Family Night Cooking 101!

Last night for family night, we had some cooking fun!! First we made spaghetti.

The girls threw noodles up on the wall to see if they were done! They loved that part!

Second we made the sauce and cut the bread.
Third, we made zucchini bread!!! WE LOVE ZUCCHINI BREAD!! Here is the recipe if you want to try it!

3 eggs
1 cup oil
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup sugar
3 tsp vanilla
2 cups grated zucchini
3 cups flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
1 tsp baking powder
3 tsp cinnamon

Beat eggs until light and fluffy, add oil beat another 30 sec. add gradually while beating: brown sugar, white sugar, vanilla, & zucchini. Sift and add flour, soda, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon
Grease 2 loaf pans
bake 325 for 50-60 min.

Fishing Fun!! :)

Two new Princess fishing poles: $22.00

One box of worms: $1.50

Watching the two cutest girls in the world bounce up and down, squealing with delight, after catching their first fish: PRICELESS!!!!

Yesterday, we went fishing up at Ferron Reservoir. The girls absolutely LOVED every second of it! If I could have frozen time, I would have.....the simplest things sometimes bring the greatest pleasures!
Grandpa Dean and O

Grandpa Dean and K

Daddy and his girls!

O and I catching a big one!

The 12 fish and our family!

Grandpa, Daddy, the girls and 12 fish!

The cutest little girls ever!

K

O

The flowers the girls picked for me

Both girls asleep on my arms after a fabulous day of fishing!

Radio Disney!

Tuesday, we went down town to the Radio Disney Show!! The girls had a blast! There were all sorts of things going on and best of all it was all free!!! What more can you ask for?! Thanks for the invite Marcie!!! The girls with their flower balloons!
The snake show!! This is a picture of the giant Boa!!

The girls really didn't know what to think about the giant boa!! hahaha Can you say "nightmares"? hahaha

Easton Mark Allred!!

YEAH!!! My Little Nephew, EASTON MARK ALLRED, was born August 6th!!! What a great anniversary present for Bryn and Mark!!! hahaha! He weighed 9 lbs 1 oz and measured 21" Isn't he a cutie!! Seriously!?! Congrats guys!! I can't wait to see him! :)


P.S. I am totally the favorite aunt already! I guessed his weight exactly, and came up with his name....what more can I say?!!! FAVORITE!!!

Carnival / Fund Raiser!!!

A couple of weeks ago, we went to a carnival/ fund raiser, for my cousin and son!! (Jared and Dwayne) It was so much fun. I was amazed at their loving community. They really came together and pulled off an awesome day! Everything there was donated and all of the profits went directly to Jared and his family! The events included: Lunch, Auction, Car show, Motor cycle show, Face painting, fishing pond, bean bag toss, bounce house, Princess pictures, baked foods sale, etc..!!! Isn't that awesome? K, being so still, getting her face painted.
O's cute face painting!


Fishing in the play fishing pond. K had the magic touch!

O about to do her thing!

The race is on!!

A visit from a Princess at lunch!

Fun At Herriman Beach!

We had our great friends from Huntington stay with us couple of weeks ago! We always love it when they come! We went to Herriman beach and had a blast! Thanks for coming guys!!

The girls striking a pose with their ice cream!!

O rejecting a photo shoot!

Peyton enjoying his ice cream!! What a cutie!

I don't have a picture of their other son Easton. :( He always is slipping under my radar!! He is a cutie too!

FIRST Day of FIRST Grade!!!

K started first grade!!!!! she absolutely LOVES it!!!! I would be lying if I said that I wasn't sad. I did shed a few tears, but those were short lived!!!! I know, I know that sounds really mean, but K was READY to start school!! She is sooo smart and always wanting to be involved with everything!!! She enjoys reading and playing school. She just can't get enough of it! (I'm sure that will change in the future!) She is full of energy and life! She loves her friends and constantly wants to play with all of them! Therefore, school is the best place for her!!! hahaha
You might ask what O does while K is gone......? Well, she makes herself a bed right in the middle of the family room and watches what ever show SHE wants!!!! O actually really misses "Bug" and is constantly asking when she will come home. It's really kind of sad. I keep calling little friends to come play and keep her busy!

