Weird?

Today had a weird turn of events. First i wake up and realize the furnace has shut down. lucky for us it is now in the 40's and not -5 like last week. Second the school nurse calls me to inform me that Lilly is not feeling well and has a fever. I did get lucky and score a doc appt right after i picked her up. She has been sick alot this year. Since the furnace was out that means we have no hot water, off to grandma's I go to shower. As if that was not bad enough. I came home to about 2 inches of hot steamy water in our garage! not the typical organized garage with every thing on nice shelving racks mind you. we just open the door and literally throw stuff in there. Been meaning to work on that. Not exactly what I had on my to-do list today.

Caitlin's B-Day

Caitlin's big day! She has a little friend in our church who shares the same birthday. So we went to Lillie Mae's for her first party. The next night we had a pink polka dot cake and ice cream at our house. My mother is in town and caitlin has been calling her her pink grandma or purple or brown grandma depending on what she is wearing that day. Too cute.
My baby is now three, what am I to do?

Christmas 2008

We had another fast and furious Christmas.
Christmas morning we enjoy the new tradition of Heath's dad coming over and fixing his famously loved waffles. yum!
Later that evening we had a small get together for dinner at heath's sisters Hollyn's house. yum! yum!
Christmas is a fun time of year and we are thankful for the past year of health and many blessings!
Best wishes for 2009!

This is only a TEST!

This is what happens when your 4 year old gets under the sink and sprays your fire extingusher!
Just moments before I was serving dinner, so we had to start all over because there was a fine chemical dust over everything!

Can you hear me now?

Sorry no picture for this post. I tried to make a recording but my camera wasn't able to pick up the sound very well.
Myra owned a pet frog for awhile until Heavenly Father thought he might be happier on the other side. Well then we still had a few extra crickets left (frog food). Somehow two escaped. One made it to the garage, so every time i open the garage door i am serenaded with a cricket. The other found its way under our refrigerator, he is one lucky cricket, he found himself a little cricket heaven. How often do you clean out under your fridge? I never heard these crickets make noise in Myra's room. Now they are almost non-stop. I actually really enjoyed this for the first few days as it reminded me of many summer nights in Utah as a child. Ask me in another week how I'm feeling about our little house guests.

Best Ever!

This is the making of some very indulgent Peanut Butter fudge.
A family recipe from aunt Betty Randolph. Now a family tradition that gets made around the holidays in the number of batches I would be embarrassed to share.