Happy Birthday Lainey

This is a little late but here it is anyway! Happy Birthday to our sweet 6 year old. That's right 6! so here are 6 reasons we LOVE this 6 year old.

1. She has the most tender heart! If she knows someone is sad she will go out of her way to make that person happy!

2. "She tells the best stories"

3. She is a beautiful dancer and I love the way her eyes light up when she is performing!


4. She loves to sing just like her Momma! She is very diligent in practicing for Melody Choir.

5. She has the sweetest smile, and it will brighten anybody's day!

6. She often goes out of her way to make sure her little sister isn't left out.

The list could go on and on.....

WE LOVE YOU!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!

Brussel Sprouts?

Recently while in the grocery store I had the grand idea of letting the girls each pick a vegetable. I was a little nervous about what we would come home with. On our first round we ended up with yellow squash and purple cauliflower. The squash didn't go over so well.


On our next trip we ended up with brussel sprouts and turnips. We tried the sprouts tonight and I must say I liked them (even Lance liked them). Of course after steaming them for a couple of minutes I lightly sauted them in butter, salt and pepper. All in all it has been a great way to mix some variety into our dinners and a great way to get the kids to eat their veggies.

(Can you guess who keeps picking the purple ones?)

I wonder what next weeks grocery trip will bring to our house.....

Princess Tea Party

Lainey & Lilly like many little girls love to have "princess tea parties." Well a recent one was pretty special for them.

They even had their own personal waitress who attended to their every need.

They just kept smiling and giggling.

One of those priceless moments that are brief, but so much fun.

My new favorite Blog

So my friend Jane posted a link on her blog for some Corn Bread. That was all it took I am hooked on this wonderful stuff. Since then I have started making all sorts of things from her blog. Tonight I made her Brown Sugar Spiced Pork Loin. All I can say is YUM YUM YUM YUM!! We have also tried her Baked Chicken Taquitos, Lime Cilantro rice, also the Vanilla Pudding Cinnamon Rolls. If you like new recipes check this blog out!!! We have really liked everything we have tried from here.

http://mykitchencafe.blogspot.com

Craft it Forward

My friend Heather is doing this and I thought it would be fun. So here it it...

It's based on the movie "Pay It Forward". I will send a handmade gift to the first 5, that's right, only the first FIVE people who leave a comment on this post! All of the gifts will be made and delivered sometime within the next year. What you need to do in return is craft it forward yourself by posting this on your blog (or Facebook), and promising to make something for 5 other people within the next year. It doesn't need to be anything elaborate - even something as simple as a plate of cookies will suffice!

Now that you know how it works, if you'd like to participate please leave a comment below. I will will even let you choose your item from the following list:
Hooded Bath Towel
Necklace
Earrings and a Bracelet
Hair Bow
Hair Flower
Receiving Blanket
A home made treat by Me :0)

So leave your comment and craft if forward.

It seems every year around Christmas time I decide that I need to make someone a quilt. I never intended it to become a yearly thing but I really enjoy it. It got a little better this year when my mom let me borrow her fancy quilting frames. She told me I could just keep them at my house because I quilt more than she does. They sure make things easier. This quilt was put up for an activity day service project. We didn't get it done so I started working on it. Lainey and Lilly kept begging to try. So I showed Lainey what to do and to my utter amazement she picked it up immediately. Lilly cannot be left out and had to give it a try as well. Lilly didn't do quite as well but what can you expect she is 3. I think this will become something I will treasure and love to do with my girls in years to come. I am excited I have some material left over and will be making 1-2 more quilts this year.



P.S. This picture cracks me up so I thought I would throw it in there. Yes this is Gordie

So Long!!!

Hello All followers of our blog, (if we have any left),
Sorry we have been absent from our blog for a while.
We are still here and breathing. We have been so busy lately and I was wanting to do some posts but it seems a little silly to post about Halloween now.
We had a friend visiting from India for about 3 weeks so we were able to go and do some fun things as a family with him. It was a lot of fun to have him and we were sad to have him leave. Here are a few pictures of the things we did while he was here.

Okay just kidding these are of Lance and Kumaravel in Moab by themselves.

Just Kidding again here are the pictures...