Stevie Ann Loftfield

New Blog

2010-06-15T14:46:00.000-07:00

Just thought I would send out a fyi, I have a new blog. Since Kyle and I got married I decided to create a new blog with all our exciting adventures. So if you want to keep updated on us feel free to visit stevenandkylie.blogspot.com

Graduation!

2009-12-28T18:59:00.000-08:00

That's right! After many many semesters I finally graduated from college with a degree in University Studies, a Culinary Arts minor and a cluster in Photography and Visual/Digital Media. My parents, Saundra, my grandma, Sheila and Rusty, and Kyle got to come celebrate with me. It was a nice short 45 min graduation and i'm glad I am done. I will greatly miss Rexburg, school and the wonderful people and friends, but I am also excited for something new! Now its time to plan a wedding!

So you want to know how I got engaged!

2009-12-28T18:46:00.000-08:00

Well unfortunately Kyle and I have to spend the weeks apart and only get the weekends together. But lucky for me he finished the semester a week before me so he was able to come up during the week to see me and be there for my graduation. He came up wed. and asked me if I wanted to go look at Christmas lights. I was so excited, but said I would only go if there was hot chocolate and Christmas music. We headed to G's Dairy for our hot chocolate. When we were walking up to the door there was fresh snow on the side walk. I was excited to be able to place the first foot prints int he new snow. So I jump up on the sidewalk and BAM! I fall. Luckily Kyle had my hand so I didn't get hurt, but it was still funny so we both shared a good laugh. They were closed inside but the employee said we could go through the drive threw. So instead of getting in the car we walk up to the window and order our hot chocolate. It was so cold so I got a big smile when handed my hot chocolate!

Kyle and I started to drive around in search for lights. Since its Rexburg, Idaho we didn't come across too many. Earlier this day I had been shopping for Kyle's Christmas present. I decided to give him one present every day until I left to go home. I had his present with me in the car so since it was a Christmas cd I told him to pull over to open it. He pulled over in an empty lot over looking Rexburg. He opened the gift and said thanks. It began to snow and a slower Christmas song came on. He asked me if I wanted to dance. I grinned and said yes. We danced a bit in the freezing snow and the he said he wanted me to open his Christmas present early. I knew he had been working on some present that included the help of family and friends. It was a book full of letters and pictures from all the wonderful people in my life. It was so wonderful it even made me cry. I loved it! I got to the last page, it was from Kyle. He had written a message and then had a wheel of pictures that I could spin to see more pictures. I got to the end of the wheel and it read, will you marry me? Kyle was then down on one knee with a beautiful ring in his hand. Or course I said yes! We were very excited, but had now been in the snow for a while and were freezing! The cold did not stop our fun and excitment!

I know, I know, I know...I suck at bloggin!

2009-12-28T18:07:00.000-08:00

Ok I know i have been very bad at posting. I keeping doing the I'll do it tomorrow thing. Well I realized the last time I posted was March and I am not about to let it go a year. So here I am and hopefully I can keep it up! So quick recap since last March...

I finished up spring semester, was home for a week and went right back to Rexburg for the summer semester. I can't think of too many exciting events that took place, but there was one in particular that has changed my life quite a bit and is probably also the reason I haven't been taking time to post a blog. In June my roommate Alison was debating to go to a family reunion in Utah. She didn't have a ride and didn't care to much to go. But after much begging from her mother and me offering her a ride, the two of us headed to Utah to spend the weekend with Al's family. About a month prior to this I was at a wedding reception for a roommate. At this point I had two roommates married and the rest were in relationships. I felt like something was wrong with me. I was older than all these girls and couldn't even get a date. I was a feeling pretty cruddy and about to just give up. So here I was headed to a reunion looking forward to getting away from school and the whole dating scene, excited to have a relaxful weekend with my roommate.

At the reunion I met many of Al's family, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and a lot of cousins (at least it was a lot to me since I have six total). Of course when I met Al's male cousins who were around my age I automatically looked at them to see if they were someone I could date (BYU-I trains you to do this, everything seems to be about dating and marriage so its constantly set in my brain). As I met these few cousins nothing in my head went oh i like! But they seemed to be fun guys! We stayed up late with all the college ages cousins playing games and talking. It had been a fun weekend.

