Friday Fav's!

Ding Dong Cake for Breakfast!

My new Niece Danica! 

I asked my wonderfully talented Mother-In -Law
if she would paint me a nest with three eggs.
She went above and beyond my wildest expectations!

My new favorite site for shopping!

If only I had money to spend!

Book club in Kingman!

I had book club last night! Ellie had already left to go put her baby to sleep.

Some of the other girls were at girls camp.

It was fun though! I mean, how could it not be?

Eating treats and talking!

I took the pic, so not in there.

Best part...When the girls showed up I had not even showered yet! 

I spent way too much time cleaning my back yard.!

They waited patiently while I took 15 minutes to get ready.

We read NieNie's Heaven is Here.

What an amazing book! 

Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

Yesterday I was driving with Talmage and Jonah and one of Talmage's friends.

We could see black smoke in the sky.

It was in the direction that we were going.
So we stopped and looked.

How horrible huh?!

Those poor people!
I could not stop thinking of them the rest of the day.

Talmage asked if maybe they burned their lasagna?

Ha! That is very fitting for a son whose mother is not an awesome cook.

Speaking of cooking (cooking)

We LOVE cookies here at our house.

I can pull them off most of the time!

Here is our favorite (Jared's) 

Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

Recipe

http://www.cooks.com/rec/doc/0,1910,156180-241193,00.html

So much to post...so little time.

Jared had to STOP me last night.  Do you ever get in a rutt of perfection?  

I  get to where I set a goal in my mind. It always seems much easier to accomplish in my head than it really ever is in reality. 

 I am great at starting a lot of projects!  I manage to juggle four or five projects at one time till they or I fall apart.

So, I dedicated this last week to finishing many of them all at once. 

 From 7:30 yesterday morning until 7:30 last night I was frantically painting.  

I took four cans of paint to my local Sherwinn Willams where Jeremy put all of my cans on the shakers to get them all ready for using.  Time was ticking and last night was my deadline.  

That was until I was in tears and Jared brought me back to reality!  He pointed out that I could work twelve hours a day, every day trying to achieve a "perfect" house in my mind and never be satisfied.  

I fall into these traps a lot!  I am too embarrassed to let others see my imperfections, so I shut others out.  

Frantically trying to perfect whatever I see that needs perfecting.  

While I am fixing one thing,  another thing pops up or falls apart.  Hmm, it is too daunting! 

I am missing the boat.  I am missing out!  Jared pointed out if there is someone who wants to pick apart my scuffed base boards, or my decorating or too many cake stands, then I don't need them.  

The truth is I care too deeply!  

Here's to enjoying, trying my best, but setting limits.  

Okay friends, come visit, sit in my little tumbleweed town with me and I'll pour ya a nice glass of lemonade, my glasses might have water spots, hope ya don't mind!

Here is the best thing that happened this week! 
 Our cute Talmage learned to ride his bike.  Jared took him to the park by our house every night to ride on the grass while he learned.  
As you watch this video, imagine the theme music from Jaws playing in your head.(BTW we don't know who the little tricycler is.)

No children were seriously harmed in the making of this film

From the Charm of Salt Lake... to the Scorpion's of Kingman!

All my guys after a jeep ride going from one set of Grandparents to the other set of Grandparents!
(Salt Lake)

We have actually been back in Kingman for four days.


I am  still wading through laundry and suit cases! 
We had such a good time Salt Lake.


We even got to meet our precious new Niece born while we were there!
~Danica Rose~
Born to my Brother Ryan and his adorable wife Leanna!

Pictures of her, and all the fun from our trip still to come.
Once I get my laundry put away,
 and all of my weeds picked that grew through our rock landscape while we were away.

Look at the scorpion I ran into the first day back while weeding! He curled his tail up at me, and I killed it with a brick. My first instinct was to run screaming.  Then, I thought if I let him live, he might end up LIVING in our house with us!  Yikes!

He is dead in this picture!

Anyone want to come help me weed????