July 25th We headed to the movie night in the park. Cori was at Lagoon so she wasn't there, and Syd went to a friends house for a sleepover. Its pretty cool at these movies in the park-they set up a huge inflateable screen and we bring blankets and pillows, chairs and snacks and just hang out and watch the movie. This time I bought glow necklaces and the boys liked that better than the movie.

Can you name this movie?

updates

I realize that I am way behind in the blogging department. Hopefully I can be better. It seems that I go in spurts.
7/24/08
This is Pioneer day. It is a day that we celebrate the people who lived and died making the trek to the west to be able to enjoy religious freedom. In our area they do a big activity where there are different houses set up in a ball field and you walk to different ones to do different things. We made ice cream, got horse shoe rings, had a family picture taken, got to ride on a horseshoe horse, and the kids were bees in a parade.

In this first picture Gage is modeling his new gloves as well as his bee outfit. A friend of ours made gloves for him, so when he goes outside and crawls around, it doesn't hurt his hands so much. We also have another friend who made some knee pads but we haven't got those yet.









Gage thinks this horse was pretty cool

and isn't so happy when his turn is up





don't we make a great cowboy family

MPM August 11th

Happy Monday to you!!

First I want to share with you an awesome recipe. We really enjoyed these 10 Minute Chilaquiles, thanks Kim for making them first and sharing with my sweet husband. Our whole family likes this. that is a miracle.

Also, Tammi asked what we put in our crepes for dinner. To answer that question, it really depends what we feel like. But usually there is ham, cheese, maybe turkey, bbq chicken, steak, all in strips.(not all of these, just whatever we want that night) we use mayo & mustard in the bottom of the crepes and then put the meat in. This time we made this awesome roast and shredded it. What I did was put a roast in the crock pot, sprinkled, no really doused, the roast with this great seasoning that we found called Veggie Grill by Weber. we found ours at Walmart, they also have a good BBQ chicken seasoning and a good burger seasoning. anyway, after I covered the roast with seasoning I added about a cup of water to the bottom of the crockpot. then let it cook for several hours. Jared added more seasoning a couple hours in, then we shredded it, and let it cook for another hour in the juices. It was GREAT. and easy. so that's the dinner part of the crepes. for dessert we have chocolate, vanilla, and butterscotch pudding, whipped topping, cherry pie filling, powdered sugar. sometimes ice cream. Its really good with leftover stuff. MMMMM good!

Now to this weeks Menu. The kids go back to school tomorrow, so hopefully this week will go smooth with dinners. We'll see.

Sunday- Skinny meat, with Yoshidas marinade, baked potatoes, corn on the cob, and Kings Hawaiian rolls. (it was a great birthday dinner, it tastes so much better when someone else is cooking)
Monday- Haystacks
Tuesday- Sausage Pasta new one, not sure what else I will serve with this yet. maybe some fruit and bread
Wednesday- quiche, applesauce
Thursday-Tacos, beans
Friday- leftovers/date night
Saturday- rataouille, bread,
Sunday- Stuffed Shells (finally) salad, bread,

Hope you have a great eating week! Check out Laura's List for lots more ideas Its awesome!

Memories

1. As a comment on my blog, leave one memory that you and I had together. It doesn't matter if you knew me a little or a lot, anything you remember!

2. Next, re-post these instructions on your blog and see how many people leave a memory about you. It's actually pretty funny to see the responses. 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.

WE GOT IT!!

We finally got the Amtryke. I am so excited about it. This is a cool bike that uses arm and leg strength to move. It will help Gage, with what is called disassociation-using his legs separately, instead of together. A lot of the time when he crawls he does a hop instead of the reciprocal, or normal crawl) Gage loves it and he loves that Cathy brought it to him. (Cathy is one of our Physical Therapists, we now have two that we see. She was able to use money that was alloted her from the Learning Center to buy the bike.) It is on loan for awhile, until we don't need it anymore or until Gage turns three. He can now move it at least 2 rotations without any help from me. and we have only had it 24 hours. WOOHOO.

Gage riding his new bike!



Austin wanting to be in the picture with Gage, and both of them doing funny faces for me.



I love this picture. It makes me so happy. Last night while we were walking down the road I was almost in tears watching him work so hard, and having so much fun. He loves having his own bike. I love that it works him, but he doesn't know it. Go Gage Go!!

MPM

This week I am going to try a couple new recipes from my wonderful SIL. I will post the recipes when she sends them to me. My husband says they are great and I have to make them. I am happy to try new things, especially things he already likes.

M-Cream Cheese chicken with rice, veggies, rolls
T-Enchilada Casserole
W-chef salad
T-breakfast for dinner
F-Leftover buffet
S-Stuffed Shells
S-Crepes
I am really looking forward to dinner this week. Hope you are too. Need menu ideas? Head over to Laura's

Dad's home, mini concert and goodbye to my ipod

You may or may not know that Jared was gone all last week, from Monday night until late Saturday night. It is so great to have him home. Its good for us to be apart from time to time, it just makes me appreciate him more and more when he comes back.

Saturday night Kathryn and Sydney and two of their friends put on a mini concert at the church. They planned it all. songs, food, music etc. They shopped for the food, made the desserts, even had decorations on the tables.

The food



The Pledge of Allegiance song



Austin shaking his booty



The Macarana



oh yeah, the IPOD. We had taken my ipod to the church to use it for the macarana song. Once we got home, Kathryn put it on the table, Austin picked it up and was messing with it, so I took it away and put it in my pocket. I forgot about it and put my pants in the laundry, and then put all the laundry in the washer. Kathryn came out and asked to use it, and then I found it in the washer.
I am so bummed. I just downloaded some scriptures on there, so I could listen while I did dishes. bummer.

MPM on Tuesday

I am a little late, but I did plan out all the meals on Monday, just didn't post until Tuesday

Monday

B- cereal
L- Top Ramen
D- Spaghetti and breadsticks

Tuesday

B- yogurt & eggos
L- $1 at walmart
D- Turkey & Ham Melts
icee's for dessert

Wednesday

B- popeye cakes
L- hot dogs
D- dinner out

Thursday

B- cereal
L- lunch out
D- homemade mac & cheese

Friday

B- pancakes
L- sandwiches
D- homemade pizza's and ice cream sundaes

Saturday
B- french toast
L- pick your own
D- at church

check out Laura's site for lots more menus

$ lunch

While Jared is gone this week, I have some things planned to keep me sane and the kids busy. So today we went to Walmart to pick up lunch. We broke up into groups of two. each member of the group had $1 to spend. We had 15 minutes to figure out what to choose that could be shared with everyone for lunch. This is what we came home with...



2 different kinds of Pringles, 1 package of frozen hash browns, 1 small frozen pizza, a box of vanilla wafers, 3 packages of cookies, and one very small peach yogurt.

Not very balanced, but it was fun. and funny to have the kids find me in the store and ask if its okay to pick cookies. one meal down, only 10 to go. and too many hours to count.
We also rented a movie to pass the time this afternoon while I take Gage to therapy.