Macaron Makin'

  Just give us some ingredients, 

a well equipped kitchen, 

and 7 hours 

and we can have a hundred or so delicious french macarons ready for you. 

The magic is all in the tedious bit leading up to the piped tray below, 

but our hands were too busy to take pictures. 

Plus,

we can't reveal our secrets ;)

Voila!  Peppermint and Salted Caramel macarons. 

The salted caramel are our specialty.  

This time we made the caramel from scratch - 

oh my goodness delicious.

I'm never buying caramel again.

Of course, 

after a long night of baking, 

we had to try out our competition. 

We stopped by Laudree to pick up a salted caramel and they were sold out -

but the silver foil vanilla macaron was heavenly. 

Overall - our macarons take a pretty close second to Laudree. 

We have baked macarons for 

1 baby shower, 

1 Christmas party, 

1 prize package

and we have a second baby shower in the works. 

So seriously.  

Should we start a bakery?

Our Life According to Instagram {Take 2}

We'll start with the good stuff

FOOD

 mini taco bowls, stuffed peppers, triple berry sauce and German pancakes

 cheese blintzes, Mama Honey's recipe

 homemade birthday cheesecake, Stephen's favorite!

pomegranate

something we don't like so much

SCHOOL

early mornings

canceled exams!

Smith charts, textbooks

even on vacation, Grand Canyon Thanksgiving

something we like to call 

CLOTHES

 sequin skirts

 Sperry's

new shoes

and winter wardrobes!

a look at some beautiful

WEATHER

 melting snow

 and sunshine

 and more snow

 and back to sunshine... or sunsets

and more sunsets!

and last but certainly not least, 

FUN

 Winners of the "Spookiest Costume" award

wedding pictures

Bobsled and Skeleton World Cup

 We have some pretty cool relatives

 laundry - surprisingly fun

best of all, date nights :)

We do love school and the bliss of the Provo "bubble",  but we couldn't be more excited to go home for the holidays.  We're hitting up both hometowns, and 3 of the 6 friend weddings we have this break.  Crazy silly wonderfully busy with friends and family.  Maybe not having a phone will help my sanity ;)

*second iPhone to go through the wash cycle* 

Happy Holidays everyone! 

Happy end of the semester!

xo

-the woods

our life according to Instagram

I've been really terrible about updating you ladies {and gents} on our life. 

But I like taking pretty pictures. 

of food. 

and things. 

So here is our fall, 

according to Instagram. 

EATING

Sweedish Meatballs

chocolate/cheesecake swirl cupcakes

burritos

Sweedish pancakes

sandwiches

cantaloupe

pumpkin chocolate chip cookies

Kung Pao chicken and fried rice

WORKING

scanning

testing

suceeding

DATING

football games

blanket forts, pumpkin pancakes, Singin' in the Rain

temple trips

service

RANDOM

matching

running

decorating

thank you note writing

dancing

And that's about it!

We spoke in sacrament today, and were set apart in our new calling!

But you'll have to wait for a separate post about that one ;)