To My Clients

I am taking appointments in UTAH for the week of DECEMBER 15th - 20th. Those appointments will be $40 for a Color and Haircut. This is the last week I will be taking appointments till February. Thank you all for being amazing clients!!!

Fancy Cranberry Sauce

What you will need:
1 Bag of Cranberries
1 Cup Ginger Ale
1 Orange
1 Cup Brown Sugar
A dash of Cinnamon


What you do:
In a sauce pan you squeeze the orange out until youve gotten all the juices out.  Mix in the brown sugar, ginger ale, and cranberries.  Once it gets boiling and bubbling you add your dash of cinnamon.  once the berries start to pop and burst youre ready to strain the juice. 

Take a strainer

(this is what mine looks like)


and hold it over another sauce pan.  Dump the contents from the first sauce pan into the strainer.  All the juice will be in the second sauce pan.  With a spoon mash the cranberries until all you have left is the skins of the cranberries.  Slowly lift up the strainer up and scrape the bottom of it with the spoon.  (the stuff youre scraping off the bottom of the strainer will look like Jelly.  Mix it in with the sauce in the second pan.

TADAH!  You have the most delicious cranberry sauce ever!

Binders for Emergency Prepardness

Hello!  I know that I didn't give a very detailed list of the things that you can put in your "Important Document Binder".  There is a couple of reasons but the biggest one is because there's so many different ways to do it.  But I will give you a list (in order) of how I made mine. 




When you open up the binder this is what you will see...

EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBER SHEET

• A box with our address and phone numbers
• A box with “essential” info for every member of our family (name, DOB, allergies)
• A box that says: “If you are unsure who to call and it is an emergency, dial 911!
• A box with phone numbers to all our insurance companies along with the insurance policy numbers (car, life, health etc)
• A box with other important emergency numbers (poison control, 24 hr nurse line, gas company, plummer, etc)
• A box with our doctor’s phone numbers.
• Husband’s family’s numbers (parents, siblings, grandparents)
• My family’s numbers
• Local friend’s numbers
• Non-local friend’s numbers
• Other important numbers

The next page will have the FAMILY EVACUATION PLAN

• If you were at the meeting I presented the binders you would have received an example of this to hopefully create your own.  If you were not there I will include all the links that I pulled all the information from.  

The Next thing I would include is a CURRENT FAMILY PICTURE.  

This is useful because if a child goes missing you will have current pictures of them and it will also work as proof that you are in fact the child's parent.

Now from here I used dividers to break the folder up into sections so that I was even more organized.  

My first section was FINANCIAL INFORMATION

• In this section I have all of our account information and credit card information (numbers, phone numbers, etc.)    This is also when I keep a copy of any loans we have (student loans, car loans, mortgages, etc.)

The next section is IDENTIFICATION INFORMATION

• In this section I put our birth cetificates, social security cards, passports, and marriage license.  The blog that I originally pulled all this information from strongly suggested having a finger print kit for each family member.

The next section is LICENSES AND OTHER IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS

• In this section I have the titles to our cars, any licensing we have with the state (we have burglary alarm permits and my cosmetology licenses), and medical documents that are important (I have a copy of my claim for my surgery).  

The next section is RELIGIOUS DOCUMENTS

• In this section I put our Patriarchal blessings, any special blessings that we've saved, temple marriage certificate, and any other religious documents.

The final section is PETS

• Not everyone has pets right now so you can really have free reign with this section.  We have a cat and so we put his adoption records, shot records, vaccine records, and all health check ups in this section.  This is important if you have a dog as well in case there is a dog bite or if you are moving somewhere that has pet restrictions.  

Now I got all the information for this binder from:  http://www.yourownhomestore.com/survival-kit-series-week-23-important-documents/

This is a great blog to get information on having a food storage and a 72 hour kit.  

Day 12/418

I am not doing so great.  We have a lot going on in our personal lives that is really starting to wear on me.  So enter the Dr. Pepper.  I know its not healthy and I know I sound like I'm making excuses when I say "well its better than doing _____(fill in the blank)____"  And I guess in some ways I am.  But I need and MUST do better if I want to feel better.  So I'm back on the wagon... I am not going to beat myself up about it.  I am simply going to recognize that its a sign of weakness that I need to over come with lots of practice.  Its also helpful that I am reconnecting with old friends (aka Mandy) and spending time with people who care about me (Adrienne, Kelsie, Dan, Melissa, and Payne).  

BUT silver lining...

I found something for breakfast that I LOVE!!!

Especially this flavor with a splash of Tabasco. 

I add a slice of this bread toasted with a smidgen of butter.  

If you get a chance test these things out YUMMMO!