Food Storage

Over the last few months I have had a strong desire and impression to work on putting together a better food storage for our family. This last month the Ensign had a lot of talks on Self-Reliance and food storage. Once again reiterating the importance of being prepared. With the economy falling into a bigger recession and more and more people being laid off it causes a lot of concern for me. Even though I have had the desire to be more prepared the motivation to act has not been present.

I decided to make a better go at it. In doing some research on how to get started and how to properly store your wheat, rice, and pasta, I found this web cite. It has a lot of great information and has been very helpful already. I wanted to share my find with you all. What I like about this cite is that they send you an email every two weeks with baby steps of things to do. It takes a year to get your storage put together but it makes it not such an overwhelming process. Which is where I was getting stuck. Where do I start? Obviously some of the things we have already put in place or have in our storage but its nice to be given guidelines and a reminder to keep working at it. ENJOY and good luck!

http://foodstoragemadeeasy.net/

Tagged!

I have been tagged.
The rules:
1.Go to your document/pictures file on your computer
2.Go to the 6th file
3.Go to the 6th picture
4. Blog about that picture
5. Tag 6 other people

This picture is of Tanner at about 2 months old. I was trying to get a picture of him smiling and this is what I got.

People I am tagging: Jenaway, Holly, Janette, Leah, Kellie, Melissa and who ever else whats to participate!

Oh MAN!!

As Sabrinna has gotten older the crazy and funny experiences are happening on an almost daily bases. I have labeled these moments as "Oh Man" moments. These could be anything from sitting on the toothpaste tube when the lid is off and squeezing half the tube all over the floor, or getting up on the counter to get a bowl and the Honeycombs out and then pouring a bowl all by herself, too cutting her own hair. (Yes, all of these have happened in the last week or so.)

I think a big red flag is when it gets quiet. That means trouble so approach with CAUTION. I am sure most mothers with 2 year old's would agree and are having their own crazy times.

I think tonight's 'oh man' moment topped it all. We have been working on potty training. RED FLAG I know! The basic story is that she pooped in her panties. As I was trying to get her undressed she flipped the poop out of her panties and then stepped in it. I got her cleaned up and sent her to her room to stay away from the mess. Since she had stumbled and got poop all over I had a nice mess to clean up. I ran down stairs to get everything to get the mess cleaned up. When I got back she had walked in it again and now it really was everywhere! I did get it all cleaned up and out of the carpet. I am so grateful for Spot Shot!!! The whole time Sabrinna was talking about her belly button and how she wanted to got swimming. Kids are so innocent and fun!!!

Cute Moments!

Tanner loves his swing!! He has just lately started putting his arms over the edge of the swing like this. It is so cute because we have found him like this a couple of times asleep. He's just chillin'.


One of Sabrinna's favorite activities lately is watching movies. Her attention span does not last very long, to be expected. So she will come and go from a movie a couple of times. Anyways, I had just bought some diapers and the box was sitting in her room. I had put Tanner down on his bouncy chair to go get something. When I came back this is what I found. :)



Sabrinna does not like me doing her hair. If I do get her to let me put pig tales in it doesn't last very long. To my surprise she let me do her hair the other day. I wanted to get a picture of it because I knew she would pull it out within the hour, which came true. When she lets me do her hair she looks like a girl and not a little girl with a mullet. Maybe one day she will like her hair all done up. Here's to wishing!!

Major Update!

The last couple of weeks have been very busy. Due to a lot of traveling and at times a hectic schedule I have not had time to post as things have happened. We have had a lot of bitter sweet moments all of which I am very grateful for. So please excuse the mass posting!

Reunion in California

On Sunday the 22 of February my Grandpa passed away. So instead of flying home with Steve from Colorado I flew to California. I met up with my family to attend my grandpas funeral. It was a wonderful service and I had a great time with my family. We were able to be with grandma and make some great memories. It was a happy time. My grandpa had been suffering for some time. The day after the funeral we did some cite seeing and tried to enjoy the time together as a family. My Grandma said that funerals for Mormons are just big family reunions. Its so true!
I returned home on Sunday the 1st of March. Shortly after I got home I got a phone call from my Dad telling me that Grandma had passed away. It came as a big shock!!! My sisters and I decided it is a true "notebook" love story. They had been married for 60 plus years. I am grateful that they were not apart from one another for very long and have been reunited.

We went to a Gold Museum and this arbor was just to pretty to not take a picture off.

Colorado Springs

This past week Steve and I went to Colorado Springs to try and find some housing. (We are moving in May to The Springs.) We looked at over 20 properties. It has been very hard to find something that we like. To find an area, price, and the different amenities that we would like or need. It was a lot of fun to look at the houses and get a feel for the city. We haven't settled on one place yet but hopefully we will find something. If nothing else it was nice to get away with Steve for a couple of days.

Johnson Clan

Our friends from Idaho came to visit. We had a nice time with them going to Cabela's, letting the kids play, and catching up.

This is AJ, Sabrinna, and Lexi playing on Sabrinna's 4-wheeler. The adults were upstairs talking when we heard the kids who were downstairs playing start laughing. We went to go see what was going on and this is what we found.


This is Lexi and Sabrinna. There were born 15 days apart. As we were walking around Cabela's someone asked if there were twins.

Tanners Blessing

We held Tanners blessing at our home with close family and friends. We had a very nice time being with the family and celebrating Tanner.

This pictures is of Tanner in his blessing outfit. Steve was blessed in this outfit. Its a little small since we waited so long to bless Tanner, but we still got him in it. My Grandma made the blanket for us that he is laying on.

This is a four generation picture. My Grandma, Dad, Tanner, Sabrinna, who is sound asleep, and myself.

Jazz Game

I am a little late getting these pictures up. Anyways I had never been to a Jazz game and so Steve wanted to take me to one. We went a couple of weeks ago to the Jazz and Spurs game. They lost but it was still fun to watch and have a night out.

Salt Lake Temple

A couple of weeks ago we had the opportunity to go to the Salt Lake Temple and help our friend Eric do baptisms for the dead. Eric really has caught the fire of family history and had prepared some family names for all of us to do. It was really neat to be there in the temple and know a little about the life of these people. It really changes the experience when the person you are doing work for is no longer a name on a piece of paper but a real person.

Our Kids

Sabrinna and her Dad have so much fun together. I melts me heart when she says, "I miss daddy." They like to play magic carpet, color, play hide and seek, ride the wiggle cars, and eat soft pretzels together. I love to just sit back and watch them. It puts a smile on my face every time.


The dress that Sabrinna is in is a dress I wore as a little girl. It was tradition in my family to stand in front of the piano to get our picture taken. I am pretty sure my parents have a picture of me in this dress in front of their piano.


It looks like Sabrinna is praying but she is actually pouting!


I think Tanner is so cute in this outfit. He has gotten so big!



I have been taking a lot of picture the last few days of Sabrinna and Tanner. As a mother I like to try and capture those precious moments but always seem to be a second to late. Oh well!

The last few mornings Sabrinna has wanted to read Tanner a story. She has gone and gotten some books and sat on the bed to read to her brother. He just stares at her and smiles like this is so cool and I love my sister. On of those moments I have missed capturing on camera.