely that it is going to be a very long time before we get to a permanent (more than three year) home, I'll make due with this great invention in the meantime.

Ode to the Donut--One Week Late

I know, I know. National Donut Day was LAST Friday. And I still want to try a donut recipe from one friend's blog.

However, my secret isn't that you can get a free donut at pretty much every donut place one day each year. I feel like Rob has his own Donut Day celebration every other week.

Since being in Utah, Rob has sorely missed Dunkin' Donuts. Krispy Kreme just isn't his thing (yet another example of how two almost polar opposite people can happily coexist in a great marital relationship). While his true donut love is completely inaccessible he's settled. At first it surprised me--sometimes we're kind of food snobs (we love to cook, but more so love to appreciate fine foods of every kind), so who would have guessed that his next loyalty would develop towards Smith's. Yep, the "marketplace."

One shopping day (Rob does almost all the grocery shopping for us), while salivating over the pastry counter at the bakery, Rob noticed that on a nightly basis all of the donuts are cleared out--really, shoved into donut boxes--marked as surplus for $2.99, and left on top of the glass display cases of the darkened bakery to satisfy any late night cravings--or at least the cravings of those that get there first. More often than not when Rob brings such a box home there are more than a dozen donuts. I think his biggest score number wise was 15 (for $2.99, remember?). Sometimes Rob chooses a box with a maple one in it because he knows those are my favorites. This summer all but one of those have gone uneaten, but not unappreciated.

What donut, for that price, wouldn't be good? The thing is, they really are decent donuts, I promise. The bakery closes at 6 pm in Draper, and I'll admit it, once we made it there at 6:03.

Happy eating. :)

I love D.I.

Okay, so I have some friends that really don't love it so much. In fact, my friend Jen hates it, and has banned her husband from shopping there. Personally, I think she should reconsider. :)

Honestly, I don't shop there for me, but I do the bulk of my shopping for Guy there. Usually buying pants and shirts for $2 and $3. On Saturday I spent $13 on a jacket, a sweater, and four shirts. I really like all the clothes I bought and everything is in great condition, too. Usually I only find one or two things I like at a time (sometime nothing), but I go there just about every other week, so it adds up. On our student budget as we're penny pinching, D.I. really helps keep Guy well clothed.

I can't even claim my favorite find ever, though. My friend Maddie is a thrift store pro--a master shopper when it comes to finding a great deal--and she found me this handy little Baby Bjorn - which sell for about $70 usually (and about 1/2 that used) for a whole $2. Until December, I'd been borrowing my sister's (thanks Bethany!) but she's due with her 6th in April (yea!). I am so grateful to replace such a great baby accessory with such a great find. Thanks again Maddie!