Lil Si

I have a AWESOME sister Ashley. I have called her Lil Si since, well forever. Ashley is the most kind and thoughtful person I have ever met, she is a lot like our mom! I love her dearly. Ashley is very creative. She is also way more photogenic then I ever could hope to be. NOT FAIR!

She has taught herself to sew recently and it really good at it she made the apron (and can make lots more cute things). She also has decided that she can decorate cakes and yet again really good at it. She made the cake below for her little boys 4th birthday, WOW!!

This is her blog where she make all kinds of crafty things you can buy.

Ash is a good mama, she is patient and kind with her kids and she has 3 that are 4 and under.

I love my little sis and she is always there for me and I don’t know what I would do without her. So this is my gift to you Ash…

 

 

 

 

 

 

LOVE YA!!!

Perfect day

We woke up to the perfect windstorm and Sadie jumped out of bed raced through her chores so that she could fly her kite.

It took us a few tries but we eventually we got her kite up and fling.

Wanna Fight on da Fwor?

This is Cody’s favorite things to do in the evening. JC will be sitting on his chair watching tv and Cody will come running in and punch him in the arm and say, “Hey Dad! Do you want to fight on da fwor?” and then this is what happens,

Cody is really pretty tuff, JC knocks him around and Cody gets back up swinging until he is done with fighting then it turns to this,

Cody usually gets bucked off a million times before the game is over. What a good Daddy!

Cheer Camp

The girls were thrilled to hear that their new school did a cheer camp like St. Johns did, so we signed them right up and for the next 4 days they had an hour long  practice after school learning the dance they did and a bunch of cheers too.

They were so tired by the time we got home!

  

Cody at the game, he thought it has great

JC at the game, he thought it was great

Not quite as planned!

This is how we started our BEAUTIFUL Saturday morning. We woke up ate breakfast, the kids were happy and helping clean house.

They every were painting their faces, they did a pretty good job. We were going to put all the sheets in the wash when all the sudden I walked out my front door and this is what I saw.

I put the ruler and the shoe by it just so you can get a feel for how huge this thing was. Luckily it was dead so I went back in and went about my happy Saturday morning activities. About 20 minutes later when sheets where changed and we were going to start baking cookies, This is what I saw

It was INSIDE my house INSIDE!! AHHH! we (me and the kids) all went crazy. I hurry and called all who are on my party line and had to sit and stand watch for 2 whole hours until JC could get back home and take care of it.

It dropped its tail when JC got it.

Now maybe we can finally make cookies.

You have to make this

K I was at a YW thing a few weeks ago and somebody made Chocolate Éclair Cake and it was to yummy not to go find a recipe for it. This is the best recipe for it

4eggs

1/2 C butter

1 C water

1 C flour

8 oz cream cheese- softened

4 C milk

3 (3 oz) packs of instant vanilla pudding

1 container cool whip

Chocolate Icing

6 T cocoa

2 C powder sugar

3 T melted butter

few T. water

Preheat oven 400. Grease 9x 13 pan

whisk eggs set aside

in 2 qt. sauce pan melt butter and water. Add flour and cook a few min stirring constantly till forms a ball. remove from heat and add eggs whisk till smooth and spread into bottom of pan. bake for 25-30 min.

combine cream cheese and milk add pudding packs and mix. spread over cooled crust. top with cool whip. Top with chocolate icing

For icing:

whisk sugar and cocoa. add butter and start adding water till it becomes runny enough to pour on top of cool whip.

Let chill for at least 1 hr.

Hope you like as much as we did well all except for Jojo

Fair

The girls school had a fair this last weekend and they wanted to enter something. Sadie entered a Rum Cake and Jojo did Apple Dumplings.

Sadie baking her cake she really did do it all on her own with the exception of slicing the bottom off the cake.

Jojo making her Apple Dumplings

Cody being a typical man waiting for the food, boy he is like his Daddy!

The girls both won a blue ribbon for the desserts they made. They could not be more thrilled!!!

Jojo also won a 1st in her class for her picture.

  

Sadie eating a sour pixie stick

Jordyn and her friends getting sprayed by the fire truck

Cody playing basketball

We all had a fun time and the school raised a bunch of money for the teachers to use in their classes.

Funny

Maren sent me this picture the other day, along with a few more that are to embarrassing to post, of JC and I when we were dating. Boy we both need to hit the treadmill!

Work

 

Cody went to work with JC this morning. I got the go ahead from the little boss that I could come with, I never know with him.

Here JC and Cody are loading salt in the truck

 

Cody climbed up the tank alone to check water, yup there’s water

and of course this blow snake he was so cool looking. I had to nudge him out of the road so we could go about our day.

Its the most wonderful time of the year!

Ok today is the first Sunday of the football season. So in honor of the holiday Bro. Young has cleared all else from his schedule (yes that means church). The kids and I went, but lets be honest I HAD to teach, after we had to run by Wally World to get soy sauce and dog food.

When we got home I thought that I would make some snacks for the special day. JC was in the shower when we got home so Sadie thought that we should surprise him and have it all ready when he came back to take his position on the couch for the day. She thought he would like 2 kinds of dip with 2 kinds of chips and some pretzel M&M’s

He did!

We also made some for the kids so they could watch a movie and have snacks too.

 

Here is wishing you and yours a safe and happy season!