Travels South

We headed South for the weekend. We stayed with Chads Brother Rhett and his Family in Prescott, then we met up with some Friends to hike the Grand Canyon for a day, then we went back to Prescott for Easter. We had a great trip! Here's some of the highlights...

Easter Morning

The Easter Bunny left B's Basket on the weight bench right outside our room...it's a good thing too...He found it right away!

B & Cousin Abby on the way home from church

Easter Morning

Playing with cousins Abby and Dylan

Bridger looking spiffy in his Easter get-up

GRAND CANYON

On Friday, Rhett and Jen watched Bridger and we went to hike the Grand Canyon. It was Amazing! I can't believe I've lived close to it for so long and hadn't hiked it before. We met up with our my best friend since birth, Mandy, and her husband Matt. We hiked down the Kiabab trail and out the Bright Angel trail. That's 17 miles!!! Straight down ...across 5 miles...then straight up.

Our friends from Tempe AZ, Mandy & Matt.

Us being nerds at the bridge over the Colorado River.

Our Lizard friend

Me & Mandy Westover

Finish!!

I still can't believe that we did that!!! The next two days I could barely walk, my calf's were so sore! I looked pretty funny on Easter Sunday trying to wear high heels to my Bro & Sis in laws ward...it's painful just thinking about it!

I Highly recommend hiking the Grand Canyon though...just be sure to train a little if you decide to hike down and out in the same day. Thanks Mandy and Matt for bringing us along..It was so great to see you guys!

Travels North

We headed North over Conference weekend and had a good Pre-Easter Celebration with my sister Amanda and her kiddos.

There's no better way to warm up for the big hunt besides having a little hunt!

Bridger, Sophie, and Laynie dying Easter eggs.

Well...Sophie dyed eggs and while Laynie watched and Bridger tried to destroy all things.

B with my Sadie girl!
This is the dog Chad and I raised and loved for two years. She was my running partner and best buddie...But then we moved to a NO DOG community and I was devastated...only dog lovers will understand. I tried everything to keep Her when we moved into where we're living now. I even tried to get her certified as a seeing eye dog so she could stay with us, but it wasn't in the cards...She had to find a new home. Amanda and Bodi have been so good to her!

B & Sophie chillin on the tramp

Friends

( Me Barb & Kayla)

It was so fun to have Barb and John in town last week! We had lots of catching up to do and of course we made sure to fit in time for plenty of ice cream and sun! I was having major camera battery issues until the last day we were all together so I didn't get a picture of new baby Preston, but oh was he squishy and scrumptious!!!

(Cru, Ty, Bridger)
Nothing gets crazier than combining these three ingredients!

Wrestling match...Bridger was the cause of most of the trouble, but what else do little boys do besides wrestle??? It was pretty funny.

Cheese!

This month's visiting teaching message

Hmmm, who does he get it from??

I think the olive thing comes from me,

but I'm 100 % certain the rest of the weirdness comes from Chad!

Bridger Spent an entire evening running around the house with his shirt over his head like this, and every time it fell down, he'd come to us tapping the top of his head until we put it back.

Yep...he totally gets the weirdness from his dad.

Food Storage Class

Wed. March 4th, 7pm Stoneridge Clubhouse

My friend Arlene will be here to teach a Food Storage Class.
She'll demo some recipes from her book '"The Ultimate Food Storage Cookbook" and answer all of our food storage questions! (I've got a lot)

It will cost $2.oo/person (to help cover the cost of the food we'll sample)

If you want to come, call me or let me know here. I have to cap the class at 35 people

Obsessed

I'm a little obsessed with two things right now....sewing and food storage.

I'm not even going to get into the sewing thing, But I do want to talk about food storage....why? Why me and why now? I can think of a LOT of things I'd LOVE to spend our tax returns on, (Like going to Florida to see Barb & baby Preston) but I've got food storage on the brain. I feel like a sponge just soaking up all the information I can get my hands on. And I want to know it all right now! I have so many Questions...Like how to sprout wheat... cook beans from dry form and make them taste good...and what would I do with a big container of honey(like the ones they sell at costco) once I opened it, just spoon out what I needed??

I know a lady, her name is Arlene. She was a seamstress at the Bridal Shop I work for. A few years ago she gave me a "food storage cook book" that she had written and sold through deseret book, and I took it and put it with my other cook books and never looked at it until I started thinking about food storage about 6 months ago. Well, I just read it and realized that Arlene is a mega food storage guru and I could ask her all my questions...so I called her and I've been using her for her talent ever since!

But I was thinking it would be cool to have her come to the clubhouse where we live and have a food storage Q & A night with anyone who was interested. We're all on different "food storage IQ levels" so we could ask her what we wanted to learn more about. I called her and she said she'd love to do it. She said she could demo some recipes. I want to learn different ways to cook wheat...the gluten stuff? I could pick her brain for weeks, she really knows her stuff.

If you are interested in setting something like this up, let me know and I'll schedule the clubhouse!

Suz told me about this website and I really like it. It's a "not so overwhelming" approach to food storage and it's got some recipes that i'd actually make!

http://myfoodstoragedeals.blogspot.com/