Ok, so with my Pampered Chef business, we always have deadlines on the last day of the month. Well for November it happened to fall on a Sunday. I don't like those months so much. I had worked hard to get a show closed on Saturday to meet a goal that I had. Well I ran out of time. I was bummed and thought that one phone call on Sunday surely wouldn't hurt. I even figured out the person to call to finish it all up. I thought about it at church and for the afternoon and figured that the $12 difference it was going to make wasn't worth breaking the sabath. I said a prayer saying to the Lord that since I was not working on Sunday that I needed help to close this show even though it wasn't going to make it on the deadline.
So Monday morning I checked my e-mail and got a great surprise. There was a letter from corporate saying that there were computer gliches on Sunday and that we had one more day to submit shows for it to count on November. I was extatic. I got on my e-mail and on the phone to let everyone know that I could think of. Then that afternoon we went car looking and met a sales man that said he wanted to order. I knew it was because I had stuck to my guns and asked for help. It is not worth $12 to break a commandment. The gospel is so easy, you just have to commit to doing it.
Friday, December 12, 2008
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Still here
Sorry everyone for my absence. I have been doing projects like crazy. I hope to have them all done soon, and I can put up pictures. I almost finished redecorating the girls room, making quilts for the girls for Christmas, and now we are fall cleaning because we just got a massive weight bench. I am almost done with the quilts, and just have a few small touches on the girls room left, and a lot of cleaning. I think the cleaning won't get done until after Christmas. The room we need to get to the most is the presents hiding room, so we can't just go in there for a few hours cleaning and expect to have the girls leave us alone.
So this weight bench, my MIL called me up one day saying her neighbor had a bench and was just giving it away because she didn't want to hassle with selling it. She then asked if we wanted it . I said sure thinking it was just a small thing and we could play around with it. The first load showed up and I was getting excited. There was only one thing there saying this is much more than just a simple bench. We went up a few days later and packed the rest of it up. This thing is massive!! I has a 2 inch clearance from the ceiling and has a pulley system to it. We are so excited!!! I will post a pic when I get pics of the other stuff.
I hope everyone is having a great holliday season. We got some lights up outside and are trying to figure out if we are going to spring for a real tree or not this year. The girls want to decorate the tree so bad that they don't want to wait. We did hit the Black Friday sales this year. The first time that either of us has ever done it. We had so much fun!!! We will have to see if we can do it again next year.
Have a great December in case I don't make it back before then!!
So this weight bench, my MIL called me up one day saying her neighbor had a bench and was just giving it away because she didn't want to hassle with selling it. She then asked if we wanted it . I said sure thinking it was just a small thing and we could play around with it. The first load showed up and I was getting excited. There was only one thing there saying this is much more than just a simple bench. We went up a few days later and packed the rest of it up. This thing is massive!! I has a 2 inch clearance from the ceiling and has a pulley system to it. We are so excited!!! I will post a pic when I get pics of the other stuff.
I hope everyone is having a great holliday season. We got some lights up outside and are trying to figure out if we are going to spring for a real tree or not this year. The girls want to decorate the tree so bad that they don't want to wait. We did hit the Black Friday sales this year. The first time that either of us has ever done it. We had so much fun!!! We will have to see if we can do it again next year.
Have a great December in case I don't make it back before then!!
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Talent Show
Avi had a talent show today. She and her friend, Livi, have been practicing all week to do this dance. It should be done a bit slower, so they did a good job of improvising at the end. Sherie and I were amazed that our girls actually got up there and did it because they are both so shy. I guess they like to preform
Saturday, October 25, 2008
crazy crazy crazy
So I have so much to talk about. First, for Dailynn's birthday in Sept we went bowling with a bunch of friends, then had cake and ice cream the next day. Her cake was a barbie cake, if you want instructions for it, let me know.
Then Nathan and I had a party with a bunch of friends. This has only been our second successful b-day party we have had. Usually we invite 30 people and end up with 2-4 people even though we buy food for all of them. Well the first successful one was in Logan and we ended up with about 30 people (kids included) in our small apartment with our 2 week old baby. This time we had about 20 people in our medium house, it was a lot less crazy, and we were able to do more than just chat like the last one. Thanks everyone that came. We had an inside bbq, then played some games and hung out. Most everyone didn't know each other, but it was fun to mix all our aspects of our lives together.
Next, we have been busy with a recovery and keeping everyone healthy. I spent all day on Thursday sanding, washing, priming, and painting the girls room. I started the project in January, and I finally got it going again. I still need to do the ceiling, and accenting. The walls are done, so we are looking better. Nathan's favorite part is that the dresser is no longer in the hall, but in the room. YIPEE!!!!
