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State Fair

We really wanted to take the kids to the state fair this year, and we're sure glad we did! The girls had an absolute blast looking at the animals, playing, and eating fun food!





Aiden kept pointing to all the animals and, just like the zoo, got frustrated when she couldn't touch most of them. She got her hands on one or two, so that ended up appeasing her! Katelyn loved petting the animals. She also thinks that we need to get our own goat. Why a goat? No idea! She just wants one something fierce now!





The girls loved playing at the Little Hands on the Farm exhibit. Aiden was so excited to have her own little bucket and play right along side her big sister! Katelyn was having so much fun, she kept trying to sprint an exhibit ahead of us! It was just too much fun for her! When they got done "working on the farm", they each got to pick out a treat. Katelyn got cereal and Aiden got her favorite, crackers!











We spent a few minutes looking at booths and what not, but that never lasts long when you have the kids in tow! We decided that it was time for a snack and we headed off to get some twisted taters (aka ribbon fries)! For those of you who don't know what those are, it's essentially a big potato thinly cut into one giant ribbon of potato, fried up like regular french fries, and fun to enjoy! They're one of my favorite things to get at the fair. In fact, I know EXACTLY where the booth is each year! ;) We all dug in, but of course, Aiden was after them more than the rest of us! She'd scoop some off of the plate, take a bite, and head back to the plate for more long before what she had in her hand was gone! The girl knows good food when she sees it!





I love being able to do these fun things that only come around once in a while with my family. Reminds me of when I was a kid and even makes me feel like a kid!

Live List: Anniversary Picture

So, I've got some serious updating I need to do on my Live List. I just need to sit down and let you all know what I've accomplished so far! We'll start with the most recent check off my list!

After Nate and I took a quick snapshot of ourselves out to dinner on our first anniversary a year ago, I decided that it would be fun for us to take a picture of ourselves every year on our anniversary. Nothing fancy, just a quick picture, freezing a quick second in time. That way, we can look back and see how we've changed. We can also show our children the pictures as they get older, to which they can laugh and say "You look so young and dated!", because that's what all kids say about their parents pictures in their younger days, right (I did with my parents haha!)?

We celebrated our anniversary on Saturday, since it actually fell on Sunday. We had a great weekend, just the two of us. We went up to Midway and explored Swiss Days, which I'm so glad we did just the two of us because I might have lost my head chasing children up there! We stopped in Heber on the way home at a quaint little cafe for dinner. Grabbing a bite to eat at some random Mom and Pop diner in small towns is one of our favorite pastimes, so although it may not seem like much, it's one of our favorite things to do! Once we got home, we wanted to see a movie. We decided we were too tired to actually go to the theater, so instead we reverted back into 10-year-olds and went to the store to stock up on junk food. We took our haul back home and snuggled up to watch a movie together. Nate's parents took the kids for the night, so we could be alone for one night. Good times! :D

Sunday we went and picked up the kids from Grandpa and Grandma's house. While we were there, I had Lisa snap our picture. Ignore the bare feet and swollen preggo legs, I ditched the heels as soon as I could! ;)



It's been an amazing 2 years, my dear! I love you so much and can't wait for all the many more memories that we'll share together!

Domestic Diva: Fried zucchini

I've been quite the little domestic diva lately! I find this rather odd since being pregnant, you'd think I'd be fighting just to get through the day on the simple tasks, yet I've taken it to a whole new level! Go me! *Party dance*

For those of you who are LDS or avid gardeners, you've probably heard the joke about locking your car doors when you go to church during the summer, because if you don't, you'll come back to a car stocked full of zucchini. Well, the other day I snagged this ginormous zucchini from outside of someone's house trying to pawn off their over abundance of veggies from their garden. I love zucchini bread, so I knew right away I'd be making some of that. After realizing I'd have A TON of zucchini left over, I pondered about what new things I could do, since I didn't want any of this to go to waste. Then the most delicious idea came to me. Fried zucchini. MMMMMMM. I've only had it as an appetizer at restaurants, but the thought never crossed my mind until now to attempt it on my own! After browsing a few recipes online, I ended up taking pointers from a few and making my own recipe. This is what I ended up doing...

