this one had a little photo editing...what a difference. hmm. if only i could photoshop my hand out of it. :)

Happy Easter! Coloring eggs with the kiddos. They loved it. Funniest part...my boy took a bite out of one of the eggs...shell and all! He actually ate it and love it. ew. The pink was the closest color to Lexi...so most of the eggs turned out pink. Fun fun :)

Peace.

-from princess lexi

finding room

I did something interesting yesterday...I moved my kids dresser into the laundry room. A little odd...yes...but it totally works for me.

Here's some reasons why

When my kids get undressed I make them take their clothes to the laundry room anyways

Mom and Dad are the only ones allowed in the dresser

When I fold clothes its usually during naptime or bedtime for the kiddos...so having the dresser in another location other than their room makes it waaaay easier to put clothes away while their asleep

Folding straight from the dryer...with the dresser 1 foot from the dryer I have no excuse not to fold straight from the dryer. yay.

Next step...move the extra bed linens into the laundry room. Currently I have the extra bed and bath linens in the kids' closet and in each of the bathrooms and that totally works for me...cause if I need something its within reach. BUT...you know...I'll have to bring the soiled linen into the laundry room anyways...so why not grab a new clean linen while I deposit the soiled one...just changing it up a litttle...just as fast.

Since I moved the dresser into the laundry room its given me extra space in my kiddos closet...I can fit 8 plastic bins...YAY! My kiddos closet is primarily storage, extra toys, and church clothes now. Saweeet.

Living in a small space and its actually working out. Miracle.

self clean

don't you wish your house had a SELF CLEAN mode like on your oven. Your bedroom door locks...leaving you trapped inside to do whatever you want...as your home gets cleaned all on its own! hmmm...then what would i have to do all day if I didn't have my mommy chores? awww...the possibilities. :) don't get me wrong...I DO NOT clean all day...especially since my new tiny home takes so little time to clean up. saaaweeet.

i'm making STUFFED POCKETS for dinner tonight and I'm soooo excited. They are made with frozen bread dough and I've been putting off making these puppies cause its been so cold lately...and I live at 6000 feet elevation so high altitude cooking surely applies, plus i'm not the best cook...blah blah...excuses excuses...so TODAY IS THE DAY! I'm cooking those stinkin pockets.

I wanted to have the bread rise for 6 hours like the package said...but I was worried that it was too cool in my house...so I had this brilliant idea to put my oven 0n a self cleaning mode and have the dough on the range above the oven (not IN the oven...on top...) Brilliant right? helps with keeping it a little warmer...um HELLOOOO the self cleaning mode freakin stinks...so I have to turn on the little fan thing PLUS open the patio door...letting in the cool air outside...oh my...I hope this bread thing works.

the recipe...As usual I was worried about trying a new recipe and then I saw the author...My Amazing Aunt Shauna who makes super yummy food! yay! So...I'm so excited for dinner tonight!

The recipe...

Stuffed Pockets
by: Shauna Kerr

1 lb. fresh bread dough or frozen dough, thawed
12 c. frozen chopped broccoli thawed
1/2 c. part-skim ricotta cheese
1/2 c. part-skim mozzarella cheese
1/4 c. grated Parmesan cheese
1/4 tsp hot pepper sauce
1/2 c. dices Canadian bacon

Heat oven to 400 degrees. Coat baking sheet with cooking spray. Cut dough into 3 equal pieces. Roll or pat each piece on floured surface into 8x6-inch ovals. Squeeze out excess liquid from broccoli. Place in bowl along with ricotta, mozzarella, Parmesan, pepper sauce and Canadian bacon; stir to combine. Spoon filling lengthwise down center of each piece of dough. Fold dough over to cover filling, pressing edges together to seal. Place on prepared baking sheet. Cut 2 slits in top of each to vent steam. Bake for 15 minutes or until golden brown.


Yay! I'm so excited...if I can pull off this recipe...I'll be making another batch this week to see how they freeze...yummy homemade HOT POCKETS...sweet.

j

got my fix

Heath couldn't take the car in like planned yesterday cause the roads were too bad ... the kids' and I had our first official SNOW DAY! (yippie not) Actually, it was fine...but I still didn't have any freakin diet coke! Ugh! Heath left for work (cause NOTHING could stop him from going to work...he has such a good work ethic and I really appreciate it :) ... anyways ... day 2 of no diet coke ... um seriously ... so guess what i did?!

I had 3 liters of soda delivered to my house - along with a pizza - wooohooo! The Pizza delivery guy made me sooooo happy to bring me my d.coke!! Thank you thank you thank you! Now if only he could have delivered diapers...running low on those too. :)

I cleaned the house all day, heath came home, we ate left over pizza, Bishop and counselor came over for a "welcome" visit, fun with kiddos, then .... drum roll .... I got out of the house!!! I headed to walmart cause the roads were clear and went shopping! Saaaaweeeet! Grabbed some soda, clearance snow clothes for kiddos, cheap groceries from price matching (love that!), and a couple other need items. Then got home and watched a movie with my heath. awwww...day was so fulfilling. Gotta love the snow.

ps...thanks for all the comment love gals :)

how stupid can i get?!!!

my car is getting worked on tomorrow...soooo i will be home all day...i planned on going to the grocery store tonight for a few groceries and a couple 2 liters of diet coke to last me tomorrow and thursday....essential for my happiness!!!!! (seriously...i'm not joking!) So, as soon as heath gets home I'll grocery shop, he'll put the kiddos to bed...blah blah....and tomorrow without my car will be a cinch. But...