Now for the fun, we had a Halloween party last night at our church. We invited some friends to join us, and this year we went all out. Nathan and I don't usually dress up, but we decided to. Thanks Austin and Sherie for convincing us to do it. Dailynn was an adorable cheerleader. She looked so good, and I promise, the colors were all they had, not my allegeice to any school. Her makeup ended up being fixed a few times. Avi got to be a cute angel. Nathan was a Japanese Samaria Warior. It's a repeat from before, but it still looks good. I decided to be gothic. I have been working on it for about 2 weeks to figure it out. It was fun once I finally figured it all out. I got the shirt and boots at DI, and the rest was borrowing from Sherie, or walmart. I pulled a stupid though because I put the fake nails on before anything else. As you all know I am a nail biter, so putting on fake nails, I didn't know how to use them. Luckily my friend showed up to help me put on make up, do my hair, pait the nails, and take care of my kids the rest of the way. I did get them all done before I started myself, but as stated before Dailynn needed a redo on the makeup. Some how I survied the ordeal, and I was creepy. You judge for yourself. Avi was cute at least.
So at the party we got a few good coments. I had a few people not know who we were. I loved when people would say they had been looking at me for a while trying to figure out who it was. I also got a few saying I looked terrible and hoped that I had never looked this way before.
So now I have these fake nails on, not sue how to use them, and taking twice as long as it should to type this post. I have lost them all on the right hand while trying to clean grapes, but the left hand is still in tact, we will see what happens.
Then Nathan and I had a party with a bunch of friends. This has only been our second successful b-day party we have had. Usually we invite 30 people and end up with 2-4 people even though we buy food for all of them. Well the first successful one was in Logan and we ended up with about 30 people (kids included) in our small apartment with our 2 week old baby. This time we had about 20 people in our medium house, it was a lot less crazy, and we were able to do more than just chat like the last one. Thanks everyone that came. We had an inside bbq, then played some games and hung out. Most everyone didn't know each other, but it was fun to mix all our aspects of our lives together.Next, we have been busy with a recovery and keeping everyone healthy. I spent all day on Thursday sanding, washing, priming, and painting the girls room. I started the project in January, and I finally got it going again. I still need to do the ceiling, and accenting. The walls are done, so we are looking better. Nathan's favorite part is that the dresser is no longer in the hall, but in the room. YIPEE!!!!
Now for the fun, we had a Halloween party last night at our church. We invited some friends to join us, and this year we went all out. Nathan and I don't usually dress up, but we decided to. Thanks Austin and Sherie for convincing us to do it. Dailynn was an adorable cheerleader. She looked so good, and I promise, the colors were all they had, not my allegeice to any school. Her makeup ended up being fixed a few times. Avi got to be a cute angel. Nathan was a Japanese Samaria Warior. It's a repeat from before, but it still looks good. I decided to be gothic. I have been working on it for about 2 weeks to figure it out. It was fun once I finally figured it all out. I got the shirt and boots at DI, and the rest was borrowing from Sherie, or walmart. I pulled a stupid though because I put the fake nails on before anything else. As you all know I am a nail biter, so putting on fake nails, I didn't know how to use them. Luckily my friend showed up to help me put on make up, do my hair, pait the nails, and take care of my kids the rest of the way. I did get them all done before I started myself, but as stated before Dailynn needed a redo on the makeup. Some how I survied the ordeal, and I was creepy. You judge for yourself. Avi was cute at least.
So at the party we got a few good coments. I had a few people not know who we were. I loved when people would say they had been looking at me for a while trying to figure out who it was. I also got a few saying I looked terrible and hoped that I had never looked this way before.So now I have these fake nails on, not sue how to use them, and taking twice as long as it should to type this post. I have lost them all on the right hand while trying to clean grapes, but the left hand is still in tact, we will see what happens.
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!
Thursday, October 16, 2008
TAX TIP
ok, so since I have been taking my tax classes to get ready for the next season, I have been finding out things about audits. So I got a little spooked about one of the highly audited things and wanted to inform all you who use it even though I don't yet.
So the Ogden IRS office used to be the place that decided the majority of the audit reasons, but for some reason, the home office decided to take over that responsibility. Why does this matter? Well the Ogden people understood the dynamic of the LDS church and how members will give 10% of their income in tithing. I was told that in New York if you give more than $500 in charitable contributions it is an automatic audit. So where I am going is that the IRS is auditing Utahns for their charitable contributions.
Now you are thinking "I keep the church statement they give me every year with all my tax stuff", or at least I hope you do that at least. Well I was informed that the IRS is not accepting that as a form of proof. What the IRS wants is the yellow tithing slips and copies of your cancled checks from the bank. You will want to go as far back as you can right now if you have been using your tithing as an itemized deduction. Our tax office is getting hit this summer with 2006 returns, so don't just think you are in the clear because you haven't heard anything.
