Halloween Cookies

The other day my mom made a batch of sugar cookies and told me I had to frost them. These weren't just regular sugar cookies though..... They were Halloween sugar cookies! So of course I couldn't just frost them, I had to decorate them. We had pumpkins and ghost cookie cutters so pumpkin and ghost decorating it was.

Of course I didn't want to decorate them alone.... Where is the fun in that?? So Hutch came over to help me.

At first I was a little skeptical because last time he helped decorate was with cupcakes and he didn't really "decorate" more just like throw everything on and the time he had 21 cupcakes done I had like 2.

But he actually did a really good job and put some effort into making them look good. . . He actually put some creativity into them.

He hates getting his picture taken and I have a bunch of these type of photos of him

My favorite of his..... Santa Claus Ghost

 However, the peaceful decorating turned into, "lets put it all over Ashley's face" dealio....
He sure likes to do this alot, especially with brownie batter.

Some of the final cookies.... quite a few already were eaten

Fall Quarter Classes

Well its been a while since I've posted anything on here, and I have a lot I could talk about. But for now I'll keep it short and sweet..

My last quarter ended in the last week of Sept. then I had a week off of school. Hutch and I went to visit my sister Rachelle and her husband Ben up in beautiful Kallispell, MT. It was relaxing and nice to not deal with school or work or anything. It was nice spending time with Rachelle and Ben since I haven't seen them for a while.

But its back to school again. This quarter I am excited. I have some pretty good classes that I'll really enjoy.

First class is Advanced Clinical Skills. This class is about doing lab work in a clinic setting which involves dealing with urine, microbiology, blood and more and conducting tests and lab work with those type of things for the animals. I already had a Clinical Skills class, so this will just be taking what I already learned previously further in a clinic.

My next class I am really excited for is Equine. Me and one other person in there are the only ones who has really ever had any contact with horses, in that we feel comfortable around them. Everyone else doesn't know much and a couple of people are scared of them... so it should be interesting. We'll learn about the anatomy/physiology and general things such as colors/breeds/markings/behavior, and then things we'll need to know in a veterinary clinic such as restraint and bandaging, etc. We also get to go to a couple different horse farms (one is a halter farm) so that will be fun to be working with them.... And I'll probably use my horse as a guinea pig to practice on. Hopefully she wont mind.


Last, is small animal nutrition and nursing. This class will be focusing mostly on canine and feline nutrition as well as being a nurse in the clinic for them. This involves doing exams such as history and physical exams, understanding/preparing for emergencies, placing catheters, giving drugs, and so much more. This will be a pretty big class because there is a lot to cover and do, but will be a huge in making me one step closer to work in a veterinary clinic.

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."

          -Nelson Mandela