book club = night out

Today was kind of a rough day for me and Drew he did so great potty training yesterday and I was so excited thinking we had finally accomplishing something but today we took a huge step backwards. I know it is normal but we went the rounds today, I think he was just doing it to spite me. Well all day I knew that at 7:30 I was off to Tarahumara's for good kid free conversation, pork tacos, and as many diet cokes as I wanted. It was wonderful! Being a mom and wife is great, but so is a night out with the girls every now and again. Thanks girls!! and to our husbands that stayed home with the kids and did get Drew to sleep before I came home, hooray Dean!

My sister a published author

There is this cool new LDS women's magazine that I have done a little work for. It has some fun articles on a lot of different things from women around the world. The second edition just came out and my sister Andrea wrote a nutrition article for it. She is not a writer but she knows her stuff and it is a great article for busy moms about moderation in our eating habits for ourselves and our families. If you want to check it out, here is the link http://viewer.zmags.com/showmag.php?magid=107133#/page100/ great job A!

Free handbag!

It seems as though there are no strings attached to win this free bag. They are really cute and you have till October 15th! http://www.handbagplanet.com/

skate park and drew

Isaac's sweet pink sunglasses!
Heber recently got their own skate park. Drew of course it quite interested in it. During the summer at night all the big boys would be over there doing their tricks and drew was mesmerised by it, he told me he needed a skate board. I think he really wants to be into extreme sports. One morning when all the big kids were in school we took Drew, Isaac, and big Drew over there to run, ride their bikes, and the spiderman scooter. Probably not my best idea getting a two year old into a skate park and doing wheelys but it was a good time, he thought he was pretty cool.

a lot of peaches

My parents peach trees decided to really reproduce this fall and so we have had so many peaches, which we really like but they don't last very long. So Drew and I made jam one day, froze a ton the next day, and dried some more the next day. Dean wanted to make the coveted peach cobbler he had at our neighbors in the dutch oven. It was quite a process. To clean out the dutch oven from last years lake powell very burnt berrie cobbler. Then season it again, then buy the stuff to do it, Drew was his trusty assistant each step of the way. Finally at 9:45 one night we had some dang good cobbler! It is really easy too and I am sure you could do it in the oven. peaches, yellow cake mike, cinnamon & sugar, butter, and a can of fresca.

fall fun

Fall is officially here and we are very glad that it is not too cold yet, and that good TV is back! Friday was a beautiful fall day so I decided to take Drew on a little hike since I had not made it to the gym yet. It wasn't exactly a little hike it was a 3 mile loop that was a lot more up hill then I thought it was going to be but we had such a good time together. He walked and ran, of course, for the first 20 minutes then I packed him for awhile up hill.. at one point he asked me why I was making that noise, the noise being me panting, nice. The trees were beautiful and the temperature was nice. He started to get tired towards the end but nothing that a batman fruit snack and a promise to McDonalds couldn't fix. He walked again the last little bit and said he liked that hike. It took us an hour and half, but it was time well spent!!

A weekend with Dean

Dean has been working like crazy the last few weeks and has been busy with his new church job. My mom called last week and said hey we have a free hotel room in Salt Lake that is going to expire do you guys want it. I said heck yeah. We could not go on Friday but Sunday was not stopping us. We went on Saturday night, not until 8 or so because Dean went to the BYU game but still, could not pass this up. We met my parents and Gateway and they took Drew and gave us the gift certificate, they said it was a fair trade, whatever... We went to McGraffs which is a little strange because Dean and I do not like seafood. However, the wait was short and their steak and ribs are also quite tasty. Then we went to see Ghost Town, it was actually really funny, but I can't recommend without a disclaimer because it has a few not so choice words. Then off to our hotel room to sleep in without Drew waking us up at 7:30!! It was great. It was just what we needed thanks Mom and Dad for making it possible. Drew loves playing at their house when we went to get him he told us to go far away.... That's our boy!