Graduations and Chins

Well, Tyler graduated from PreSchool last Friday and he was very proud. He is excited to go to Kindergarten across the street at the new school in our neighborhood next year. He is excited to turn six and be at the "big school." He asked me on Sunday

"Mom, when will I graduate from Church so that I don't have to go to that anymore either?"

I think some of the families around us heard him because it was during the closing prayer of sacrament meeting, hilarious, I had to try not to laugh out loud.

Brandon cut his little chin open last night at about 8pm. He was going off the jump that Brian made the boys and he didn't "landed it" as he usually says. He "landed" on the sidewalk and gashed it pretty good. We took him to the ER and they glued him up. They asked if he had ever been there and I surprised myself by saying no, I could't believe that this was the first ER trip with either 3 of my boys. I was, however, there with Brian in January when he gashed open his leg on a snow mobile. Can you imagine the money that the medical industry will be making off us in the future? Especially with the dirt biking that they plan to do together more and more??? Well, good thing Iam a calm and composed mother! I used to teach First Aid for the Red Cross so I feel like I can handle most things...some of you know a thing or two about that. I even had a SHIRT and a BADGE at one time.

Well so those are the happenings around here. Ethan is as cute and crazy as ever at 9 months now. He loves his brothers and his parents and anyone else who takes an interest in him. He took a step the other day so who knows what will be in store for that kid soon.

I love this picture of Brian and the boys. They were checking out the song that David Cook sang with ZZ Top on the Amercian Idol finale, it was pretty cool...Brian likes ZZ Top. The other pics are of Tyler playing T-Ball and Ethan trying hard to play the piano. I just heard Brandon in the kitchen with Tyler talking about his "owee", "you can't touch it, it has glue on it".

So I think I am going to start posting recipes that I like each week....it's fun to remind myself of good easy dinners that I like and I thought some of you might like the ideas.

Here are the recipes of the week

Sweet and Sour Chicken

1 bottle catalina salad dressing

1 jar apricot jam

1 package Lipton Onion Soup Mix

mix those together and spread over chicken in a caserole dish. Bake 350 drgrees for one hour and serve over rice. S0 Good and So EASY.


Sweet Strawberry Salad
dresssing: 3/4 cup canola oil

1/4 cup red wine vinegar

1/2 cup sugar

1tsp salt

2-3 cloves garlic

put in blender and pour over salad. You can add poppy seeds for color if you want also.

I use:

-romaine lettuce

-sliced fresh strawberries

-shredded monteray jack or mozzerella cheese

you can also add the following if you want the salad as more of the main dish...

-almonds (chopped and toasted)

-bacon bits

-green onion

-cooked chicken

I like to make this in the Spring and Summer and serve with a toasted Thomas' Everything Bagel with butter-yum.