11 Years.

11 years ago today I married HIM! My T.O. My hunk a hunk a burnin' love.

11 years ago today we began our eternal family.

And now here we are, 11 years later. Happy. In love.

A little grayer. A little bigger around the middle. A lot more in love.
Daniel, I love you! I couldn't have made a better man if I tried!
Happy Anniversary!

Camping On The Prairie.

So I was flipping through channels while my kiddos were out in the incredible gusts of wind raging through the backyard playing stick ball with an actual stick because we no longer have a bat and came upon Little House On The Prairie oh how I wanted to be Laura even though I'm the oldest and Mary is the oldest and most obvious choice I have freckles too and I hit the info button on the remote which proceeded to tell me that the episode is the one where Caroline hurts her leg which gets incredibly infected while her family is camping and waiting for her to join them but she almost dies and cuts the infection out of her leg but then someone the reverend I think comes and finds her and helps her.

So I ask you.

Isn't Camping and Little House On The Prairie a little redundant?

I thought so.

A Day In The Life.

Here we are again. Another week...

Monday...Another Wolf Den meeting. This time the boys earned the Video Game belt loop. So much fun! 8 year old boys!

Tuesday...My visiting teachers came! Yay. Ruthie came home from school and then got all the cake decorating stuff out. When I asked what she was doing, she said, "Don't worry, I've got it all under control." Then she dropped to the floor when I took the picture!
Wednesday...Webelos and Piano. My kids are getting good at piano. Isaac has earned his ReadyMan badge. This is a gift from neighbor friends. Fun window art.

Thursday...I met one of my counselors to set up chairs for the Primary Talent Show. When we got home, I told Ruthie to go to the big freezer and get a Hot Pocket for lunch. She came up and said that it was squishy. I touched it and then ran down to find all the ice cream sandwiches I'd bought for the Talent Show were melted. Along with everything else. I dropped the chickie off at school and ran out for more treats.

The talent show was awesome. We have very talented kids! The treats were a big hit and I brought the extras home to feed them to my kids for breakfast the next morning. I really needed to go grocery shopping!

Friday...I had moved time out Sam's stool because he was buggin'. When I grabbed for the stool, my wrist hit a hinge on a door. All I got was the little prick that barely bled. It hurt. And this morning I could see why. There was a 3 inch bruise on my wrist.

Daniel and I got our finderprints done to update our domestic adoption stuff. Then we got lunch. I love when he works at home. It's like I have a hubby again. We had movie night and watched Everyone's Hero.

Saturday...I went to Salt Lake to meet some friends for lunch! Yum. And Fun. Another movie night with Because Of Winn-Dixie. So good! This is Sam's paw print on the printer.

Sunday...Stake Conference. Good meeting. I'm glad Sacrament Meeting isn't 2 hours long!

Isn't he cute?! I love that his teeth are almost bigger than his head!

Did you feel that? That shift?

Have a great week!

Checks...

Kids all off to school....Check
House a total disaster....Check
Dirty dishes in the sink...stink....Check
1 pot of Mac n Cheese on the table that the kids ended up just eating out of because mom wasn't home to make sure they ate properly but at least they ate....Check
Mom's back full of knots because the stress is finally done and now I can feel them....Check
1 broken freezer with 5 boxes of ice cream sandwiches totally melted and dripping on the meat that is now melting because the freezer isn't even cold....Check
No milk, no eggs, no cereal, only a heel of bread and lots of thawed out chicken nuggets....Check
Enough ice cream sandwiches (from the ice cream recovery act) to cover breakfast for 3 hungry kids....Check
Primary Talent Show done and a huge rockin' success....Check

Less than 7 weeks before I'm on a cruise ship with my man...Check

Freckles.

Daniel and I woke up at 1 am to loud and long thunder and rain. Then we ALL woke up at 6:30 am to loud long thunder and lots of rain. We're tired! And a little cranky. When I picked Isaac up from Webelos to go to Piano lessons, it started to hail like nothin' I've ever seen! Then I hit Isaac's arm with my car door as we were getting out all fast and furious like. It left a mark!

But Daniel will be home around 7 tonight!! YAY!! And it's pouring where he is. So he'll be wet.

And my cement has freckles.

I'm going to bed. Maybe at 7.

A Day In The Life.

Monday...Sam's Birthday!!! It's been a long 8 year wait, but we finally got there! You can easily see Sam's most favorite thing. Godzilla. He got the Godzilla doll. Best Birthday Ever!

We also had a Wolf Den meeting. Oh so fun!! They all earned a Music belt loop and each ate about 4 cupcakes!

Daniel and I also purchased our plane tickets to get to our cruise!

Tuesday...Went to Pier 1 and got the basket thingy. Then to Roberts for the filling. It's a corner softener. Don't mock! I still don't know what to do with the other vast corner. But my visiting teachers are coming on Tuesday. I may pick their creative brains.
Wednesday...Piano and Webelos. Is there really anything else to a Wednesday? I had a Stake Auxillliary training that night that was very good. This is a picture of my 8 year old. This is his "let me blink in the picture" pose.

Thursday...Tax day. But we were already done many moons ago. So that's all I've got for Thursday. This is Ruthie. Cute!

Friday...Date night to dinner and the temple. Again we are so happy we are staying here. We enjoyed just sitting and enjoying our evening out!

Daniel told me to go in and look at Ruthie asleep. This is what I saw. Later when I checked on her, she was just like this, but with her finger on her cheek like she was deep in thought.

Saturday...Chores and chores. And salty bread. Our niece is leaving for her mission on Wednesday, so we went to an open house in her honor. We met a friend of hers who lived in China for 5 months about a year ago. It was fun to talk about squat potties with someone who lived it.

Sunday...Popcorn popping on the Apricot tree. yay! Spring is here. We went to hear niece Taylee speak in church. Then went to Primary in our ward. We love sitting on Sunday night and watching America's Funniest Home Videos. In our jammies. With popcorn. We are ready for a new week!

And just in case you were wondering, we use those plane tickets in just 7 weeks!

And only 6 weeks left of school!

Playdough Bread?

What does it mean if, when you are baking bread, it does not rise? And then when you bake it, it looks like this?....

Gross!

At first I thought it was our oven. That it was time to get a new one!!

No such luck.

As I made a new batch of bread dough I realized what my mistake was.

I doubled the salt.

Have you ever had Playdough Bread?