The Yummiest Salad You Will Ever Make

This Thai Pasta Chicken Salad is so fresh and so yummy and you will just love it! Here is the link to the recipe and directions.

Fun for the Holidays

The holidays were great and full of family, food and fun.....but I always love the New Year. I love to feel the bug to clean and organize my house. I love to start my annual sugar fast (maybe I like it better after a few weeks) and I love the fresh-start feeling. Happy 2011 everyone!

Here are a few pictures of us enjoying the season!



Happy 4th Birthday D-train!


The ever-popular light display at Temple Square. I loved that Diesel was playing with his blown-up rubber glove from the doctors all night and that Madeline got a little confused by all the varieties of Nativity Scenes (she knows Jesus wasn't Asian!!)

Christmas morning reading their Shutterfly books and of course starting on the sugar!

All the grand kids with grandma and grandpa and the pillow pets they got from them-hooray!!

Celebrate Good Times!

My two little girls had birthday's last month. Madeline and I celebrated from the moment she woke up on November 11th (by eating cake of course!) She went on a date with dad that night and the next day we went to the Wizard of Oz Orchestra. She had a mad tea party the following day....Gray also had a much smaller but no-less exciting cake eating extravaganza!!

How we spent Halloween.....

So fall is just about over here in Utah, but as my blogging and other things (ie: laundry) fall behind, I have to remind myself to post-for the sake of memories!! Here we are at Gardner Village (love) and a great pumpkin patch the kids had a blast at. It was a beautiful day and Madeline and Diesel found their way through the corn maze a dozen times at least and found "the perfect pumpkin that was just right for them!"


Precious cargo!

Here we are on Halloween night with the somewhat smaller stash of candy that I remember collecting as a child...I really need a new camera-I promise my kids make the cutest faces and then with the delay, it doesn't quite get captured!


Natalie and I ran the Provo Half-Marathon in the morning-this is in the parking lot after the race; we really should have done it at the finish line but I guess we were thinking of all the calories we would be consuming that night!! Here are the details.

Halloween Photo Shoot

My uber talented sister-in-law took these pictures of my kids in their Halloween costumes. Remember her name all. Kat Harris will be famous one day!! She has a little point and shoot camera and look at the amazing things she can do!! Madeline was a Vampiress (made by my wonderful and also talented seamstress mother, thanks mom), Diesel a ninja and Gray a skunk....

My Whatever Week

Do you ever have those weeks where you are talking to your kids and wondering what you are saying? This week I respond to Diesel when he is complaining that Maddie & Gray won't get out of his "room" in the bathtub; I say "Diesel there is no room in the tub for you to have a "room" right now." They like to draw an imaginary line between them and each of them has their own "room." I am trying to explain to Diesel that he needs to just stay in his own "room" in the tub and leave his feet out of Maddie's "room." WHAT??? This is nonsense; why am I even talking about this? There are way too many ridiculous conversations in our household-no wonder my brain seems to have turned to mush!

School Daze!!

I am entering a new phase of life now with Madeline in Kindergarten and Diesel in pre-school. Although their time away from me is short, I still can't believe I am sending my oldest daughter into the world so to speak. She will have more worldly influence and I just hope that I did enough to shape her while I had her all to myself. She is loving school, her friends and her teacher. This is a real exciting and fun time in our lives. Time really does fly and I am trying to enjoy every minute of it!

She really wanted to bring her teddy bear (she's had her since she was 1) but her teacher asked her not to bring it again:( understandably.

Read Warner (who she will hopefully marry) and Madeline outside of school.


Dad giving her one last pep-talk before she has to be brave and go into the classroom (her teacher Mrs. Wells in the background)

It was yellow day at school and she wanted a big yellow-bow in her hair. Cute even if she looked a little like a birthday gift!!

Gage Warner and Diesel on their first day of pre-school.

My little guy was totally different on his first day pf pre-school. Where Maddie was shy and hugged my neck for a good 5 minutes before I could leave, Diesel is in the door and off socializing before I even get a chance to kiss him goodbye. I love their different personalities.