3/4 cup Parmesan cheese
1 cup Panko bread crumbs
Dash of salt
1 egg
Sliced zucchini
3 tbsp oil

In one bowl I mixed the cheese, bread crumbs, and salt. In another bowl I whisked up the egg. I dipped the zucchini in the egg and then coated in the breading mixture. I laid them on a cookie sheet until I was ready to fry them up like so...



(See? I told you that zucchini was ginormous!)

I warmed up the oil in a large frying pan and fried the zucchini on each side until it was a dark golden brown. I say dark, because if it is too light, I don't think you get the awesome crispiness out of the breading that you could otherwise. I'm sorry I didn't get a picture of the color after they were cooked, as I had a friend come to the door right while I was frying these bad boys up! We dipped the zucchini in a homemade marinara and it was uber delicious! Katelyn even ate it and liked it! We're talking about a kid that we have to force feed anything green to! Amazing, right?

To be honest, it was ridiculously simple to make and I will probably do many more times in the future! Plus, I have plenty of zucchini left still haha! ;)

Home Makeover: Soules Edition!

So, my makeover isn't as dramatic as leveling a house and completely rebuilding it in 7 days, but I am sure excited about what I did! I've had this wood knickknack shelf for over 10 years. When I first got it, I was 15 and ultra obsessed with the color green. So, I decided to paint it a mint green, which was fine...10 years ago. For weeks I've been eying what I considered my green abomination in my living room and wondering what on earth I should do with it. Tossing it was the first thing that crossed my mind, but I figured there was SOMETHING I could do with it. I thought about repainting it, but then immediately concluded that it would take way too much effort. While still brainstorming, I spotted another wood project in my living room that I had made a couple years ago. Simple project really...just some wood blocks that I spray painted and applied vinyl lettering to. Then it FINALLY hit me! Spray paint that green monster!!!

Here's the green shelf in its mint green glory (uck)...


After a $3 can of spray paint and 2 hours later,a new accent piece for my living room!


Watch out Martha Stewart...

First Day of Kindergarten

Wow! I can't believe the day has already come that my little Katelyn is headed off to the "big school" (as she calls it)! Miss Katelyn started her first day of Kindergarten yesterday and she couldn't have possibly been more thrilled about it! She woke up at 7 am, which is a far cry from us usually kicking her out of bed sometime after 9 am. She was so excited, I don't think she could have stayed asleep if she tried! I got to attend her first day with her, as it was more of a parent orientation day rather than a full fledged regular school day for the kids. I think she's going to do JUST fine in Kindergarten! :D

Live List: Go To The Zoo

Yes, I know I haven't posted a single thing this summer, but for good reason! It's been quite the crazy one indeed! Fortunately, this Live List post does cover a recent event, so I won't feel too guilty about not being a dutiful blogging mommy. ;)

I was looking over my Live List this afternoon and I was thrilled to see that I had completed an item on my Live List, without even remembering I had put it there! This particular item happened to be to go to the zoo. All year I have been dying to take my girls to the zoo, hence the reason I put it on my list (but, of course, actually forgetting it was there haha). My sister, Jessica, told me a few weeks ago that she was planning on making a trip to SLC and that on her list of things to do was to go to the zoo, so the plan was set!

We ended up going to the zoo Monday afternoon. We also had quite the crew go with us too! Audrey, Mandy, Kadee, Rae, and of course Jessica, Jackson, and my girls all headed up to the zoo. We spent all afternoon there and my poor body sure could tell! Why, oh why did they build that dang zoo on a mountain?!?!? Oh well, it was worth it! Jackson spent the whole time at the zoo looking for an alligator, which we didn't find until the very end of the excursion. Katelyn's favorite part was the elephants, especially the baby elephant. For the first half of the visit, I would point the animals out to Aiden, she'd point, and then get ticked that she couldn't actually TOUCH the animals! I suppose I need to find a petting zoo somewhere close by! I think one of the favorite things of all the kids was the elephant statue that not only made elephant noises, but sprayed water out of it's trunk! They all were laughing so hard, I don't think they could breathe half of the time! Silly kids.

Here are a few pics (I took so many, so a bit of editing down was necessary haha) of the adventure...


Katelyn and Jackson watching a King vulture devour a rat. It was pretty nasty, actually...


Mama elephant and baby elephant (Zuri was born at the zoo last year)


The cousins: Jackson, Aiden, Katelyn, and Kadee


You can't go to the zoo all afternoon and NOT expect the kids to want a snack!


