Everything In Between...

Here is June...random picture style :)

yummy clean eats.  Greek Yogurt, fresh OJ, strawberries, vanilla...blend it up and freeze it out!

another favorite.  banana slices, topped with PB and a little dark choc frozen to perfection.  You only take out what you will eat....Bananas will go soggy as they thaw

and this is how we will spend our long summer days :)

yes, sir!  We love our pool!

Clean chocolate creamies...plain greek yogurt, cocoa powder, banana

I am still dreaming about this yummy alfredo sauce: cauliflower, garlic, herbs blended with a little chicken broth or water...eat it by the spoonfuls or over pasta, or quesadillas, or...pretty much anything!

fort night...movie night...sleep out!  Sure love these kids and how well they get along!

We reached 29 weeks of pregnancy and I am still bruning it up teaching Spin, Step, Toning, and Water classes.  Greg and I are teaching kids sports conditioning classes so on Monday and Wednesdays I am teaching double classes.  Loving it, and loving that my body can do it.  I have never felt this good pregnant!!  Too bad I didn't stay this fit (and my diet this clean) with all my other pregnancies :)

this is the kid that stopped taking naps in church before he was 1, but since finding out he had a baby sis or brother he snuggles with it every Sunday and falls asleep.  It is the sweetest thing in the world to feel the baby on the inside squirm over to where he is laying and snuggle in.  I LOVE it!  and can't wait for this little boy to be a big brother. 

summer grilling!  this is how we eat every night

Kirst and her kids came to play and we had a great time.  No pool because of course it cooled down just as they got here. 

sweet, fun kids!  Thanks for coming to play Kirst!

Sick of It Yet?

...not at our house!  Greg claims he is, but just look at how much fun he is having, there is no way he can be sick of snow yet...pictures don't lie!

Where was Dax?  Inside playing...that kid needs his alone time occasionally!

If You Can't Beat It...

...join it!  The cold that is.  We are still far below freezing especially when it comes to the windchill.  Tomorrow morning at 7:22 it will be -5* with the windchill -43* and by 8:38 we will have dropped to -11* and raised to -21* with the windchill...yes, I can see the future!  Ask me what I blog about on Monday, I bet it has something to do with my headaches again :)

Anyways back to today, Saturday.  I spent the first part of the morning taking pictures of a good friends new baby girl.  She has 3 boys and we were more than happy to play for a few hours with all things girly!  While we were taking pictures their boys were over playing at our house and then we all met up back at Chantry and Jamie's for subfreezing weenie roast, sledding, snow-machining fun!

you can't really see the ketchup mustache

Thanks Whittles!

technically our day started with a good hardy breakfast curtsey of one cute little almost 3 year old...so cute and a good cook!

That's It We Are Moving...

...somewhere warm like Utah!  Alright, you all aren't much warmer than we are, and you have the snow to show for it so maybe Texas!  This cold is CRAZY and we are supposed to be crazy cold all next week too.

Check out that Real Feel stuff...it got down as low as -39

On a positive note, I LOVE that we have 9:00 church!  We get naps now.  Sure, it is hard to get out the door before 7:30 for meetings, but oh so worth it!

Fire In The Sky...

...and on the mountain too, but for just a minute let's focus on the positive...pretty sunsets, orange moons (when you can see them). 

This shot was taken on Monday night

about 10 minutes late for the real fire in the sky...but you get the picture right?

It is devastating to see so much land burn, but as we talked with the kids tonight, sometimes this is Heavenly Father's way of cleaning out the land.  Did you know that a lot of the tree's up there were dead because of beetles?  (Greg informed me of that tid bit) 
As of tonight the fire has burned 22,000 acres, a 150% increase from yesterday.  The firefighters have said that they have never seen a fire move so fast (of course I am not sure if that is coming from BLM firemen or Oakley firemen...it makes a difference) it is 10% contained and expected date of containment is unknown, but they have called Oakley QRU up for at least 10 days.

tried to get in perspective how far this fire spans...not sure I did because I couldn't get the whole thing in one shot.  The bulk of the fire is just outside the frame on the right. 

made good use of my spy lens...although it is too darn heavy to hold very steady for night pictures and I didn't have a tripod

hmmm something about those last 3 pictures tells me I need to clean my lens especially since they were taken at different locations...can you see it?

The Pool Is Broken In...

...and we all said "ahhh finally!" It wasn't super warm (70s), and pretty breezy but the water was 80* so as long as you were in and all the way it was nice!

Jacey on the NEW diving board!

Jacey's Splash

Skye (and Dax's shoulder and back)

More of Dax (Skye under water)

And Colt was just fine hanging out on the side checking things out.  We did finally get in and he loved it as long as he had a tight hold on me.  By the end of the summer he will be a little fish I am sure!

Finally...

...and I really do mean finally. I have been more anxious than the kids for some real snow this year and it finally came!! (how many times do you think I can write finally before that word starts to look weird?). The best part is that I had no idea it was coming. I woke up to a pleasant surprise-other than the fact that we all had to drive into Burley in it, and I got to test Greg's car in Idaho snow for the first time. The kids had dentist appointments and I made Greg take them so I could go teach and I totally expected to meet them there after I was done, but 3 kids, 3 cleanings, 3 exams and NO cavities-except an inactive one on a baby tooth that is just about to fall out!! WAHHHOOOO!!! That makes a mom so happy, I think it is cause for celebration, if only I could come up with a worthy way to celebrate. I thought about getting them a treat, but that seemed to be a little oxymoronic, so I will have to come up with something.