As the reunion came to an end Al convinced a few of the cousins to stick around in Utah to hangout that night with some mini golf. This meant on our way back to Rexburg Al and I would take her cousins Kyle and Beverly all the way to Pocatello. To make a long story shoter (at least I'll try) we had a fun game of mini golf, that kyle paid for and I won!!!! I'm awesome.

On our way back to Rexburg Kyle and I got to know each other a little more. But yet I still thought nothing of it. When I dropped Kyle off he handed me a note saying thanks for spending the weekend with the family and for the ride. He also included a $20 for gas. I tried to give it back but he refused. As Al and I headed back to Rexburg she told me how Kyle wanted to come up to visit her and be set up on a date. She asked me if I wanted to go with him. I laughed and said why don't you set him up with someone he hasen't met. She hesitated a second then told me that he kind of already requested to go with me. I laughed somemore flattered yet not sure anything would come from this, but I agreed. When I got home and got on facebook I had already had a friendship request from Kyle. I guess he wasn't going to waste any time.

Kyle was in Burley Idaho working for the summer, but made sure he came up to Rexburg for his date. After the first date I was still unsure if there was anything there but I decided to keep giving him a chance. We spent a few more weekends together and started to date. Kyle made lots of trips to see me this summer. Unfortunately the summer semester ended and I was going home for seven weeks. We kept in touch and when I was back at school the traveling continues. He was in Logan now for school, so we took turns making that wonderful journey (yet now I'm sure I could do it with my eyes closed and am so sick of it). Well what it all boils down to is Kyle went to meet my family in october, came to my house for Thanksgiving to ask my dad a question, got engaged Dec. 16 and now we are getting married March 13. Wow how things happen and change fast when you least expect it. However, I couldn't ask for anything better! He is an amazing guy and has become my best friend. I can't wait to spend my life with him!

Sorry for the long story, its been so long for posting that I just took off and couldn't stop.

Event Show Weekend and Fun Times with my Family

2009-03-24T19:50:00.000-07:00

Here is a slide show of some pictures that were taken over this last weekend. It was the weekend of the Event Show where I got to display my cake. Mom, Stacy, Saundra, Kayla, Karly, Aunt Shelley and Grandma Jean came to visit. We all had a blast. I wish we could have that much fun all the time!!! Thanks everyone for coming and sharing this experience with me, it meant a lot!!!! Oh and by the way the red and black cake is mine (hence the ton of pictures) the other cakes are ones that my classmates did.

2009-03-23T12:27:00.000-07:00

Here are some pictures of my cake I did for the Event Show. This room was designed for a New Year's Eve party with a swing music theme. I spent approximately 45 hours on the cake, but it was totally worth it. I had a blast and was so grateful for the opportunity to do it. I am also so glad my family could come and see it, we had a great weekend!!! I will post a slide show of more pictures when I have some more time. So come back and check soon!

CaKeS!!!

2009-02-24T17:44:00.002-08:00

Here are a few cakes I have done recently...

Brooke celebrated her 22nd Birthday this week so I made her a GIANT cupcake...with her favorite colors green and purple! Happy Birthday Brookey!

This is a cake I did in my Advanced Cake Decorating class...I love the hail spotting on the drop strings...I think it is a technique from Australia! The fondant is bumpy, but that wasn't my fault. We used store bought for this project and it went on smooth and then when we came back a few days later it was like this. We aren't really sure why, but you get the idea.

This was my midterm wedding cake project...It was really fun and I love the fresh flowers on it. It finishes off the cake nicely...I wish you could see it in person though...the picture just doesn't look as good.

2009-02-24T17:44:00.001-08:00

Books, Books, Books

2009-01-30T16:59:00.000-08:00

Books means more fun! For my photography cluster I am talking a book art class...it has nothing to do with photography, but it counts toward my cluster...plus it is way fun!! In the class we learn different stitchings and binding methods to make books. I thought I would share a few pictures of the books I have learned to make so far in this semester...and check back because I will be posting more!

