I hope that everyone had a great Easter. We had a busy weekend with lots of goings on. I enjoyed being with everyone and watching conference and doing Eastery things. The weather was rather unEaster like but we made do.

Lots of time with little girls

This one is my favorite. It is difficult to get 4 pairs of eyes focused on the camera

Leah helping make rolls on Easter morning.

Enjoying her Reeses egg. What is Easter whithout one of those in your paws

The Easter loot.

Lily and Whit at the computer. Whitney says that Lily is very comfortable in this position an that she must be used to hanging out with her parents while they are on the computer.

Easter Ham with Easter Lily on Easter morning.

Making cookies on Friday night in preparation for Lily's party on Saturday.
Maren wanted to be in the middle of all of the preparations.

Thing One and Thing Two at it again.

Getting ready for the Birthday Party. There is something about playing under things that is so enticing to children.

The party spread. I am sure Morgan will blog more

The Easter eggs.

Leah really got into it. Lets just say we had to clean up a lot of little spills but they were all having such a good time it was hard not to let them just have at it.

Maren getting the perfect orange Easter egg.

Morgan and Whitney had started the cookies but gotten distracted for some reason and then I looked over and Maren had just kept on going. Or maybe she was stuck there and so was making the best of it. She is not as mobile as she is used to.

Whitney using the little girls rolling pin. It was all we could find.

Essie is quite the little mother. Found her feeding her little furry baby.

She loves making faces for the camera.

I can't believe how blonde she is getting. I can't believe last year at this time she was a little brunette bambino

Jonas is taking karate and was showing me some of his moves and skills.

Hope all is well with all of you. Have a great week

In the words of Neil Diamond "Hello Again, Hello"

Hello, I am back. I know I am such a slacker. I only have myself and my computer to blame. My computer because Adobe Photoshop is gone from my computer and myself because I have not felt like anything too exciting was going on. I made a committment to blog and so this is my attempt at redeeming myself.

My latest project. I have a YW advisor who is having a little boy. I wanted to do something special for her and so I got out the old scraps and used Jenny's idea of the zig zag quilt and also counted it as one of my YW Personal Progress Projects. This was my 10 hour project for Good Works. We were going to throw her a baby shower on Tues. I found out today in church that she had the baby early. I think we will still have the shower and take over the gifts to her after.

Jenny did the quilting. I think she calls this her puzzle stitch.

I think it turned out very cute. I think baby Gage will love to be wrapped in it. I did flannel on the back for coziness.

The kids having a little tea party. I don't even remember which birthday or dinner it was. They look like they are enjoying the little dishes.

This was the weekend that Morgan and Andrew were in town when my new carpet got put in.

This was the Tall Tower of furniture in the dining room. We had to take advantage of the space and get everything out of the other rooms that were getting new carpet.

Leah enjoying the luxury of soft carpet.

Leah had an apprecation for Little Mommy just as I always have.

Little grinny girl



Looking forward to Easter and having family around and of course listening to General Conference. I hope you all have a great week.

I'm Back

No I have not disappeared off the face of the earth but I have been having some computer issues that have prevented me from posting and also commenting. But alas, Andrew has come to the rescue. Apparently the date on my computer was changed to 2 years ago and so everything was a securtiy alert. Now I am back in business til the next thing that makes my computer wonky.

So what is up in Sara's world you are all asking yourselves. I have finally arranged to get new carpet throughout the house. I am very excited. It is something I have put off for the past year. The house needs some new life and so it will get it's new life on Feb. 26th.

I have been working on a baby quilt for one of the sisters that works with me in YW's. She is having a baby boy and so I did a zig zag quilt like Jenny has been doing. I thought the computer was doing okay but now it seems I can't find the file with the pics that I was going to put on the blog. It never ends with this tempermental laptop. I will put a picture up after I get it actually quilted.

I of course have been obsessed with the Olympics. It is my true obsession that I get to indulge in every 2 years. I only wish I would have taken the week off from work so that I could really focus and concentrate on them but then maybe that would ave been a little overboard.

I have had an enjoyable weekend. Morgan and Andrew and the girlies stopped here for a few days on their way to Mesa. We had a fun Valentines Day and great Olympic Opening Ceremony Party. Wish I had some pictures to show you all

The 12 Things I Had to Do on Dec. 12th.

So my list of To Do's was long. I knew I just had today to get a lot of them done. Leslie is staying here in SLC and she and Whit stayed the night last night and so

1. I had to whip up a little breakfast. French Toast was on the menu, along with hot chocolate. It has been so cold up here lately that we have to have a little hot cocoa everyday.

