Thanksgiving

Being that today is Thanksgiving I thought I would do a quick post, about some of the things I'm thankful for.

1. My wonderful family, I know that they all love me. I know that my husband is my very best friend and will always be my biggest supporter.
2. The roof over my head and the furnace that heats it. I know this may sound really silly, but so many of us have taken our homes for granted.
   
3. Each one of my kids, I know that I already said my family, but I feel like the kids are a different part of that. Each one of them is so special and wonderful, they bring so much laughter and love into my life each day.

I have so much to be thankful for and I could keep going with my list, but those are my top three. I hoping that my post next week will be something a little more interesting, maybe it will have something to do with my kids, who know we will see.

Coming Back

I've really been missing my blog, so I'm coming back. My goal is to do a weekly post for the next 6 weeks so that I get back into routine. The next few weeks should be exciting, so stay tuned. I will leave you with a few pictures of the last few months.

Pictures

I finally uploaded pictures from our camera, so these are from about the last month at our house.

Excuse Me Sir, I Think You're Crazy!

That is exactly what I thought tonight when the nice man at Sunset Cycle told us that Morgan needed a 20" bike! I looked at the bike, looked back at my fairly small five year old and asked if we could have her try the 16". He said we could but, he wanted to try the larger of the two first. Well I guess there is a reason he works at the bike shop and I don't, a quick test ride around the parking lot and she was sold. She rode it all around out front tonight with no problem, I'm still waiting for the first major fall. Lets just hope its me being overprotective, I don't really want her to fall.

Great Day at the Beach

A few weeks ago we had the pleasure of having the Stones do our family photos. It was a wonderful day, and I love all of the pictures that we have. I have posted a few of my favorites, but I love them all.

Memorial Day Weekend

This weekend was very full, time was spent with family, and good friends. It was the best way to spend the three days!

Olivia was helping me unload the dryer, she loves to do the laundry. Now if I only could get her to fold it, and put it away.

The Day the Ocean Swept my Camera Away

These are all from back in April when I let the camera go for a swim. A few of them are okay, some were very badly damaged. I'm just glad that I was able to save some of them. Looking on the bright side, we needed a new camera away.

Don't worry she was eating Pirates Booty!

This is one of my favorite shots from the day, it is also one that was damaged by the memory card getting all wet.

My happy little man, he LOVES the beach.

Morgan really likes to take pictures of Luke and me.

Smile big for the camera Olivia.

New Camera!

We finally got a new camera, I snapped a few pictures with it tonight. So look forward to more regular blogging.

Beef and Cabbage Wraps

I'm guessing that I'm not the only person out there who is always looking for good new dinner ideas. I tried this for dinner tonight and it was a hit. Olivia asked for thirds, yes my toddler asked for thirds!

8 8-inch flour tortillas
12 ounces lean ground beef/turkey
1/2 cup chopped onion
1 clove garlic, minced
1 cup whole kernel corn
2/3 cup BBQ sauce
2 cups packaged coleslaw mix

1-Wrap tortillas in foil; place on baking sheet. Heat in a 350 degree oven for 10 minutes or until heated through. I skipped this step and used the cook your own tortillas from Costco.

2-Meanwhile, in a large skillet, cook beef, onion, and garlic over medium heat until beef is brown and onion is tender. Drain off fat. Stir in corn and BBQ sauce. Cook until corn is hot. Spoon about 1/2 cup filling on each tortilla. Top with some coleslaw mix. Roll up. I also cut up an avocado and added it to ours.

I'm hoping to post what we have been up to soon, but I dropped our camera in the ocean a few weeks ago, and am now waiting until we purchase a new one so that I can get our pictures off the old one.

This is from Better Homes and Gardens 2009 Quick and Easy Recipes

Easter

Random

I haven't blogged in so long that I don't even know were to start. So I'm going to let you in on all the things swirling through me head.

1. Morgan is doing such a good job cleaning up the bouns room, I wish this happend more often.
2. All three of the kids have had wonderful behavior today, they have listened, and obeyed very well.
3. Easter is this weekend, we are also going out to dinner Friday night, and having people over on Saturday. I may have over filled the weekend.
4. The lawn really needs to be mowed, but I have been too busy to get it done
5. I have been spending way to much time in the car lately, lots of trips to and from my parents house last week.
6. The Armada is getting much better gas millage than we expected, this is the second tank that I have gotten almost 16 miles per gallon, and that is around town driving.
7. I hoping that Olivia's chin will be healed enough on Sunday so that she doesn't have to have a bandage on her face.
8. I miss the sunshine
9. I would love for the nice weather to come back so that we can start working on the front yard again.
10. I need new running shoes, my legs hurt from my run this morning.
11. I love days at the gym, I have 90mins of quite time.
12. Tomorrow is Morgans Kindergarten orientation, were has the time gone.
13. I'm so excited for all of our friends and family that are expecting babies soon.
14. What I planed for dinner is not sounding good to me any more, but I know that it is one of Luke favorites so I will make it anyway.
15. The peach mango salsa from costco is my new addiction, I could eat it on almost anything. Today I put it in my Turkey and Cream Cheese Whole Weat Roll Up.
16. I should really be getting myself ready to go, I have some errands that I need to run before Luke gets home.
17. On Monday I turn 25, I will now be able to drive a rental car when we go on vacation, Not that I didn't before, but we hated to pay the fee for an underage driver.
18. Morgan just built a really cool structure from her legos, her creativity always amazes me.
19. I need a hair cut
20. The Beth Moore bible study that I'm curently doing, is rocking my world!

So whats on your minds? I promise the next post will include pictures of the kids. Happy Easter!

Olivia and "her" Abigail

These pictures were taken a few weekends ago, when Abigail was down for a visit.  Abigail is my sister Jennie's daughter, she is exactly 3 months younger than Olivia.  Olivia loves Abigail, she talks about her daily and is always super excited to see "her" Abigail.