Gary Clark

I have been struggling with what to say, but feel that I have to say something in honor of my best friends dad. Gary Clark passed away July 22nd....It has been such a sad time for Amy and her family, and all around. Gary was such an easy going guy, that loved to have fun! He was the typical dad always getting in trouble for the "guy" things he would say, but kept us all laughing with his off the wall comments! He always had great advice when it came to dating, money, anything really!!! My favorite advice though, was when he told Amy to go to a shooting range to meet guys!!! hahaha!! He was very clever and witty! He always kept you on your toes. Gary, you will be greatly missed. I hope you know that your family loves you, and that you left behind the best people in the world.

My cousin and his son...

July 18th, my cousin, Jared Perry and his son, Dwayne, were in a terrible accident on highway 201. Jared was going west when two cars pulled out in front of him. He swerved and missed the first car, but ended up T-boning the second car. The second car had 7 passengers inside. 6 of the 7 passengers were killed instantly. Jared and Dwayne survived, but have been in the hospital with MAJOR injuries. (They were actually released last week.)

Jared's injuries include, shattered right leg, shattered right hand and wrist, broken right hip, and damage to his spleen. They have done lots of surgeries already. They did surgery on his hip immediately. They then removed his spleen, and later did surgery on his leg and hand. Doctors have said that he will not be able to walk for at least 6 months...

Little Dwayne, his injuries were mostly caused from his seat belt, but, his seat belt DID save his life. The seat belt severed his intestines, and broke his back. Doctors had to remove half of his intestines, and half of his colon. Later they did back surgery and fused 4 vertebra's together. Poor little guy! I do have to say that Little Dwayne is such a trooper! He has done so well and is pulling through!! They will both have a long hard road ahead of them, but we are so glad that they are here to take it!!! Love you guys, get better soon!!

This is a picture, from the news, of the accident... So very sad. Our hearts and prayers have been going out to My cousin and son, and the poor family that lost their lives that day.

Nordstrom's and Kneaders!

After I got the phone call last Monday from the nurse saying I may have lupus, they scheduled me an appointment for that Thursday. I went in, they told me exactly what the nurse said on the phone. They said that my ANA's came back positive, and they also ran a test called a double stranded DNA test. It came back positive too. the Dr. said that 98% of positive double stranded DNA patients have lupus. They can't figure out why I don't have any symptoms. (I think it is because I am the 2% that doesn't actually have it) So along with the obvious signs of lupus, lupus also attacks your organs. Another confusing thing for the Dr.'s is that my SGOT levels came back normal this time. That is the first test I had that was high indicating that I may have heart, kidney, or liver damage. Well it came back normal this time meaning it was high due to surgery, that my organs are fine. So, I have no symptoms, and my organs are fine. The Dr. said he wanted to rule out all organs, so he ordered a colonoscopy for Monday the 20th. This is where it gets fun!! hahaha So Sunday, I had to do the colonoscopy prep....let me just say that was great fun....I am exactly 3 pounds full of sh......crap! hahaha Monday I went in for the colonoscopy. They sedated me so I could not remember a thing!! Seriously, it wasn't bad at all!! It took all of 20 minutes! All I remember was going back into the procedure room, they put something in my IV, I started to feel loopy....I remember telling the Dr. that he had a crappy job.....then nothing! After the procedure, the Dr. wheeled me out to Bryce. He told Bryce, "You have a shopper on your hands. All she talked about was Nordstrom's and Kneaders!" Bryce thought that was pretty funny!! (I say, it is obvious that I went to my happy places!!) Well the Dr. told us that I have a very HEALTHY colon! There was nothing wrong there either!! I told the Dr. , "condoms are 99.8% effective, and you hear of people getting pregnant all of the time off of condoms!! So there is definitely a chance that I could be this 2%" he didn't exactly know how to respond to that...... hahaha

Here's What is Going On With Me....