Now that I have scared you I want to calm you down a little, they won't audit you for just tithing, they usually will find something more before they will do that. So for the future, you will want to keep your yellow slips, and print off your cancled checks when you get them. It's a hassle, but if you have them, they will not contest you on that at all.
So the Ogden IRS office used to be the place that decided the majority of the audit reasons, but for some reason, the home office decided to take over that responsibility. Why does this matter? Well the Ogden people understood the dynamic of the LDS church and how members will give 10% of their income in tithing. I was told that in New York if you give more than $500 in charitable contributions it is an automatic audit. So where I am going is that the IRS is auditing Utahns for their charitable contributions.
Now you are thinking "I keep the church statement they give me every year with all my tax stuff", or at least I hope you do that at least. Well I was informed that the IRS is not accepting that as a form of proof. What the IRS wants is the yellow tithing slips and copies of your cancled checks from the bank. You will want to go as far back as you can right now if you have been using your tithing as an itemized deduction. Our tax office is getting hit this summer with 2006 returns, so don't just think you are in the clear because you haven't heard anything.
Now that I have scared you I want to calm you down a little, they won't audit you for just tithing, they usually will find something more before they will do that. So for the future, you will want to keep your yellow slips, and print off your cancled checks when you get them. It's a hassle, but if you have them, they will not contest you on that at all.
Friday, October 10, 2008
Hamburgers
ok, so I didn't realize that they way I make my hamburgers is actually a unique way until I had a bunch of friends over. I was making hamburgers, and we ran out so I had to put another batch together so that I could eat as well. So I started putting them together and realized that all the women were in there watching me with awed expressions. (we had like 13 adults there or something like that) So here is my recipe for great hamburgers.
so take your standard ground hamburger what ever % fat you want because I just go for the cheapest in the store at the time. Add a bit of Worcestershire sauce, I just kinda dump. Probably about a tablespoon per pound, but I couldn't tell you sorry. Then the real trick is to add finely shredded cheese. I think that mozzarella is the best, but cheddar or montery or anything you have is just as good. The amount, who knows again. probably about a half cup per pound, but that may be a bit much. Now get those hands disgusting by mixxing this up. Next just cook them up. I just found that the cheese makes it more moist and fall apart so nice while you eat it, but not while you cook it. I do put a peice of sliced cheese on top just before it is done so that it will melt on top.
Hopefully this works for you, and if it doesn't work out the first time, tweek as it needs to be. Let me know if you have any other things you like to do to improve your hamburgers.
so take your standard ground hamburger what ever % fat you want because I just go for the cheapest in the store at the time. Add a bit of Worcestershire sauce, I just kinda dump. Probably about a tablespoon per pound, but I couldn't tell you sorry. Then the real trick is to add finely shredded cheese. I think that mozzarella is the best, but cheddar or montery or anything you have is just as good. The amount, who knows again. probably about a half cup per pound, but that may be a bit much. Now get those hands disgusting by mixxing this up. Next just cook them up. I just found that the cheese makes it more moist and fall apart so nice while you eat it, but not while you cook it. I do put a peice of sliced cheese on top just before it is done so that it will melt on top.
Hopefully this works for you, and if it doesn't work out the first time, tweek as it needs to be. Let me know if you have any other things you like to do to improve your hamburgers.
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
tagged
So I have been tagged a few times now, so I guess I will do it
20 Years Ago
I was almost 6, so I don't remember much. I guess I was going into kindergarten and taking tests to see if I could skip to 1st grade to be with all of my friends.
10 Years Ago
I was almost 16, I had just gotten home from a month trip to Japan, just figured out e-mail and was on it constantly with all my Japan friends and just starting my sophmore year.
5 Years Ago
I was attending USU with a 4 month baby (Avrilee). I was doing 12 credits online and 3 on campus. My favorite class was the one I had to go to campus for because I was so happy to get out of the house. That semester was the hardest I ever had, even harder than the one I was engaged for.
3 Years Ago
I was stuck in the house with a newborn. When I went in the hospital to have Dailynn it was warm outside. When I got home it was cold outside, I didn't like that fall much.
1 Year Ago
UM.... Nothing significant. Avi was in Preschool and making friends for her and her mom. I paid off our student loans and became debt free for the last time in my life I hope.
This Year So Far
I have started walking with a friend, Avi is in Kindergarten, and I have loved learning how to can. I worked at HR Block and loved it.
Today
Dropped Avi at school, helped at the school, and watching a friends kids so she can help in the classroom. Hopefully we will can some plum jam and make some fruit lether.
Tomorrow
Dailynn has a Dr appointment for turning 3, laundry, cleaning, and packing for a trip to La Sal on Friday.
Next Year
I will never know, if we had it our way we would be moved to Ephraim with an awesome job, building a house on the lot down there and growing a HUGE garden. To tell you the truth, we will never know what happens 3 months down the road let alone a full year. Maybe we will have a move this year though, who knows.
