Just some random butts

I caught Mylee trying to clean up our big mess after she got half naked!


And some pretty faces!









This is what happened when I asked Tayla and Mylee to hug so I could get a picture!

Onions have layers.....

And they DON'T taste good!!! Ask Mylee she would know! She peeled this onion and bit it!

She dressed herself

All I can say is she dressed herself!

Late V-Day post

For Valentine's Day Shaun couldn't find the right flowers for me...so he says, but I'm not complaining! He said they all weren't good enough and so he bought me two bouquets. He also bought the girls both a rose. He was so sweet and adorable! I tried to get good pics with the girls and their flowers but Mylee was cranky and would have nothing to do with pictures! Here's what I got though. I figured I better journal her crankiness because it's my memory and hers and I want to remember it!






Sorry on some of these my camera was going crazy with the light!

Wii foots

Tayla put these "slippers" on and told me they were her slippers and then she changed it, they're my Wii foots she says!!! hahahaha!

The art of canning with Mindy

One of the stores here had a REALLY AWESOME meat sale a week ago. I convinced my friend to go first thing in the morning (which was a good thing because by 10 Am most things were sold out) to go get a bunch of meat. I told her how easy it was to can and we needed to do it. We were debating about going later but I told her we needed to go before they opened! We were in the parking lot at 6:30am and shopping by 6:45 even though they didn't open til 7. WHOOP WHOOP score for us!!! I decided that since we had just gotten taxes back that I wanted to buy about a year's worth of meat, and I'm pretty sure I came close! I at least got enough to last until the next sale in October! I told Shaun that with the jam and corn I would be freezing that I wanted to buy a freezer. I found such a pretty freezer that I LOVE so much and FILLED IT!!!!




So after we bought our meat we spent 5 hours separating and wrapping and ziplocking and freezing all of our meat. By the time we were done we both felt like we needed to bathe in Bleach in order to remove all of the ICKness of raw meat!!! We didn't just freeze meat, we also canned it. My camera battery was dead so I didn't get a picture of all of the jars we canned seeings how we have used some of it!!! But I've been working on some today that are just chicken and I did take pics of those. The first pics is some of the meat and some of the prep stuff like bags and such. It was INSANE but I had a blast! Did you Mindy?!!!!













I LOVE my mom for giving me all of her canning stuff and I LOVE all of the opportunities I have had to learn to can. It's like Heavenly Father has been telling me that I needed to learn it and teach others. I have had so many jars given to me just because people didn't want them or my mom was done canning. I am so grateful for the start and the push and the passion I have gained learning how to can.

I am SO PROUD of THESE

One week ago TODAY I planted my garden! I am not a green thumb person. Infact all of the house plants I had (3 to be exact) died at the end of fall. I decided this year I wanted to buy seeds and start them and plant a very good very big garden this year. I learned to can last summer and I have SO MANY plans for my friend Mindy and me with our gardens! Some of these plants are 5 in high! I can't believe it! I might have a green thumb yet. Ok it's yellowish but maybe by the end of summer it will be green! I am SO EXCITED for my garden this year. I'm trying new things (thanks to Mindy) that I didn't think I would want or like, like lettuce, and cucumbers and squash. Anyways, my plants are at the stage that they need to be going outside to soak up the rays. Can you believe it 7 days later and they need to be outside!!! On another note, these right below....I'm proud of them too! I love them to pieces! My Myles is learning soooo many new words. I can't believe that in Oct of 2009 she couldn't even say 1 word. Now she puts 2 and 3 words together (and they make sense major plus!) and has a vocabulary now of probably 30 words maybe more. In October she couldn't understand what we were saying to her. We all were frustrated not just her. She would pound her head against the floor out of frustration and she would scream constantly because she didn't know how to speak. I'm so grateful for a wonderful doctor who wouldn't let me quit going to the speech therapist when the one here in Burley didn't work out. I'm grateful for Heavenly Father for giving me the strength to go to Twin (45 min 1 way) every single week with 2 kids and a hurt hubby. I also grateful that our paychecks stretched further when they needed to seeings how gas is soooooo expensive. I'm also grateful for our car and the fact that it runs and has warranties.