Spring Break

Spring Break begins today and we have nothing planned. We wanted to go to Disneyland, but decided we better save the money for some big purchases that need to be made in the next few months. My kids are vegging out in front of the boob tube right as I type and I am thinking "it is bad to let them stay in their jammies and continue their TV marathon throughout the entire day?". YES! I am trying to promote good habits in my children and becoming a couch potato who is unable to use their imaginations is not one of those habits (I have to keep telling myself this). What is everyone else doing for their kids during spring break? PLEASE share! I found a fun blog yesterday while feeding my obsessions of blog stalking, she had some good ideas for entertainment during the break Tip Junkie. I love finding new blogs to frequent, my google reader list is getting very long.

I do have to say though, I don't sit at the computer all day everyday. Yesterday I took a break and we went to the zoo. It was a perfect day, the sun was shining and the temperature was perfect, even the animals were lively. The baby orangutan (It took me forever to figure out the spelling of that word) was so cute as she was trying to get her mom to wake up and play with her, we could have watched her forever. It reminded me a little of my children trying to get me to play with them. Even the camels, you know the camels that often get forgotten because all they do is stand there and do nothing except chew on their cud, were running around and fighting with each other, it was very exciting to watch the camels bite each other (we are easily entertained). A post would not be a post without any pictures so here they are:

That's all folks!

It's The Hard Knock Life!

Our orphan daughter

Peanut was able to perform in a children's choir in our Stake's "Salute to Broadway" . They performed "It's a hard knock life" from the musical Annie. Wow, she got into it, the whole choir did, you would think that they really thought that their life was hard, when in reality it is far from it. But it was cute, Peanut had a little solo (every kid did) she got to sing "no one cares if you grows, or if you shrink". She pretended to screw in a light bulb while one of the bigger boys held her up (that is why she is holding a bulb). It was fun, and I am glad she was able to participate.

pottery barn flowers

Pottery Barn Daisy

I Love these pictures from Pottery Barn, but I do not love the price tag of 350.00 a piece. I am attempting to do my own. What do you think? Will they pass for store bought?
now, that I have posted them they seem a little vibrant, I might have to see if I can figure out how to fix that.

without further ado........

I will give you our weekend (a little late, i know, but I have been suffering from blogitis). It all began on.....

Friday, which we must not have done anything too exciting, because I can't remember what we did. Oh ya, Cache had a meeting at the prestigious Chef's Table in Orem, and I stayed home with the munchkins and had PB&J sandwiches-mmm my favorite-I bet they don't offer the classy PB&J at the CHEF'S TABLE.

Saturday consisted of a little housework, a Peanut and Daddy date at Boondocks, A Mommy and Fin date at our house in our separate beds for nap time (we were going to go for a bike ride, but Fin wouldn't wake up and I wasn't going to wrestle him out of bed), a scheduled family photo shoot, but as we got out of the car at the location we realized it was way to cold to do any posing. Here is the two pictures we took:I realize that this picture stinks, it was a "hurry lift the kids up, it is to cold to mess around" type of picture. I am so far away with the camera you can't even see their faces. I'll say it again- it was COLD!
Here we are running back to the car

Saturday night we showed up to the Zinch party and ate some yummy chicken, fresh fruit, pasta salad, and Dorito's. My camera opted to stay in the car so there aren't any pictures to document the fun night. I did make the cake balls (see the post below) and they weren't so good, kinda mushy in the middle, but Rachel like them!

Sunday after church we took off for a night at Grandma and Grandpa's cabin. SO FUN! We haven't been able to visit all winter and it was great to be away and relax-that is if snowmobiling is relaxing-it is definitely a blast, but my shoulders, back, and arms are so sore I wouldn't call it relaxing. The snow was perfect hard enough that we could drive the machines anywhere and not get stuck (well, except for one time when I got a little chicken going up a hill and let go of the gas and started to tip, which ended up with me burying my machine), and it was soft enough that when we fell off it wouldn't hurt. The kids loved the snowmobiles and sledding. I loved that we would ride the snowmobile up the hill and ride the sleds down, where the snowmobile would be waiting for us to do it again. We had the "Best of both worlds" (right Hannah?).

obviously these pictures are un-edited, meaning they aren't the greatest, but my blogitis has now spread to cameraitis.

I hope everyone is still awake after this long post, if not- WAKE UP and go and get your laundry done.

Thanks Gwandmaaa and Gwandpaaa for the fun time!

Red Velvet cake balls.

Don't these look so good? I want to make them so bad, but I don't want to make them If I don't have anywhere to take them, because then I would eat all of them. You can make them though and share one with me :) The recipe is here,

I haven't had anything to post about lately, I keep waiting for something exciting or interesting to happen in my life and day after day it is the same. Wake up, feed kids, take peanut to school, Feed Fin, take shower, clean house (if I am feeling up to it), feed Fin, Peanut comes home from school, Feed Fin, eat lunch, quiet/nap time, feed Fin(are you noticing a pattern?), supervise kids while they do their chores, prepare dinner, feed Fin, eat dinner, clean kitchen (with Cache's help), bathe kids, feed Fin, scriptures and prayers, bedtime for kids, time for some brain candy (TV) OR go to Young Womens activities and YW basketball, scriptures, prayers, bedtime.

The next day it starts all over again. Sometimes I am lucky and I get a trip to TJMAXX or Target, and that is like going to Disneyland, it is even better if Peanut is at a friends house and I get to go single childly(does that even make sense?).

Chic Outing

My good friends and I took a night off from our families and enjoyed some fabulous food and some great girl talk. It was so refreshing to be with all of them, and enjoy each others company. I haven't seen them in a while and it was fun catching up on all of their lives and families. I Love girls nights and I love Cafe Trio!I love how Rachel (the one leaning on her hand) looks in this picture she is very photogenic, Sorry Emily I didn't mean to cut of your face, I had a bad lens on for this shot.

cooking

This book is one of my favorites, the banana pancakes are so delicious.

Are you like me and always looking for good recipes? Blogs are my favorite resource, they are kinda like the ward cookbook(which are my favorite cookbooks), no one (at least I hope) is going to post a recipe if it isn't scrumptious. I have found so many yummy eats from friends in the blog-o-sphere, my family has really benefited from my addiction. I found this site this morning and it made me really happy, there are a lot of recipes that I am itching to make. Take a look and let me know what you think or if you want to make me really HAPPY share one of your favorite recipes on your blog and then know that you made my day :)