So back to the snow that we finally got. After school we went out to play in it, look closely at these pictures and find all the mismatches. Really, we did it on purpose just so you could have fun finding them all. Of course it isn't because it finally snows and we finally dig out our bag of snow stuff and find that it is possible we donated all of our matching gloves to the dumpster and kept the bag of mismatches...that would just be silly!!


PS) yes that snow ball hit me, lucky for Dax it was only my pants and not my camera...little stinkers!

So Colt would NOT step off the rock-way and he fretted over that little bit of snow on his boot the entire time we were out there, but he LOVED the snow
oh why yes, those are socks on his hands-four of them actually I am nothing if not resourceful!! But hey they are actually matches so don't try to add them to your tally, and they matched his coat too.
I think out of all, Skye loved it the most!
I found this a little silly, Skye making snow angels while Dax drives the tractor right in her path-ironic!
speaking of ironic I was driving to town yesterday to drop Borg off at his appointment, you know THAT appointment where he will come home with a few less hormones, anyways that is not the ironic part, more the reason I didn't stop. So I was driving to town yesterday (did I already mention that?!) and off to the side of the road I saw some chickens, 3 of them, and immediately I thought "why did the chicken cross the road?" and giggled. Just as I got close enough that there was no way to react safely they crossed the road and I hit one and then I literally laughed out loud and said out loud "Why did the chicken cross the road?" Ironic!
I do feel very sad, and would like to apologize to the chicken owner, but I don't remember which house it was, and there was no way I was going to stop on the highway with 2 kids, a puppy and 2 more chicken on the side of the road. So if you are missing a chicken, I am truly sorry that yours decided to cross the road, and that it didn't make it to the other side.

Talented By Association...

...is that possible? Cause if so I ROCK! We went to the Danny Marona Scholarship Competition tonight for Young Womens and I was pick my jaw up off the ground amazed at the talent that came from lil' ol' Oakley, let alone the surrounding towns. The only performer to choke Danny up was from Oakley, and I have to admit I was a little bit choked up after he sang. One of my girls (as in Laurels not Jacey or Skye) performed and she is stunningly beautiful with a voice of an angel (no lie!). There was a violinist that knocked the socks off of everyone with his energy and speed (thought of you Crystal-you would have loved it, and I bet you would have gone home and pulled yours out too!). Every kid that performed was simply delightful to watch. Not too mention Danny Marona is hilarious! I think I might just have to go again next year.

The Cow Parade...

...people (well people that don't live here) ask me all the time "what do you do in such a small town?" Oh if you only knew the day to day things you miss out on by NOT living in such a small town.

haha, yes we were camped out eating lunch in the car waiting for the cows to be driven down main street for the winter. They do this every Spring and Winter and I don't think we have missed it once, and we have never planned to see it, but this year we knew about it ahead of time and were ready! We would run up the street look, run back to the car and warm up, run up the street and look, run back to the car to warm up...

and then when the kids had all their pent up energy spent we drove around. This started about 40 min. before the cows actually crossed and after a quick potty break we came back out sat in the car and waited for a couple minutes. Then decided to drive around again...guess what?! We missed the cows crossing the intersection...what?! So we had to drive down the road a little ways and catch them.
do you like the tumble weeds, after a perfectly calm morning (weird, I know) the wind started to pick up.

this is my kind of road congestion, and just look at those pretty mountains!
Please excuse their rear ends...next Spring we will try for their faces

Hello Holy War...

...it is that time of the year again, where our house is divided, where I allow and encourage the kids to disagree with their dad, where Greg tries (with bribery) to convince the kids that blue is the team to cheer for. Lucky for me they are very rarely swayed. It is the day that determines our Thanksgiving attire, where we will be welcomed in one family's home, but not the other.

Our game started off with a good ol' tailgate party with the ward. I have to say I am a little out numbered, but like I told a friend..."that is just the way the world is anymore, a lot of bad amongst the good. It just means the good has to stand a little stronger/taller". The kids and I made some yummies for our party

Skye helped make the rollo stuffed football cookies:

1 box cake mix
1/3 cup oil
2 eggs
wrap the batter around rollos
bake at 350 for 7 min.

Dax helped make the Apple Snickers Salad-snickering as in when BYU looses!

1 small box vanilla pudding
1 cup milk
1 small tub cool whip
5-6 apples
12 snickers (they are easiest to cut if they are cold)
mix pudding and milk, fold in cool whip
I layered mine, but you could mix it all together if you wanted (that is how the recipe I found did it, but I thought it was more appealing and less "potato salad" looking this way)

Jacey made these ref pretzels

unwrap hugs place on pretzels cook for about 2 min. squish down the chocolate.

All of these yummies were so good, we will have to remember these for our super bowl party!

It was good to hang out with ward members and friends. We had a great time with LOTS of good food!

poor buddy has no clue the rivalry he was born into...

Let's Get Ready To...

...RUMMMMBLLE!! It is Oakley Football time (alright so I am a couple weeks late on this-but finally made it to a game) There honestly is something to be said about small town football games, I just don't know what it is. Perhaps it is the food! Or the company, and knowing most of the players, the cheerleaders, the coaches, and announcers! Or the crisp cool night once the sun hits the mountains! What ever it is I LOVE IT!

So in honor of our first home game I give you our baked footballs, topped with cottage cheese and bacon...yuMMMy!!



The JV boys played Hansen (who only has a varsity team) they barely, barely lost...it was a good game and they gave us our pennies worth!