happy mama's day to me

Let the festivities begin!

Thanks, Scottie, for the homemade donuts. Man, my baby loves me.
I can hardly even wait for dinner~

Shish your kabob

Scottie and I LOVE shish kabobs.


And, now we know that Miles does too. And for good reason - they're crazy delicious. So, if this tasty dish isn't currently in your line-up, I strongly suggest you give it a starting position. Here's how we do em:

Start with the marinade (we do a homemade teriyaki)- mix up oil, soy sauce, fresh lemon juice, minced garlic & honey. Sorry, no measurements here ... just make it taste good. Then, throw in chicken chunks, whole mushrooms (love em!), onion segments, & chopped bell peppers (zucchini is good, too). Do this in the morning and let it marinade til dinner time. Bring out a can of pineapple (fresh would be better, but definitely not required), then skewer everything and throw it on the grill. We usually serve em with mashed potatoes and a salad ... but, we went for brown rice last night and it was oh so good.

It doesn't get much better

Happy Grilling!!

Berkeley Bound!!

Ready for the big news, sports fans???


That's right, we're Berkeley bound. Scottie will start working on his MBA in August ... and we will be ripped away from lovely Colorado. Excited to get back to the bay area? Yes. But, not so thrilled about leaving all my awesome friends, our beautiful home, and lavish lifestyle. Ok, so it's not that lavish ... but, compared to student family housing, we're practically living royally at the moment. Oh, how I LOVE my dishwasher!!!

Anyway, I love you all and am ready to live it up for one last sumptuous summer!

let's do this

par-tay

So, we had a pretty eventful ward party last weekend. We were among the few who decided to plow through the ridiculous snow storm to get to the church. I had already made a pie, so we figured we pretty much had to go.
They ended up having all sorts of contests ... and Scottie and I just couldn't stay away. I don't know if my fearless hubby fully knew what he was getting himself into when he entered the pie eating contest ...

But he ate and ate and ateand came out the victor!

Given, most of his competition were girls under the age of 12 and small children ... but there were a couple teenage guys in the mix ... I've never been so proud

Miles had a hard time keeping it together while daddy was going to town on his pie. I thought he wanted his dad ... but it turned out he just wanted to have a contest of his own. So, we grabbed some pie and he did the rest.
What a little tiger.

When they pulled out the hula hoops, I knew I had to give it a whirl ... and I won! Again, mostly girls under the age of 12. But, those are the ones with the most recent experience, right? ha! I thought we had all had enough ... then they busted out the limbo stick! Winning a couple contests is a reasonable quota for a family of 3, but I've never been known to pass up the chance to get down. It was awesome. Oh, and sorry, no limbo pics. Surprisingly, a front-on view of bending over backwards is not so flattering.

PS, all you Saddle Rock Wardians ... you better bring it next time.

happy belated easter

All right, folks ... finally I'm getting around to blogging after our Easter getaway. I tell ya, there's nothing better than leaving town for the weekend to postpone my blogging efforts. Anyway, we had a great time in Kansas visiting Scottie's fam. The weather was GORGEOUS on Saturday, then turned rainy on Sunday. So, we enjoyed most of our Easter festivities inside. This was Miles' first Easter egg hunt and he was all about it. He took a little coaxing at first, but quickly got the hang of it and starting searching for eggs like nobody's business. Too cute.

This kiddo ate jelly beans like a maniac with (apparently) no ill side effects later on. I suppose he's steadily been working up his tolerance for sweets and his diligent efforts finally payed off.

LOVED the whole Easter basket thing

We made Cake Pops with Scottie's fam while the kids were napping. No idea what I'm talking about? Check out Bakerella. They were awesome and will definitely be a lasting Easter tradish.

easter cont.

But, my absolute favorite part of the whole weekend was watching Miles interact with his cousins, Haven and Anna.

Haven and Miles played together

Fought together

And hugged it out together (viscous cycle)

Miles also LOVED his little 4 month old cous, Anna (especially when she wasn't squishing him).

Miles' First Snowman

BEFORE...

and AFTER


Those Oreo eyes didn't stand a chance