Yummy Strawberries

I love strawberries! The other day I was driving by one of our local grocery stores and saw that they were having a sale on strawberries 98 cents a pound, but if you were to buy eight pounds it was only $6.99. So, of course I bought eight. I went home and washed and cored a lot and put them in the freezer, I made freezer jam and we have been eating a lot of them fresh. I encourage all ya'll to look for sales around you and try the same thing. It's nice to buy them when they are on sale. Then you can get a whole ton.

Good quality time

This last weekend we went down and visited my sisters and their families. Wes was able to visit with his brother too. On Friday Liz and I visited our Friend Margie who just had a baby. It made me so baby hungry! He is a doll.
Me and my sisters went to the gym and worked out early Saturday morning. They are training for a triatholon so it was cool to see them in action. I just worked out along side them, but didn't push it as hard. We did an Easter egg hunt in Sarah's backyard and the kids had a blast. After that we went to the petting zoo with Liz and David. That night we watched a movie in Sarah and Johns cool movie room. All in all we had a great weekend. We are so blessed to have such great family and friends.

Our cuties

The weather has been great! We spend hours outside now. I love it. Here are a few pictures and videos of the kids.


Last night Wes, Lilly & I went to Push in the Theater while we took our boys to this "Kids night out" get together and this fun center in th city by us.
It was tough to take Lilly with us. We went up in the cry room. She couldn't even see the screen, she just walked around in the room and played. She kept wanting to get up in our laps, then get down, then she would whine. It was tough. I don't know if we will do that again with her. Our boys had a blast at the kid's night out. I think we will definitely take them there again. Maybe we will go to dinner next time. :)

Saving time and money

This week I have gone through my food storage and cleaned it up a bit. We have two pantries in our kitchen and one of them is for our food storage and then down stairs we have a cold room we put the rest of our food storage. I went through some of the canned dry goods we got years ago from the cannery. I noticed some of them are getting old, so I opened them up and we are using them. The vanilla pudding is actually kind of good. :)
I also have been looking through this book my mom bought for me years ago called, "The Freezer cooking manual from 30 Day Gourmet". I have decided I want to freeze ready to go items. Today I made homemade dough and freezed some rolls I formed and put on a cookie sheet, then after they were frozen I put them in Freezer ziplock bags. I also made a recipe from that book, chicken patties. They are yummy. I put those in a ziplock freezer bag as well (I probably should have let them cool a bit more before putting them in the bag), oh well. With the water that I boiled the chicken in, I added carrots and celery and boiled that a bit. Then I blended it in the blender. I am cooling it down as I type this and I am going to put it in ziplock bags for easy access. I am also cooking some brisket in the crockpot so I can use it for sandwiches for dinner. I will probably freeze the leftovers or we will just eat them up for lunch tomorrow.
I also made this master baking mix and put it in my pantry. With it I can make muffins, pancakes, waffles, or biscuits.
I am just trying to be better about being resourceful and using what we have. I also want to save myself some time on cooking.
If any of you have some tips let me know.
Becky

Fun Family Activity

The other day we went on a walk behind our houses up here by the mountain. It was so fun for the kids to trek through the rocks and play on the big gravel dune. It is so close to our house, but we have never really had them play on it. We have gone up there two days this week. Our kids had a blast and after a warm bath they all slept well. :) Wes and I had a great time too. It is nice to get outside and enjoy the great weather.

Every day after work the kids look forward to spending time with Daddy while mommy cleans up dinner. I actually look forward to this extra brake during the day as well. Wes is so good with the kids. I feel so blessed we have him.