Katelyn and the giraffe


Aiden and Mommy were checking out the giraffes downstairs while the others (who were not confined to a stroller haha) checked them out from upstairs!


Here kitty, kitty...(I actually got the kids to say that all throughout the cat exhibit heh heh!)


This is about half of what my pictures consisted of, the back of the kids as they looked on at all the animals!


...and this would be the elephant statue that the kids had a blast with! Purely comical!

All in all, it was a fun day at the zoo. Time to check that one off the List! ;)

Happy Mothers Day!

I hope all you moms, grandmas, aunts, sisters, etc. had a wonderful Mothers Day yesterday!

My husband is my rock and it wouldn't have been a wonderful Mothers Day without him making it so! Some pretty crummy things happened yesterday, but they don't even seem that important because Nate did the best he could to make me feel wonderful! Love you honey!

I ended up getting an impromptu Mothers Day gift on Saturday, a new washer and dryer!!! Nate and I had been starting to browse for a new washer, since we knew we were going to need a new one soon. We needed one that was bigger, to fit our ever expanding laundering needs, and our current one needed some repairs, but we didn't want to go to the trouble of fixing it if we needed something larger. Looking online Friday night, I stumble upon an absolute steal of a deal for a washer/dryer set that we just could NOT pass up! Buying this particular set was half the price of the the washers alone that we were looking at. Since we had the money do it, we figured now would be the best time! Saturday morning I got up to go look at the washer and dryer to make sure it was what we wanted and TA DA! We are now the proud owners of a new washer and dryer! Wahoo!



It's nice having a washer and dryer that were made in this century! HA!

I spent Saturday evening with Melissa beading and making watchbands. I had been absolutely itching to learn how to make them. Now I think I've officially caught the beading bug! I'll show you my creations when I do my Live List post about them :)

As for the rest of my gifts, Sunday morning I got from Katelyn, Aiden, and Nate Season 4 of CSI (which I've been wanting for quite a while, but just never got around to getting it) and some Teddy's root beer, which is quite tasty stuff! I also got a cute throw pillow from my in laws too.

I got some great stuff from Katelyn that she made at preschool for me. This is the stuff I love to get and haven't gotten much of since she really hasn't had much opportunity to do it over the years. She brought me home an artistic rendition of myself (as pictured below), a picture frame that she made, and a card that had a survey about mom in it. It was one of those surveys that the kid gets to fill in the blank about mom. My absolute favorite was "My mom weighs ______ pounds." Her answer? "She's lost a few." Good girl!!! No gigantic number in that blank! Haha! ;)



She was so proud that she managed to use just about every color in the rainbow to draw me!

Sunday I didn't get breakfast in bed because we had 9 AM church and we were up late the night before. I did, however, get lunch "in bed" (being defined as lunch while lounging on the couch haha). I got to enjoy some lumpia and rice, which you can never go wrong with!

Nate was wonderful in taking care of the kids and letting me rest as much as possible, and by rest I DID get a Sunday nap in, YEAH! He played with the kids and tried to keep them as quiet as possible, so I could get a nap because sleep has been hard to come by the past few days!

We had dinner at my in laws that night. I wish I could have enjoyed it more, but I had a really killer headache come on while we were eating! Fortunately after dosing myself with drugs and a short nap, I was healed! For Nate's mom's Mothers Day gift, we bought her an ice cream cake, which we got to enjoy after dinner. It was a peanut buster parfait ice cream cake from none other than Dairy Queen! Oh my deliciousness!!! It was awesome! We had to store the cake at my dad's Saturday and he jokingly asked where his cake was (as PB parfaits hare his absolute favorite), so I think we know what he's getting for Fathers Day! ;)

I hope everyone else had a fantastic Mothers Day too!

Live List: Go to Oregon to visit friends and family

I'll blog in more detail about our trip later (as there is A LOT to cover), but I figure I'll at least get it crossed off my Live List!

I cannot even begin to explain how absolutely THRILLED I was to take this trip. Not only was I excited to go show my family my old stomping grounds, but I was also excited to go see my friends and family in Oregon.

The first part of our trip took us to Salem, my hometown. Currently, my Uncle Vance and Aunt Cheryl live in Salem (Oregon just can't go without at least one Stockham clan residing there!), as well as my cousins. Also, my Oregon besties, the Sullivans, are still in that neck of the woods too! We've known them now going on 23 years! Love them to death!


