There has been this show on late at night on PBS a few times now and every time Josh and I cant help but watch it. I love it. The beautiful music and singers brings tears to my eyes. If you have never watched it before you should. It is FABULOUS!!!
Tuesday
Sunday
Pumpkin Cranberry Bread Recipe
So here is the recipe for the pumpkin cranberry bread if I am in an indulgent mood I will add chocolate chips instead of cranberries.2 1/4 cups flour
1 Tbsp. pumpkin pie spice
1 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt
2 eggs
2 cups granulated sugar
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1 cup Libby's Solid Pack Pumpkin
1 cup cranberries (I usually just use crasins...I think it tastes better)
In large bowl, combine flour, pumpkin pie spice, baking soda and salt. Mix.
In small bowl mix with electric mixer eggs, sugar, oil, and pumpkin. Pour pumpkin mix into dry ingredients and mix until just moistened. Stir in cranberries. Spoon batter into 2 greased loaf pans. Bake in preheated 350 degree oven for 60 minutes. (If you take it out even 5 minutes before the 60 minutes are up it wont be done. So leave it in for the full 60 minutes.) ENJOY one of my favorite fall treats!
Saturday
whats going on here...
so since our trip to d.c. we have been soo busy. here is what we have been up to.
josh...studying and making his wife feel very loved.
brody and i have been working on preschool stuff at home this year. we have a set time everyday and it is slow and frustrating for the poor guy since mom is probably a bad teacher. but he handles me pretty well. he also starts soccer this week. he turned 3 and we had a big birthday party for him. we are having a lot of fun lately playing make believe together hiding from dinosaurs and going shopping at the grocery store. he always loves to paint and color and his favorite tv show now is dinosaur train. brody had a doctors appointment and he has finally moved up from the 5% to the 25% in weight. he got a flu shot and didnt cry one bit. afterwards he told the nurse that she forgot the other arm. he wanted another shot in that arm too. he is such a funny kid.
brooklyn is recovering from her injuries with a badly bruised forehead. she is getting bigger all the time. i never noticed but josh always said she had a big head. i guess so because at her doctors appointment her head was off the chart!!!! haha. her body is only 25% so big head little body. she is learning new words everyday...banana, daddy, mama, hi, bye bye, bath, etc. she loves to play with her fake cell phone and talk on it. she is walking like a pro now and loves to run away from me when it is time to get dressed or change her poopy diaper. her favorite person right now is her daddy. she cries every time he leaves or sets her down as soon as he gets home. daddy plays a new game with the kids and they LOVE it! brooklyn's hair is slow coming but i can now get it up into a pony tail on top of her head. she looks like pebbles. it is cute to me. she has been super grumpy with molars coming in and so mommy has held her a lot lately. she just started to act herself yesterday. thank goodness. i prayed that she would start to feel better because i could not handle another day of crying and just holding her on my lap while she cried.
me...well i have been keeping busy with my family. josh and i read the second book of the hunger games together....loved it! i try to keep my house clean but cant. the kids are way to fast now. my sister in law got me into saving money and so i have been addicted to clipping coupons and finding amazing deals lately. i just got 10 full sized johnson baby wash for FREE!!! it felt great. i did a young womens thing way back when called the 14 Day Walk with Christ. I have worked on it for months getting it just right for my own YW and I put together the packets and present that to them on Wednesday. It was a lot of work and I know they will be blessed and hopefully it will help them strengthen their testimony. I am always looking for new recipes to try and usually do once or twice a week. I have a few great ones that I will have to post including BBQ pizza and Baked Doughnuts. I also made my favorite fall bread. My pumpkin cranberry bread is my favorite. And I decided yesterday even though our weather is not quite fall yet it is still fall and i love the smell it makes in my house. I think FALL is my favorite time of year!!! I have been going to the Y as always and I love my spin classes. I have been reading the Old Testament and I am learning so much. I need a new book if you have any suggestions. I have also been decorating my house when i get a chance to do crafts.
That is about it here. We are healthy and very blessed in our lives. I love this gospel so much and I have such a strong testimony of it. I know with all of my heart that this is the true church.
josh...studying and making his wife feel very loved.
brody and i have been working on preschool stuff at home this year. we have a set time everyday and it is slow and frustrating for the poor guy since mom is probably a bad teacher. but he handles me pretty well. he also starts soccer this week. he turned 3 and we had a big birthday party for him. we are having a lot of fun lately playing make believe together hiding from dinosaurs and going shopping at the grocery store. he always loves to paint and color and his favorite tv show now is dinosaur train. brody had a doctors appointment and he has finally moved up from the 5% to the 25% in weight. he got a flu shot and didnt cry one bit. afterwards he told the nurse that she forgot the other arm. he wanted another shot in that arm too. he is such a funny kid.
