Dear Daddy,
We wish you were here to play with us in the snow. Come home soon. Love, Mommy, Addison, and Bryn
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Well That's a New One
Yeah that's butter. With bite marks. Note to self: do not follow a long phone conversation with a shower unless you first get your children occupied.
Why Do I Even Try?
One of the things I find cute and feminine about Mormon Utah homemakers is the fancy Sunday dinner. Traditionally it's roast and potatoes along with a salad containing a much larger variety of vegetables than my traditional iceberg lettuce ones, and homemade bread of some sort. And it's always followed by some tasty and made-from-scratch dessert, such as color-coordinated cupcakes on a fancy pedestal. Seriously, how domestic is the woman who makes a meal like that for her adoring hubby and children? Today I became that woman. While Bryn napped and Nate and Addison were at the Instacare winning the boy a diagnosis of pink eye and an ear infection, I donned my flowered apron and made - from scratch - a delicious and beautiful lasagna. I even managed to cleverly disguise fresh spinach in it by painstakingly chopping it into microscopic pieces and strategically distributing it throughout. And that's not all. I then conjured up some beautiful, fluffy white rolls, using the recip...
Trip to Disneyland
Nate here. The first week in January, my folks took our family to Disneyland. Talk about generosity. For several weeks before the trip, Michelle would wake up screaming from nightmares about the 12-hour car ride, with her pillow torn in half or clumps of my hair in her clenched fists, but the trip down actually went really well. It helped to break it into two days, with stops in St. George between. Add with his grandpa and great-grandpa, poring over a construction project. And it also helped to drive in two cars, with Addison in with Grandma and Grandpa. Add did great (I think Gma and Gpa put "Cars" on repeat on their DVD player), and Bryn did good too, probably because she was enthralled by such wonders as The World's Largest Thermometer (broken) and Zzyzx Road - and the Oreos didn't hurt. Here's the whole group taking the obligatory photo. On the left are my aunt Deb and uncle Mike. They are always game for a trip to Disneyland and they know how to party - me an...
Thanksgiving, by the way.
Yes, it's January, but Thanksgiving was so great that I couldn't not blog about it. My sister Megan, who is at BYU-Idaho came down the week before Thanksgiving and hung out with us. We had a great time hanging out, eating a thousand cookies per day, and watching "the blizzard of the century" (which wasn't very impressive) roll in from the comfort of our study floor. Had to include these manly pictures of Nate. He even makes woman boots look manly. The day before Thanksgiving we all headed down to St. George to be with Nate's family. Thanksgiving morning, Meg, Nate, Grandpa and I ran our own personal 5K to counteract all the food we were preparing to intake. We wore matching sweatbands because we're awesome like that, and froze our buns off pretty much the whole time. Then, under Grandma's direction, we all pitched in to rustle up a feast fit for people who are serious about their food. And man was it good! While we were there, Megan had to go through i...