I tag anyone who wants to do it.
20 Years Ago
I was almost 6, so I don't remember much. I guess I was going into kindergarten and taking tests to see if I could skip to 1st grade to be with all of my friends.
10 Years Ago
I was almost 16, I had just gotten home from a month trip to Japan, just figured out e-mail and was on it constantly with all my Japan friends and just starting my sophmore year.
5 Years Ago
I was attending USU with a 4 month baby (Avrilee). I was doing 12 credits online and 3 on campus. My favorite class was the one I had to go to campus for because I was so happy to get out of the house. That semester was the hardest I ever had, even harder than the one I was engaged for.
3 Years Ago
I was stuck in the house with a newborn. When I went in the hospital to have Dailynn it was warm outside. When I got home it was cold outside, I didn't like that fall much.
1 Year Ago
UM.... Nothing significant. Avi was in Preschool and making friends for her and her mom. I paid off our student loans and became debt free for the last time in my life I hope.
This Year So Far
I have started walking with a friend, Avi is in Kindergarten, and I have loved learning how to can. I worked at HR Block and loved it.
Today
Dropped Avi at school, helped at the school, and watching a friends kids so she can help in the classroom. Hopefully we will can some plum jam and make some fruit lether.
Tomorrow
Dailynn has a Dr appointment for turning 3, laundry, cleaning, and packing for a trip to La Sal on Friday.
Next Year
I will never know, if we had it our way we would be moved to Ephraim with an awesome job, building a house on the lot down there and growing a HUGE garden. To tell you the truth, we will never know what happens 3 months down the road let alone a full year. Maybe we will have a move this year though, who knows.
I tag anyone who wants to do it.
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Turkey
Dailynn is so adorable when she wants to be. She started to be grumpy when we had to leave the cute little baby friend that wanted to come with us home from dropping Avi off at school, so I put her on my shoulders for a little ride. I can't do the whole trip like that. She loves to be on my shoulders so that she can grab leaves off the trees while we walk past. So she grabbed a few limbs off our friends tree and loved that she was holding so many of them. After a few minutes she wanted down, and a few min later she didn't want to carry the branches any more. Dailynn can't stand the thought of wasting a good branch so she stuck all 3 branches in my back pocket. Then she noticed that I was a turkey and laughed about it the rest of the way home. It was so fun to walk with her so happy and imaginative.
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Commitment
My friend Katie said that she wanted to run with her family in the Peach Days race next year and challenged us all to join her. She did that and I jumped at the chance. If you have known me for 10 years or so, you will know that I was on the Cross Country team in High School. No I wasn't good, but I had fun. So the last 2 years I have been aching to do a 5K run for a while, so this will just be so much fun for me.
I am so proud of Katie because she has never been a runner, so it is great that she wants to. She is probably starting out the right way too because I wouldn't ease into it that way. I would just run a half mile or so then walk a bit instead of the equal amounts of time like she researched to find out. I am hoping that when the time comes that I can do it, and keep up with her and her cute family.
If anyone else would like to join in on this, lets go for it!! Running is so good! For me it is a stress reliever. Last week on one of my walks, my friend and I were crossing a busy street so we ran and then ran the length of the cemetery because it felt so good to run. Watch out, I am going to start running you off the road.
I am so proud of Katie because she has never been a runner, so it is great that she wants to. She is probably starting out the right way too because I wouldn't ease into it that way. I would just run a half mile or so then walk a bit instead of the equal amounts of time like she researched to find out. I am hoping that when the time comes that I can do it, and keep up with her and her cute family.
If anyone else would like to join in on this, lets go for it!! Running is so good! For me it is a stress reliever. Last week on one of my walks, my friend and I were crossing a busy street so we ran and then ran the length of the cemetery because it felt so good to run. Watch out, I am going to start running you off the road.
Friday, September 12, 2008
Still here
Hello everyone,
Sorry it has been a while. Avi is doing good in school, but we are already battling the I don't want to go to school bit. The first time she said this, it was followed by "they won't teach me anything". She is ready so good, and I think she is surviving socially. We will just have to see how things are going throughout the year. I got to go into the class and help out one day and she was doing good and didn't need to come hang on me, so that was good.
For me the tax season has begun. I know, doesn't it start in January? Well, no. I have classes that I am required to take in order to be rehired next year. So the classes have started so I am submerged in taxes right now, how fun. I am learning a lot.
We have just 2 more soccer games left, so then we will be free again on Saturdays. She is doing ok with it, but we will see how this saturday goes.
I have started turtoring again. It is a lot of fun and I love working with the kids that I have right now. maybe someday I will become a teacher, but who knows.