So back in February, I had that cyst that ruptured. Well after the surgery they wanted me to come in a few weeks later and have a follow up appointment. So I went in, they had no record of my blood being drawn since I had Oakley, so they wanted to run the normal tests. A week later they called and said that my SGOT levels were high. This means I was showing signs of heart, kidney, or liver damage. They told me they wanted me to go see an Internal Medicine Dr. I got an apt. The internal Dr. said that it was possible that these SGOT levels were high due to my recent surgery. (duh! Why am I here than!) He said he would like me to come back in a month and do more blood work to compare the two. Well, I really didn't think anything of it. One month from my appointment would have been while we were in Disneyland, so of course I didn't go. Well last week Bryce reminded me that I still had not gone back in, so I did. (I didn't need an appointment for the blood draw, I could just go in.) Well, the nurse called back on Monday and said that there were more abnormalities with my blood work, something was wrong with my ANA's. (???) The nurse said that is possible that I may have lupus! They are not sure, they want more blood tests! I googled lupus, and I have NONE of the symptoms, so I really think these Dr.'s are up in the night.
I am a little irritated with the whole situation because I feel FINE! I hate going to the Dr. and especially when I feel like nothing is wrong. I feel like they are going to drag me through all these test just to say, hmmm... we don't know why your blood is the way it is! I feel like an opposite hypochondriac! They think something is wrong with me and I do not! And personally I would rather spend my money on other things rather than copay's when nothing is wrong! I have another apt for tomorrow to give them more of my blood, but I will actually be talking with the Dr. this time. I will keep you all updated. Does anyone know anyone with lupus?

Family Night Bees!!

Last night we took the girls to the Bees game down town. I feel bad for Bryce not having any boys to share his passions with, so we try extra hard to do the things Bryce loves!! Baseball is one of Bryce's sports! I don't know if you know this, but Bryce pitched for Bingham, and had a few baseball scholarships!! He also played basketball and golf while at Bingham. Here we are loving the things Bryce loves!! The whole FamDamily!!
The girls were sooo brave to take their picture with the Bee!! Last year they made me take a picture of the Bee without them in it! They are VERY nervous when it comes to big costume things!! hahaha

Happy 4th of July!!

We had a great 4th of July at our house this year!!! We usually go out of town, but this year decided to stay in town. We had some friends come over and partied mormon style!! hahaha We got pizza, water balloons, and did the fire pit! Then we were off to Riverton's fireworks!! It was a very fun relaxing 4th!! Thanks guys!! Carson, O, K, and Sadie all dressed in their festive 4th clothes!!
The girls decided to put the water balloons on the trap. They LOVED that!! Then they decided to put all the balloons down their swimsuits!!! They all wanted boobs!! hahahaha That starts so young!!! (Marcie, I need pictures of that...I only have it on video!!) Oh the bribery/black mail, will be great one day!!! hahaha


Happy 4th!!!!! Hope you all had a fun and safe one!!! :)

Lagoon and Lagoona Beach!

We had a great weekend up at Lagoon!! We decided this year to get season passes to Lagoon because last year was just so much fun!! This year so far we have gone 4 times. After going twice you have already paid for your season pass. (definitely worth it!) Anyway, we went two days this weekend. The first day we spent riding the rides and wearing the kids out! The second day we went to Lagoona Beach and played, played, played!!! Seriously, the girls are very spoiled!! But we love it!!! O!

K!

O!

K!

Catching some rays!!!! Loving it!

My favorite photo of all!! O throwing a fit in the parking lot!! Definitely time to go home!! She didn't want to walk to the car. I offered her a piggy back, but she wanted to be on my shoulders. I had her on my shoulders earlier, and she wanted to be up there again. I told her they were just too tired, but I could give her a piggy back. This is what happened next!

Family pic at Lagoon!

Bryce and O!

K and I!

Fun At The Lake!!

Last Monday, we had a blast at Utah Lake! Yes, I did say Utah Lake! I couldn't see my feet in the water, but it was fun none the less!!! I do have to say sorry to Bryce....He was the only one who had to work since it was a Monday.....Sad! Anyway, Since it is our neighbor's boat, I think that secured us at least another trip out!!! Thanks for taking a hit for the team Hun! The big girls ready to tube!!!!

K, Annabell, and Payten

The Little girls ready to tube!!!!

O and Ellie

And the only picture of me...I did ski though..

Bryce wasn't there to take any pictures of me! You were all saved!!!! hahaha
Carie on the Wake Board for the first time! Yay Carie!!!!

Chuck on the Wake Board for the first time!!! What's up CHUCK!!!!

TD surfing!