Love is...

Getting slobber wide open mouth kisses from Taft, Mac telling me "Peter Pan is awesome sick Mom", Easter egg hunts, riding bikes down the driveway when the weather is 50 but feels like 80 to us, hearing my babies laugh and squeal as they play with each other.

Fiji...unforgetable

Thanks to Larry and Tam for taking me,and my mom for watching my kids for 10 days, I had an amazing adventure and vacation. Truly, it was a once in a lifetime opportunity. I also got to see a little of Auckland, New Zealand on my way home...did some shopping in their downtown. In Fiji we relaxed by the pools and beaches, visited the local towns, snorkeled, ziplined the rainforest, took a boat to a private island, ate lots of food, watched a few movies, got a few flat tires, had a pedicure overlooking the ocean, and just had the best time ever!

10 months old and Into everything

They were both being really quiet one day. I came around the corner and saw Taft with red all over his face and a huge smile. His big brother had poured m&m's all over, what a treasure!

Just a few pics...

Oh bedtime! So much fun.

Taft's first haircut, this is before I shaved it...wait till you see the next pictures.

He's getting so big isn't he?

Yeah, we have a little bit of snow in our yard. This is actually after it melted about a foot.

Opening presents on Valentines Day.


He's on the move! Taft loves to crawl all over the place. He's trying to move on to walking already!

















Kissing cousins, Mac and Jaymie at Christmas time. So cute!

What you should know if you sell your car...

If you sell your car to an individual make sure, in addition to filling out a change of owner form, you send a letter to the DMV giving them all of the info about your car, sign it, and give the date the car was sold and to who. Then follow up a few weeks later to make sure the title is still not in your name. If you don't do this, the title could be in your name still and anything that car does falls back on you. So, in my case I sold my Honda in June and just got a letter from a collections agency saying I owed $600 to a towing company. Why? Because my Honda had been abandoned and my name was still on the title. Seiously, don't let this happend to you!!!

Freakin' Good Chili Cheese Dip! You gotta try it.

1 pkg. (8oz) cream cheese, softened
1/2 C. chunky salsa
1 C. shredded Cheddar cheese, divided
1 can (16oz) Bush's Best Chili Beans, undrained
3 Tbsp sliced green onions
3 Tbsp. pitted sliced black olives (optional)
Tortilla chips

Directions:
Preheat oven to 350. Combine cream cheese and salsa and spread in bottom of 9-inch pie plate. Sprinkle with 1/2 c. cheese. Spread chili beans over shredded cheese. Top with remaining shredded cheese, sliced green onions and olives. Bake 15 minutes until mixture is thoroughy heated and cheese is melted. Serve with tortilla chips.

I made this for the Super Bowl party and it was gone in seconds. Definatley make more than one pan if your doing it for a crowd, it goes fast!

Snowday!

I know this is a dupclicate of Susan's blog, but I didn't have my camera and I thought the kids looked SO CUTE. They had so much fun sledding down the little hill at our park. It was funny to watch them try to walk though it. They all loved it and didn't even complain about it being too cold. Mac loved my snowboard and only wanted to ride down on it. Great idea Susan, lets do it again!