brooklyn is recovering from her injuries with a badly bruised forehead. she is getting bigger all the time. i never noticed but josh always said she had a big head. i guess so because at her doctors appointment her head was off the chart!!!! haha. her body is only 25% so big head little body. she is learning new words everyday...banana, daddy, mama, hi, bye bye, bath, etc. she loves to play with her fake cell phone and talk on it. she is walking like a pro now and loves to run away from me when it is time to get dressed or change her poopy diaper. her favorite person right now is her daddy. she cries every time he leaves or sets her down as soon as he gets home. daddy plays a new game with the kids and they LOVE it! brooklyn's hair is slow coming but i can now get it up into a pony tail on top of her head. she looks like pebbles. it is cute to me. she has been super grumpy with molars coming in and so mommy has held her a lot lately. she just started to act herself yesterday. thank goodness. i prayed that she would start to feel better because i could not handle another day of crying and just holding her on my lap while she cried.
me...well i have been keeping busy with my family. josh and i read the second book of the hunger games together....loved it! i try to keep my house clean but cant. the kids are way to fast now. my sister in law got me into saving money and so i have been addicted to clipping coupons and finding amazing deals lately. i just got 10 full sized johnson baby wash for FREE!!! it felt great. i did a young womens thing way back when called the 14 Day Walk with Christ. I have worked on it for months getting it just right for my own YW and I put together the packets and present that to them on Wednesday. It was a lot of work and I know they will be blessed and hopefully it will help them strengthen their testimony. I am always looking for new recipes to try and usually do once or twice a week. I have a few great ones that I will have to post including BBQ pizza and Baked Doughnuts. I also made my favorite fall bread. My pumpkin cranberry bread is my favorite. And I decided yesterday even though our weather is not quite fall yet it is still fall and i love the smell it makes in my house. I think FALL is my favorite time of year!!! I have been going to the Y as always and I love my spin classes. I have been reading the Old Testament and I am learning so much. I need a new book if you have any suggestions. I have also been decorating my house when i get a chance to do crafts.
That is about it here. We are healthy and very blessed in our lives. I love this gospel so much and I have such a strong testimony of it. I know with all of my heart that this is the true church.
Brody turns 3
the invitation
the birthday boy
the hammer cake
singing the song
brody loved singing to himself
blowing out the last candle
we played a game where i challenged the guests to build something from the food i provided and toothpicks and this is what they came up with: a helicopter
a spider
a man with a dog
my scooter
we also played another game where i gave teams a newspaper and a roll of masking tape and they had to create a bridge and whoevers bridge held the most pop cans won. well i guess when you get a bunch of smarty pants medical students together they go for the gold. not one bridge broke. they actually held up the kids! everyone had a blast building them at our building party.
brody had a great party. thank you to everyone who came it meant so much to us to share in the joy of our little big boy. happy birthday handsome. fullfilling requests
we have had a few requests to see the inside of Brooklyns dollhouse so here it is. we still need to get some more furniture for her christmas present. now this has been the only time it looks this nice. she pulls it out almost everyday and plays/breaks pieces. she loves it!
Thursday
how did your day start...
mine started with calling poison control because Brooklyn ingested some of the silicone circle things that come in a bag saying "DO NOT EAT"...you find them in shoe boxes. She got to it while I was downstairs getting Brody his breakfast. the day goes on and we are out shopping for brody's birthday party and because brody throws a fit i put him in the top of the shopping cart and brooklyn in the back. when i am not watching closely enough brooklyn leans over the edge and smacks her head on the concrete gound.
who gets the worst mom ever award....I DO!!!
its been an awful day here.
Tuesday
Labor Day Weekend Trip to DC
this last weekend we got away to DC for a couple of days. we stayed with josh's aunt and cousins and they were so nice to watch the kids for us while we went through a morning session at the temple. josh and i wanted to get up there last year to go to the temple but with brooklyn so young and school so busy we didnt get to...so it was kind of our goal this year to get up there at least once. the DC temple is AMAZING!!! so beautiful inside and out. we had a wonderful time going together and being reminded of our covenants we have made. after the temple we picked up the kids and headed into DC. we went to the natural history museum and met up with some friends to see the dinosaurs and all the other cool stuff...what girl wouldnt want to see the hope diamond along with the gigantic emeralds...after that we made our trek over to the white house. i have been to DC three times and never seen it so it was fun to get to see it this time even if i dont like who is living there right now. and on the way back to union station to eat and go home we met the president. josh LOVED getting nice and cozy with him. hahaha. we just had to take a picture. anyways we had a great time and cant wait to get back up there again. thanks again to josh's family. 
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