Braustin Nation

We wish you all the best this coming year! Yay for 2013! Both of us are proud to say, we kept a resolution. It started with the Juicer from last Christmas (in which we spent in Wyoming.) When we got home to Idaho in January of 2012... Austin said he was going to commit to Insanity . So I wanted to do it too. We made a goal in January to do it once through and eat healthy. I had a goal to get in my BMI which even now I have kept! Austin was able to reach his goal for himself too! So there was our big goal for the year!  2012 was good to us, and we thought we'd give a quick review:  We celebrated our second anniversary: Aunt Brennyn and Uncle Austin came to be: Hillary (Austin's sister) got married to Sean: I started on my printmaking BFA: And Austin did well on his LSAT and applied to Law School! 2013 will hopefully be great too! We will be graduating in April, and will hear from Law Schools  into May. I will get

The wonderful joys of getting new cooking toys: Gluten Free Pasta and Tortilla Recipes .:here:.

My Mom and Lance came out! Austin and I took it as an opportunity to cook the heck out of our kitchen for them! We got a white Christmas which was amazing. For two reasons: Mom and Lance are from California and so it was magical for them, and it could be our last white Christmas for a while! (A lot of schools are in the South.)  My mom's side of the family is very German so we celebrate Christmas Eve. We used to have minestrone soup, but everyone hated it. So... we turned to our California roots and make tortilla soup instead. As a kid, it always made sense that Christmas happened at night. All the pictures you saw of baby Jesus were at night with the star. My mom said when she was little, she just thought German kids were special haha! I made my mom and Lance some hardcase books, a snowglobe, and got them a ceramic ornament. Santa also surprised them in the morning with a stocking ;) My grandma Hofmann used to make these egg ornaments (she passed away in 19

I made snowglobes!  I've always loved those, even as a little kid. Then I saw DIY's on Pinterest, and thought.... Why hadn't I thought of making them before?? So in a nutshell, jars, hot glue, brush christmas trees (or anything plastic-y) glitter... and then to fill the jar, distilled water, glitter and some corn syrup to thicken it! I made all of these (already had jars) for $4.00! We attempted a gingerbread house with some friends... as you can see it looks like a crackhouse.    So... I think it's best I stick with the kind of art I know haha! I made a lot of books this break, and Austin can't complain cause he's an Eng. Lit.  He's been busy cooking some more amazing meals and snacks! Those are a healthy alfredo with quinoa base, and the other are applechips! Visit our Recipe page for cooking instructions .:here:. Also, for those who don't already know after my super obnoxious facebook excitement

I believe we have found the cat-dog of UPS trucks :)  I think they pull the big guns out come Christmas time, there has been one knock on the door after the other around here! I made a tree skirt with my friend this Tuesday, and noticed a little theme with our tree --pearls! It's on the skirt I made, and the star :)  We had tons of cheesecake filling left over from our Nacho Libre party, (Austin found a recipe with 32oz of cream cheese.... I'll let you do the guessing on how much filling we ended up having.) so I couldn't help myself. I made two more gluten free cheesecakes haha!  For the recipe, click .:here:. Look under Gluten Free! The fish (aka our fake childrens) felt a little left out so I window-markered their tank and stuck a window-sticky snowflake too. They keep trying to eat the window decorations... poor guys.  The rest of the apartment got decked out as well! (Thank you Dollar Tree haha!) Also, the