Skate Canada

All right there is just way too much football on TV for me. I think it's a little overboard. I won't bore you with my analogy of grown overpaid men fighting over a ball:) So I am here to inform you of other...even better sports that are out there:) I love this sport called figure skating! This past Sunday the second stop of the Grand Prix of figure skating took place with Skate Canada. Javier Fenandez you may be my new favorite skater! He was the men's gold medalist at the event from Spain. Your long program was awesome. So artistic and entertaining and AMAZING! Three quad attempts, landed two of them and the third one was late in the program and.... in combination! Unbelievable really! The next Timothy Goeble AKA the quad king? Maybe! I can't wait to watch him improve over the season.

The men's gold medalist from Spain.

Other big news in the skating world. Johnny Weir is coming back!!  Gasp. gasp. what? Johnny queer! He likes the attention that's what my Mom and I say. Also he is doing Cup of Russia, for some reason he has a thing for Russia. Oh oh and the next winter Olympics are in Russia. hmm... Should be an interesting competition, I can't wait. He always adds a certain flair....I think he is just too much for me.   

 Anyway it was another fun Sunday afternoon watching figure skating!

Don't be offended football fans your sport will probably always be more popular.... 

Any skating fans out there?

But mine will always be superior:)

My kitchen lately

Mm I love fall cooking and baking! Stew, soup, pumpkin everything, and yummy baked goods!

I have been eating a lot of these lately: pumpkin spice muffins with pumpkin spice latte's! So delicious!  

 Speaking of latte's I recently got some amazing raw honey! For none other than lovely honey latte's! It's so delicious! Confession: sometimes the fact that I get to drink a latte in the morning is the only thing that get's me out of bed! After my morning run of course:) 

I just made this delicious soup last night! I made it up as I went! I must say it is pretty darn good! 

It's ground beef (Grass fed of course) onion, green pepper, summer squash, zucchini and noodles! With a creamy tomato soup base! It made a big pot full so I have some in the freezer for when I am too lazy busy to cook:)   

Pumpkin ice cream.... interesting not amazing though. Still the fact that is was pumpkin and it's fall made me like it.

What are some of your favorite fall recipes?

It's determined.......Finally

I finally decided on a name! It isn't any of the ones I was thinking about before. I really like this one:)
Topaz because its my birthstone and
Pearls because I love them and they are really pretty:) Also I love to cook and Julia Child is one of my all time favorite cooks and she always wore pearls in the kitchen.

So that's my story and I like it:) haha except I don't like my blog design. Anyone know any good blog/web designers?

More fun posts coming soon:)

Needs to be determined!

Okay peeps I need an actual blog name! This is getting ridiculous! Some different ideas that I have been throwing around are:
#1 Stars Blades and Curls
#2 Rachel's Story
#3 Simple Moments

What's your vote? #1 2 or 3?

Skate America!

It has begun! I am so excited! The figure skating season!!!!:) AKA it's on TV there is really no off season in figure skating. The first competition of the grande prix series was this past Sunday with Skate America! I had to watch it online because I wasn't home on Sunday. My favorites were.... 

Kaitlyn Weaver/Andrew Poje (Canada) - ice dancing 

They were beautiful. There theme to there free dance was a statue come to life. From the costumes to the choreography it was exquisite. Unfortunately though they need to up there technical component. They took third. And of course Meryl Davis/ Charlie White (USA) were magnificent first place!

I would have to say that my favorite performance from the whole event was.....

Yuzuru Hanyu's (Japan) short program. So fluid and amazing! I did not like his free skate though. First of all his costume was pink way too glittery for a guy and way way too many ruffles. Okay there really weren't that many ruffles but.... one ruffle on a guy is too many. Also his performance and choreography were not as well put together as his short program.

Ashley Wagner's (USA) free skate was stunning too!

It almost makes me want to compete again....almost!

Pics!

Oh thank you God for weekends! What a great one! I am so grateful for family too:) 

Such an awesome helper in the kitchen!

Another cutie:)

 We celebrated my oldest brothers 36th birthday! Had so much fun with his kids and we played lots of Dominion!

"36!"

 I wanted to take a picture of my piece of pie, but I dropped my phone in it instead! So my luck! (The phone is fine though:)

Demolished!

Awesome bonfire!

Melted beer bottle.

The hairy brother.

 I got to spend Sunday with these cuties:) I have missed them it's almost been a month since I have seen them!

Always full of so much energy!

Saw her on my walk tonight. Yes I WALKED......well okay I only ran 1 mile and walked two. I wasn't supposed to run at all my knees have been sore but I couldn't help it!

What a wonderful weekend!

Now hears to Monday!

Have a great week everyone!

Yay it's Friday!!! And I'm done with work:) let the fun begin!!!!!!!
Happy weekend peeps!

Why isn't it Friday? Is what I have been asking myself from the moment I woke up! I could swear there is an extra day in this week! Work has been crazy! Why are there so many sick people in the world?! I will be so grateful when I wake up tomorrow and realize it's finally Friday! I can't wait to..........

Drink one three of these!

While playing more of this!!! (Dominion)

 My brother and his family are coming over this weekend to celebrate his birthday! I can't wait:)

Are we there yet?

A couple weekends ago I last minute went up north to Duluth with my sister and her family! It was a perfect fall day and the colors were absolutely gorgeous! It couldn't have been a more perfect day! 

 I, of course was the one in the back seat asking every thirty minutes or so "Are we there yet?" (It was a two and a half hour drive!) and my brother in law would always answer "Almost." And for some dumb reason I always believed him.... or I wanted to believe him. The three and five year old did better than I did! I was going a little crazy from sitting squished in-between car seats in the back!

The colors were gorgeous! 

Yummy picnic lunch my awesome sister made!

Grandma and Katya!

One of the very few moments he actually stood still:)

I could have stared at this site all night. The picture doesn't do it justice!

I have always wanted to make it up to Duluth in the fall so I am really glad that I was able to make it up there!

She's 3!

My fun weekend with my nieces and nephews! We celebrated one of my nieces birthdays! I can't believe she is 3 already! Such a cutie too!

We got to go on a couple walks!

They love to walk up to the neighbors pig statues!

Okay can you get any cuter than that?! Really! Cowboy boots a pink revolver and a Dora backpack in a DRESS! Girls can do anything a boy can do.......in a dress:)

Katya "David why did you do that?"

David "I was running and it just comed out!"

HAHA I couldn't stop laughing! The poor little guy!