Too Good!

I just found this recipe for frosting and mixed it up, I haven't even frosted the cake yet and I know this frosting is a wining recipe. And it's easy too!

Peanut Butter Frosting

1/2 cup butter, softened
1 cup creamy peanut butter
3 tablespoons milk, or as needed
2 cups confectioners' sugar


DIRECTIONS
1. Place the butter and peanut butter into a medium bowl, and beat with an electric mixer. Gradually mix in the sugar, and when it starts to get thick, incorporate milk one tablespoon at a time until all of the sugar is mixed in and the frosting is thick and spreadable. Beat for at least 3 minutes for it to get good and fluffy.


ENJOY!!!

Stitches

Well it's happened, someone at our house needed stitches. Normal Saturday morning, boys watching tv, goofing off, a little rough play and then THE CRY. It's Sam. Bekah brings him upstairs with blood spilling out of his mouth. Alan and I are getting ready for the day. Alan has to go to work in 5 minutes. He will be late. I ask Alan if it needs stitches and he says yes and pulls out his med kit. Oh yeah, HE can do it. I was amazingly calm through the whole process. I was holding limbs and looking the other way, but I did sneak a peak and didn't feel like fainting. Sam was really good. I expected him to start screaming when Alan gave him the shot in his lip, but he just whimpered a little and stayed still. Two stitches in his lip. The sad thing is through the process of sewing him up I was thinking that I should get a picture for the blog. I will take a picture of the stitches some time today, after my hands stop shaking!

Winter Happenings

I haven't blogged for a while so I thought it was about time to start up again. Here are a few things that have happened this month.

• The back tire blew out on our way home after Christmas. It happened on the highway while Alan was driving. It really happened so fast that I didn't even realize what had happened until we were almost completely pulled over. I am so glad that Alan was there and that he was driving. I tried to entertain three kids and a dog on the side of the road for an hour. There was a big hill the kids enjoyed playing on and it was pretty far from the road. We played red light/green light, tag and Simon says. Needless to say we started off the year putting 4 new tires on our van.

• I finished painting our master bathroom with the SECOND color choice. The first yellow we chose was way too bright on the walls, so we re-painted it. Much better! I even got a little valance sewed for the window and finished staining the cabinets. All I need now are some bathmats and I'm done. We stll want to change the light fixture and other hardware, but that will have to wait for a while.

• Bekah turned 12! I turned 30 something! We went out to Red Robin to celebrate both birthdays. Alan's parents came down too to celebrate Bekah's b-day. We had her favorite dessert, marshmallow brownies.

• The week of my birthday we had three "ice" days where the kids had no school. Great birthday present! They were actually ok, but I was happy to send them back to school on Friday!

• On nice days, Sam and I take a walk. He rides in the stroller and has decided that he always wants to sleep on the walk. He brings his blanket, lays down, and before I know it he's asleep! I just wheel him in the house afterwords and he stays asleep! I wonder how long this will last?

• We were excited to see that a Goodwill was being built near our house! It opened in January and I was there opening day with all the crazy people. It is now the closest retail store to us. I've been three times already.

• Jonah asked if he could stay home the other day because he wanted to eat noodles(Ramen that is) for lunch. I told him I could send noodles with him to school, but he said he wanted to eat them at home. Nice try Jonah, very cute but didn't work. He did eat us out of Ramen the three days he was home though!

• Alan and I are working our way through the DVDs of Scrubs, pretty funny show!

• I just read a good book called Cassandra and Jane, by Jill Pitkeathley, about Jane Austen and her sister and their life together. It is fiction, but I thought it was really good, especially for Jane Austen fans. Even though I'm not a huge fan of her books I like the movies. I may try the books again after reading this book.
  
  

If I Only Had a Brain

Jonah is still interested in the body and checked out some books about the body on our recent, infamous trip to the Library (see previous post). He was reading one and sitting by Sam, telling Sam all about it. I heard this,

"Yeah Sam, everyone has a brain, even yoooouuuuuuuuuuu".

Kicked Out

Last week the kids were still home for Christmas break so we decided to go to the Library. We went and did the usual Library routine, hanging out in the kids section, playing a few games on the computer, jumping off the chairs a few times, MAYBE reading some books. Then we went over to check out the crafting books for Bekah and I. My usual approach to this is to sit Sam in the stroller and have him eat a snack. He was having none of that. Jonah sat down to read some stories he had chosen and Sam climbed and wriggled under a few chairs, they were somewhat under control I thought. A few times Sam ran to where I couldn't see him and I went to get him and put him in the stroller since running away is unacceptable. We were finishing up and getting ready to go. Sam was crying at this point because I put him in the stroller, hence the reason we were getting ready to leave. This is when the Librarian came over and asked me, "Were you getting ready to leave?". "Yes", I said. "Oh good, because we've had a few complaints", she said. I gave her a withering look as I finished getting Sam strapped in. "I know she said, I've been there". Ok, so I wasn't mad at her at all. BUT we were in that section for about 5-10 minutes and I know my limit and was leaving. I was flaming mad at those people who complained, obviously they have never had children. AND the kids weren't even being that bad. AND there were other kids behaving much worse. AND I feel that it is my right to be in the Library as much as anyone else. I have never had this happen in any Library I've ever been to, and my kids have really behaved much worse at times!

Jonah's Joke

Here's a joke that Jonah picked up at school. I thought it was so cute, mainly because he cracks himself up!

Why did the chickens cross the playground?
To get to the other SLIDE!

Followed by a series of Chicken jokes that make no sense, gotta love this age!

Snippits of Life

Here are a few random things going on right now;

• I'm staining cabinets and painting walls in our master bath. Can't wait til it's done!
• On colder mornings I ride the exercise bike inside. Sam loves to snuggle in a blanket and lay on the floor so he can feel the air on his face that comes from the bike.
• The boys are getting into Star Wars and love to play with "life savors" and talk about "Dark Vader".
• The kids are not in school today, we had a little ice last night. Good day to make treats maybe?
• The neighborhood cat has been sleeping in our house the last few nights. It's just too pitiful to see her outside and cold. We are total softies! Our dog is so old he can't see or hear her. He can smell her though and knows she's there, he doesn't like it but she moves too fast for him to catch.
• I went to see Twilight with some friends on Friday night after a really fun cookie exchange and ornament party.
• Jonah has eaten toast with peanut butter on it for breakfast for the last month and a half.
• I can't believe Christmas is next week. I'm excited to wrap presents and get everything ready!