Off We Go....

To Nursery

Perhaps his parents,

{and everyone else in Sunday School},

were looking forward to it more than him,

But he did awesome.

No tears,

until I came to take him home.

{Guess he needs more Nacho Nights}

Nacho Night

A New Tradition

The last Friday of the month

at our house will be,

affectionately called,

Nacho Night

{our fourth monthly Nacho Night.}

{see the beans!}

I'm not sure if we decided to start this tradition, so that Mom could make sure I get my monthly quota of nachos met, or for some other reason; like we wanted to start something where at least once a month, we were spending a Friday night hanging out as a Fam.

We thought if we started it now, by the time the boys were older, they would know and look forward to this night, and as schedules and lives get more hectic and filled with outside influences, that this would be a night they would know was for family and nachos,

and not want to miss it.

We put out the goods

(everything from homemade guacamole to jalapenos)

and everyone gets to pile their own.

(Here I will let you in on one of my secrets: I noticed that if I put beans (like kidney or black) on the table, that they didn't get touched. So now, I put them IN every meal I can- especially easy to add to any Mexican dishes, and down they go- without a thought,

and I feel like Super Mom who got her kids to slurp down

some good for you, fruit of the heart.)

Then we lay out a blanket,

munch on our nachos,

and watch a movie the kids have picked out.

This week it was Bolt.

{Munching our Macho Nachos}

{Quesadilla Muncher}

We Love You Nacho Night!

P.S. C tried a jalapeno, brave soul

RuB A DuB DuB

I Found My Two Boys

Playing in the Tub

Comfy.

Don't You Think?

Our Weekend

El Husband-O had to spend a few days in

St. George-O

doing some marketing at a convention,

and since I have some folks that live down yonder,

we decided to make a trip out of it,

and bring the gang.

So while Dad was doing his work thing

(boring)

we did things like this:

Play at the park

Fly Kites

and spend time with G'Ma and G'Pa B

When Dad was done

(doing the boring stuff)

he joined us for some afternoons of

visiting the St. George Temple

and a trip to

Where we had a picnic

and got to enjoy some of this:

Orange

Sandy Beaches-

er, I mean Dunes

Where we did wild things,

like

and

Then we taught the Old Folks

how to

play some Wii

We had a great time

and we were so GLAD we got to go

with Dad.

Happy Easter!

{My Handsome Gang}

Green Belt-ers

After another round of

Belt Testing...

where we did this,

and this,

and this,

It's

So Long, Yellow Dragon!

Hello,

Green Dragon

HI-YA!

General Conference Weekend- DAY 2

Sunday morning I went downstairs and opened the blinds throughout the house,

then I went upstairs to get J up.

When I came back downstairs, I found this:

{looking for those sparkles}

Apparently, when they came downstairs and saw the beautiful sunshine streaming through the blinds and looking so "sparkling", they just HAD to clean the living room so it would sparkle, too.

When they were done, they stepped back to admire their fine dusting job,

and the room, indeed

sparkled

Then we scarfed down these:

GOOEY BUNS

{another Conference Tradition}

Place 20 frozen Rhodes Rolls

in a well greased bundt pan
Mix together:

1 small pkg. cook 'n serve vanilla pudding

1 cup brown sugar

and sprinkle it over the rolls

Then mix together:

1/2 cup melted butter

1 tsp. cinnamon

dash of nutmeg

and pour it over the rolls

I like to sprinkle with chopped pecans

Cover with a warm, wet dish towel and

let rise over night

Bake 350 for 30 min

If they start to get too brown while cooking

cover with foil during last 5-10 min

invert onto large platter

General Conference Weekend- DAY 1

Our traditional General Conference Donut Run,

Saturday Morning.

In the March Ensign,

I found some good ideas for

young kids that I put to good use

and the kids were actually

excited and listening!

I even heard,

"Can we do this every General Conference?"

Meanwhile, we went to work on our planned project for the day:

72 Hour Kits

My husband found some great things at

http://www.foodstoragemadeeasy.net/

{I knew he was a good catch}

where he found this

How to a make 72 Hour Kit

in a milk jug!

[How'd We Do?]

We actually had to use a larger

cook stove than she used in the video, and it still fit,

AND

we had lots of room left over,

so we added things we thought the kids would enjoy more of:

Candy, G-Bars, Suckers, Crackers and Fruit Roll-Ups.

Surprise?

They are so light!

PS This is for the FOOD portion of the 72 Hour Kits

BOYS Night OUT

This year we've started a few new family traditions.

One of them is Boys Night Out

Ryan and the boys plan

a fun night out

and they

LOVE

it!

I LOVE it, too!

I LOVE how they all come home with excitement leaping off their faces and how they just love to look at their DAD and want to snuggle into him as he puts them to bed.

In the morning they are still miles high and wanting to gobble Daddy up.

The day of

BOYS NIGHT OUT

seems to go so slowly.

I've even heard excited squeals escape that sound something like,

"It's Boys Night Out and I'm so EXCITED!"

They will REMEMBER these times

forever!

No More Tears

J has a soft spot in his heart for the tears of C

{Drying the TEARS and trying to get a SMILE}

Going in for the KISS

Mmm-Wah

Tears from no one else will bring J over for kisses and snuggling.

Only for C

*

J also loves his

DAD