Dailynn is loving the chance to have free reign of the house for small parts of the day. She is so cute and loves reading and learning. WE are working on the terrible two's, soon be threes. She has some temper problems that we are trying to help her calm down.
I spent the day yesturday tearing appart some lilac bushes. They haven't been trimmed in 20 years, so they are being mutilated a bit right now. I don't have pictures now, but maybe some time. IT is a huge mess, but maybe next year I can have a garden a little better with it not being so shaded.
Sorry it has been a while. Avi is doing good in school, but we are already battling the I don't want to go to school bit. The first time she said this, it was followed by "they won't teach me anything". She is ready so good, and I think she is surviving socially. We will just have to see how things are going throughout the year. I got to go into the class and help out one day and she was doing good and didn't need to come hang on me, so that was good.
For me the tax season has begun. I know, doesn't it start in January? Well, no. I have classes that I am required to take in order to be rehired next year. So the classes have started so I am submerged in taxes right now, how fun. I am learning a lot.
We have just 2 more soccer games left, so then we will be free again on Saturdays. She is doing ok with it, but we will see how this saturday goes.
I have started turtoring again. It is a lot of fun and I love working with the kids that I have right now. maybe someday I will become a teacher, but who knows.
Dailynn is loving the chance to have free reign of the house for small parts of the day. She is so cute and loves reading and learning. WE are working on the terrible two's, soon be threes. She has some temper problems that we are trying to help her calm down.
I spent the day yesturday tearing appart some lilac bushes. They haven't been trimmed in 20 years, so they are being mutilated a bit right now. I don't have pictures now, but maybe some time. IT is a huge mess, but maybe next year I can have a garden a little better with it not being so shaded.
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Some Wedding Pics
So here are a few pictures, and video of them cutting the cake. So, they were really popular with the kids. I love the picture with them kissing and all the kids are watching it so closely. There was also a classic birth control picture with our niece Madi. So awesome. There was cardboard under the cake and they were trying to pick up the cake under the cardboard. That is why there is the break in the video.
Wedding Cake
Ok, so I was asked to put together Brittney's wedding cake for the luncheon. So I had a hard time trying to figure out how to make it half fake to try to save money. I know, styrofoam is the right thing to use right, no it was going to cost quite a bit to do that, so I had to come up with something else. Finally my wonderful friend Anna told me to use rice crispy treats. It was such a wonderful idea!! So I made the bottom and middle tiers out of the rice crispy treat and decorated them with regular frosting
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I was trying to figure out how to decorate it, and another wonderful friend of mine, Sherrie, was helping me brainstorm ideas. We came up with making the middle tier white while making the other 2 brown. We just couldn't bring our selves to make a green cake. (Brown and green were her colors) So then Sherrie suggested writing their names on the white tier. She wanted to do White frosting, but I suggested a realy light green, and I think it turned out ok with it being green. We worked on the white teir a week before because Sherrie was going out of town for the whole week before the wedding. Luckily she was so nice to let me freeze it in her big empty freezer, rather than having it subjected to the rath of my children
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The next week I worked on the bottom teir, making 4 batches of rice crispy treats just to make the structure. Another great suggestion from Sherrie was to make a ribbon rather than make my verry shakey hands do piping all over it. I found a nice thick white ribbon and a small green ribbon. I hot glued the green one in 2 strips all down the white one. Then I fashioned a flat bow to go over the seam of ribbon. It was nice that the "cake" was solid enough to just use straight pins to hold the ribbon on it.
Yeah, that worked GREAT!! Then on Thursday before the big day I baked the cake, chocolate of course. That is basicly all I did that whole day. Friday was decorating day. It's amazing how much time it takes to get the frosting smooth and even over a small (and harder over a large) cake. Finally I was happy enough with the smoothness, but had to wait until it set enough to do the border. Then sit even more before I could put the ribbon on. Yes this was an ALL day thing, and somehow the girls didn't hurt it. MIRACLE!!!!
Then Saturday was the big day. I didn't realize that I had gotten the wrong size of box for the base, so it was sitting open the whole morning. I asked my grandparents to transport me because I trusted them in their driving and lack of items that could hurt the cake for the morning.
After pictures, my grandparents and I hurried back to the hotel where the luncheon was at and put the cake together. There was a slight causulty with the hearts next to the names, but I don't think anyone noticed. I quickly put it together, scaring the spectators a time or two with the placements and holding the cakes, but nothing big happened. Once it was done I was so happy to be free of it.
After the cake cutting I shoved it all back into boxes, looking less deliciouse than before and got it home. Everyone liked it, and it worked out great, even though the pictures show all of it's flaws. Oh well, it was dark enough in the that I didn't mind too much.
