A Royal Wake Up

The royal wedding was very elegant. I have finished three out of my four finals, I'm so close to summer I can see it, but just far enough that I can't enjoy it. For this year and to celebrate I woke up early and watch a wedding. The only downside is my wake up call was 5:50 am because I'm in America and not London so the time difference hurt a little. 

The wedding was very elegant. What the wedding dress looked like and who designed it was kept very much so quiet until Kate arrived at Westminster Abby and it was reveled that it was in fact designed by Sarah Burton at Alexander McQueen. More important than the dress though, it was nice to see that William and Kate truly love each other.

During the ceremony Romans 12 was read as was a prayer that William and Kate wrote together. The Westminster choir sang songs including the National Anthem and songs written specifically for the wedding; I can only imagine how it must have sounded ringing through the church. The wedding was genuinely a sign of hope and excitement for not only one country but a light of what is good to the whole world. 

While it doesn't solve the worlds problems seeing a woman, of my generation, who is loved by her country and does what she can to help those in need is a lovely sigt. Taking part of William and Kate's prayer, I pray we too "In the busyness of each day keep our eyes fixed on what is real and important in life and help us to be generous with our time and love and energy."

Cake Pops Recipe

Yesterday my small group didn't know what to eat for dessert so we decided to make cake pops. They were super easy and delicious. We even ended up making too many expecting the guys to eat like 12 each. They were so rich and filling that we only used one cake mix and had leftovers. All in all cake pops were a great decision! Can you tell which one I made? 

Ingredients: 

• Cake mix (any kind)
• All the necessary ingredients to make a cake (for example- eggs, water, oil)
• Icing (we used vanilla) 
• Chocolate (we used both white and milk)
• Any extra toppings you want to add
• Ice cream scoop
• Cookie sheet(s)
• Sticks/ lollipop sticks (we found ours in the baking aisle) 

Directions:

• Bake your cake using the normal ingredients and time
• When you take it out of the oven instead of adding the icing on top and eating, tear the cake apart and put it into a bowl
• Mix in your icing (one tub of store bought icing per cake)
• Take your ice cream scoop and mold the cake into small balls and place on your cookie sheet
• Put the cake balls into the freezer till they're cold
• Melt your chocolate and dip the end of your sticks into the chocolate then put them into your cake balls (you dip them into chocolate first so the chocolate acts like a glue and helps the sticks from falling out)
• Cover the cake pops in chocolate and add any extra topping or design you want
• Put them back into the freezer to harden
• EAT!

March 10 in 30 Finale

1. Spring book fail; didn't get to this one but I'm hopefully going to the craft store tomorrow!

2. Buy a new summer purse! Done. I got a vintage Dooney & Bourke from a local thrift shop

3. Floss regularly. Yes and No. I was off and on about flossing but I did start a mouthwash routine before bed which is good (don't judge)

4. Figure out what I'm doing over summer. To work or not to work? That truly is the question  I did actually figure out what I'm doing; hopefully working half the summer and focusing on next school year/traveling the other half

5. Finish reading my book!  Finished it at like 11:30 pm on the 31st; close but I made it!

6. Have my days happen on purpose. I really tried but I'll give myself half credit I did have some really off days

7. Build a tent. Nope, I'll try to make one this weekend!

8. DIY 5 things. Let me count

1. Homemade peanut butter cups; recipe from here

     2.My Bundt Cake

     3.Birthday present for friend 

          4. I also made her wrapping paper

         

          5. Shorts

     

 9. Dye a top-nope
10. I did manage my time better