These are a few of my favorite things!

These are a few of my favorite things!

Monday, February 6, 2012

A day in the life...

I have so few pictures of me, especially in the blog.  Mostly because I don't like to see myself in a  picture.  I pick it apart and end up cutting it out.  So, dispite the top of my head being cut off, here you go. 
Today:  5:20 a.m.  The alarm went off and I got up to get ready for my morning workout at Crossfit
 I read scriptures until 5:55 and headed to Logan to be there at 6:15.  Jackson caught a ride with me to Planet Fitness.
7:30 a.m.  Back home and just in time to kiss the girls good-bye as they head to school.  They cuss because I didn't set breakfast out for them this morning.  Bryan, Jackson and I enjoy a quick bite of toast and yogurt for me and JB and cereal for Bryan. Jackson leaves at 8.
8:30 a.m.  Bryan heads to the office to catch up on paperwork from the weekend.  I clean up the house and finish the tax forms I am tardy in finishing and mail them off.  Bryan returns at 11;30 for a sack lunch to take to Riverton, Wy. with him.  It's not like there is a McD. in the middle of Wyoming.  I take a few minutes and finish the Hocus Pocus quilt block I have been working on.
1:00 p.m. I have a presidency meeting at Colette's  YEA!  I love these girls.
3:00 p.m.--yes it did last 2 hours but we had a lot to discuss! (hee hee)  I pick up Savanna and go visit Grandma Marge and then go home to Sierra teaching Grandma Reay piano lessons. 
4-7:00 p.m. the piano is constantly making music!  Savanna is making treats for mutual after her lesson is finished.
8-? p.m.  Family Home Evening!  We have a great story from the Ensign about a tour guide from Peru that takes people to Machu Pichu.  Very motivating.  After that a lovely movie we have been waiting to see!

Bryan in his favorite spot with his favorite blankie!

Cookies!

The tools of the trade
Do you still want to lick the beaters? 
That is the one thing I remember asking my mom that my kids also ask me--still!


Into the oven with these little gems!
This was a new recipe from a "hometown" cookbook.  They were delicious-especially with a glass of milk!

I wish the counter was always this clean!
This is a working kitchen.  With three teens in the house someone is always  hungry.  So, someone is always cooking something and they feel justified in leaving the mess because they fixed something for everyone to eat! (I fix, you clean)
 We do get to try lots of new recipe's but we also run the dishwasher at least twice each day!

Thursday, February 2, 2012

Polar Plunge

For the second year in a row, Savanna is participating in the Polar Plunge to benefit the Special Olympics.

As you can see, It is a rainy and cold day.  Not the 20 degrees that it was last year but standing out in the rain wasn't exactly warm.

The long walk.


A-one-and-a-two


She couldn't get out of there fast enough.  We went straight to the car and straight home to a warm shower!  Good job Savanna!
You crazy woman, you!

Winter Wonderland

It took me a year to complete this quilt and then I sent it to be quilted which took another year.  It was worth it!  It looks amazing.  I am so excited to have it done and hanging on the wall!

Chelsie

I got a new camera and Chelsie was the only one home for me to take pictures of!

YW Basketball

Lexie, Brooklyn, Alli, Hollie

The Team
Alli
Emilie, Savanna, Hollie

We have an awsome team!  This is the first year that they have won a game and they have won all 4 of them!  They are hilarious to watch.
 YW basketball is really a whole new game barely related to the original game.  They are silly and have some wild shots and a few wild fouls that are mostly innocent because they don't really understand the rules.  We have had the opportunity to be more than 20 points ahead of the opposing team (Thanks, Katelyn) and had to back off the full court press. 
Try explaining that to a team of 7 that only 3 of them have played much.
  Anyway, it is a great thing to watch.
 The YM have started to come to be entertained as well. 
OK, they are cute girls, the boys can't help themselves!

January Tennis

Nice Serve!


Savanna played in a tourney at the Sport's Academy.  She hadn't picked up a racket since the end of October.  She won her first game and lost her second.  It was fun to watch her and then watch the Austrailian Open.  I am slowly learning the game and the rules and how to keep score.