Carrot soup.... it's what's for dinner.

Carrot soup

1 lb ground beef (browned and drained)

cook with chopped onion, I used dried onion, as much as what looks good

2 cans, cream of celery soup

2 cups of tomato juice, or one soda can size, or 3 of the little cans Its not really exact. I've used all 3 measurements before and it turns out the same.

2 T brown sugar

1 lb of carrots peeled and grated (easiest way is to buy a small bag of baby carrots and run them through a salad shooter)

1/4 tsp garlic salt

salt & pepper to taste

mix it all in your soup pot and simmer until the carrots are tender (about 20 mins)

a little rock and roll

A while ago the kids and I went to Laura and JR's house for dinner. It was delicious I might add. Home made Philly steak sandwiches, yum. Dallin and Sarah were really good the whole time. Other than Sarah falling off the bed it was a pretty good night. The kids decided to play rock band! This is classic Dallin breaking into song that I thought I'd share. We really do need to hang out at their house more often it was fun.

If you can't see the video click HERE it will take you directly to the blog.

Sleeping babies among other things

Tonight I made this for dinner (this is not a picture of my actual dinner, but it really does look like that after you make it) It was quite good if I do say so myself. Click HERE for the recipe over at Our Best Bites.

I'm now in love with their Blog! I read it once and drooled over every recipe I read there. And wait there's more... they have a cook book too! I'm trying these on Friday as a test run to make for Dallin's Valentines Party at school on the 10th.

Awesome Right!?

But the whole time I was trying to clean up after my very tasty dinner all that was happening or rather not happening is Sarah NOT sleeping. I was listening to the monitor; Sarah screaming for an hour, not sleeping.

I was waiting for her to fall asleep so I could work on a little sewing project, which I might have bitten off more than I can chew with this one but it's going to be cute! Here's a sneak peek. I'm pretty excited!

Now that she's asleep I've given up and resorted to watching netflix and blogging. Maybe when my show is over I'll go sew some more!

What we've been up to in December!

Christmas has come and gone and we did quite a few things leading up to it to help get us in the mood! We went and saw Santa early on to avoid crowds and crazies! We had plans to go see the lights downtown but that didn't happen! Dave and I were able to go to the Music and the Spoken word the Mormon Tabernacle Choir with David Archuleta! I loved it!

We also read a lot of christmas books! My plan was to wrap them up and put them under the tree, advent style and read one every night but that didn't happen! After we read "how the grinch stole christmas" that was pretty much Sarah's favorite having one of these helped a little!

(a plush Mr. Grinch)

We decorated "ginger bread" houses, I hot glued graham crackers together and ta-da! Sarah lasted for only a little while before it was her nap time, So I finished hers and Dallin decided that there needed to be a lot of "snow"!

Dallin had his Christmas program at school, me being the Mother of the Year I didn't bring my camera or anything! I actually didn't have my camera around for most of the Holiday season this year.... shame on me. I'm working on getting a copy of the Program, I'll keep you posted! The one picture Dave took with his phone pretty much sums up the program, he laid on the floor for most of the program, or his teacher Jenny was holding him down, until he announced "I have to go potty" which brought the entire program to a scream hault! And was also the funniest thing ever! They were all so cute and did a great job! Dallin didn't really sing but at least he stayed in the front of the room without me! He is making progress!

We Decorated our Christmas tree!

On one of our "we have to stay inside because of the weather..... mom is going crazy" I pulled out the boxes I got from my moms work and we made houses, complete with christmas lights, a fireplace, and of course a satellite dish to watch TV.

And last but not least........... drum roll please! Dallin fractured his arm! Just in time for christmas! his has a buckle fracture on the dorsal radial.... blah blah blah medical junk he has a cast now! Poor guy seemed fine, but kept asking for an ice pack so we went in to the Dr and sure enough a fracture. You can't see it very well on my picture but it ends where the cursor is pointing so about 3/4 the way across the bone!

He was such a trooper and when the Dr was pushing on it and moving it, asking him if it hurt, he was the strong silent type. Then when I asked him if it hurt, his reply was a whispered "yeah!" He had a hard time choosing wither to have a green cast or an orange cast. Such hard choices when you are 3!

All in all we had a wonderful Christmas and tried really hard to help Dallin and Sarah remember that we are celabrating the birth of Christ. Translated into toddler= Jesus' Birthday which equals presents. We hope you all had a very Merry Christmas and we wish you the best for the New Year!

Santa or Baby Jesus?

Merry Christmas...... well I think it's merry!? My kids don't look to thrilled!

So I had this whole story planned out for the revealing of the picture with Santa, we take the picture, put it on our christmas card, wait about 3 days for everyone to get their card and then put the picture with Santa on the blog! But since my sister beat me to the punch and put it on her blog I didn't want to feel like a scrooge and have everyone think I'm hoarding the picture by not giving it to them! Patience my family a live photo is coming in the mail! But here is a sneak peek of things to come!

They both had a hard time expressing any words at all to santa, it was quite comical! Dallin all week told me he wanted an ice cream maker. But the minute he saw the big guy he had nothing to say. Sarah was just cautious the whole time. Didn't even really want a candy cane at first! They were just content to sit on his lap and pick their noses while I was trying to take a picture! I don't think they quite make the connection that the guy in the red suit brings the presents! We need to pull out some more Christmas movies!

However they are both very aware that this is the time of year that Jesus' has a birthday and we all give each other presents for his party! We have 3 nativity sets and they both know where baby Jesus goes and who he is. I'm grateful my kids know the true meaning of Christmas, half way at least!

On the flip side Dallin is totally taken by the commericalism of it all. Everything he sees on TV or in a newspaper ad he thinks we need to buy it for Christmas! Great! Maybe when you're older and have your own money you can buy it all!

I have a few more updates on what we've been doing to prepare for Christmas so stay tuned!