We went with Vance and Cheryl up to the Portland Saturday Market, which was a blast!


My cousin Jack-Lynn's girls, Alyssa and Hayley, with Katelyn.


Jen Sullivan and I with our kiddos

I wish I would have gotten some pics when we had dinner with the whole Sullivan clan, but we were all just having a ball catching up with each other, I never busted the camera out! Bad me!

On the last leg of our trip, we went down to Grants Pass for a few days to visit Nate's grandma (aka Memere). Katelyn LOVED spending time there. In fact, one day we were going to have an outing and she didn't want to go because she wanted to stay home with Memere. What a sweetheart! Also while we were there, Memere wanted to make Katelyn a birthday cake, since Katelyn's birthday was only a week away while we were there. :)



I love all my family and friends so much, it eats me up inside every time I have to leave them after having such a good time with them!

Live List: Find a new "Hole in the wall"

I've been sitting in bed sick for the past two days and bored out of my mind. It just now dawns on me that I should catch up a bit on my blogging. Wish I would have thought of that, oh, 10 hours ago!

Right before Jonny (Nate's brother) left on his mission a few weeks ago, Nate wanted to take his grandfather, grandmother, Jonny, and our little family to a diner for breakfast called Ramblin' Roads. Sweet! I love little diners/cafes that are family owned. They have the best food! So, we all head out to have breakfast at this fun little diner out in the industrial park part of NSL. As we pull up, we see that it is Ramblin' Roads no more! We see that new ownership has moved in and it's now called Christine's Kitchen. We almost didn't go inside because we weren't sure what the deal was. I'm sure glad we went in! That was some FANTASTIC food! I had the most delicious omlette with swiss cheese, bacon, and avocado. MMMMM! It was also good to spend some time with Jonny before he left to the MTC. Good food, good company...what more could you ask for?

Live List: Go to a Jazz game

(The Jazz warming up before game time)

I've actually got a few on my list to update, but we'll start with this one! ;)

I was getting a little nervous I wouldn't be able to check this one off my list. The season ends here next week, so I snuck this one in just under the wire!

I FINALLY got to go to a Jazz game, all thanks to my dad and his boss. His boss bought season tickets to use as gifts for clients. Lucky me he didn't give them all away! This was my first game...in 11 years! Last time I went, Karl Malone and John Stockton were still playing. Yeah.....it's about dang time!

I seriously was so excited, I couldn't stand it. Go Jazz!

Nate and I went together (awwwww...a date haha). We went a couple weeks ago when the Jazz played the Hornets. It was fantastic going to a game with my hubby, since we're both big sports fans. The game was pretty much a blowout since the Hornets were short handed AND then one of their players was ejected from the game for committing a flagrant foul. Nonetheless, it was a GREAT night and I happily checked that one off my list.

Too bad I'm poor. I'd love to score some playoff tickets ;)

I've had quite the epiphany about my little live list. It's not so much about the quantity of things I'm trying to do, but the quality of what I'm doing and whom I am spending my time with when doing my list. It's helping me to appreciate my talents, and also appreciate and cherish the time I spend with the ones I care for. :)

Live List: Go Bowling

I realized that I had forgotten about an item on my list! Nate and I went bowling as a part of our V-day date (after searing every inch of our sinuses at the Mandarin with hot mustard haha).

I first realized how much I love bowling when I took a class while down at Snow. Yes, it was an easy-A blah blah blah, but I really did learn a lot! Not only did I learn correct technique and I actually got really good at bowling, I also learned how to score the game. We really had no choice on whether to learn or not, because the alley our class attended was so old that all we had was a projector to write our scores and shine up on the wall! I just wish I could go bowling more often than I do. I'd be able to keep my game up much better than I illustrated on our date. ;)

Before our date, we hadn't been bowling since I was pregnant with Aiden. Funny thing about it, now that I'm NOT pregnant with Aiden, it's almost like I've had to learn how to bowl all over again! I have a new center of gravity now that I don't have my own bowling ball sticking out of my stomach! Needless to say, two games weren't enough for me to get back into my groove. Fortunately, Katelyn has a field trip here in a couple weeks to the bowling alley. Maybe I'll be able to toss a few balls and re-master my mad skills a little more!

