Friday, September 28, 2012

5 years!

Greg and I celebrated our 5 years together on Saturday! We have some pretty awesome friends here in Utah and they watched Evan for 4 hours while we went to a dinner and a movie! I have a tendency to forget my camera when I really want to have it, so no pictures of our great date! We haven't been on a real date in a long time. So we wanted to have a real date like old times for our anniversary. We had such a good time. I love uninterrupted time with my husband. I always find myself missing my little one after a bit though...

My little Evan turns 18 months on Sunday! We go to his 18 month check up on Tuesday so I'll give ya all his stats then!

Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Victory!

I have finally figured out how to get my child to eat eggs!
PANCAKES!
Not just any pancakes my friends, egg and banana pancakes!

I found this on pinterest and all you do is add 2 eggs to one banana squish it all up and it throw it on the griddle like normal pancakes and you get this...
I put butter on them and syrup and Evan just thought he was eating banana pancakes!
I have longed for the day my child would eat eggs and he does! He just doesn't know it...

Monday, September 10, 2012

A little bit of Lately

My sweet child loves to help whenever he can
I look mad in this picture so Greg took another...


                                          ......Over exaggerated smile with giant eyes

After his assistance with the Lemon cookies we made daddy's cake for his 27th birthday! We are getting so old. Greg's cake came from a box this year, sorry Greg :o)


Thank goodness he likes his quiet book!



Evan likes to finish my sentences..

I am slightly obsessed with the way he says, "apple"

Every morning when Evan wakes up he says, "ROAR!" That means he wants to watch The Lion King. See for yourself.


Sunday, September 2, 2012

A cluster of sorts


who knew a bucket of water and magazine pages would be so fun? There was water everywhere! Next time we're doing it in the bathtub


I love the faces he makes when he eats. 

He loves spinach




I love how capable he is. He's a tiny man!




Evan painted. I cut a paper towel roll into thirds and then formed the ends of each into a fun shape (which wasn't real easy) and then Ev used it as a stamp...for about 10 seconds and then he used his fingers, but it was still fun!

Apparently, he'll eat anything as long as he can feed himself


He is his father's child. Every time we have burgers or something Greg can poke a hole in, he does. He waits until I bow my head to pray and pokes my buns! I always forget about it, but occasionally I beat him to it.

Thank you, Kohl's, for having such cute toddler hoodies!
Quinoa, eggs, peas, red and orange pepper, tomatoes, onion, and Worcestershire sauce. It was so good! Like Fried rice, but not!

Evan dropped a bomb in his diaper and Greg left the room for quick second and then came back and found Evan on the table typing poopoo into the search engine...hahaha

The little gem is a sweet potato burger with white beans mixed and some seasoning added. for recipe go here

I made Humus today. If you like Humus (or even if you don't) you'll love this! It was soooo super good and I can't wait for lunch tomorrow!
Here is the recipe. I just need to get a better food processor because mine didn't make it as smooth as I would like, but I still loved it. The red pepper flakes you see on top of it in this picture I didn't use and it was still delicious.
















what do you think?

I am in the process of trying to find a comforter set (preferably and 8 piece) and I'm so indecisive! I have ideas of what I want certain rooms in my house and bedroom to look like. I want bright colors all over my house and right now I am hooked on yellow for our bedroom. I really think I want white with bright color accents.

I am in love with this room! 
I plan on re-finishing my dresser, but I'm conflicted. I love the idea of having a yellow undertone on the dresser and then painting over it with white with the distressed look, but I also love White rooms with dark wood. Good thing I have a year to figure this GIANT(wink,wink) problem out, right?

kind of like this but instead of the brown, a bright yellow color and not so distressed,. I don't like it super distressed it just looks too old. My friend did it to her dresser and it was BEAUTIFUL!

I'm also in love with this. Dark walls, but tons of bright in the room.

I love this ^ comforter. Greg threatened to never sleep in the bed again if I got it!
I love the elegance of it! It's so beautiful!

The down side to this one...it's ivory. I want crisp white.

Not a huge fan of this one, but it's gender neutral...


I really like this one . I think it would be super cute with yellow pillows and maybe even a pretty blue/teal/green/lavender pillow with the yellow....


I shall decide soon!

Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Fun with Son.

I've been trying to do different activities with Evan. I gave him 2 bowls of uncooked pasta and he had so much fun pouring the pasta back and forth, picking them out of one bowl and placing them in the other, trying to eat them (aaaghhhh!), and just plain throwing them everywhere. Jillane- you want pictures? You got it sista! The chairs are turned over because some little babe I know likes to climb on them and rock really hard, early tipping them backwards.







We will be painting later today....I'll post on that soon.

