Call me Chef Watkins

This last conference weekend, I had a ton of fun! I love cooking, and that is all I did! Saturday morning I woke up early and cleaned up the house and then called my little sister, Leisja, and told her to hurry and get to Pocatello because we have a lot to do! :) I was so excited. While Leisja was on her way to Pocky, I went to the grocery store and got all the supplies I needed for the weekend. Then I went home and turned on conference and then got to work. My first project was lunch for Saturday between sessions. I first started on homemade breadsticks, by the time they were ready for the oven, I started on homemade Potato Ham Soup (Mike's favorite). I got to chop potatoes and carrots and grate cheese and cook bacon and all of those kind of fun cooking things to do. The more you have to chop and cook, the better! So I made some soup and breadsticks and took some to Mike, while he was at work, and then Leisja and I feasted.

After the lunch cleanup, I got started on my fun little project of bacon cups! They are the coolest thing in the whole world! I wasn't too excited to eat them, mainly to make them. This is what it is suppose to look like: http://www.notmartha.org/archives/2008/02/27/bacon-cups/ (by the way, a good website for cute ideas).

I did not take pictures of mine, because, well frankly, they didn't look anything like that. :) I accidentally bought thick bacon instead of thin, so it wasn't sticking to itself and it was just too thick to mold around the muffin tins. So by the time these were done cooking, Mike came home and we went and hung out together (that is my next blog).

Now, Sunday was fun too! I woke up early and made my sweet husband breakfast in bed, including:

Bacon
Sunny Side Up Eggs (a.k.a. "Dippy Eggs"- this is what I called them until Mike corrected me when we were dating)
Toast
Mike's Too Chocolaty Chocolate Chocolate Milk (about a 12 to 1 ratio of chocolate to milk) :)
and of course, A Love Note

I let him sleep in until 9:30 and gave him breakfast in bed and then we got up and watched conference together.

The night before, I put a roast in the crock pot and made some Aux Ju for our lunch of French Dip Sandwiches. By morning, we woke up to our house's smell of bacon, now overtaken by the smell of roast beef. It was divine! So after the first session was over, we invited some friends over and we ate our roast and salad. We then cleaned up the kitchen, for about the 4th time that weekend, and watched the 2nd session of conference.

A little note on conference: It was amazing! There were so many great talks. I love to hear the prophet and the apostles speak to us, share their testimonies, and let us know what we need to be hearing right now in our lives. I love the talk (I forget who gave it) about being happy. I think I really needed that talk, I really did enjoy it and I will try to be more optimistic in life and not stress out over the little things. I am so thankful that we are able to have Conference twice a year and be able to get guidance from our living prophet, what a blessing that is!Mike gave in to Roxi, and they fell asleep on the couch. He is naughty! But it was so cute too.

After conference Mike and I went over to the park with Roxi to play with her. We thought, we would be brave and let Roxi walk all the way home with us, without a leash. She did so good! All the neighbor dogs were barking at her, and she never left our side. We are so proud of our little girl!

When we got home, I started making my last creation for the weekend: Mini Pies! These were fun! I did include pictures of these, because they are just so flippin' cute! They were supper easy and fast too. And you can make a ton of them and everyone can have the kind that they like. This little pies were not only adorable, they we pretty delicious as well!

All in all, we had a great weekend. We have lots of leftover soup, breadsticks and roast beef that will take us through some of this week, and don't forget, a couple of yummy pies! Yup. I'm now a chef.