Here's to continuing to live life to the fullest!

Live List: Play a Board Game

If you didn't read my post on my "Live List" a few weeks ago, scroll down, read, and then this will make a bit more sense! ;)

So, continuing on my quest to complete my "Live List" before the end of the year, I checked another one off my list last night: Play a board game. Even better, I played with my husband! Sounds lame, but it was fun! It's something we've never done just the two of us, just like we'd never done the oh so traditional "dinner and a movie" date up until a few weeks ago after all the time we've been together haha! Anyway, last night we were sitting together on the couch with nothing to watch, even off the DVR. Pickings have been slim with the Olympics on and we were even caught up with those. I'm bored, so I look at Nate and said "Let's play a game!" He kind of gave me this funny look like "What on earth has gotten into you?", but being the good sport that he is agreed to play. As I'm looking at the games we have, I start to realize we don't have a ton that can be played with just two players. We were left with either playing Sorry or Life, and we decided on Life. As we got down to playing, we found ourselves having quite a good ol' time! We were laughing and having a ball, something that sure wouldn't be happening with watching something we didn't care to watch on TV. After we were done playing, Nate said that it was really fun playing a game together and it's something we should do more often. I agree! These are the moments we live for! Simple, sweet, and etched in our brains to remember forever! Although, I better get a better selection of 2-player games so we're not stuck each time deciding on whether to push our little plastic car through going to college or starting a career! ;)

Two Little Princess' Update

So many things have been going on with the girls lately, I felt they deserved their own post for their own updates!

Katelyn


Now this kid is getting so BIG! She's getting so tall! I'm proud to say she is no longer the shortest one in the bunch when she is around kids her age. She's still a skinny butt, but maybe someday she'll crack the 30-pound mark! She'll be turning 5 in 2 months, crazy! I'm still trying to get a hold of the fact that I have multiple kids, let alone having kids of grade school age! We've applied for Katelyn to go to a charter school a couple miles away. It's an academically rigorous school and I'm quite impressed with their methods. We find out in 2 weeks whether or not she gets in (it's a lottery based admit). If she doesn't make it in, she'll be going to the elementary school close by in the fall. Wow, it's not that far away at all! Katelyn loves being a big sister. In fact, this morning she climbed into Aiden's crib to keep her company until Mommy and Daddy decided to wake up, goofy girl!

Aiden

She's hit so many milestones! At her last well child check, she was 14 pounds, which is exactly what she was at the last appointment, but with her being on the move now, the doctor figured she's not gaining any because she's so active. He also discovered another ear infection (second since being born). Poor kid. We've had to go to a second round of antibiotics because the first one turned out not to be broad enough for whatever strand of bacteria she has. Fortunately this one seems to be working, so hopefully she'll start to sleep through the night again! Aiden is now eating solid food, crawling, sitting up without any help, and has 2 teeth! She's also starting talk. She started making the "da da da" noises a few weeks ago, so we started to teach her "Dada" as we pointed to Nate. She now knows and very purposefully calls out "Dada" to him! She didn't say it at all yesterday, but then Nate walked in the door from work and she says "Dada!" She's going to turn 1 here in June, which of course, as a mother, blows my mind that time has flown by so quickly!

The Promise Land Series

As a part of my "Live List", I wanted to be able to read more. So far, I've been doing pretty good with it! I'm still not able to sit for a long block of time and just read, but hey, I'm a mom! When do I get to do ANYTHING for a solid block of time without leaving the house? ;)

I just finished reading the last book in the Promise Land series. Most people haven't heard of this when I tell them I've been reading them, so I decided to share! This series of books is a fictitious back story to the Book of Mormon, leading up to the taking of the plates from Jerusalem. Although it is fictional, there is a lot of historical facts that help create the story. All the historical notes are listed at the end of each book, and they aren't few in number! So, I suppose you would call them historical novels. I HIGHLY recommend these books to anyone who loves to read or has a love for the BoM, or both! Even though I've finished the last book, the author has eluded to more books being published in this series. I hope so! I can't wait to see how the subplots to the story play out!