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I was trying to figure out how to decorate it, and another wonderful friend of mine, Sherrie, was helping me brainstorm ideas. We came up with making the middle tier white while making the other 2 brown. We just couldn't bring our selves to make a green cake. (Brown and green were her colors) So then Sherrie suggested writing their names on the white tier. She wanted to do White frosting, but I suggested a realy light green, and I think it turned out ok with it being green. We worked on the white teir a week before because Sherrie was going out of town for the whole week before the wedding. Luckily she was so nice to let me freeze it in her big empty freezer, rather than having it subjected to the rath of my children
.
The next week I worked on the bottom teir, making 4 batches of rice crispy treats just to make the structure. Another great suggestion from Sherrie was to make a ribbon rather than make my verry shakey hands do piping all over it. I found a nice thick white ribbon and a small green ribbon. I hot glued the green one in 2 strips all down the white one. Then I fashioned a flat bow to go over the seam of ribbon. It was nice that the "cake" was solid enough to just use straight pins to hold the ribbon on it.
Yeah, that worked GREAT!! Then on Thursday before the big day I baked the cake, chocolate of course. That is basicly all I did that whole day. Friday was decorating day. It's amazing how much time it takes to get the frosting smooth and even over a small (and harder over a large) cake. Finally I was happy enough with the smoothness, but had to wait until it set enough to do the border. Then sit even more before I could put the ribbon on. Yes this was an ALL day thing, and somehow the girls didn't hurt it. MIRACLE!!!! Then Saturday was the big day. I didn't realize that I had gotten the wrong size of box for the base, so it was sitting open the whole morning. I asked my grandparents to transport me because I trusted them in their driving and lack of items that could hurt the cake for the morning.
After pictures, my grandparents and I hurried back to the hotel where the luncheon was at and put the cake together. There was a slight causulty with the hearts next to the names, but I don't think anyone noticed. I quickly put it together, scaring the spectators a time or two with the placements and holding the cakes, but nothing big happened. Once it was done I was so happy to be free of it.
After the cake cutting I shoved it all back into boxes, looking less deliciouse than before and got it home. Everyone liked it, and it worked out great, even though the pictures show all of it's flaws. Oh well, it was dark enough in the that I didn't mind too much.
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
First Day of School
Monday Aug 25th was the first day of kindergarten in our home. What a change. We woke up early to make sure we were ready early enough to get over whatever frustration we were going to go through in getting ready. Luckily Avi was so excited to go to school that we didn't have those frustrations and we were ready and hour before it started. We only live 3 blocks from school, so we are planning on walking to school each day, but we will see how cold it gets this winter. The 4 of us walked down and met Avi's friend Livi to walk with across the street to school.
After going to the classroom and waiting for a while for other students to show, we finally figured out that they all meet outside then walk into the classroom together. Whoops. Avi went to class great, and was so excited when she was done. This is going GREAT!! I have been so worried about the changes and new situations, so to see her having such an easy time with it is such a relief. She also has a guy teacher, how fun.
When we were walking home from dropping her off, Dailynn was having a hard time being away from Avi. She couldn't believe that she was having to spend time away from her. It's going better now. Well enjoy the pictures, we had fun. Oh yeah and no tears!!!
Monday, August 18, 2008
Ummm
So Dailynn is being an interesting character. Sometimes she will punish herself for things that we aren't too worried about. While in La Sal, she was goofing off during the dinner prayer. She insisted that she was bad during the prayer, so she wasn't allowed to have dinner because of it. Well yesterday while I was making lunch she was singing "It's all my fault" over and over again. Nathan said "she is going to be a depressed child, disciplining her self and saying it is all her fault. I am going to need a psychology degree just to take care of her." She really is a pretty happy kid, just has to figure out what she can and can't do then she will be happy all the time. I do think it is kinda funny when she starts yelling "I'm Freakin Mad". Not sure where that all came from, but it sure does make me giggle when she says it.
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Why so long
So you may have noticed that it has taken me a while to post, and sorry about that. Life has been fun and crazy. After the family reunion, I got the pleasure of throwing Brittney a bridal shower, so between that and getting into the Twilight series, I haven't had much time to do anything other than keep my family alive. Luckily I have a lighter week where I get to figure out how to make a fake wedding cake for Britt. Ideas are flying through my head, I hope that I will remember to document how I am making it and that can be my next food tip or something. This whole wedding thing is so fun, but it will be nice when it is over.
We found out that Avi gets to have the male teacher this year. She is excited for school, and hopefully we can go meet him tomorrow. It will be good to have her go to school so that I can maybe work on projects a little better.
My friend Sherrie and I have started walking at nights, and it is really to walk 2-5 miles with her and get to know her so much more. We found out last night that we were in Japan at the same time. It was so fun to talk about our experiences and both got Japan hungry all over again.
Nathan and I am also so excited about the Olympics. It is so hard to peal ourselves away from it sometimes. It was fun to watch the Guys and Girls gymnastics, and also the swimming.
