What?! I have a blog?!

I know. It seems to have escaped my mind since I have not posted anything in...weeks.

So sorry.

I shall be posting something soon.

In the meantime, some advice...

Do NOT set eggs in a pan of water to turn into hard boil eggs, turn the stove on high to bring it to boil faster, and then walk out of the house and forget about the eggs.

Not a good idea.
And not pretty.

Burning eggs that explode -- not good.
Burning pan from said exploding eggs -- not good.

Smell from burning eggs mixed with burning pan -- really not good.

Just a tip.

You are now welcome to make fun of me behind my back.
I don't blame you.

Dancing Queen

Most of these pictures are from the dress rehearsal of Isabella's first dance recital.
{My mother-in-law has a much better camera and took pictures of the big night itself -- so I may post those when I get them.}


This year they did "Wizard of Oz"

Isabella's class were the snowflakes that wake Dorothy up after the poppies make her go to sleep.

(Here are Miss Amber's great gams!)

Gettin' ready to bust a move. Apparently the robot was part of her routine.

And the soldier called to attention.

This girl's got moves! Check out her pose. Nice.

More posing with snowflake friends. (I didn't check with their moms if I could put them on my blog -- I hope it's allright!)
Isabella is the one with the farmer tan.

A little mom and me time.

Ah...the beautiful snowflake.

Now, look closely at the picture. Do you see the cover up on her nose? (First of all, take note that that is MY cover up and happens to be several shades too light for her. Good for her she didn't get my pasty white skin.) I was going to touch up the photo and remove the cover up spot, but then I wouldn't be able to share why it was there.

My beautiful dancing queen is a bit....active. A week or so earlier, she was running around outside and bit it right on my neighbor's driveway, thus skidding with her nose. {Small side note -- she was running into the dress rehearsal and tripped and fell once again on the asphalt. Luckily, she avoided the face and just got a few scrapes on her arm and knee. Graceful beauty!!!}The worst part was the not the wound that followed, but rather her incessant habit of picking off the scab that formed. So, in efforts to hide the aforementiond bright red scab that should have been healed by now, I put cover up on it that was too light and still drew attention to it.

See? Now if I had touched up the picture I wouldn't have posted this story and wouldn't be able to look back at this, read it, and laugh at my fantastically fun dancing queen.

Good job Snowflake!!!

Before and After

Liam loves the bath. Sometimes the floor gets more of a bath than the he does.

He was serene enough that I could snap a few photos.

BEFORE....



AFTER....

I had to carefully edit this one.... hee hee!

New LDS radio channel

There is a new internet radio station called "Mormon Channel." It is the official radio station of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

You can access it here.

I have been turning it on during the day and just leaving it on and I have to say that there have been a few programs that have been so inspiring and helped me to hear the right things at the right time.

One of my favorites so far is a program called "Everything Creative." I was able to hear the first one-hour episode which was an interview with Dr. Mark Henderson, a professor at Weber State University. Apparently he teaches a course on creativity and his discussion was absolutely INSPIRING!! The program is based on Pres. Uchtdorf's talk on creating something -- remember it? We all remember it and love it! If you get a chance to hear this first original one-hour episode, YOU MUST! I just loved it!

There are so many great things to listen to!!

p.s. You may just even hear a little voice from our household -- Anders has been helping to record the "Scripture Stories" program.

Free CHOCOLATE! WHAT?!?!

That's right!!! FREE CHOCOLATE!!!

Here's how it works:

It's called the "Real Chocolate Relief Act"

Every Friday, {that's TODAY} all summer long, you can go here and receive a coupon for free chocolate from the Mars company.

They limit it to 250,000 coupons each friday, but you can get up to FOUR per email address for the summer. So, if you miss out today, do not fret. You have all summer.

So, here's to Friday and here's to you and your free chocolate! Woot! Woot!!!

Zooreka!!!

My kids LOVE to play games -- I think probably most kids do.

"Zooreka" by Cranium is one of our favorites.

It is fairly easy to play.

And is actually a lot of fun.
You can take a look at it here.

What is your family's favorite game?

Just clowning around

Max LOVES to dress up and be crazy and
HAVE FUN!

This is a clown hat and vest I made for Anders in kindergarten for their circus day.

It makes me smile just to see him in this.