Oh the blessings!

OK, MARCH IS OVER!!!!


April, spring, sunshine, rain, blooms, GREEN, mountains, walks, NO ICE, BBQs are all HERE!!!


I really do, just want to forget March. Bah, that is our last bad month we're going to have. Financially, mentally, attitudely (ha, is that even a word?) I'm working on a few things right now. I have a responsibility to teach my children in the home about the gospel, and I am responsible for their well being, and their health. So I'm bucking up with my teaching, and showing more uplifting videos/movies/shows in the house. I really have noticed a difference lately. A wonderful feeling now abides in our house. Its more calm, peaceful, and safe.

Our recent blessing is Jos' new job with a financial company as a Sales Manager. WOAH, this is huge!!! I'm so proud of him, and knew he could do it! He starts this morning for them, and its a beginning of something excellent. We will have less worries about money, and actually have more quality time for each other because of it. Less stress in the home equals a happier family. Trust me. I'll be able to take the kids to the ranch more, take Miranda to see her horses more, and volunteer more of my day to helping others! See? Blessings!!!

The kids are growing up so fast! Lliam is learning something new every day, and mimicking our words and actions. I just seeing our 23 month old learning so much. Anthony can now read at a Grade 1 level, and getting pretty bored in Kindergarten. He loves all his friends at school, and still very sociable, he's just more advanced with the learning aspect of words, letters, forming sentences etc.

Have you noticed there are a TON of people pregnant right now? Its always hits in waves...and now I'm at a crest of pregnant friends, or friends who have JUST had babies. Do you ever get the "Oh man, I want to be pregnant too?" Or not. I'm one of those really happy-to-be-pregnant people. I love it. I cherish the fatness, the attention, the special 9-months of bliss. No, seriously, I do. After the first 12 weeks I'm a little queezy, but after that is totally awesome! *sniff* I sorta miss it.

Toblerone Cookie Recipe

OK OK, you asked for it!

Here it is:

Ingredients:

2 cups plus 2 tblsp flour
1 tsp salt
1/2 cup Brown Sugar
2 tsp Vanilla
1 tsp Baking Soda
1 Cup White Sugar
2 eggs
1 cup butter
2 cups broken up chunks of Toblerone


Cream butter, sugar, eggs, add dry ingredients. Bake at 350F for 10 min if you want the chewy kind, and about 12 minutes if you like the crunchy cookie.

I prefer chewy cookies always. If I'm 'forced' to eat a crunchy cookie, please offer me milk too ;)

Question of the day?

Is there anything worse in life than having a diarreah dog spurt all over the house?





Yes.There.Is.




Maybe the Halocaust, or bending my own finger nail back.


I'm sorry for feeding those dogs leftovers.

Miranda, I will forever be sorry and gratefull that you cleaned up that whopper this morning.

Be Green, Make your own Deoderant!

I'm willing to give THIS recipe a try.

YAY.

If ya'll try it, let me know! I want to know what works for you, or what doesn't.


Deodorant - More DIY How To Projects

Toby's Tricks

March weekend stuff.

This weekend was quite a blur. Here's the blog.

Well, I'll start my weekend talking about Thursday. Normally we have girls night that night. Our GV's got together to watch "Up in the Air" with George Clooney. As crappy and total waste of 1-1/2 hrs of my life as this movie was, I totally didn't mind staring into George's eyes for that long either. I'm no movie critic, but this movie was so boring, and had no meaning to me. Its rather bothered me that I've found nothing in this movie. Normally I can pick something out. But a movie about a lonely man, who travels so often for his work (he fires people for a living), that he actually prides himself of not being at home 340 days of the year. Meh, George, you're hot.



We all giggled outside the theater for about an hour, and then realized, that the cold weather was going to rain on our gigglefest, so we took the laughs/stories/crazy stuff to Denny's for some hot chocolate. OH.MY.GOODNESS. Hot chocolate comes in refills there? Whipped topping...oh the toppings. So yummo. We stayed out until well after midnight, I left at 3am, and the other girls stayed out til 5 or 5:30am!! Crazy girls! I sure loved it, and seeing Debbi again was super great! I sure missed her. Mwah!

The morning came early for me, as I had to pack and get the kids ready for a trip to Lethbridge/Coaldale for the weekend.

Surprisingly, my tiredness wasn't so bad. I made it though the day, and picked up Anthony from school, and off we went. The visit with my sister was pretty ok. I was sporting a HUGE HUGE HUGE headache, so the nausea was pretty intense, but we managed to have a good time. We giggled, and ate hot dogs and her amazing cookies. Oh *drool* the cookies...she sure can make a wicked batch of Toblerone Cookies!

Saturday was a little long. It started with a trip to Walmart to gather a few things, including a mock wedding ring. I LOST MY WEDDING RING about a month ago. I have no clue where its run off to! Seriously, its gone. I'm sad. So I bought a $9.97 special from Walmart's Jewelry rack. Its a pretty ring with a HUGE stone, its already turning my finger green. Oh the joys of fakeness.

Then I met my girlfriends Louise and Tara at the McDonald's playplace in Lethbridge. Oh WOW, the headache did NOT go away after that. Full on Migraine. I took 8 Ultra Strength Tylenol and 2 Liquid Advils, and NOTHING. WOW...crazyness!


Lliam at the McDonald's Play place.



Later on, I met up with my other sister, Kennedy at her house on the west side. The kids played, drew on the walls, and I was still trying to fight my headache. argh. I was taking care of Kennedy's kids while her and my mother ran the "Moonlight Run" again this year. I ran it last year. I was so proud of them!



Anthony and Will just chillin' before the Moonlight run




Sunday was sick day for everyone. Poor Katherine, 31 weeks pregnant, and barfing her face off. I felt so bad for her. I was in charge of baking the birthday Angel Food cake for the birthday family dinner in Nanton that day. It turned out so well, that is, until I took it out of the oven, and it fell. So I baked another at Dad's and it turned out wonderful!!! Happy Birthday DJ, and Katherine!

FACELIFT!!!

Ah, now that looks better.


Thanks to my bestest friend Rick for helping me out with the errors in my HTML coding. YAY! hip hip hooray for RICK!

or as I call him...Dr. Rick!