Wii Junkies!

Tuesday afternoons Bryant's friend Jon comes over to play.  And all they want to do lately is play Wii Lego Star Wars or Indian Jones!  

Last week Bryant wiped our Wii clean... I mean clean!  We had to remake our Mii's and start all over!  We worked so hard earning all those extra yoga poses and run routes!  Darn!  Todd made my Mii last night and look at how fat he made me!  Maybe I am that fat and just didn't think so... Hopefully when I get on the measure myself, it will slim down a bit!  I can always hope!

Random Bryant

Bryant has finally learned to ride his big boy bike!  He can start and stop all on his own!  He even said he wants to ride to pick up Sydney from school every day!  Since he received his new bike for Christmas he has only wanted to ride his baby bike, as he calls it, to meet Sydney after school.  He was having so much fun riding around in circles in from of our house and pulling over for cars to go by.  Look at that smile!

Mario Kart anyone?  Bry is a pro!

Adding to our food storage

My friend Paige recently introduced me to Honeyville food storage products.  I had way too much fun ordering from them.  I bought a case of dried veggies like peas, carrots, celery, corn etc. that would be great to add to pasta, rice or soup.  I bought the dairy combo like milk, chocolate milk, eggs, egg whites, butter, and cheese sauce.  I splurged and got the combo for smoothies.  Just add water, so excited to try these!  We did make some of the lemon poppyseed muffins and they were really good!  

Today I went to the book store and bought, "I Can't Believe It's Food Storage" cookbook, loving it already.  I was telling Todd I can't wait to start cooking with food storage and he told me if I used it now, we wouldn't have it later when/if needed!  I am going to start introducing it little by little anyways to see if anyone even notices.  I'll keep you posted.  We are supposed to be using our food storage and replenishing it so we get used to eating it, and not just when we have to.  I still need to add more pasta to my supplies, we love pasta!

On a funny note!  Last fall when we were having our kitchen updated, the guys installing the granite asked about all the white buckets in our garage.  Once I told them it was food storage, they laughed, couldn't believe we would have so much just sitting around, and said they would come to my house if there ever was a disaster! Come on over!

Multi-Sport Class

Bryant is now taking a multi-sport class.  Same coaches, different kids.  So far they've done basketball and soccer.  Next week it is track events and t-ball.  The little guy in the light blue shirt is Bryant's friend.  You may notice that Bryant isn't in the group photo... he refused to sit up and was laying on the bleachers...

Oh, here he is!  Nope, not gonna do it!  

Vegetable Garden April 20, 2009

This is our garden, we've extended it a few feet towards the weeping cherry tree in the back  there.  I've gotten peas, beans, onions, lettuce and herbs planted already.  Tonight I'm hoping to get my cucumbers, squash, zucchini, carrots, hot and bell peppers planted by seed.  I'm so excited, I love to watch things grow!  

Along this fence we have three blueberry bushes that are on their second year, hopefully we'll get more berries this year.   And behind them are the thornless Raspberries.  We didn't get any berries last year, but they are looking strong this year already.  We've given tons of starts away too.  I can still give more if anyone is interested...
I decided to buy some bare root trees, this is a mixed pear tree and the other one is a mixed apple tree, not pictured.  They are finally starting to show signs of life and I can't wait to see if we'll get fruit this year or not...they are dwarf trees and should only get about 10-15 feet tall.  Perfect to block the view into the neighbor's backyard as they are the only other neighbors that actually use their backyard too!  Maybe we scare the others away because we are so loud, hmmmmm....

Give Away!

I can't wait to win or buy this new cookbook.  I follow her website and love it!  She has so many ideas to use food storage!  Check it out at everydayfoodstorage.net!

Easter Sunday

Sydney is happy with her basket items and please don't look at the rest of the family room as it is a mess!  Remember we just got back from vacation and destruction follows my children wherever they go!

This year Todd got a basket and the kids saw what was in his and forgot about anything else in the world.  He got Mario Kart and two steering wheels!  Nice bed head Tay!
See what I mean about the smudge in the middle of the photo?  Bry's finger print!  Easter outfits from Nana and Papa and Wii steering wheels!
Todd and I both took naps and when I woke up and came downstairs I saw this!  Close up, his face is all smooshed against the chair.  When he woke up he got sick all over this chair and everything around it!  Gross!  Good thing Todd was home to clean it up!  I gag myself silly and can't do it!  I try, but I really can't handle it at all.  Too much candy and not enough good stuff!  Then later he got sick again and then Sydney got sick, at least he made it to the throw up bowl and she made it to the toilet!  Great way to end Easter... sick and early to bed!