Just a few more calories

This cute little girl ate the biggest dinner ever last night. I was so excited. We are really hoping to have her on the charts for her 2 year check up in a month. She has been below zero for so long. so every calorie counts.

Well-- As soon as she finished eating, she jumped up and started running around. This, along with the food not quite swallowed all the way in her mouth, made her cough and ... throw it up all up! All those precious calories! Gone to waste!

Our kitchen is starting to feel more like a room, than an empty room that is. Add two rugs and we are set! The couch we ordered is set to come in 4-6 weeks!

On a side note- Two friends and I are signed up for a half marathon on April 17th- Your welcome to join us. I am also planning on signing up for a hundred miler - The Little Red Riding Hood in Logan on June 5th! Any takers!?- you can do less than 100, like 25, 50, 75 ....

Tyler's spider web

Tyler built a huge spider web in our kitchen on Monday. He caught Ella in it, or rather, it caught Ella and she landed on a sharp edge of our stairs and split a good cut right between her eyes. Goose Egg!

Then Tyler got sick. Last night he still had a raging fever of 102. He said I wish Dad was a doctor- we had just returned from the doctors an hour before. It was nice to remind him that dad wasn't a doctor but he did have the priesthood and could give him a blessing. The fever finally calmed at about 3 am. I have never experienced that before. I slept with him all night. His pillow, sheets and pj's were just drenched in sweat.

I just watched the clock tick waiting to give him more tylenol and motrin. So a cough, an ear infection, a high temp and missing all week of school... we are on the mend. And so is Ella's head!

Valentines

Our neighborhood had a "Dance through the Ages" last night. Lots of yummy food and fun music. We learned some swing moves and had some rap music too. You could dress up if you wanted too. I needed to find a gangster hat for Darren to finish his 20's attire (he did have a boy tie on too earlier in the evening). I wore my sister's prom dress from years ago. It was fun!

The bunny hop!
There are only a few more weeks of snow left for Tyler to learn on. You can ski free every day from 3-4:30 at Alta. He is getting so much better.

Ella fell 4 times on Saturday. She looks pretty banged up. Cut her chin really bad, black bruise on her face, cut on her lower lip, and a skinned knee. She is durable!
Pictures of the kitchen soon. I just want to wait until we get our new couch.

To answer a few question from the previous post: We did buy a new table. I shopped forever and found one I absolutely love! We didn't repaint. We sold our old white couches for more than we paid for them on KSL! score!!

Floors

Well- we have found a few nights here an there that we are all home at night- It doesn't seem to happen very often- but we sure are trying. I think Darren and I both just need to say no to some of the things we are being asked to go do and attend. Family time at home in the evenings is great.

One night we played Mancala

We have also been very busy redoing our kitchen a bit.

These are the new floors- dark coffee color - and the table- and thats it! Give me a month and I will post better pictures.
These are the old floors - a natural color (orange, yellow and amber- no more!!!! yeah!!!)

We are all feeling better

College friends - Pam, Tiff, new mom Rachael (her baby shower) and me!

No one is throwing up all over and we are sleeping better at night- I sure love that!

We are sanding our kitchen/front room floors this week and staining them a darker color- even getting a new table for our kitchen that can seat more than 4 people- we are excited!

on a side note- Our ward is doing a great humanitarian project- They are collecting yarn for the prison and the Humanitarian Center- So here is a shout out! If you live close by and want me to come get your old yarn, new or half way gone- let me know! (since I don't have any and want to contribute more than the ones I can buy!)

Macey's receipt

This is a game- see if you can guess---

This morning I bought

3 bottles of gatorade

1 box of salty crackers

1 box of jello

1 snickers bar (for me)

and since I was there 2 gallons of milk

30 minutes later I cleaned up

- strawberry jello

- curdled milk

- clear gatorade

any guesses!

and no I am not pregnant! (but I am going to take a nap- to many long nights!)

Great freezer/Crockpot Recipe

I made this on Sunday and it was sure good.

Crockpot Creamy Chicken

2 cans of cream of chicken ( I used one mushroom one chicken since we like cream of mushroom- it was great!)

8 oz of cream cheese

1 pkg of dry Italian salad dressing mix

5-7 chicken breasts

Combine first three ingredients really well. Layer with frozen or defrosted chicken in crock pot. 5-6 hours on low or 3-4 hours in high. Freeze leftovers in a ziplock and you can reheat later for another meal. Serve over rice.

The sauce was so yummy and creamy. I loved having all the extra sauce to go over the rice.

Ella

Ella loves to do everything like Tyler.

Tyler is becoming quite a good little artist. (pictures to follow ...someday)

The best date ever!

We haven't taken many pictures lately but I wanted to highlight some of our late events:

- New Years with people from Massachusetts, Colorado, and Idaho. Great to have friends together. A few days of food, fun, sledding and crazy kids!

- Skiing a nice day of some powder with Darren and Ang!

- Taking Tyler skiing and make it down 2 runs in an hour and a half!

- Ella waking herself up slowly singing twinkle twinkle

- Signing up for a half marathon on April 17th with Nettie- anyone is invited to run with us!

- Ella just walking into nursery today- no crying, no sadness, just happy as could be.

- Seeing a friend, Tawnie, who I have know for 22 years- That is old!

- and our amazing date yesterday

Details:

- rented cross country skis from REI for 8$ each,

- drove to top of Millcreek Canyon with two other couples and 2 dogs

- Skied almost 9 miles total to the upper parking lot

- Ate delicious cold Chipolte burrito at the top! (Thanks Dale and Marlene)

- then whizzed down in top speed to relieve my dad from babysitting

Thanks Dad for a great birthday present! My dad watched our kids for almost 6 hours! (and Ella didn't/wouldn't take a nap) There are many amazing gifts in the world but I sure think spending time is my favorite, whether it be hanging out, or a project together. I appreciate him sacrificing his Saturday to spend with his Grandkids!