A Walk in the Park

We watched my sisters last night for my parents because it's was my mom's birthday. Wowee! Kudos to all you with lots of kidos. We had a lot of fun we took them to this really neat park near our house that has a really great playground and a little splash area. Then trying to get them all home and bathed, hair combed, teeth brushed, scritpures, prayers, and to bed - that was work. I'm glad I had Officer's help. The girls had so much fun at the park that on the way home from their swimming lessons this morning we decided to stop there and play and have a picnic lunch. Miss Peanut just love kids especially her Aunt Mackenzie and Emorey. They were great entertainment for her in the car. I can't get enough of her giggles. The videos aren't that great because it's our still camera, oh well.

I haven't had Peanut out in the heat that much because of the helmet; she gets overheated pretty quick, but it was a beautiful day to be out. She didn't even freak out at the water. I was kind of surprised because Aunt Emmy isn't a big fan of water and she had a wee bit of a hard time at first (code for Emmy was the one that freaked out a little - just a little). She did warm up to it though. Mackenzie was a big help with keeping track of Emmy and keeping Peanut giggling. Of course I forgot to get the camera out while we were playing, but here are the very tired girls eating their lunch. Our cell phone started ringing in the middle of lunch and Peanut was hilarious to watch dancing to it so I had to share it with you.

Nap-time

I don't have all that much to blog about right now. Miss Peanut is finally over her cold and has been sleeping better, so we've finally got some sleep too. Last night she only woke up for an hour. I sat and rocked her until she fell back to sleep. She just stared up at me with wide eyes forever. I just love quiet mommy moments like that. Our other challenge has been getting her to sleep in the pack-n-play in preparation for our trip to the coast next week. She is very partial to her crib - its awful trying to get her to fall asleep any other place. We'll be camping in a tent for about a week and all she gets for those 10 days is the pack-n-play. Today she finally fell asleep without a fight. They are so cute anyway, but especially when they're asleep. I love to sneek in a watch her. I love her crazy hair too - it's getting so long.

the way...we were

Hah, hah I had to add those lyrics. All of the sudden this memory blog tag has popped up on alot of your blogs so I gave in and decided I'd play along with this one.

1. Leave a comment on my blog of a memory that you and I have had together. It doesn't matter if you've known me for a short time, or a long time, anything you remember!

2. Re-post these instructions on your blog and see how many people leave a memory about you.

3. If you leave a memory about me, I'll assume you're playing the game and I'll come to your blog and leave one about you.On your mark...get set...blog your memories!!

Headlines

I don't do it all that often, but if I stay up to watch anything I have to say that it would be headlines on the tonight show on Monday nights. That really doesn't have all that much to do with anything, kind of. Anyway. My sister gave me this friendship bread starter and here are the instructions.

Amish Friendship Bread

NOTE: Do NOT use any type of metal spoon or bowl for mixing. Do NOT refrigerate. If any air gets into the bag let it out. It is normal for the batter to rise and ferment.

Day one
Do nothing.
Day two
Mush the bag, let out the air.
Day three
Mush the bag, let out the air.
Day four
Mush the bag, let out the air.
Day five
Mush the bag, let out the air.
Day six
Add to the bag, 1 cup each Flour, sugar, milk, mush the bag.
Day seven
Mush the bag, let out the air.
Day eight
Mush the bag, let out the air.
Day nine
Mush the bag, let out the air.
Day ten
Bake day.

Pour the entire contents of the bag into a NON METAL bowl and add:
1½ cups flour
1 ½ cups sugar
1 ½ cups milk

Measure out 4 separate batters 1 cup each. Keep one for yourself and put the remaining 3 into a 1 gallon Ziploc bag. Give bags to 3 friends and keep one for yourself.

Baking instructions:
Preheat oven to 325 degrees. To your remaining 1cup of batter in the bowl add:

3 eggs
½ cup milk
½ tsp vanilla
1 cup sugar
½ tsp salt
1 ½ tsp baking powder
2 cups flour
2 tsp cinnamon
½ tsp baking soda
1 cup vegetable oil
1 large box of Instant vanilla pudding
OPTIONAL: (1 cups nuts, raisins, chocolate chips, etc)

Grease 2 large loaf pans and mix an additional ½ cup sugar and ½ tsp cinnamon. Dust the greased pans with ½ the mixture. Pour evenly into pans, sprinkle the remaining sugar mixture over the top. Bake 1 hour, cool.

BE SURE THAT IF THE BAGS ARE NOT PASSED ON THE 10TH DAY (DAY 1) THEN BE SURE TO TELL YOUR FRIENDS WHICH DATE TO START. IF YOU KEEP ONE OF THESE BAGS, YOU START COUNTING AGAIN FROM THE TOP. ONLY THE AMISH KNOW HOW TO MAKE THE STARTER, SO IF YOU GIVE ALL YOUR STARTERS AWAY YOU WILL HAVE TO WAIT FOR A FRIEND TO GIVE YOU ANOTHER STARTER.


For emphasis I've changed a couple words to RED. Really, is this Amish cause I didn't realize that those Amish couldn't do without their instant vanilla pudding?! I just thought it was funny. I'll just be calling it friendship bread. I think you can probably make your own starter with 1/3 cup milk, 1/3 cup flour, 1/3 cup sugar? If you try it and it works - let me know cause then the secret out - Wah -hah- hah- ha!

So.. it's has been one of those weeks. Miss peanut picked up a cold at church last week - I told her to put it down, but you can't keep anything out of an infant's mouth - seriously. Needless to say sleep has pretty much been non existent this week. We did take Peanut into the orthotist to adjust her helmet and the before and afters are pretty positive. One month down 5 more to go.

Yesterday we got out and went to our stake pioneer day activities. It was nice to get outside and Peanut just loves to watch the kids. They had a primary parade around the parking lot; she clapped and squealed. Finally today she started to feel better and be more playful - I hate it when they're sick it's the most sad thing in the world. Anyway tonight we read scriptures in our bed and when we were finished we threw the covers over her and she just started laughing so much. I'm so glad we caugtht it on video. One of these days I'll finish the other posts I have in progress, but not today.

Anybody want a Peanut?

Not really I was just quoting the Princess Bride, good show! I haven't done a video for a while - I forgot that I took this one with our still camera and found it when I uploaded some photos today, so I hope you enjoy it! It's alway so funny to watch and realize what a dork I am to get her to show off for the camera. Sorry for the high pitch ringing - our still camera does that when we use it for video - eh, what can you do?

I Just Love My Daughter!

HELLO - is there a cuter girl out there? I don't think so! My sister took this picture on the 4th; she is doing more photography stuff these days. Anyway I just look and her and I can't believe how stinkin' cute she is! What did we ever do without her? We had corn bread with dinner tonight and it was so entertaining to watch her try to pick up pieces and get them to her mouth before they crumbled apart in her little fists. We got such a kick out of watching her, so grown up now!