Foodsaver Frenzy!

I was so excited to learn some new and fun ways to store my food storage with a foodsaver vaccuum sealer and a jar sealer attachment. It finally arrived in the mail yesterday and I went to town. I now have almonds, walnuts, pine nuts and the ever important chocolate covered pretzels in my food storage. :o) The only reason I stopped, is because I ran out of jars and things to put in them. I need to go to the store!

The Case of the Missing Sippy Cup...

Kensley has her own little table and chairs in our living room where she spends a lot of time drawing and playing with puzzles and sometimes even eating her meals. On Saturday afternoon, I gave her lunch on her table, pizza rolls and milk. I then left the room to do something else. Later on, I cleaned up her meal and noticed her sippy cup was nowhere in sight. I asked Kensley where it was, but received no assistance. Go figure. I then searched my house all over looking for it, knowing it is filled with milk and needs to be refrigerated or dumped out at some point. I couldn't find it anywhere! I think I searched the entire house at least 3 times! I looked under beds, under couches, under cushions, under tables....even in the trash can and the toy box! No luck. I finally gave up, but it had been in the back of my mind for two days, driving me nuts knowing milk was somewhere in my house curdling. So, today (monday) we get up, eat breakfast and get ready for Kensley's "Messy me and Mommy Too" class and on the way to the car I decided to take out the trash first. I had a glass of orange juice in my hand and couldn't hold it at the same time as the trash, so I set it on the wall. Normally, I would have walked straight to my car from the trash can, but had to walk back towards my house to get the orange juice on the wall which took me by this outside window...


I am now feeling like a total moron and don't get me started on the uckiness of the milk in the sippy cup! Case closed.

Stickers!

Kensley loves stickers and always puts them all over her body. Once she has every single sticker off the sheet and somewhere on her body, it isn't long before she is done. She then proceeds to take every sticker off.

Getting Ridiculous

So, I was all excited about our ward's Enrichment meeting tonight. It was on food storage and we had a guest speaker, Wendy Dewitt, who was going to give us fun new ways to store our food and ideas for fun things to store. I put Kensley in the children's class and settled into my seat for the lesson. Less than 10 minutes into it, the girls came to get me saying Kensley was throwing up! So, I had to run in and take care of her while she is crying and still throwing up all over. It was all over the floor and her clothes so I had to strip all her clothes off and try and clean everything up. In the meantime, I am missing this wonderful class that I didn't want to miss! I had her stripped to her diaper and decided that probably wasn't a good idea to leave her that way, so luckily we live close to the church. So, I ran home, grabbed the first item of clothing I found to put on her and ran back to the church to catch the rest of the meeting with Kensley on my lap. I figured her playing time was over. I don't know what the deal is with this girl. All this throwing up started around September, but it is truly getting old and I don't know what to do about it. She used to be such a good eater and never threw up or choked. I found out they were feeding her goldfish and grapes, so maybe she ate too much at once and choked, I don't know. I just wish the throwing up would stop!!

Happy Valentine's Day!

Kensley in her Valentine's outfit posing for the camera....one of her favorite things to do. When taking the picture, I told her to say "I love you Daddy!" and she did so gladly. We spent the past few days in California for my Niece, Shauna's baby shower and spent the majority of Valentine's Day in the car driving home. I am very happy to report that this trip was vomit-free and hopefully we are turning a new leaf in that regard!

Domestic Goddess

You are witnessing my first attempt at making homemade honey wheat bread! Just call me awesome! I have to go now so I can eat a slice of bread with some butter and raspberry jam.

Just Chillin'

How do you watch Yo Gabba Gabba? Holding your brown teddy bear and wearing your Cinderella sunglasses, of course.

Kensley was resting after working hard creating this disaster!

Bottled Butter

I have been wanting to try bottling my butter for some time now and I finally was feeling adventureous yesterday and tried it! I think I screwed it up. :o( But, here is the process.


First, I unwrapped and melted 10 lbs of butter and let it simmer.
I heated jars in a 170 degree oven and then poured the butter in the jars. After about 20 minutes, all the jars made there little pinging noise letting me know they had sealed.
This is the butter in the jars right after I poured it in. It eventually started separating and I did the shaking like the directions said, but it wouldn't stay together. I put them in the fridge to harden and meant to give it a shake again before it hardened, but when I went back to shake them again, they were already hardened! There is a white film on the bottom of the jars and a little liquid....Is there anyone out there who knows how I can fix this problem and who can tell me if the butter is still good??