I love home cooking

This is one of my favorite meals. Vegan chili with sweet potatoes. The kids loved it as well and ate it all up. It's days like today that I don't mind being vegan.

This was so much fun

Some friends of ours invited us to a Toga party. (ok not really - it was a murder party but I thought toga party sounded fun) I have always wanted to go to a murder mystery party and who knew, I ended up being the killer. I love being with my husband. He always makes me laugh and tonight was no different. We had a blast. Thanks friends!!

We were both so happy to see eachother.

I have never left Jacob and I was so happy to be back with him. I missed him so very much and seeing him again Brought happy tears. While I was gone he really figured out the walking thing and it surprised me how much better he was walking around. Gone are the days of the mogul crawl.

How wonderful are these people?

I am sad the quality of this picture is not better but I love it anyway. This is my wonderful mom and her wonderful brother. We never got to be around them much growing up but I always loved to visit with My Uncle Bruce and Aunt Carol. They are such positive people and you can't help but smile when in their presence.

My cousins wedding ceremony was absolutely amazing. While in the temple I felt the presence of my great grandmother Mary Elizabeth. I don't know enough about her but I have always felt like I would like her. That in some way She would understand. Maybe our lives were similar. I am not sure. I plan to research her and find out more. I know she had 10 children and so she must have understood what a full house feels like.

We also went to the museum and we did find several pictures. They will be sent to us via disc and I can't wait to print them and then learn more about the beautiful people that make up my family tree.

My family

I flew up to SLC to join my parents for my cousins wedding. While in the hotel room tonight we looked at my family history. Tomorrow after the wedding we plan to visit a museum that holds pictures of my family. We are hopeful that we will be able to get several pictures. Family history excites me and when I don't have small people at home I want to learn more about my family and where I came from and what helped to make up who I am today. It is so nice to be with my parents and get to spend one on one time with them.

Remind me why I buy toys?

I was getting the kids ready for bed when Joshua goes missing. We look for him and then I hear him say in a quiet voice, "I'm in here." He had a box on top of him and he was hidden really well. When he took the box off to display where he had been he had this awesome grin.

This boy makes me smile.

Today was spent in the boys room going through toys and deep cleaning there room. Jacob helped us by pulling everything out and smiling the whole time. Today we also discovered that Jacob loves hats. I always buy my babies hats but they will never wear them. He would get mad if someone took it off.