We are just enjoying the last little bit of the summer before school starts and things get crazy again. Have a great summer everyone.
We found out that Avi gets to have the male teacher this year. She is excited for school, and hopefully we can go meet him tomorrow. It will be good to have her go to school so that I can maybe work on projects a little better.
My friend Sherrie and I have started walking at nights, and it is really to walk 2-5 miles with her and get to know her so much more. We found out last night that we were in Japan at the same time. It was so fun to talk about our experiences and both got Japan hungry all over again.
Nathan and I am also so excited about the Olympics. It is so hard to peal ourselves away from it sometimes. It was fun to watch the Guys and Girls gymnastics, and also the swimming.
We are just enjoying the last little bit of the summer before school starts and things get crazy again. Have a great summer everyone.
Family Reunion
Ok, so it isn't that good of an idea for the Blankenagel family to get together. We all went to La Sal for a week for a reunion and vacation. The first day we laid a new sidewalk/front patio with Mom, Dad, Uncles John and Bill. The next day I got to mow the lawn with the tractor. Mom is just cleaning up my messes with the girls. After the lawn was done Mom let the girls drive the tractor. They had the biggest smiles in the world!!
We spent much of the rest of the week shooting prairy dogs, Jeeping, and four wheeling. Nathan had a great time just going out with the 22 and went through a box and a half of bullets in the week. He was happy.
On Wed we started having everyone else arrive. We had fun going up on the mountain to see the scenery for the next few days. I will say again that it isn't safe for all of us to get together, especially in the 7th year.
So on Thursday we went up to Cash and Copper to take pictures for Brittney's announcements. Dad and Jeff went to go follow the road a ways on the 4-wheelers to see where it went. On the way back Dad was trying something he shouldn't have been doing. The 4-wheeler rolled over him breaking his wrist, bruising some ribs and most of his back. For the rest of the week he needed help getting up and down from his chair and bed.
This was our eating arrangements and Uncle John helped the kids put up this cute little tent to play in.
On Friday we went to go meet the rest of the family that had decided to camp out on the mountain to go play with them. Most of them were gone so we decided to go for a drive ourselves. We didn't realize how long of a drive we were going on and how bumpy the road was. We went up to a lake and found a new way back that wasn't going to kill the kids in the back of the truck.
Kristl was driving the jeep in front of Kenzie driving her truck. We were going down the mountain road a little fast, and coming to a blind corner, and all of a sudden another vehicle was there. Both Kristl and the other vehicle slammed on the brakes and moved to their side of the road. All would have been fine but the other vehicle had a trailer that started jackknifing towards Kristl so she moved even further over. The problem was that there wasn't any more road or shoulder to move over onto, so she drove up the side of the hill rolling the jeep. It did a 3/4 rotation ending on the passenger side.Nathan, Kenzie and I Jumped out of the truck at the same time yelling at the kids to not get out of the truck and ran to help. By the time we got there Sheena and Ben (passengers in the back of the jeep) were running away from it so we weren't worried about them. We started yelling for Kristl and John to answer us, and once they did we knew that everyone was alive. None of them were wearing seat belts, so that added to our worries. We made it over there and John was yelling that he had broken his arm. After getting the top off the jeep they were finally able to climb out. We tipped the jeep back up and got it out of the road so that the other 4 vehicles that were waiting behind it could go by, and got John braced together with a camera bag. The jeep made it off the mountain and didn't move the rest of the weekend.
They ran to Monticello and once there the Doctors decided they needed a little more help with this so they life flighted him to Grand Junction to go through surgery. He spent the next few days in the hospital watching the injury.
We spent saturday a little calmly. After a while of just the playing around the ranch thing we went swimming at the reservoir. Avi and Dailynn got to show off they swimming skills, and we all got to cool off. While there we got called by our cousins that had left that morning saying they were stranded on a jeep trail in Moab. They needed help getting the truck fixed. All the lug nuts on one wheel had broken so they need to get a ride back to the truck to fix it. Oh what fun. Luckily no one got hurt on that one.
On Sunday we left after church and dinner and headed to Ephraim. We stopped at Nathan's sister Sharalee's house and played with them for a few hours and then came home. It was so nice to be in our own beds!!!!
All in all we did survive and it could have been a lot worse. I know that prayers are answered and that there were quite a few angels floating a little closer to our family that week!!!
We spent much of the rest of the week shooting prairy dogs, Jeeping, and four wheeling. Nathan had a great time just going out with the 22 and went through a box and a half of bullets in the week. He was happy.
On Wed we started having everyone else arrive. We had fun going up on the mountain to see the scenery for the next few days. I will say again that it isn't safe for all of us to get together, especially in the 7th year.
