New Niece & Big Bows

I've been having a ton of fun lately making these hair bows for my newest neice "Katherine". She was born yesterday, and she is such a cutie. I wish that I had a picture to show of her, but I forgot my camera when we went to the hospital. Anyhow, congrats Aaron and Andrea!

Picture Perfect

I copied this from Shelly's Blog cause I thought it looked like fun! I added a few more of my own.

1) Answer the Questions below.
2) Take each answer and enter it into Photobucket or Google Images
3) Take a picture from the first page of results and post it.

My Name:

How old I'll be on my next birthday:

Place I'd like to travel:

Favorite Place:

Favorite Food:

Favorite Animal:

Favorite Color:

Where I live:

Past Pet:

What I'm listening to:

Bad Habit:

First Job:

Favorite Hobby:

Favorite Time of Year:

Favorite Candy Bar:

Favorite Book:

Favorite Movie:

Favorite Scripture Story:

Wasting Time TOGETHER Isn't Really Wasting Time!

This is starting to become a ritual about twice a week or so at our house...

New Family Search

Have you all tried the new Family Search program? It's AWESOME!!! Here's what I like about it...

• It's a very easy way of finding out what information the church already has on record about you and your ancestors and what work still needs to be done.


• You and your relatives see the same information about individuals and families. You can easily work together to evaluate the information. You can add new information and make corrections in one place, and everyone can see them.


• When an individual’s temple ordinances are done, that information is added to the same place. This eliminates the risk of temple ordinances being done more than once for an individual and his or her family.


• This new family search program is extremely easy to navigate. I figured out the gist of it in about 3 minutes and I'm happy to say that I already found my first family name to bring to the temple. Yeah!!!

Click on the picture above to check it out.

Do you want a challenge? Once your registered, time yourself and see how fast you can get a family name ready for temple ordinances. Let me know how long it took you. (My time was approx. 30 min, and I thought that all of the work was done for the ancestors that we knew about.)

Joys of Baking

Yesterday was Baking Day!

1 Pizza

43 Chocolate Chip Cookies
14 Tortillas
5 Loafs of Bread
Oh the joys of being a Wife and Mother and the COOK of the family!

Gorgeous Rainy Day

Today was just... LOVELY!
Rainy days are my favorite. I think that Tate likes them a little too, something new and different. It doesn't rain very much here in Arizona, so when it does it's pretty exciting.

Talk about exciting, I just looked outside and saw some SNOW on the mountains. Doesn't it look BEAUTIFUL?

I LOVE the combination of cactus and snow!

The Most Common Meal in Our Household

I was thinking today about Cheese Crisps... We probably eat them 3-4 times a week on average (maybe more) and yet they still remain one of my favorite foods.
There's obviously different ways of making them.

Here's how I make mine:

Butter the bottom of corn tortilla, place cheese on top. When the cheese is mostly melted, flip over so cheese is touching griddle-like so...

Flip back over after about 45 sec. They should look like this.

Remove cheese crisps from griddle and top with

fiesta sauce (cut up tomatoes, white onions, cilantro), fresh lime, and salsa.

Roll it up, and enjoy!

I thought that everyone knew how to make cheese crisps until a friend came over one day and told me that she had never even had one before-EVER! I still can't believe it! Seriously, cheese crisps are a staple around here, we could happily live on them and nothing else if we had to.

What is your most common meal?