I did it!

The second batch looked very good.....this is in the rising stage....but it didn't hold together very well.
Waaahhhh..... But it wasn't sour!


BUT....take a look at THIS!!!! Whoopie!!!! It turned out PERFECT! It looks good, it tastes great AND the texture is wonderful. I wonder if I can do it again? HMMMMMM......

Exciting things...

I have been trying to make whole wheat sour dough bread......I finally got it to raise! That's a start at least. It does make killer pancakes though.

Also.....I planted some starts in the house for a garden.....I don't have a green thumb but I would like to.

We got to play with Eli and Paige for a few hours.....it was great fun!!! I wish we had our camera with us when we were going down the slippery slides.



And....I also got to visit with my friends Marion and Jolene......what FUN!!!

BUT......not so cool.....I asked the hair stylist to cut ONE inch off and she took the privilege of cutting off about 3 instead.....AAAHHHHGGGGGGG!!!!! Oh well.....it will take about 6 months to get it back where I like it again. By the time I get done experimenting how I can make it look good it will be grown out (what's a girl to do?)

Don't Forget!

Sunday at 6:00 p.m. - our kids at the White's house. Mandi is doing the games and Tiffany is doing dessert. See you there!

Two Great Days!!!

We had two of the best days...
Saturday we had tickets to the Draper Open House. After many calls, this is the group that wanted to go. We played games, had a luncheon and went to the Open House - what a great time. The company was fabulous and the Temple was exquisite.


Then.....
On Sunday night....
The children and grandchildren came over and we had a BLAST! We also played games, had a little dessert, opened cards and sang Happy Birthday to Kelly and Paige!
We can't wait to do it again!!!

Lookie, Lookie....

I received this beautiful frame - a work of art by Jenilyn - as my home made gift
for signing onto her post. I'm a LUCKY girl!!!!! Thank you Jenilyn!!!!

The Challenge....

So this is a post that I am doing so I can win an extremely CRAZY thing from my daughters Mandi & Jenilyn. I hope you will participate!!!!

OK! So this is how this works...the first 5 people to respond to this post will receive something made by me for you-my choice-made especially for you. Of course there are some restrictions and limitations:
1 I make no guarantees that you will like what I make!
2 What I create will be just for you.
3 It will be done sometime this year.
4 You have no clue what it will be... it may be a story. It may be poetry or an article on properly cleaning your face before a masque. I may draw or paint something. I may bake something and mail it to you. Who knows? Not you, that's for sure. ;-)
5 I reserve the right to do something extremely strange.
......The catch?.......
The catch is that you must re post this on your own blog and offer the same to the first 5 people who do the same on their blog.The first 5 people to do so and leave a comment telling me they did will win a FAB-U-LOUS homemade gift by me!!

Oh! And be sure to post a picture of what you win when you get it!!

My Valentine!

Ain't he sweet????




He's a chocoholic...but I sure do love him!!!
We had a blast Friday night and we still get to celebrate some more tonight - all on $25! Coupons are GREAT!!!!
Happy Valentines to YOU!!!!

A NEW LOOK!

I don't know about this......I guess it's too late now!

A NEW TEMPLE

We were ushers at the Open House for the new Draper Temple....what a great experience!!!

Long time - No Write!

BUT...a lot of things have been going on....

We moved from Tremonton to Sandy....

We had 2 great Thanksgivings!
One with the kids (I can't find my pictures....hummm)
And one with my Mom, Dad and some of my brothers, sisters and their children....







We had a fabulous Christmas!!!!






And....we celebrated my Dad's 82nd birthday!!!

This Past Week.....

Wow....I had a great week! I got to tend Mandi,....

because she had her nose operated on, which means I also got to tend....

Eli........and........

Paige.......

from Monday-Thursday! Jon is Superman and when he's home he can take care of everybody! And then......

On Tuesday night - SURPRISE! Tiffany, Brett and Kelly came over so we could ALL have a birthday party (for ME)! We missed Kyle and Jenilyn - Jenilyn had to work - but they sent the funniest card (plus a fun little something inside!). We missed Shane too but he came for a couple of minutes the next night and gave me a very lovely card (also with a nice little something inside)!

Thank you to all of my children!!! I'm grateful for YOU!

Mandi wants to know what we are all thankful for so......since my birthday, lots of times, is on General Conference and this year it was on Saturday's Conference, I want to publicly say that I am thankful for our Modern day Prophet, Thomas S. Monson...

I'm SO grateful for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints because it does make it possible for families to be together FOREVER!!! And that's what I'm MOST thankful for Today!