...it started snowing around 2pm today...so i thought...OK well as soon as the kiddos wake up from their naps we are RUNNING (while driving carefully of course) to walmart for coke and getting back cause i won't be able to go tonight...I was thinking---well the snow is only going to get worse so i should go now before it gets too bad and too dark.

um....note to self...check the weather report....if it says, "heavy snow, severe weather" don't venture out. Stupid me. I live around nothing but hills and highways. I headed to walmart....thinking that the snow wasn't too bad yet...I can do this! I got soooo close to getting my d.coke then decided to turn back home asap (you know...the feeling that says get your stupid butt back home now~!~!) My kids were loooving our little snow adventure but then

I GOT STUCK in the snow...they weren't so happy. Me neither.

Thank goodness I was only stuck for like 3 minutes....whew. Cars just went around me for a few but then my little tires decided to forgive me and NOT MAKE ME LEARN the hard way. Thank you thank you thank you. Will not be venturing out for addictive substances during a snow storm ever again.

-j

what does this look like to you?

UPDATE: Added a picture of the shoe boxes per Tenille's request :)

Does this little image for tomorrow's forecast here in Broomfield Colorado...look like fun to you?! I tell you...my BOY IS SO EXCITED!!! I told him that it will snow a lot tomorrow and he's response was, "Wow Mom its going to snow AND STACK!? Can I please please play in the snow!" Yes!! Wow its so cute to see how exciting the white cold freezing stuff is. Yay.

New favorite treasure... plastic shoe boxes from The Container Store. Oh my...if you haven't discovered these amazing creatures for organizing you should RUN to get them. They were recommended to me at an organization class I went to last week...the next day I went on down to that overpriced store...and FELL IN LOVE!! Confession: I've already purchased 2 cases (20 in each case)...they're $.20 cheaper per unit when you buy them in a case... My kids' closet is beautiful and my kitchen closet/pantry thing loooooves me, and up next.......drumroll....my craft stuff!! I'm absolutely giddy!

UPDATES: nothing new really...our first ward party is this weekend...jacob and lexi are loving sharing a room (like i hoped and prayed would happen!!)...they nap everyday with a few exceptions (in heaven)...I've been to walmart or target almost every single day since i moved here (ok that's just embarrassing!)...um...I'm excited for dancing with the stars---what's wrong with me?! I've never watched that show before...but I really want to watch Kate fall on her butt. haha. No really...I'm excited.

I'm off...to take advantage of this precious time with napping kiddos. j

to do

note: tonight I'm slash happy...you'll see...

making my to do / shopping lists for the next few days...to start it all off with a bang i asked/begged my heath to load my goodwill donation / junk into the car tonight to i would have to do it in the am with my 2 little piglets at my feet...much to our joy/surprise/annoyance (word?) THE CAR was COVERED in SNOW! Ugh.

So....back to my to do list for tomorrow

1. scrape white crap off car
2. shake white crap off kids before putting them in the car
3. drive like a grandma to the post office
4. unload kids and try to keep them from playing in the white crap while we make a 2 minute run into the post office
5. shake white crap off kids and put them back into the car
6. drive like a grandma to target...
...


do you see how annoying it is to make my to do list when I start it off with THE WHITE CRAP!

on a happier note...honestly, I've been praying for snow...seriously I have...my boy has been wishing and begging for snow cause he just hasn't had enough fun in it yet...of course! :) so yes, I pray for the white crap. its not annoying cause its cold...its annoying cause its dirty. yes, I think the pretty white stuff falling from the sky makes everything dirty...the salt, the mud, the literally stripping at the front door, dirty car carpets, yucky snow and salt at the bottom of my favorite jeans, no sandals...neeeeeed I say more!?!

have I mentioned how happy I am here?! I am PROMISE! :D

i'm off :) nighty night!

wow...funny

and it would probably be even more funny if i had actually seen High School Musical...one of the 100 movies they made.

j

napping kiddos :)

I loooove napping kids...don't you?! So far today I've washed and folded a few loads, unloaded the dishwasher and cleared out a few dishes in the sink, stepped in poop that smeared into the carpet (yuck!)...cleaned out the dining room area (basically just moved it all to my bedroom...its not all put away...um...and watched clifford with the kids. Love it. Lexi slept in her bed all night last night and didn't wake up once...so why do I feel more tired today than I have all week? And...Jacob slept til 8:30 this morning...saweeeet. I have no diet coke in the house and no motivation to leave to get some. Um...something MUST be wrong with me if I'm not willing to do a diet coke run!?! Geess. Lets see...in the way of updates...

We attended our new ward yesterday. It was good... and very similar to my old wards in Hemet and Corona CA. A good mix of ages and sages as I call it. We felt welcome yesterday. I think we found a babysitter...haha...that was HUGE on my list. lol. We won't be attempting to schedule a babysitter for a few months...but I wanted to scope out the teenager scene...worked out great and I really like her mom...we sat next to each other in relief society.

My master bedroom/office/storage room (yuck) isn't set up entirely yet...so my sanity isn't...I'll just stop there. I'm loving the weather still :) I CANNOT wait til I can take my kids to the zoo or the aquarium...I promised myself we would get passes to both as soon as I get this home in order...I looooove to take the kids to the zoo...I honestly think its more fun for me than it is for them...sad face...wish my mom could come too. Alrighty...maybe I shouldn't blog for a little while...I'm a little depressing... I'm fine over here! Honest....It just all creeps out when I'm blogging :D Oh well.

Thanks for all the love being sent my way...via email, comments on my blog, texts, etc...I really appreciate it....and need it. :)


and pics sometime soon...
j