2. I had to get the Explorer registered. I ran down to the local emissions and inspections garage that I have been going to for a few years. He was real quick about it and then came in and acted all normal and then said. I have some "bad news" I guess I knew what he was going to say. I am not proud to have walked in Dad's footsteps. I really thought the car would pass. I guess I did not realize how bad they were. I got a piece of paper with the word "REJECTED" on it. I was totally embarrassed. I am so glad no one else was in the shop. Which now added something to the list that I was not planning on doing today. Proof below of my tire negligence.

3. I had to go to Costco today to get some things for my family dinner tomorrow and also get some things for Christmas. We got in and fought the crowds and made it out alive. It was quite the feat.

4. I had to buy 3 boys coats. I signed up to help with a Sub-for-Santa for a family with 9 kids. The father is sick with cancer. The coats are really nice and will be snuggly warm from the looks of them. Whit and Les helped me pick them out.

5. Wanted to make my annual trip to Gardner Village. Decided to make it a girl's afternoon out. We went to lunch at Archibalds and then toured the shops. Fun! Fun! Fun! This is the mill wheel. It was all frozen over and I thought it looked very cool.

In the White Shop. It is always one of my favorites to go into. Hannah liked the looks of this bed.

I little picture of the girls on the bridge.

6. Get a new ornament at the Christmas Shoppe. Every time I go to Gardner Village I love to go to this shop and pick out a new ornament. When I saw these skates, I just had to have them. They looked so real.

Every shop we went into the girls wanted to try on the hats. Hats were everywhere, along with other cools things. I really could have bought something from each shop. I refrained, knowing I was going to have to fork out some bucks for 4 new tires.

7. Unexpectedly buying 4 new tires. Went to the local tire store where I went through a mini education course on contact points of tires, etc. Chose some Wild Cat tires. The girls had a laugh about that. We left the car there while we went to Gardner Village. Thank heavens I have 2 vehicles.

8. Go to Catholic Mass. Did not think this would ever be on any of my lists but it was today. Seth Bott plays the organ every Sat. at the Cathedral and invited Les and Whit to come and listen to him and so I tagged along. We were a little out of place and did not know the prayers or when to kneel so we just watched and took it all in. Everyone else got up for communion. We just stayed seated. We did however sing along because the words were printed in the program. It was different but the organ playing was excellent.

9. Got my first and probably only lesson on organ stops. After the mass we went upstairs to the organ and Seth showed us how it works and showed us some of the sounds the organ makes. It was fun and quite interesting. He certainly loves what he does. The boy has talent. I guess he's not really a boy. More like a man, the man from Castle Dale 1st Ward.
10. This was added to my list later on, but I had to do it nonetheless. I had to go eat at Cafe Rio with my girl crew. This time we added Madi and Mo. All of this eating out is going to do me in. It's going to be me and Jillian shredding it out together with the help of Comcast Workouts.

11. I had to take pictures of my Amaryllis that has 8 blooms on it. This is all from one bulb. It is now so top heavy that it needs to be propped up. I thought it was pretty amazing.


12. Then I needed to round the evening out at 10:00pm by starting Paint Your Wagon. I just had not fit enough all in this 1 day. I had to throw in a movie. Actually I needed to watch something while I was putting this blog up. It is a movie from the library and it has a lot of scratches on it. It has skipped so much that it might actually be done by the time that I finish this blog.

I think I will fit in the 13th task and go to bed.

This Weeks Recipe and Thanksgiving

For Thanksgiving I was in charge of the Turkey and doing some appetizers. I decided on a cheese ball and so I wanted to share the recipe with you all. It makes one small sized cheese ball. Double the recipe for a large one or 2 smaller ones.

1-8oz block of cream cheese softened
1 cup of grated cheddar, sharp is good
finely chopped green onions to taste
1 tsp Worcestershire Sauce
1/2 tsp lemon juice
1/4 tsp lemon pepper

You can add a little blue cheese for a stronger taste.

Place waxed paper or plastic wrap in a bowl and then spoon in mixture. Round into a ball and set in fridge to chill for a few hours. Then roll in sliced almonds or chopped pecans. And then of course serve with crackers. Yum! Stay tuned for next weeks recipe. It's going to be a good one.

On Thanksgiving the girlies were in charge of cleaning up. Lets just say there was a gravy explosion. Tenny kept on having issues with the gravy. It was quite a mess. The floor was slippery and a little greasy for a while. At least I kept sliding around on it.

Essie chumming up to Jim so she could play with his phone. Notice the pick-pocket action.

The ceremonial digesting of the food.

I have never seen Banner so obsessed with reading. Everytime I turned around she was reading a book. I guess that is not such a bad thing, I just was not used to it, Leslie, yes, Banner, no.

The Clean Up Crew.

We had an excellent weekend together. My favorite things about the weekend.
Excellent Company
Not having to travel
Very moist turkey(I bought a fresh one)
Being with family
Not having to work a full week
Great food
Great games(missionary tag-Dennis, Alan and Josh with linked arms)
Getting my work outs in while having lots of fun at the church