Scott and Sam

2009-01-30T16:45:00.000-08:00

Sam is a friend of mine and Brooke's, Brooke knows Sam from back home in Indiana. Sam has been recently dating a guy named Scott from Indiana. Well Brooke has been talking to Scott a few times lately and she has been helping plan Scott coming to Idaho to propose to Sam. I got to be involved since I'm Brooke's friend and she needed help here since Scott was so far away. Anyway I ended up picking up Scott at the Idaho Falls airport and than Brooke and I helped him set up for the big night. This whole time we are also having to tell poor Sam all these lies to keep it all a secret (at least we were lying for a good reason). Brooke and I made manicotti, steamed garlic vegetables, french bread, and cream cheese brownies. We also got to decorate, good thing Scott had us to help ! It was really fun! Congrats Scott and Sam!!!

Watching You

2008-12-02T19:50:00.000-08:00

Here is another one of my photo projects...Riley and Chris were great sports...I think they don't want to take any more pictures though.

Picture to Burn

2008-12-01T23:35:00.000-08:00

Here is a photo project I had to do...my friends are so wonderful!!!!

Bannack Ghost Town!

2008-10-13T13:17:00.000-07:00

This last wednesday I got invited to go with a class on a field trip to Bannack, Montana. Bannack was founded in 1862 when word traveled that there was gold. This old ghost town is now a national park where you can still explore about 60 standing structures. We had the opportunity to walk around and take pictures of this historical site. My favorite pictures are the ghost images that I took, its fun to make people appear transparent, especially at an old town like this.

3,000+ Hors d'oeuvres, you're crazy!

2008-09-22T20:25:00.000-07:00

I am currently enrolled in two culinary arts classes, pastry and applied culinary fundamentals. In both of my classes we were asked to make hors d'oeuvres for about 300 guests for the BYU-I Presidents Club. Its a meeting for all the big scholarship donors and the board of trustees, then following they meet with students about different departments to see where the money is going. This is where we had the opportunity to serve hors d'oeuvres just before their dinner party. For my pastry class we were asked to make 5 different kinds with about 300 of each. We made mini quiche, pumpkin rolls, lemon bars, meringue cookies with a nut filling, and tartlets. Then in my other class each group of two was asked to create their own hors d'oeuvre and prepare it. My partner and I did a corn cup with a roasted corn salsa. There was also a roasted red potato with a sour cream filling, a salmon cheese canape, a bacon, cheese, tomato canape with a parsley garlic butter, a shortbread with pesto and feta, a teriyaki chicken wonton with a ginger soy sauce, and last a southwest chicken salad puff. Thus resulting in 3000+ hors d'oeuvres and a lot of work. Luckily we got to use class time to start making parts of each hors d'oeuvre but they couldn't be completely assembled until Saturday right before the party. Lets just say the kitchen was a little crazy and the rain didn't help with the transporting of the items. However, it was a blast, a great learning experience and a whole lot of fun!!!

Kelsey's Birthday!

2008-09-22T20:19:00.000-07:00

Happy Birthday Kelsey!

It was my roommates birthday and she is obsessed with the Disney Princess Belle, so I made her a belle cake! It was pretty fun!

Summer Time!

2008-09-22T19:43:00.000-07:00

Well with having a shortened summer break I didn't really take the time to update my blog. So now I'm trying to catch up. Most of my summer consisted of catching up on sleep, cooking, hanging out, vacation, spending time with the family, making cakes, and working on a website for my dad's company (www.desertwestconst.com). The things that stick out the most was just enjoying being home with my family, I just love them and spend every second I can with them, especially my nieces and nephews! I also lgot the chance to make two birthday cakes (which I love to do), one for shawny and one for my mom. We also got to take a trip to Lake Powell, which was absolutely awesome! I don't think it could have gone any smoother and we all had a blast! I love going every year, its a great trip to just relax and enjoy being together. After Lake Powell I had to head back up to school, where I am not in my third week of my fourth year, hopefully I will get done soon!

Candy Land!

2008-07-10T13:36:00.000-07:00

For my confectionery final we had to do some kind of display with a theme. It had to include four candies and two types of garnishes. So I decided what a better way to display candy then Candy Land. With that said I turned the Candy Land board game into a yummy treat!!!

La vita e' bella

2008-07-10T12:39:00.000-07:00

In my International Foods class for our final we had to pick a culture and plan and prepare a six item meal for at least six guests. Well word got around and my Italian dinner for seven turned into a party of twelve. After slaving away all day, really it seemed like all day, we were able to have a wonderful dinner together. Here is what I made...

