Banana Recipes

I posted a couple of Banana recipes on the Provident Pantry blog today,

Really yummy!

Go have a look see!

http://theprovidentpantry.blogspot.com/2009/03/over-ripe-bananas.html

Natalie is just too Smart!

I guess I need to re think my gate strategy!

I goofed this first one and turned the camera, but I wanted you to see the ease in how she gets over this gate!

We can't help but wonder if this isn't the first time she decided to try and succeeded in getting over. There's been more than one occasion that we couldn't explain how we found her on the other side of the gate!!

In trying to fix it and get another video we made the mistake of making it into a game, what FUN!!

Then we tried to move the gate and put it up higher. I wish I would have had the camera ready because it was priceless to see her wait patiently for me to put it up and then promptly try to climb it. She went from one side to the other trying to hold onto the wall and put her foot over the top!

Here she is really pouting about it! Watch how she is trying to push it down lower!

And then we walked away thinking we were safe, at least for the time being...

Only 5 minutes later, Where's Nattie Bug???

Sure enough, she made it over again!!

It's a good thing it's time for nap, maybe we can come up with something better by the time she wakes up!? Maybe???

New General Conference Packet

A couple of conferences ago, I received an email that had a General Conference packet in it. It was all about the solemn assembly that was going to take place. It was awesome. Since I have searched and found updated versions.

I was blog hopping and found a link to the person responsible for these wonderful Conference Packets. (Who said blog hopping wasn't beneficial???) I promised I would get this out sooner than the day before like last time...so here it is...

http://coloroftheskyinmyworld.blogspot.com/2009/03/april-general-conference-packet.html

I started printing mine out right away. No more the night before or morning of. I think I will take some to primary too, to share with my new class. (that's a different post)

Feel free to share. From the comments and such I've been reading they have been enjoyed by not only primary age kids, but mutual aged, and even distributed in a singles ward to the single young adults all over the world!!

Enjoy!!

Just a note for anyone not wanting to log into scribd, email me and I will send you the packet in an attachment!

New Look!

Melanie and I have been talking about cutting our hair and donating it for a few weeks now, yesterday we finally acted on all our "talk"!

We both were very nervous about cutting off a whole 10 inches! We were afraid it would be too short. When I got there I decided I didn't care, I was going to do it no matter how short. They told her, hers wouldn't even hit her shoulders, maybe half way down her neck by the time they were finished. So she had to think about it for a little bit. So I went first.

I was very surprised at the results!

From this... To this!

Melanie was trying to decide if she should cut only 7 inches, instead of the 10. The hairdresser told her if she was going to do that much she would regret it if she didn't do the 10 inches. So she thought about it a little more and by the time I was done, she decided to go ahead. They did such a good job. Instead of pulling it back in one pony tail, they put it in 4 sections. By doing this she could minimize what it would take to even it out.

Again we were very pleasantly surprised!

Here's her before and after...

We both are happy campers!!

New Blog to Visit

I wanted to share a new blog my niece, Jennie, has started. It's a wonderful blog about getting back to basics. She has lots of fun basic recipes and ideas reminding and helping us to get back to the basics!

http://theprovidentpantry.blogspot.com/

Come have a look see!!

"Can I Say It??"

Lately, little Nattie Bug has caught the "bug" to want to say the prayer! Whenever it's time to say a prayer she raises her whole arm and we hear her little voice, "Can I say it?". It is so cute!

On Sunday we were in Sacrament Meeting and we had just had some of the bread. I told her to fold her arms, it was time to bless the water...All of a sudden she realized they were going to bless the water, sure enough, her little hand went up and she was saying, "Can I say it?". We couldn't help but start cracking up!!

She's getting to be quite the character!

St. Paddy's Day Dinner

Happy St. Patrick's Day!!

Several years ago I happened to be grocery shopping on St. Paddy's Day and came across some green french bread. I decided it would be fun to have a "green" dinner to celebrate. We had spaghetti and green garlic bread with green milk to drink. The kids thought it was awesome!

It kind of became a tradition to do each year. One year I found green glazed donuts. There were a couple of years where I had a hard time finding green things to eat. It got to the point where I had to think ahead and order it a week in advance in order to get my hands on some. I think one year I just made a macaroni casserole and dumped some green food coloring in it, green salad with green ranch dressing and can't forget the green milk.

There were a couple years when I didn't do anything and some of the kids mentioned it, what happened to our green dinner. So I almost forgot all about it today. I was out doing my last minute case lot shopping when I realized I needed to come up with a "green" dinner.

I decided since I was experimenting making a lot of my own bread lately, to make my own green french bread. It turned out Great!! We decided today to make french bread pizza with our green french bread. I think the younger kids liked the green milk more than anything. It was hard to convince Kim that it didn't taste any different, just looked different!