February 2012

Recipe Replication

It is a pretty good replication if you even have the same pattern of plates as the one pictured in the recipe book! I received "Our Best Bites" cookbook for Christmas from my mother-in-law and have been loving trying so many yummy things. This one is strawberry-lime shortcakes with coconut cream and is so good!

Two Portraits

One of our extremely talented friends, Mary Sauer, painted a portrait of Kaden for one of her BYU projects when we were at school. We loved it so much that we got one painted of Cache. The boys are approximately the same age and each so cute, but so different in their looks. The portrait of Cache is what Luke and I gave each other for Christmas this past year and we now have them framed and hung above our piano.

Kaden

Cache

December 2011

Merry Christmas!

Dennis the Menace park and the Monterey Bay Aquarium.

October

Happy Birthday Cache Bear!! We love you lots.

He turned Uno!!!

And here is our fireman. . .

And our Elvis.

Happy October 2011.

Living the Dream

I'm a lucky lady. I have this handsome husband:

I have these two rascals to keep me busy:




I have help with the dishes:

It has been a little over a year since I quit as a nurse and became a full-time Mommy. Although every minute of every day isn't pure bliss, I love all the time I get to spend with my boys and to spend doing the home arts. I inherited my Mom's love of baking and cooking and I have also been working on scrapbooks and sewing projects...I'm living my dream.

What do you make for dinner when you don't have hamburger buns but your husband doesn't like hotdogs? I present to you the Hamburdog.

Pre-hair cut #1 for the Cache bear.

Post-hair cut. He's looking a little glum, but don't worry baby. You've got eyelashes to die for!

Life with the Boys

We have been busy keeping up with Kade and Cache. Kaden spends a good part of every day playing "parking lot." He sets up his cars in rows--parallel, perpendicular, two layers deep--and has fun driving them around.

Cache loves to put everything on his head. He knows where his bath washcloths are and where the kitchen washcloths are and he crawls over, helps himself, and then crawls around with a self-donned hat.

We went to the Greatest Show on Earth yesterday! It was a fun circus and the acrobats, elephants, tigers and clowns were lots of fun.

Luke bought a Boom a Ring disc that the clowns were playing with and he and Kaden had a great time playing with it at the park after the circus.

Go Cougs!

Meet Nickel and Penny. Kade got Nickel from our Primary carnival and we added Penny for company.

Cache bear is 10 months and taking 5-6 steps. He is our little mischievous darling.

Our first fort.