So on Thursday we went up to Cash and Copper to take pictures for Brittney's announcements. Dad and Jeff went to go follow the road a ways on the 4-wheelers to see where it went. On the way back Dad was trying something he shouldn't have been doing. The 4-wheeler rolled over him breaking his wrist, bruising some ribs and most of his back. For the rest of the week he needed help getting up and down from his chair and bed.
This was our eating arrangements and Uncle John helped the kids put up this cute little tent to play in.
On Friday we went to go meet the rest of the family that had decided to camp out on the mountain to go play with them. Most of them were gone so we decided to go for a drive ourselves. We didn't realize how long of a drive we were going on and how bumpy the road was. We went up to a lake and found a new way back that wasn't going to kill the kids in the back of the truck.
Kristl was driving the jeep in front of Kenzie driving her truck. We were going down the mountain road a little fast, and coming to a blind corner, and all of a sudden another vehicle was there. Both Kristl and the other vehicle slammed on the brakes and moved to their side of the road. All would have been fine but the other vehicle had a trailer that started jackknifing towards Kristl so she moved even further over. The problem was that there wasn't any more road or shoulder to move over onto, so she drove up the side of the hill rolling the jeep. It did a 3/4 rotation ending on the passenger side.Nathan, Kenzie and I Jumped out of the truck at the same time yelling at the kids to not get out of the truck and ran to help. By the time we got there Sheena and Ben (passengers in the back of the jeep) were running away from it so we weren't worried about them. We started yelling for Kristl and John to answer us, and once they did we knew that everyone was alive. None of them were wearing seat belts, so that added to our worries. We made it over there and John was yelling that he had broken his arm. After getting the top off the jeep they were finally able to climb out. We tipped the jeep back up and got it out of the road so that the other 4 vehicles that were waiting behind it could go by, and got John braced together with a camera bag. The jeep made it off the mountain and didn't move the rest of the weekend.They ran to Monticello and once there the Doctors decided they needed a little more help with this so they life flighted him to Grand Junction to go through surgery. He spent the next few days in the hospital watching the injury.
We spent saturday a little calmly. After a while of just the playing around the ranch thing we went swimming at the reservoir. Avi and Dailynn got to show off they swimming skills, and we all got to cool off. While there we got called by our cousins that had left that morning saying they were stranded on a jeep trail in Moab. They needed help getting the truck fixed. All the lug nuts on one wheel had broken so they need to get a ride back to the truck to fix it. Oh what fun. Luckily no one got hurt on that one.
On Sunday we left after church and dinner and headed to Ephraim. We stopped at Nathan's sister Sharalee's house and played with them for a few hours and then came home. It was so nice to be in our own beds!!!!
All in all we did survive and it could have been a lot worse. I know that prayers are answered and that there were quite a few angels floating a little closer to our family that week!!!
Summer activities pictures
I had never been to the Timpanogos Caves, so Nathan, Avi, I, Jaxson (her cousin) and Jana (Nathan's sister) went up to see them. This was within the first 1/3 of the hike, so I am not too flushed by this time. It wasn't that bad of a hike, but I am so out of shape that I was just huffing and puffing by the time I got up there. After the hike we went back to camp, and Nathan cooked dinner for everyone.
During Pleasant Grove's Strawberry Days, there was a fun parade. Since it starts just 2 blocks from our house we had floats and horsed going by to go line up. We left to walk to the parade and we found that outside our house we had a horse trailer and they were unloading the horses. I asked if I could put the girls up on them and get some pictures. The people were so nice to let them up there. 
The girls wanted to camp out, so we set up the tent in the back yard for two nights. We combined the tents with the tarp so that it would be easier for them to feel comfortable.
We signed Avi up for T-ball this year. It took a little while but she finally got into the game a little better. She can hit the ball pretty good if she concentrates enough. By the end she understood what was going on. It helped her so much to get out of her little shell a little more.
While Avi was playing her game Dailynn was bored and wanted to do something herself. She climbed the hill behind us and rolled down it the whole hour. Every once in a while she would have a boy treat her like a china doll worried she would break or something and just keep a very close eye on her so that she didn't get hurt. It was cute.
On the 4th of July we got invited to a BBQ where they decided to get a blowup water slide. It was so cool!! Dailynn loved riding it and the older girls loved taking her on it. The squirt guns were fun on it too. Both of the guns are controlled by my girls in this picture. That was their favorite part of it.
I signed both girls up for swim lessons this year. It took a little more effort to get Dailynn in than Avi which is so not normal. Once Dailynn got used to the idea she loved it. Every once in a while the girls teachers would play games with each other so they saw each other once in a while in the pool. On the last day the teachers took the kids on the water slides. Avi got to go once while Dailynn got to go like 4 times. They had so much fun with the lessons and I am so excited to put them in again next summer.
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