recipe book

one of my neighbors has organized her recipe's all in a three ring binder using divided clear plastic overs. Now, I've been looking for years for a way to store all my recipes, but still be able to add new ones at the same time, so I've created my own recipe cards I thought I'd share.

Where did the summer go?

Spencer's birthday was pretty good this year, the big 34:) we took the kids to the dinosaur museum down at Thanksgiving point and then my mom watched them so we could have a date night, just the two of us. We both felt young again that night. we went miniature golfing and to dinner and then we got our pictures taken in one of the dumb color booths. It was really really fun!! However, it didn't end there. the next night we had his family birthday party with the Bellamy's at the park and then went to our friends "The Kols" to play games ... I believe I won all three games that night (Eat that Jason) and we just finished off his birthday fun by going to see a movie that came out this weekend that he really wanted to see "Surrogate" which despite critic reviews we both really really loved!! I gave spencer a bunch of Aeropostale clothing (as seen below) ... hit a huge sale and their shirts actually come down long enough to cover spencer's long torso (I'd be interested in other stores that have longer shirts as well) and then I gave him a really nice desk, I'll have to take a picture of his current one that we got when we were first married at the DI, let's just say it was time for a new one!!

my parents

We went on our annual "Briggs/Staten" camp out up to the Redman campground up Big Cottonwood canynon. It is the most beautiful camp site, but how on earth did we manage to hit the only cold weekend in August on our once a year camp out? we could see our breath the entire time we were there and woke up to ice water and frost. But, it was still quite fun. The boys spent time gathering rocks to throw in the water and "hemorroids" for the fire. Mason found a toy tiger that our friends had brought and carried it around everywhere. Both of them had a blast feeding the "pockets" except Ethan got a little frustrated with Mason because he'd point and make noise anytime a "pocket" came near. :) We played cards and ate bad food ... what a weekend ... it will be fun to go again ... um next year (I need a year between these camp outs to recover) lol

Little Stinker!!

Fourth of July Fun

We had a lot of fun over the 4th and 24 of july. On the 4th we went and saw the kaysville parade. Ethan had a really fun time and was very dedicated to waving so they would throw him some candy. I'm not exactly sure why he wanted their candy when I'd brought so much of our own:) Mason was a little brighter on that front and sat and ate pretty much every ounce of candy he could get his hands on. Ethan's favorite part were the planes that flew over head and the fire trucks. My least favorite part were the Oxen that slowly and stinkily trotted down the street. On the 24th we went and saw fireworks at Meuller park, just Ethan and I went with Grandma and Grandpa Bellamy and some of the Wayment girls. Ethan really really loved looking up and kept yelling his excitement. He would say "Grandma ... the fireworks say boom boom" I did however hear him tell his stuffed puppy not to be afraid, that fireworks weren't scary:) on the way back to our car from the park Ethan had to go the bathroom (he had already gone in the 3 stores we'd gone to that day, so I was not really happy that he was telling me he had to go again) Well, everyone was still out in their front yard from watching the fireworks so I didn't feel as if he could just go on their lawn. Anyway ... I had this brilliant idea to teach him to go in a cup. well, the night ended with me trying to get out of the car with this cup of pee and spilling it all over myself and the car... grrr!!
All in all though, what a great July:)

Up in the tree like a bird

When Ethan as 2/12 we were out visiting my parents and he came in and we knew he wanted something so we tried to get him to use his words and tell us what he wanted and then we all tried to figure out what he'd just said, I think it was something like "Da dan want up tree like bird" well, since that day Spencer has been putting my boys up in trees like the birds and they love it. I think it's cute too, unless the tree in question is too high (which has happened more than I'd like to think about)