Foccacia, Prosciutto with cantaloupe, Lasagna, garlic asparagus, chicken piccata, and gelato!

And the group!

High School Musical Party

2008-07-10T12:35:00.000-07:00

As mentioned previously we had a High School Musical Party for my roommates birthday. We all dressed up as different characters. So here is the gang...Katie (Mrs. Darbis), Bergen (Sharpay), Me (Kelsey), Kelsey (Martha), Martha (Taylor), Al (Gabriella). It was pretty fun! If you haven't seen the movie you should, they are cheesy but fun. And I think we look close to the characters!

Happy Birthday Al!!!!

2008-06-26T14:54:00.001-07:00

So yesterday was my roommate Al's birthday!!!! She is absolutely obsessed with High School Musical so she wanted it as her theme. Of course I had to make her a cake so here is what I came up with. Its not exactly like I wanted but close enough. Tonight we are having the party and we are all dressing up as characters from the movie, so check back for more pictures!

Stud Muffin!

2008-06-10T18:19:00.000-07:00

So I have a silly roommate....Her name is Martha and she is from Texas. Martha told us the other day..."Look yall I either need a boyfriend or a puppy!" We all laughed and that was pretty much the end of the conversation. Today Martha came home with a two month old lab named Stud. He is the cutest little thing so I call him Stud Muffin! The bad thing is we aren't suppose to have pets in our apartment, hopefully we don't get caught ;)

Happy Birthday Jennie!!!!

2008-06-10T18:07:00.000-07:00

Today is my friend Jennie's Birthday!!!! She is such a sweetheart and I just love her, so I made her a birthday cake. I spent all day yesterday and a few hours today working on it, but now that its done I just love it! I only came across one big problem and that was my second layer collapsing, but I just cut it down and made it into my top layer so it all worked out. Anyway, Happy Birthday Jennie!!!!!

Paint, Paint, Paint!!!

2008-06-04T16:03:00.000-07:00

We aren't allowed to paint our bedrooms here at school so we found something else to paint...each other!!!!! We all got white shirts and we a little bored so we played paint tag. Then we filled some balloons up with air and paint and threw darts at them. It was pretty fun!!!

NARNIA!!!!

2008-06-04T15:55:00.000-07:00

My friends and I went to the midnight showing of Narnia a few weeks ago. If you haven't seen it yet you need to go it was really good. I have a story that actually reminded me of seeing Narnia... A girl this sunday pretty much bore her testimony on Narnia, huh???? It was a little interesting and we all struggled to figure out what she was trying to say, but something along the lines of comparing the Lion to Christ and how he was gone for many years and the children were finally united with him. Anyway it was interesting because she was basically advertising for the movie by going into the whole plot. I guess some people just for get the point of testimony meetings. Well here is a picture of Me, Katie and her sister Kristi at the showing of Narnia.

Cinco De Mayo!

2008-05-06T17:49:00.001-07:00

Since yesterday was Cinco De Mayo, my roommate Katie and I decided to have a little party! We invited some friends over and had yummy Mexican food. I made Guacamole, green chili chicken, Burros, tacos, Spanish rice, all the good stuff! And of course we had the pinata!!!

After the party our friend Mike was having a water polo game so we decided to make T-shirts. With were being silly and thought it would be funny to think that there were playing marco polo...

We've covered the Then so its time for Now!

2008-05-06T14:48:00.000-07:00

So now that the busy semester ended, I guessed I decided that I didn't get enough so I choose to stay in Rexburg for a summer semester. I'm currently taking two classes and trying to find a job. I applied for Great Harvest Bread Co. but I haven't heard back so I guess I will have to keep searching. When I am not in class I enjoy cooking, going to the temple, being outside (the weather is sooo nice!), tanning, crafts, hanging out and working out (oh wait I don't enjoy that! What was I thinking??? I guess I'm just trying to develop the good habit and lose a little weight, too much eating when your in culinary classes).
As for classes I am taking International Foods, throughout the course we are studying main different cultures and countries and how food/cuisines have developed throughout history. Then every Thursday we are given a different responsibility in the kitchen (Grillardin, Entremetier, Potager, Patissier, Garde Manger, and Dinning Room) and we have two hours to make a full menu of items from a certain country. This last week we did Northern Europe and my role was Patissier. I made a Barley Bread and Plum Pudding. The Plum Pudding was yummy!!! Then after the two hours once the dinning room is set up and decorated for the culture for eleven students and our teacher we all sit down and enjoy! It is totally a blast!!! We will also be studying Japan/Korea, Italy, Spain, France, India, Mexico/Central America, Africa, Asia, and Morocco/Middle East. Not only is this class just fun my teacher is wonderful! He really takes the time to teach and make sure you know what he/you are doing and you understand. We all have a great time.

