Often when I sit down to blog I look through the pictures taken during the week to try to decide what to blog about. This week I've been terrible at taking pictures....maybe because of all the gross weather we've had. The snow finally came. Our driveway got plowed for the second time this year. We have really needed the moisture, and I'm going about to start complaining about it.
We renewed our Thanksgiving Point membership this week and went twice. We love that place! I'm not sure how long we will continue to get a membership there, but we'll enjoy it while it lasts. Both days this week we spent at the Museum of Natural Curiosity. I love all of the fun hands on things that they have for a wide variety of ages to enjoy.
Every time we go she loves the wheelbarrows....along with just about every other kid.
She has fun swishing the "water" around and watching the bubbles in the washer.
We did away with paying for cable close to a year ago. We have recently started watching Cut Throat Kitchen. They had the challenge of making jambalaya with extra challenges thrown in. I have always loved when my mom made it for us, which inspired me to make it for our family this week...even if it meant a special trip to the grocery store.
new jambalaya recipe
We have a wedding coming up in our family in about 2 1/2 months. There are several colors that they bride has chosen to use. I thought this dress was prefect for Scarlett. I really wanted something with sleeves since we will be outdoors for everything early in the day and late in the evening and wanted her to be warm enough. I sent pictures to my mom and sisters which ended up in me going back to buy for the rest of the nieces. They all would've bought for themselves, but this was a dress that was sold at outlets only...thus me making another trip up to the outlets. I was happy to do it for my sisters!
S's dress for Ben and Holly's wedding
Saturday was a seriously busy day for our family. I hope to not have that many crazy obligations in one day again! We started the day at 7, with me cutting Brett's hair...it was much needed! I have been doing it for years...so if you see spots that are missed you can blame me :/ Then Brett had to be at Stake Baptisms by 9. As soon as he was done he came home and changed so we could go to an adoption open house sponsored by the LDS church and put on by adoption.com They are the most searched site and lots of success for birth parents looking to place their child(ren) for adoption. Now we get to start a large part of this all over again. If I'm being honest I should say that I should be working on it now. Their website has a lot more things for us to add than we previously had on itsaboutlove.org When we came home we needed to go to the youth fundraiser. They did a car wash and had 3 professional photographers from the ward volunteer their time to take family photos. Brett put S down for a nap while I took both cars up to get washed. We had a 5:40 appointment for pictures. It was a very long day to say the least. At least we got some happy faces out of S. That will be something to hopefully update our adoption blog with :)
Brett was having a youth discussion on Sunday and we needed refreshments...so while Brett put S to bed I ran to the grocery store. I hadn't made these in ages, but they are fantastic. We call them monster cookies. They have all the things you love in cookies in them...peanut butter, oatmeal, chocolate chips, m&ms. Plus, for my gluten free friends, you're set!
Monster Cookie dough
