Strawberry Lemonade... the BEST

Hey again!!!
As you most of you guys know, one of my favorite drinks to drink is strawberry lemonade. I don't care if it is -10000000.... degrees outside, I will still love strawberry lemonade. So here is a recipe:

1 cup of fresh squeezed lemon juice
1 cup of sugar
5 cups water
about 10 ish fresh, and stemmed (which means taking the stems OFF of the strawberries for those of you who don't go into the kitchen very often) strawberries (you can have more if you like it more strawberry like)


Mix the lemon juice, sugar, and water together in a pitcher. There is lemonade. It is very good. but if you want STRAWBERRY lemonade, add the strawberries. (Did you know that strawberries float???!!!) take a potato masher (you could use other things if you don't have a potato masher.... i'm not really sure what else you could use ) and mash the strawberries into the lemonade. I do this to get the strawberry flavor in the lemonade. Stir it around a little bit, then enjoy!!!

If you want to make it into a slushie/smoothie, you can freeze some of the lemonade in a cup and then blend it in a blender. I have yet to try the smoothie, but I think it sounds great!

I hope you try the strawberry lemonade soon!! It is one of my easiest, and favorite drink to make, so even those of you who aren't good in the kitchen can make it!!! YUMMM!

My Birthday!!!

Hey guys!!! as some of you know, but not all of you, my birthday is coming up soon. I am thinking of inviting some of my friends over for like a playdate/birthday party thing, but i am not sure yet. if possible, could you guys maybe give me some ideas on what to do, what day it should be on, etc. etc. i am thinking it should either be on january 18th, or january 23. but on the 23rd, i have gym, and then on the 18th, it is 1 day after the OC meet..... so i am not sure. please help me!!

NEW YEARS

Hey guys!! it is 12:00 am!!! hopefully.... in... 1/1/10!!!!!!!! new decade!!!!! yay!!! happy new years guys!!! you guys all rock! make sure you make all those resolutions, spend this time with family, and HAPPY NEW YEAR!! YOU GUYS ARE AWESOME! HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! omg! i can't believe it!!!! I am sooo gonna press the button at exactly 12:00!!! IT IS NOW 12:00!! yay!!!

NEW DECADE!!!

OMG! guys! Guess what? THE NEW YEAR IS ALMOST HERE!! WITH A NEW DECADE TOO!!!! in a couple of hours, i would have lived in 3 DECADES, and 2 MILENIUMS!!!! haha!! So what are you guys going to be doing for the new year / decade?? right now i am at my uncle's house, eating cheese, biscotti, watching a slide show, and more! haha!! What are your new year resolutions? i am having a bbq for dinner too! i hope they start bbqing soon, it is getting dark... actually, it is ALREADY DARK! well, happy new year to all of you!

AWESOME Fruit dip

Hey guys! i know, i haven't posted in SOOOO long... since karina's concussion! lol... well, here is an awesome fruit dip recipe that jane gave me. i love it!!

1 cup Mascarpone cheese (whole foods has it.. im not sure about trader joes... safeway DOESNT have it...)
2 Tablespoons of honey
2 Tablespoons of Heavy whipping cream
1 teaspoon of vanilla flavouring/extract

you just mix it all together!!! when i made it, i think i put a little too much honey, so the dip tastes alot like honey now... maybe 1 1/2 tablespoons of honey would be good... but oh well. still delicious. now, just dip in your fruits and enjoy!!!

Get well Soon Karina!!!

Hey karina! This post is mainly for you!! I hope you get well soon!!! from your head thing of course!! It is so sad that it happened right before the intrasquad!!! Poor you! At least now i have a buddy! You know, i'm not really sure if i am competing the intrasquad.... hmmmmm.......... Well, get well soon ! See you soon! (ps, jane, if you wanna know what happened, ask karina...)

Posting/my day

Hey guys! reading rhea's blog reminded me how long i haven't blogged! it hasn't been as long as rhea's break, but long enough. today i will talk about my day.

first off, i was sleeping. i was sleeping very nicely until i woke up to find that i had to go to the bathroom. i was tired, but i knew i had to go or else.... you know... so it was like 5:00 am i think exactly, but im not sure. so, i lazily got up and went to the bathroom. it was kinda sad... just becuase i was so tired and didn't feel like getting up... just for your info, people like me do weird things when we are sleeping.... -_-... anyway, once i jumped back into bed, i almost immediatly fell back asleep. then, a couple hours later i woke up to a beeping noise (it was 6:45). i wasn't really sure where it was coming from... i knew it was someones alarm, but i didn't know whose. so i got up and went to my clock to see if it was ringing. it wasnt. i got up for nothing... again.. turns out it was my brothers going off... if i wasn't so tired, i wouldve yelled at him. then, my cousin krystal yelled at him for me. so happy i didn't have to get out of bed :P ... about 3 minutes later, my mom, krystal, and my brother were all talking VERY loudly so i couldn't really get to bed. at about 6:58, my mom came into my room to figure out whether or not the purple USB stick she found in the washer (haha) was mine. no, it was not, so i was bugged again... then in like 2 minutes, my first alarm went off.... sigh.. i had to get up and turn it off. then at like 7:10, my mom came in to tell me it was 7:10 (she doesn't know my waking up schedule...). disturbed again.... sigh... then, my second alarm went off at 7:15!! so i had to get up, and press the snooze button for another 10 minutes. my mom, brother and cousin FINALLY left for work/school. i finally got some peace and quiet for like 8 minutes!! then i got up at like 7:30 ish to get ready for school. for breakfast, i had the oh so healthy breakfast of 2 large marshmellows... then i was off to school.

my first class is social studies and we did this group project thing. because i kind of already was done, we basically just sat there for like the whole period doing nothing and "talking" about social studies.. (we mainly talked about non social studies realated things.) then i had cooking. we made the pizza dough :) yummm i made a hawaiian pizza. i nibbled on the pieces of ham, cheese, and pineapple while making it.. haha! i have concluded, i don't like my group. they make me do all of the washing, drying, and basically putting away. (ok, so im exaggerating alittle.... but i literally had to do like half of the work! ) tomorrow we are gonna bake it! so i am soo happy! yummmmmmmmmmm!!!!!! then we had brunch. i bought a yogurt parfait thingy.. it wasnt too good.... :( i normally don't buy stuff for brunch though. but becuase my freind wanted to buy something, she dragged me along, soooo i had to buy something. then we had pe. we did volleyball. then we had science. i dislike my science teacher... well, my science student teacher who teaches us. uggg.... treats us like kindergarteners.... then we had lunch. it was pizza day and i got hot cheetos and a slice of peperoni pizza. then i had math. i had a math test. i hope i got 100%... then we had language arts. im not sure whether or not i like my language arts teacher... she is either really awesome, or really.... i dunno.... a bad mood lets say. then i got a ride home. because my hip/wrist has been hurting for a couple days/like 2 months, my dad wouldn't let me go to gym... :( so instead, i went to the doctors. i went to urgent care cause the normal doc. wasn't free for like 6 weeks! i got an x ray on both my wrist and hip. gladly, there was no fracture... sadly, i still have no clue what is wrong with it... so i was told to take ibuprofin (advil, tylenol, aleve, motrin etc.) 2 times a day. one in the morning, one at night... lots of medicine.... if it doesn't get any better by next week, i am going to go to the orthopedics (muscle/bone doctor)to see what is wrong. the doc. i saw today said it might be pulled/sprained/twisted/ i dunno. something to do with the muscle i think. then, i went home and ate dinner. i did hw, then i took a shower. and now i am here typing up this really long description of my day. did you like it?