Now if I haven't made you jealous enough there is more! My second class is Confectionery. What's not to LOVE about chocolate and candies!!!! Plus there is a super sweet girl I get to work with, Megan, she is new to the Culinary department so she loves to pick my brain and we have a ton of fun together. Unfortunately she is married and may not be here next semester, thats ok though we are having fun together now! We also work with a girl Danielle. This last Thursday we had to give a demontration on filigree, which is the decorative chocolate or royal icing that you often see stuck in desserts. Here are some things we made... of course they would look better if they were in desserts then on pans.

Then this last Thursday after our demonstration we were let loose in the kitchen to make anything we want. Throughout the semester we have to have completed three candy boxes with at least four different candies in them each time. Every Thursday we can make anything we want as long as we get all the different items checked off by the end. So we made amazing english toffee, divinity and chocolate molds. The toffee was my favorite to make and it was soooo good! Between this class and my international foods class right before, I was in the lab for over seven hours and loved every minute of it! Time goes so fast in there but it is sooo much fun. This Thursday I am hoping to have my first candy box made so I will post pictures of it when its done!

Bridal Show

2008-05-06T11:26:00.000-07:00

Ok so I created a slideshow of pictures from the bridal show. Enjoy!

Rewind and Replay

2008-05-04T19:58:00.000-07:00

Since I didn't start my blog when planned because of a busy and crazy end to a semester, I thought I would catch everyone up on what I have been up to with school, projects, and fun! I love to share my projects with everyone, especially after putting so much time into them. One project that took up a lot of time at the end of last semester was for my Advance Visual Media class, we had to create a website. So if you want to see my projects for this class take a look at www.teeanngiggles.com Although this project took over forty hours, there was another project in taking the rest of my free time. Lets just say I didn't get much sleep that last few weeks of school.

As many of you know I am minoring in Culinary Arts and I absolutely love it!!! Every time I am in the Culinary Kitchen hours and hours go by, it seems like only a few mins and I love every single minute I am there. This last semester I was in a Cake Decorating class, what a blast! This class makes me wish I had a nice big kitchen where I could make cakes all the time. Here are some pictures of some cakes I made over the semester...

Now for the project that caused me to get very little sleep along with my website. The Cake Decorating class had the opportunity to participate in the Horticulture Department's Spring Bridal Show. For the show you could either place a cake in a themes room or in the halls, I choose to participate in a themed room. The themes of the rooms were the days of creation, the room I was to do a cake for was the third day, the creation of plants. I was to incorporate the colors brown, pink, orange and lime green. I wanted to do something fun but also symbolic of the them, so I tried to have my cake portray the growth of a flower. The base is the dirt with vines crawling up the cake and pillars reaching to the flower. The next tier (petal shape) is representing the flower. And the third tier represents the inside of the flower (pollen). I wasn't so sure of my cake once it was done, especially since most everyone else went with the traditional elegant look and mine was more different then the traditional. However, once the bridal show came and I was able to see the cake in the decorated room with flowers and decorations, everything tied together and looked beautiful. I was so excited! My room took place in the jungle, a beautiful green oasis with a running waterfall and bridge. It was such a blast and I would love to do it again. It is rewarding seeing every one excited about your work.

I will post pictures of this soon!

All Right Already, No More Excuses!

2008-05-04T19:50:00.000-07:00

Shawny inspired me a while ago to create a blog, so I quickly got on the internet and signed up. Its now been a few months and there is still nothing on my page. I check Shawn's blog every day to see if she has a new post and I get very sad when there is nothing. She recently informed me that she checks mine often and is always let down when she continues to see a blank page. I am completely out of excuses, she is out of town right now so Im going to give her a lovely surprise when she gets home!!! Love you Shawny!