Lunch Time

So today has been a rare day.
(besides the planting weather we've had in February....it's odd!)
So today Koda actually was able to come home for lunch!
So I thought I'd so something different for us and have chicken salad sandwiches.
I like them.
Plus I needed to make sure my recipe tastes good for Erica's bridal shower.
Well, it was a total flop!!
The food was great! I loved it.
The other three people in my house...not so much.
Melody is on my side (hey I'm #1 in her eyes right now)
So I made them some chicken quesadilla's.
I ate some too.
Delicious!!!!
It was approved by the other three....go figure....

Guess What??

I am alive.
My kids are alive.
My husband is alive.
We are all doing great.
Just been not on the computer as much!!
I think I should invest in a Ipad just so I can sit in my bed and do a quick post.
Who agrees?
Anyways.
Here's some awesome pics of our life lately.

Tramp Jumping in January...what the heck?

A Sunday afternoon photo shoot

A small peek into the colors of a new quilt!

She informed me she was going to school. 

working on that crawling techique

Uncle Carson's Skiing Hat

First taste of an Oreo.
Oh yes...I'm that awesome of a mom. 

A stolen Pizza from her sister

New Pantry.
:)

Never to young to learn solitare

She thinks this is her new jungle gym.

See our life has been busy and lots of fun!!!
Hopefully we get some more moisture before summer hits.

Busy as a bee!

Oh my heck! What a crazy last little while it has been!!!
I've been super busy (but who isn't??)

Today we had our Visiting Teaching convention.
And let me tell you I'm so glad that is over!!
This is what I want to do! Apparently church was exhausting today. :)

I'm the VT coordinator and for the past three months the Relief Society President and I have been praying, changing, praying, changing, praying....ect, on all the beats. We finally reached a decision and we handed out new beats today!
It was a very powerful meeting.
Simple, but powerful.
Maybe it was only me who was affected, but that's ok if that is the case!

Now it's onto Christmas time!
We have a party Tuesday night, with everyone bringing a mystery less then $5 dollar gift.

Daisy and her mystery gift. I really have no idea what she has in there! Grandma helped her pick it out. 

We have a company dinner Thursday night (1st one since we've hired on, usually it's just a I'll buy your drinks from this time to this time at the bar and where'as we don't drink....) it's still at the bar and grill, but hey politics right?? Also that night hopefully we will be able to do a bit of bowling with my family for my sisters birthday.
The 23rd is Miss Pagey's 2nd birthday
(really??? I just had her.....what, I have another child....oh dear....I'm losing it!)
The 24th we are having lunch with Koda's family and then it's Christmas!!!
Yaya!!!

I've still been working on Michelle's stocking for her girl. It is SO cute!!! But really TAKES forever!!!
I tell you what I understand completly why hand sewn stuff is so expensive!

So far there is 36 1/2 hours into it.
Guess what I still have one snowman and a penguin to do!
I'm estimating another 10 hours or so.

Lets see also this week we seen Santa.
The girls actually did really well and we got some awesome pictures.
Guess what.
The camera broke before I got them off!!!!
Oh ya not happy.
But she is still very happy.

Also pictures that we did have and now we don't, is all of the last two weeks of preschool!
Last week we did J is for Jesus from COAH and this week we did a cowboy tot pack from Our Little Monkeys. Daisy LOVED the cowboy pack!! She did all the activities like five times a day! This week I believe we will be doing the Candy Cane Pack from 2teaching mommies.

Anyways I need to go and prepare dinner and get ready for the week. I have one gift to put the finishing touches on, need to wrap all the girls clothes, and my sis & bro in law's gift. Oh and I need to get a snuggie made up for Page's birthday! Busy busy!!!

Signing out! Hope you have a very happy week!

Crazy Wonderful Life

In Pictures.

Mel Bell On Picture Day

Three Girls, Three Personalities

Loving the stroller Riding

Farm Kid--Knows opening the gate is a waste of time, since you have to close it again

This is what you do once you tear your room apart.
Sleep.

Melody's Christmas Present.
Hehe It's so cute!!!

Climbing up high to the tippy top of the fuel tanks.

Rumor has it Uncle Cole will be home soon!!
Crossing our fingers!!!

Mud Galore.
2 girls.
1 week.
17 pairs of pants.
A tired mom.

Swinging at the park

Oh ya, Mom is the center of the universe!

Hard Core Fishing

Feeding horses apples

Little Diva Girl. 

Dinosaur Quarry trip with the YF&R

We woke up Saturday to a winter wonderland.
The first of October.
Yuck.

Well we went to our Young Farmer and Rancher Social.
Not many showed up, just us die hard's.

We went to the Dinosaur Quarry to see the bones in the hillside.
It's been quite a while since I've been up to the quarry, sad since my parents live around the bend from it basically.

Well, and it's been closed for the past five years.
It is now opened again after renovations, so admission was free for the past few weeks.

So here are some fun pictures from our visit!
Yes I realize that all the snow is melted in the pictures...but believe me it covered everything, until it melted.
I'm thinking we need to go and visit the field house soon.

 The girls would love that!

Our Fun Life

Look at what we've been doing!

Putting Makeup on Melody.
Totally done while mom was putting water on the garden.

A new Quilting Project.
:)

Planting some flowers.

New pink boots for Melody

Pouring rice all over the living room.
Thank heavens for vacuums!

Being princesses at Crystal's baby shower

Throwing rocks into the creek.
yes Kasey that's your pup!

Playing in the sand.

Climbing gates and fences.
Not a challenge at all for miss Daisy Mae.

Feeding Larry's horses.

Dressing myself.
Mom has no idea what the smirky attitude is all about.

This is how Page rolls.

 Isn't our life fun???
We think so!!

Caught in a pickle kinda day.

That's what yesterday was.
This is how yesterday was suppose to go.
Wake up
Shower, dress, cook breakfast, clean up breakfast.
Preschool all by 10:00.
Go to store get items needed to put up cucumbers.
Pick up the cucumbers.
11:00 start pickling cucumbers.
Finish about 3:00.
Have wonderful lunch and dinner right on time.
House picked up.
Happy kids.
Happy husband.
Happy dogs.
Happy me.
Bedtime of a glorious and wonderful 10:00pm.


But......
Life is life I didn't get started on the pickles until 3:00.
Ran out of spices.
Husband said he would get them.
He can't find them.
I should've went to the store.
I call everyone in the known universive for said spices.
My mother has some and she is coming into town....later.
She lives 30 mins from town.
So I continue on with my pickling adventure.
Then I wait for her and pray she has enough spices.
Finally 7:30pm I get the spices from her, I pull out my last batch of bread and butter pickles. Now I can start on the sweet ones, and I had to change midstream and make some dill pickles.
I cook dinner.
Daisy goes out in the dead of the night to inform dad supper is ready.
Oh yes its 8:45.
I finally get my last batch of pickles in.....
Alas...I forgot to put the dill in with the dill pickles, the water is already boiling.
Screw it, they will be a eat as is type. Big deal!
Finally 11:30 house is picked up, dishes done, almost everyone is a asleep (Page is fighting it something bad!)
Finally at midnight she is asleep I lay down my head.


And....
Page starts puking.....

Tell me about it....WAY LONG NIGHT!!!!

But hey my pickles look pretty darn good.
And I have a zillion of them.
I'm proud of myself.

Next up tomatoes!