Live list

So, for a few weeks I've been thinking about all the goals I want to accomplish or things that I want to do before this year is through. I was wondering how I would compile a list of these things, without getting too overwhelmed. I didn't want to call them resolutions, because I knew it would feel like a burden as opposed to something fun. Then I was looking at Rachel and Nick's blog (BTW, they're looking to adopt, so if you know someone searching for a good couple, point them in their direction!) and I realized what I needed to do. I needed to make a "live list", a list of things to help me enjoy life, and LIVE it, instead of just going through the day-to-day motions. So this is my "live list" for 2010:

• Find a new “hole in the wall” (local restaurant, family café, etc.).

• Take a cake decorating class.

• Make a cake for every special occasion. No store bought cakes this year!

• Dedicate more time to reading. My list includes: Glenn Beck’s Common Sense, The Lovely Bones, and Arguing with Idiots.

• Go to a Jazz game.

• Go to a Stingers game.

• Learn to crochet.

• Take a day trip to Park City.

• Take a day trip to Ephraim.

• Make all of Aiden’s baby food.

• Do a puzzle.

• Take Katelyn to her first day of Kindergarten.

• Escape on an overnighter with my hubby ;)

• Go to the park with the kids.

• Go to a laser light show with Nate.

• Go to the beach.

• Go to Oregon and visit family and friends.

• Play a board game.

• Meet my new niece/nephew (aka Bubbles).

• Learn to make jewelry.

• Go on a double date.

• Paint the girls’ toenails.

• Learn to can a new food item this summer.

• Go to the zoo.

• Go bowling.

• Reach my goal weight.

• Get a pedicure.

• Take a picture with my husband on our anniversary.

• Ride FrontRunner to Ogden.

• Go to Frightmares.

"Let us relish life as we live it, find joy in the journey, and share our love with friends and family. One day each of us will run out of tomorrows." ~Thomas S. Monson

This list is subject to change, but only if I have something to add to it! As they year goes on, I will try to post pictures of what I've done, so you all can follow my journey! :)

Chocolate Malt Cake

Because I'm a malt addict, I found myself wondering if a cake recipe existed out there that featured malt. Thank goodness for Google (oh Google, how I love thee), or else I might have never known! So, OF COURSE, I had to try this out and see how it really tasted! Here's the recipe, for those of you who were asking for it!

Batter:

2¼ cups all-purpose flour

¼ cups sugar

¾ cup unsweetened cocoa powder

1½ teaspoons baking soda

1 teaspoon baking powder

½ teaspoon salt

1 cup milk

1 cup malted milk powder

1 cup vegetable oil

3 large eggs

1 cup sour cream

1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

Frosting:

1 cup unsweetened butter, room temperature

½ cup unsweetened cocoa powder

¾ cup whipping (heavy) cream

½ cup malted milk powder

5 cups confectioners (powdered) sugar

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Prepare 2 9-inch round layer cake pans, lightly grease.

Batter: In a large mixing bowl, combine flour, sugar, cocoa powder, baking soda, baking powder, and salt; whisk together to mix. Set aside. In a small bowl, combine milk and malted milk powder, stirring to dissolve. Add milk mixture, vegetable oil, and eggs to flour mixture; use an electric mixer and beat until smooth. Add sour cream and vanilla; beat just until mixture is combined. Spoon the batter into prepared pans. Bake 20-25 minutes.

Chocolate Malt Frosting: In a large bowl, beat butter and cocoa powder until creamy. In a small bowl, combine whipping cream and malted milk powder, stirring to dissolve. Add cream mixture to butter mixture, use an electric mixer and beat until combined. Gradually beat in confectioner’s sugar until smooth.

Verdict: YUM! The frosting tasted just like Whoppers, it was unreal! I was a little panicked Saturday night when I baked the cakes because they weren't very sweet at all. Once I made the frosting Sunday afternoon, I knew why! The cake isn't terribly sweet on purpose, the frosting completely makes up for it! I accidentally used a bit more whipping cream in the frosting than I was supposed to, so it made decorating the cake a bit difficult, but it still worked out okay. I took the cake over to my dad's for it's taste testing (since I consider my dad the utmost expert on all things malt related) and it was a hit! That cake was snarfed up in a hurry!

More to come

Hmmmmm...I've been quite the slacker, haven't I? I love keeping all of you updated on everything, but life has sure escaped me these past few months! It's a new year, a new month...so I'm going to re-commit myself to keeping my blog updated. It's a good way for me to reflect on the happenings in my life and also doubles as a way to keep you all updated on our life events!

There will be more to come in 2010... :)