Food Storage

Since I haven't been blogging I have been surfing the net for ideas on food storage and stuff and I have found my new favorite website. It is wonderful!!! http://funwithfoodstorage.net It breaks it into 3 areas planning it, buying it, and eating it, and even from those site you can find info on gardening and long term storage and creative ways to store and on and on. I could go on forever, but I will just let you look at it and discover it for yourselves. Food Storage is one of my new years resolutions and I have been taking it very seriously, to bad a bad economy is what scared me into it, but it is never to late, right? Look at the site and let me know what you guys all think. Hopefully I can get you on my band wagon!

Virus

I have not disappeared! The day I did my last post our computer got a virus and it is just now recovering. It took a while to kill it then get rid of it then the computer was still giving the "blue screen of death." So thanks to Dell Support I rebooted the computer and we are up and running again. Luckily I got practically everything I needed off the computer, thanks to the Brady's who made the computer at least functionable. Anyways, I still can't find my disc for my camera program and so I can't download any pics to my computer, which stinks b/c I have some cute ones. So the good thing out of all of this is that I have learned a lot about computers. It has always been so overwhelming for me, but since I had a problem and was able to watch others help with it I caught on to a little bit of the lingo and concepts. I highly recommend defriging or rebooting your computer yourself, it's like cleaning up the house. I even checked out a book on computers and can't wait to learn more. Imagine the possibilities!!

Mom, where is the police?

So I am going to do this post at the risk of looking like a nerd, but hey, that is who I am (I have embraced it). So we go to playgroup last Friday for a Valentine party and we were gone for like three hours. I was so ready to feed the kids lunch and then get them down for a nap, not to mention it was rainy and windy and freezing. So I pull in the garage and open the car door and quickly bring in our junk before getting the younger two out of the car. I step in the house and the back door was open. Not too open because we have vertical blinds (I know verticals aren't the cutest, I am working on getting some curtains), but open nonetheless. I had like a million thoughts run through my mind..."everything looks okay, but what if someone just came in... did Jaren open that before we left?...I don't hear anything...what do I do?...what if someone is in my house?...Do I go through the house myself?... Ashlyn would freak if I send her to the car and look worried...I can't let the kids in the house and blow it off" And it goes on and on. So I grabbed the phone and Ashlyn and went back to the car and called Kris. He told me to back out of the garage, lock the kids in the car and knock on a neighbors door. My luck, no neighbors were home. So I did what I had to do to be extra safe, call the police. And if I didn't call, either Kris or my dad would be on their way from work to check the house for me, and that would be silly. The dispatcher was really cool about it and sent a police man to check things out for us. So the reason for the title was because I heard it like twenty times before the police got there. We were all stuck in the car, it was freezing cold outside, and it took them almost 30 minutes to get to our house because the dispatcher wrote the wrong address, but I was so grateful that he was happy to help with my little dilemma. I say better safe than sorry. It was also a good chance to teach the kids about when we call the police and what to dial and what their uncle does as a policeman. They were just excited to get stickers and a little crime fighting dog from the police man.

So lessons learned:

1-Always double check that all your doors are locked before you leave (my theory is that it was not shut all the way from the day before when Ashlyn was playing in the backyard with the neighbor)

2-Always pack extra food in the car because you never know when you will be stuck there

3-Never leave your house a complete disaster because a police man may walk through a see it ALL

4-The police are happy to do silly checks like that (what turned out ot be silly anyways)

Playdate with Cousins

So Marla came over with her boys for a playdate. The kids had a great time and I always love spending time with my sister and adorable nephews! We were lucky and captured theis cute pic.

Fall Fun in January

It came late, but we still had a great time jumping in our pile of leaves!

What we've been up too!

Everytime I turn on my computer I have been motivated to do scrapbooking, which means that I have been negecting my blog up keep, but that doesn't mean we haven't been busy...we had a great time on New Years with our friends, ringing in the New Year at New York time (we need our beauty sleep with a newborn:)...




...then the very next day we had a wonderful time playing in the snow at the cabin...











...and then that weekend we blessed our sweet Camille!

Christmas Day

So to catch up I need to post some pictures from Christmas still. Christmas Eve was the fun gathering at the Danielson's, but I was an irresponisible mother and forgot my camera, but I got great pictures the next day. Nothing beats Christmas morning! Especially when it is your own children and they see the magic of Santa around the tree.