My Man is the Best!

My wonderful Hubby came home the day before yesterday with a beautiful bouquet of flowers for me. AAAAAhhh. I have the best Husband ever! He picked out all of the flowers himself knowing that I love Gerber Daisies and lillies.

Apron Strings

My sister in law, Emily Palmer, makes the cutest aprons. It's one of her many mad skills- she also makes an amazing marshmallow fondant that she decorated her daughter's birthday cake with. It was so cute. Anyway, so I was looking at an apron that she made when we were there last weekend and decided that I wanted to try my hand at it. I went to Hobby Lobby and got some cute fabric and then went to the internet and found a basic butchers apron pattern. Here is how it turned out. It's actually a little bit cuter in person but it turned out all right. It was way fun though and only took a couple of hours.

Blackfoot and Walking

I'm such a dork that I didn't take any pictures of our weekend in Blackfoot. On Saturday we hitched a ride with David's sister Carla and her husband and daughter and went to visit David's only brother in Blackfoot. It was Dave's nieces birthday and we hadn't been down there in a while. We had such a good time. We played games and the kids played with Jessica. Clare was in absolute Heaven. There were princess dolls and a doll house and a little play kitchen and best of all... there was Jesse. Her very own cousin friend. Jesse was so good to play with her even though she is a big girl now (six) and Clare is so small.
We had a blast and as always, Steve and Emily were fabulous hosts. Always good food, good company, good entertainment.
We went to churh with them on Sunday and Kaity took Clare and Hyrum in the Nursery with her so David and I got to listen to the entire block of meetings without interuption. It was so nice! That hasn't happened in nearly three years. Thankyou Kaity and thankyou Shane and Carla for lending her to us and for being such a wonderful Uncle and Aunt to our kids. They absolutely love you.
Today was a gorgeous warm day. David and I took the kids outside and ended up going for a walk around the block. It was so good to get outside and feel the sunshine. The kids were eating it up too. We ended up at the IFA that is not to far from our house. They were having an amazing sale on all of their toys. they were all at least 75% off if not more. There was tons of John Deere stuff for super cheap and Breyer horse play sets. We had so much fun shopping for the kiddos. I told David that we should probably keep some of it hidden for birthdays and next Christmas but he can never wait. I have to hide Clare Christmas presents from him or he'll give them to her early. He loves his kids, and loves to spoil them. Anyway. We had just as much fun as the kids did playing with them. Have a good week!

Mmmm Cheesecake

I have been craving cheesecake lately and I'm going to make some this morning. I have never made it before but I'm using a recipe I found on the internet. I never knew how many variations of cheesecake there are. Apparently there is Philidelphia cheesecake, Italian cheesecake, New York cheesecake (which is what I'm making) and then all of the fruit/chocolate/pumkin/coffee/peanut butter versions of each. Wow! It makes my mouth water. Wish me luck.

All is calm, All us white

We were pounded yesterday by a huge snow storm that dropped about ten inches of snow on us. I'm thinking about hunting down a certain ground hog and pinning his hide up on our woodshed. (six weeks till spring! Baaah!) Anyway, it made everything look so pretty and I had to take some pix. I love it when the snow sticks to the branches on the trees so that it turns all white. Beautiful.

Our back yard looked pretty too

It makes everything so pretty. Even our street, which is a big deal, since we live in ghettoville.