I have the best neighbors! A bunch of us were outside with the kids and this budget truck comes through our walk way deal and goes down this steep hill and gets stuck. So we called all of our husbands out and they rigged some jacks under and used their manly muscles to free the truck. Us wives got to watch. One of my friends just had twins and she has a 21 month old! Anyway, I got to hold one of her babies while her husband helped us and she was busy...I almost forget how teeny they are when they are newborns. One of our friends brought out some fruit snacks and red vines for the kids
"want to know how I got these scars?" (name that movie!)


This child loves to help me do the dishes. Except he has a tendency to put the clean dishes back in the dishwater..
enjoying squishing the watermelon
Enjoying some watermelon

 

We made Grilled Eggplant with Grilled tomato for dinner yesterday. We put Romain lettuce, onion, and I put dijon mustard on mine. Greg may have put ranch on his. We had a side salad. Num Num. Unfortunately, the store was out of wheat buns so you can imagine Greg's excitement that I actually bought white bread...


The Eggplant had some Garlic, olive oil, salt, pepper, and basil on it.

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Something important

I'm talking politics. Nothing deep, just hear read me out.
First of all I will never, ever vote for someone that says it's ok to kill unborn children.
This election is going to be CRUCIAL for America. I only ask that you all do your research and really consider what will happen to our country if Obama is re-elected. I work with a lot of people that know a lot about politics. I'm sure your thinking, "what? you work with a bunch of doctors." Indeed, I do. These Docs know more about politics than I will ever know, but I have learned a lot from them. My manager is actually on the Utah legislature- that man knows what he's talking about.

I can tell you that health care will be horrible if Obama is elected. Just read what Dr. Manny says:

Ask people from Canada and Europe how their health care is working out for them. I know people and they say it's awful. 

You should watch this too.


Obama wants to bring America down. He's a socialist. 

Why is it that most Military men are Republican? Think about it.  

Randy Bailey is a very smart man and he typed this up

His full Name is: Willard Mitt Romney
He was born: March 12, 1947 – He is 65 years old.
His Father: George W. Romney, former Governor of the State of Michigan and also ran for President
He was raised in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan

He is married to Ann Romney since 1969;
Th
e Romney’s have five boys who are all married and have children -- Tagg and Jennifer, Matt and Laurie, Josh and Jenn, Ben and Andelynn, Craig and Mary. In total they have 15 Grandchildren,

Education:
B.A. from Brigham Young University, J.D. and M.B.A. from Harvard University

Religion: Mormon -- The Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day Saints

Working Background:

After high school, he spent 30 months in France as a Mormon missionary. Each of his boys have also served Missions.

After going to both Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School simultaneously, he passed the Michigan Bar Exam, but never worked as an attorney.

In 1984, he co-founded Bain Capital a private equity investment firm, one of the largest such firms in the United States .

In 1994, he ran for Senator of Massachusetts and lost to Ted Kennedy.

He was President and CEO of the 2002 Winter Olympic Games.

In 2002, he was elected Governor of the State of Massachusetts where he eliminated a 1.5 billion deficit.

Some Interesting Facts about Romney:

Bain Capital, starting with one small office supply store in Massachusetts, turned it into Staples; now over 2,000 stores employing 90,000 people.

Bain Capital also worked to perform the same kinds of business miracles again and again, with companies like Domino's, Sealy, Brookstone, Weather Channel, Burger King, Warner Music Group, Dollarama, Home Depot Supply, and many others.

He was an unpaid volunteer campaign worker for his dad's gubernatorial campaign 1 year.

He was an unpaid intern in his dad's governor's office for eight years.

He was an unpaid Bishop (Ward or Congregation) and Stake President (10 Wards or Congreations) the Church of Jesus Christ for ten years.

He was an unpaid President of the Salt Lake Olympic Committee for three years.

He took no salary and was the unpaid Governor of Massachusetts for four years.

He gave his entire inheritance from his father to charity.

Mitt Romney is one of the wealthiest "self-made men" in our country but has given more back to its citizens in terms of money, service and time than most men.

In 2011 Mitt Romney gave over $4 million to charity, almost 19% of his income.... Just for comparison purposes, Obama gave 1% and Joe Biden gave $300 or .0013%.

Mitt Romney is Trustworthy:

He will show us his birth certificate

He will show us his high school and college transcripts.

He will show us his social security card.

He will show us his law degree.

He will show us his draft notice.

He will show us his medical records.

He will show us his income tax records.

He will show us he has nothing to hide.

Mitt Romney's background, experience and trustworthiness show him to be a great leader and an excellent citizen for President of the United States.

You know what religion he is no question, and that he won't desecrate the flag, bow down to foreign powers, or practice fiscal irresponsibility.

I know he has the ability to turn this financial debacle that the current regime has gotten us into.
No one will like all the things necessary to recover from this debt, but someone with Romney's background can do it.

ON THE MINUS SIDE, he never was a "Community Organizer", never took drugs or smoked pot, never got drunk, did not associate with communists or terrorists, nor did he attend a church whose pastor called for God to damn the United States of America.

You should know the difference between the men running for America's top office.