My 3 little ducklings

All so different, but oh SO cute!!!

Just Because

I love my Husband!!

Polish food anyone???

I came across this recipe a few weeks ago and decided to try it out. I am SO glad I did because it was delish!! I will be making this again and again!! I found it in the World Wide Cookbook "Secret Recipes". I changed it a bit to be less calories and it was still so yummy!


Halushki (not my picture, but the best one I could find):

1  16-oz box of bow tie pasta
1 head of cabbage, chopped
1 large onion, finely diced
1/4-1/2 cup of butter (Original recipes calls for 1 c.)
2 kielbasa sausages, diced (I used turkey kielbasa sausage. It calls for one but I didn't think there was enough to go around)
salt
pepper
lemon pepper

Cook pasta according to package directions. Drain and set aside. Cook cabbage and onion in butter over medium-high heat for 25-30 minutes. Dice sausage and cook in a pan over medium-low heat. Add the pasta and the sausage to the cabbage/onion mixture. Salt and pepper to taste. Add a little lemon pepper on top!

Enjoy!

Makes me want to take a back road

Ever since we went camping in September Ben and I have both been itching to get back to the mountains. I love the fresh air, the smell of the trees, the beautiful morning sunsets, and the dirt...yes the dirt. I love the simplicity of being together with my little family spending time making memories! Ben and I both love the song Take a Back Road by Rodney Atkins. It is to the "T" of how we feel sometimes. Today Ben called from work and said he wanted to go camping or something when I asked him "how come??" he said "I dunno just feel like taking a back road..." How cute!

So tomorrow we may be somewhere along here....

 

 

So we are off to find our little BACK ROAD........

Feels like home to me.....

I just have to say . . . I LOVE FALL!! It is my Mom's favorite season and she always had a way of making our home smell good and feel so cozy! I stopped "Home" the other day (in an attempt to avoid the massive amount of snow falling, when if I would have just headed to Blackfoot I could have avoided it all together...) When I walked in her house it smelled like fall, it looked like Fall and it was warm and cozy just like fall! LOVED IT! I am excited for the Holidays that come with Fall. I am more than half way done shopping for Christmas, so I am going to sit back and relax and enjoy my family.

In September my whole family went camping. It was a lot of fun despite allergies, rain, bee stings and crazy RV sleeping situations! My kids loved camping. Thanks to a good friend we had a warm place to sleep and a very fun bunk bed for my kids to play in. The kids literally spent HOURS playing in the RV. We also built a teepee for the kids and they played HOURS in that too. It is fun to have some down time and late night fire talks. My Dad rocks the skillet over the fire, he really made some wonderful meals.

On October 1st Ben and I celebrated our 7th Wedding Anniversary! Holy Smokes....7 years! We have accomplished SO many things and have enjoyed almost every minute of it! We went to Red Lobster for SHRIMP FEST and then to Kiwi Loco. After,  we went and hit a few stores and didn't hardly leave each other's side. Pure joy! I love Ben!!! He not only exemplifies the kind of man I have always wanted, he exemplifies the father I wanted for my children and the kind of person I am so lucky to wake up to and go to sleep with! He is such a good man and I know I could not have chosen a better eternal companion!! 
 

Our Crazy little family.....

Had so much fun carving this.....

Just as an end note:

I also LOVE my kids and the constantly make me giggle. Here are some giggles to share. Man I adore these 3 little people!!!

 

P.S. I took some pictures on top of the Conference Center in September I love how they turned out...I think there is a lot of symbolism in the water fountains around the Temple. This fountain happens to be directly OVER the top of the pulpit and it's water flow directly toward the Temple. Living Waters are so essential for us to understand our Temple covenants. I loved being surrounded by Living Water!