DAY 2

"SWEET AND SOUR"

Day 1

"WINTER MORN"

100 DAYS!

So a few of my photography friends have done this and I love it -- 100 days of pics! Could be one from the past, a favorite, or usually one I take that day. So I hope not to bore anyone but think it will be a fun challenge. I will also be making my regular posts in addition but do a daily pic with a title. Here's to the next 100 days!

What do ya do with 38 lbs of cucumbers?

MAKE PICKLES!!!! On Saturday I went again to my favorite produce co-op and picked up a huge crate of pickling cucumbers! It was so warm for a few days it seriously gave me spring fever and so I was itching to do something-so why not pickles! I ended up with 6 quarts and 22 pints of pickles! I did dill spears and chips and bread and butter! We'll see how they turn out! Hopefully good! We have a lot!

My little "Black eyed P"

This is my little "black-eyed P" P for Patterson that is! And you can slightly tell that he has a black eye! We went to Chuck E Cheeze Friday night with my parents and he was riding the horse and next thing we know he was off and crying pretty hard. A lady came over that had seen him fall and said that he fell pretty hard -- What wonderful parents we are! Just sitting there chatting away, sending the kiddies off with numerous amounts of tokens, and next thing ya know, our kid falls off a horse! Ya never know what can happen at Chuck E Cheezes! He is just fine and is quite proud of his new shiner!

Rockin' ROLL recipe!

These rolls really do rock! Pardon the cheezy pun but I can't even say how excited I am to FINALLY know how to make the yummy delicious rolls (from scratch) that I've always wanted to make (and not use Rhodes)! Well, my friend Gemmie taught a class on how to make her yummy crescent rolls and she told us the SECRET is the ingredients (pictured above). The flour comes from Costco. You can get a HUGE bag for $15. Then SAF instant yeast --You can find it at DICK'S market. and it is no fail and so cheap! And the last secret ingredient is Butter flavored CRISCO! So that's what I did, bought those ingredients, made them following the recipe and YAHOOO!!!!! Yummy rolls! The recipe makes about 2 dozen so today I decided to make half normal and the other half into cinnamon-like rolls! They were yummy! So here is the recipe and hope you can use and enjoy! Happy days!
The secret ingredients!

With a little cinnamon sugar added!

Gemmie’s Crescent Rolls

2 T. yeast

½ C warm water

1 tsp sugar

Mix together and set aside

½ C sugar

½ C butter flavored Crisco

¾ C hot water

3 eggs

4 ½ C flour

2 tsp. salt

Mix sugar, Crisco, and hot water in mixer.

Add eggs and yeast mixture, mix well.

Add flour and salt. Mix 7 minutes on low.

Let rise until double.

Separate into 2 balls and roll into 16” circles

Spread softened/melted butter on top.

Cut into pieces (like a pizza) with a pizza cutter.

Roll into crescents an put on cookie sheets.

Let rise couple of hours. Bake at 375 degrees for 10 minutes.

A Happy Sabbath!

I have no idea how it happened but we actually had a near perfect Sunday! All the stars alligned, everyone woke up on the right side of the bed, we had good hair days, no clothing crisis, no meltdowns, got all the things ready we needed to, made homemade rolls, played together, listened to good music, went to our church meetings, talked to family on skype, and had family over for a nice dinner and played! It was just truly so nice to have such a great day as a family! It's days like today that I actually feel like maybe I'm doing something right -- It's been a crazy few months and so many things that I'd love to accomplish and see happen with the kids, just fly by and we have those "Calgon take me away days" way too much! I felt calm today, I felt peace today, I felt the spirit today, I felt gratitude today, I felt joy today, I felt like I wanna feel more of the time! It just felt like a good day and for that I am so grateful! It's in the simple things that we find the most joy! Here's to the SIMPLE things in life!

Fun weekend

Friday night we decided it was about time for a FAMILY DATE NIGHT!
It had been way too long! We took a jaunt into Kaysville and went for
a yummy dinner at Pepperbellys and then to a movie!
Gracie didn't last too long for the movie part so we had to skip out
a bit early but had so much fun!

Another great Saturday morning at Bountiful Baskets!
Can I just say, if you haven't done it yet, ya gotta do it! It's the best
deal!
www.bountifulbaskets.org

BRRRRRR!!!!!

It has been so cold! I can't believe how cold and foggy this past few weeks has been! But cozy too! All the trees around have these little crystals due to the fog and smog! Pretty though! This coming week Flagstaff is supposed to get over 4 feet! We do miss that! The big storms there were so much fun! Looking forward to the storms here this coming week -- they'll get rid of the smog we hope!

3 months

Holy cow-- Gracie is already 3 months old! I cannot believe how fast it has gone! She is seriously the best baby! She sleeps on average- about 10-11 hours through the night! She is still on the tricky formula -- down from the REALLY bad stuff but still doing well. She giggles and coos and is always full of smiles! The kids love her to death and have so much fun feeding her and making her smile!

Our four little cuties!

Had to do a shoot just for fun!

A Sunday nap

This is just so Carter--- post-picking the nose -- and pre-eating candy

A little India Reunion

On the 2nd -- We had a little India get together. We have been getting together with these 3 other couples for the past 10 years and it is always so much fun! We had an Indian Potluck at our house and it was so yummy -- Hot dogs for the kids though! Our kids are the only ones that like the Indian food! There are 16 kids between the four of us!!! Crazy! And three of our firsts we took a snap of 8 years ago and just for fun-- I had to get them to reenact it! They were so cute!!!! We had a wonderful time

Happy New Year???

Well, we had a bit of a rough start to the New Year I guess you could say. We got to go on a little date on New Years Eve and had such a great night-- One of my old YW who is in college now said she really wanted to sit so she came and we went! We went to Texas Roadhouse and had the best dinner. We returned home and found that our cute little parakeet had bit the dust. The kids didn't know and we had to break the bad news to them! :( So Sad! They were heart broken and wanted to bury the bird the next morning since it was already so late. So New Years morning Ry went out with them and had a little birdie funeral. (They're doing better now--but oh so hard!) Then that night we had a good night with RY's old high school buddies and went to bed. I got up early the next morning to head to the food co-op to pick up my Bountiful basket! On my way, traveling down Nichols Road in kaysville, I hit black ice and completely slid off the road and into a barbed wire fence, took it down and high centered myself over the snow back and into a large grouping of oak trees! I sat for a few minutes wondering if that really just happened -- after a few minutes I realized, Yes--it really did and now you get to call your husband! Well, would have been nice if I hadn't left my phone at home! Thank heavens for prayer and quick answers to prayer. I had several WONDERFUL people stop and help. THe police came and knew one of the nice helpers and decided not to give me a ticket(Evidentally they're supposed to give a tu=icket no matter what -- even if you aren't speeding!) Silly! But no ticket! Then the other guy had a HUGE truck and pull and pulled me out. Another blessing and then we made sure it was driveable and sure enough it was! WHEW! Poor RY was home with all 4 kiddies trying to make sure I was getting out ok-- Then my cute friend Rach shows up with my basket of produce! She had called my cell and talked to Ry who told her where I was! SO many little blessings though in a rough little circumstance. I decided right then and there to try and recognize the blessings that came from this and there were many. One of my favorite quotes is from Marvin J Ashton. He said, "It is far more important what we do with what happens to us than what happens to us!"
So, is it a Happy New Year? YES it is!!!