Aubrey loves DaDa

Quest for the perfect cookie

Ok, so my goal in life is to be great at something, I know what a big concept. One thing I want to be great at is to make the perfect chocolate chip cookie.....so far I think I make ok cookies, and am out to find the perfect recipie....and try it... butter or shortening, convection or conventional baking....semi sweet or milk... oh the challenge. Well here is my attempt from yesterday. They look pretty, but we will have to see if they pass second day cookie challenge! Wish me luck!

Five Months old....

Oh my heavens, I can't believe she is five months old, where does the time go! I have been busy making more things for this little lady, this time it's binky straps....I can't control myself, it's a sad little addiction, especially when they look so cute and coordinate with her outfits.... anyway, here is Aubrey, a snapshot of five months and her bling!

Happy Easter

Happy Easter! We had such a good holiday. Ben had "Good Friday" off so we took front runner to SLC and went to Gateway to do shopping, have lunch and catch a movie! Saturday we spent the day doing yard work and then got to decorate eggs! The kids get so excited to do this and I stress about the mess, but they always turn out great and now Ethan and I have a lot of eggs to eat since no one else will.

Easter Sunday we woke up to a egg search which lead the kids to their baskets filled with goodies! We always have new church clothes and the dreaded photo shoot of the kids in their new digs, but this one seamed to be OK..... after a little candy bribery!

We spent the after noon at the Gee's for Easter dinner with my Dad an Melanie. The traditional egg hunt produced golden eggs for everyone and a trip to dollar store was planned to spend their money!

We had a great holiday and hope all you had a great one as well!

April Fools...

Dinner everyone, come up for dinner....what? what do you mean we already had dinner? I thought this big plate of spaghetti and meatballs were for dinner. Yum, big yummy meatballs on top of a big plate of spaghetti, covered with sauce and topped with freshly grated Parmesan... April Fools. Well there was no fooling here, just a big plate of cupcakes, frosting and a some sweet chocolates. Even if the kids didn't fall for my joke, they still enjoyed eating dinner for dessert!

Abby's wagon ride

Today Abby got to go to Primary Children's and have a fun wagon ride, well, I hope that is all she will remember. She go her tonsils out today, and she was super excited, not sure why, but I guess a four year old looks forward to eating all the popsicles and ice cream she can! Dr. Grimmer was the same doctor that took her thyroid out last year, and who can beat the wonderful treatment you get at Primary's. Lets hope that the recovery and next couple days go as smooth.....

The Stinky Swamp

Hayden had an assignment at school to make a habitat. He chose to make the swamp. While he was off track, he told me that it was due the day he came back to school. So being the on top of it kind of mom....(yea we waited until the day before) we made this swamp. It was in a clear box, made from sand and Knox jello tinted brownish green filled with alligators and frogs. So Monday morning he proudly took it to school. When he came home he told me, oh here mom, our habitats weren't due for three more weeks. So good for us, we did it early.... right? well the next week he came home with his box, covered in what looked like a hazmat bag. Well the jello had molded and his teacher and fellow students couldn't take the smell anymore and sent it home. So Hayden and I got the lucky of job of cleaning it out, rescuing the alligators and other creatures and remaking it. It only took a day or so for the second one to start to smell, but hey what is a swamp with out the stinky smell!

These are pictures of the habitat fair which we got to come and see all of the wonderful creations everyone made.... including the stinky, smelly swamp.