So I think we should go to some place like this for our next family reunion. It's in Strawberry. We could all pitch in for the rental fee. What do you think??
http://www.darlenesvacationcabins.com/page14.html

Mitchell's birthday was on Saturday. Before Papa and Mimi left for Hawaii they took him out for dinner and to go shopping for his gift on Thursday night. He had a lot of fun having his "special time" with them.

I took Grant in today to the doctor. It was his 12 month check up. Everything looks great and the Dr said that although his black eye looks horrible there is nothing to do about it.
He was 21 pounds 9 oz. And he was 29.5 inches long. His head circumference was 18 3/4.

Man we are so busy lately. We have something going on every night!
Between me being YW president (and all the activities and meetings that comes with), Matt being a scout leader, Matt's softball games, Paige's softball (3x a week), achievement days, my book club, birthday parties, dentist appointments, and on and on...... we never have a night just to sit and chil or even eat dinner all together. I know it is only going to get worse too as our kids get older and more involved. I don't know how moms with 6+ kids do it.

We had a great day yesterday. Matt was able to go to the temple for Chelsea's wedding and see a bunch of family that he hasn't seen in a really long time.

Yesterday morning when Grant woke up I held him for a long time. I was being sappy and thinking about how it was going to be the last day that I got to hold any of my babies before they turned one. He was kind enough to cuddle with me for a bit while I soaked it all in. I can't believe that he is a year old today. It seemed to go so fast that it was a blur. He is such a joy and blessing in our life and I am so thankful that he is ours. I will post birthday photos tomorrow.

Paige is in love with making videos of herself with the webcam. She has made millions of them. I wanted to put this one up though because it shows the phase that Harrison is going through. Right now he is into copying EVERYTHING Paige and Mitchell say. Sometimes they think it is fun like in this video. But a lot of times they get annoyed and tell him to stop copying them. Harry just wants to do everything they do....poor guy.

we could copy?

I made this last night and the kids really loved it and loved to help make it. It is super easy too. I know that there are lots of different recipes out there but I have found this one is the easiest yet still the yummiest! (I like this recipe because I love cream cheese).

Dessert Pizza

Here's what you will need to make it:
sugar cookie dough, store bought or homemade
8-ounce package cream cheese, at room temperature
1 cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
fruit slices like banana, strawberries, apples and blueberries


Here's what you have to do:
Pre-heat the oven to 350 degrees.
Slice up the dough like you're making cookies.
Then, on a greased cookie sheet or pizza pan, press the dough out into a large thin circle. This is your pizza crust.
Bake it for about 8 minutes. Once it's done put it on a rack to cool.
Instead of using tomato sauce, for Dessert Pizza, you mix together the sugar, vanilla, and softened cream cheese until it is smooth.
Using a rubber spatula, spread the cream cheese mixture over the crust.
Now, put the fruit on top in any design that you want. The fruit is your pizza topping!

Check this out. It is great!


http://thegabblog.blogspot.com/2008/04/just-for-record.html

I took Paige and Mitchell to the Temple today. It was our ward Temple day. The kids got to play with their friends, go on a tour of the temple grounds and visitors center and I was able to get some temple work done. Then we all got together and had lunch. We were able to do the temple work of many family members for a guy in our ward who has just started on his genealogy. It was a great day!

I took Mitch to meet with the ENT today and he agreed that Mitchell needs another set of tubes and to have his adenoids removed. I am really happy about this because I have notice some hearing loss in Mitch recently and am just tired of him having to take antibiotics. He has a pre-op appt on May 12th with the anesthesiologist and if we get the go ahead then his surgery will be on the 14th. Unlike his other tube surgeries (which took about 10 minutes) they said that this time he will be under anesthesia for 30-45 minutes because of removing the adenoids. I know that is still no big deal but it is still hard for any Mom to think of their child going under anesthesia. I am still looking forward to it though because I know it is what Mitchell needs to get better.

Here is a quick video of Grant walking. It is so fun to see him toddle around.

Grant got his 7th tooth today. I am not surprised because he has been drooling again like crazy and being very grumpy. It is his bottom left side.

The kids have been having so much fun with their cousins here this weekend.
We went to Boomers today with Mimi, Papa, Travis and Tommy. The kids had a blast. We played miniature golf, did the batting cages and arcades and the kids drove the race cars.
I think the adults had more fun than the kids as we were cheering our kids on as they drove around the track.
Tommy was all business and easily lapped everyone winning it all. Paige drove fast but she was more interested in smiling and waving for the camera and showing off by trying to drive with no hands. Mitchell was slow and cautious and spent more time checking out all the parts of the race car than trying to win. He did pass up two others drivers toward the end so that he wouldn't come into last place though.
Mimi got some great photos of today and I hope she posts them.

7X7 = ???
I don't know my multiplication chart. Well I know all the lower numbers and the easy ones like 10's and 11's. But if you asked me what 8 X 7 is I would have to count. Embarrassing right? (And yes, I graduated from BYU). I just never memorized them. I am horrible when it comes to memorization and so I have just always counted up or down.

Well Paige is working on memorizing all her multiplications and so I have committed to memorize them with her. I figure I better get this over with now because I have many years to come of homework involving multiplying. Wish us luck!