Addendum...

Tonight I made another great chicken recipe! It's called "Thai Cilantro Chicken." Try this one out and serve it with brown rice or steamed vegetables.

http://www.artsy-foodie.com/2008/09/wonderful-tasting-chicken-breast-recipe.html 

"The World's Best Chicken"

As I have already established, I really enjoy cooking. Winter break has been a great time to experiment with different foods! Even though this dish was eaten too quickly to take a picture, I thought I would share it because it was delicious and very, very easy to make. It's even called "the world's best chicken." How can you pass that up?! The picture is from the blog where I got the recipe. Try this one out soon!

2012...this post is almost a year long!

2012 was a great year. I can’t wait to see what is planned for the next 12 months! Month by month highlights are below.

January: I started off the year at Passion 2012, a huge Christian conference held in Atlanta, Georgia. The worship was great and the talks were inspiring! Check it out. This year’s Passion conference is happening right now—live stream it here. A few weeks later I went to New York City for a day trip with my friends from high school and then we went back to school and Bailey moved in!

February: February was a busy month. School was in full swing and so was small group! We went on the middle school ski trip to Massanutten Mountain. Spending a weekend with the girls was great for group bonding and refocusing the group for the semester. Andrew surprised me by taking me to Virginia Beach for Valentine’s Day and I ran a half marathon in Williamsburg!

March: In March, we went to Nicaragua again and I attended the Speech and Hearing Association of Virginia’s conference in Northern Virginia. Emilie, Ryan, and I also ran the Ukrop’s 10K!

 

April: This month was packed with large events. I went to Lizzie’s baby shower for Charlotte, Emilie and Andrew turned 21, we went to the King and Queen’s ball, and Blowout marked the end of the semester. 

  

May: The first half of the month was pretty much taken up by finals. The weekend between finals, I went to Virginia Beach on a girl’s retreat. It was a great time to focus for the start of the summer. About an hour after finals ended, I went strawberry picking with my friends from Tribe Fellowship and then made strawberry icebox pie! At the end of the month, Michelle and Sue and Mark visited and we toured DC.

June: I took classes online at Longwood all summer---Anatomy and Physiology of the Speech and Hearing Organs and Introduction to Communication Disorders. I also completed an internship with Building Blocks Speech Therapy, a practice in Falls Church. Mom and I took a cooking class with the National Charity League at Culinaria and Andrew and I took a tour of the monuments in DC.

July: My classes and internship continued through the month of July and the first week of August. Jamie, Maureen, Mom, and I saw the Addam’s Family at the Kennedy Center. Andrew came up for my birthday and we got to participate in the last day of Local Missions Week. It has changed a lot since we started it when I was in high school! Now it is a camp for the kids in Vienna.

August: All of my summer work ended in the first week of August, then we went to North Carolina and Seabrook Island. Christy visited and there was a family reunion in Maryland. The Chapel went to the Leadership Summit Conference in VA Beach. Junior year started and Sophie moved in!

September: The small group that I lead entered high school and kicked off the year with the Wiffle Ball World Series. We went to a Needtobreathe concert in Norfolk and my parents came down for family weekend!

October: This month was William and Mary’s homecoming and fall break! Andrew and I went to North Carolina and saw Michelle, Liz, and Tim as well as my grandparents. It was a really relaxing break! I ran Tribe College Outreach again and worked with a few kids from student ministries. The small group took a day trip to Virginia Beach to talk about relationships and one of Andrew’s friend’s got married!

November: This month was exhausting, but very exciting. I ran the Richmond Half Marathon with Sophie, went to the American Speech-Language Hearing Association Conference in Atlanta, and attended Maureen and Warren’s wedding at Meadowlark Gardens over Thanksgiving break.

December: I went to Michelle’s bridal shower in Winston-Salem and finished classes and finals in early December. When I got home, we took a family trip to Cambridge, Maryland and then spent Christmas at home. I went to Williamsburg for New Year’s Eve and now we are starting off 2013!

This year will include quite a few major events! John is getting his license, Michelle and Chris are getting married, I am turning 21, and I will be starting my senior year of college! Can’t wait to see what God has planned.