Fall Recipes

Peanut Butter Pretzels

1 cup creamy peanut butter
2 Tbsp marg, softened
3/4 cup powdered sugar
1 cup brown sugar
1 bag milk chocolate chips
1 bag square pretzles

Combine pb and marg. in a Lg bowl with a fork.
Add sugars and stir to combine.
Cover cookie sheet with wax paper.
Roll filling into 1 inch small balls and set on cookie sheet.
Next, sandwich between 2 square pretzels.
Stick tray in freezer 20- 30 min.
Pour chocloate chips into a microwave safe bowl.
Heat till melted, stirring occasionaly.
Remove pretzel sandwiches from freezer
and quickly dip each half-way into the melted chocolate.
Return to the tray. When all dipped,
return tray to the freezer to set. (30 mins)
Store in plastic bag in frige or freezer




Soft Sugar Cookies

1 cup marg.
1 cup sour cream
4 tsp. Baking powder
1/2 tsp. soda
cream together 1-2 mins. then add:
2 eggs
1 tsp. vanilla
2 cups sugar
5 1/2 cups flour
Mix well. Dough will be slightly sticky. Flour counter heavily. Section dough in half. Coat each section with flour, place first section in the middle of flour on counter, roll out to 1/2 inch thickness. Cut out shapes and place on a greased cookie sheet.
Bake 375 10 min. *Do not over bake*

Sugar Cookie Frosting
1 cup shortning
2 tbsp. water
1 tsp. vanilla
Whip together then add:
1 lb. powdered sugar
Mix well. Add food coloring.

Shake A Leg

Yesterday I was walking down the hall,

passed the door of the girls room

and out of the corner of my eye can see

Hailey.

She is sitting on her floor playing barbies.

The untrained eye wouldn't have seen anything else

and probably would have continued on down the hall.

Me?...No.

I immediately turn around and tell her,

"Hailey, go potty."

And she says,

"Mom, I don't have to."

And I tell her,

"Hailey, go potty!"

She looks up at me,

rolls her eyes,

puts down her barbies

and heads to the bathroom.

Ever since Hailey started knowing she needed to pee she will shake a leg.

Which has been nice because I have always know to,

but is also bad because she only does it when she has put it off

and is trying to prolong her trip to the bathroom.

WhAt A sIlLy GiRl.

Confessions of a Cache Valley GIrl

So today I told myself
'Self, you're going to go buy yourself some new jeans.'

(i have one pair that fits me)

Anthony wanted to know what I wore last winter.

HELLO
I was pregnant.
I wore maternity pants.

Anyway...
Nothing I own fits me right.
It's not really that I'm heavier than ever before.
I mean, I'm bigger than I'd like,
but I've been this size before after my other pregnancies.

I think this is my problem:

Every time I 'pop' a baby out, my form changes.
My fat just gets shifted into a different spot.

Has this happened with anyone else or am I just a freak of nature?

On to the story.

So today I go to Kohls,
pick out like 8 pairs of jeans,
nothing works.

I. HAVE. BOOTY.

All of the jeans I've tried on are for people with little/no patuties.
Plus,as I'm in the dressing room Alyssa decides she's hungry,
so I'm sitting there,
feeding her,
in front of the dressing room mirror.
Staring at all of my glorious fatness.

sigh.

So I put them all back.

Next
I head over to the active wear section, thinking,
I have to get something to cover me butt...
it may as well be something comfortable right?

I grab 1 black, 1 gray and 1 maroon pair of really comfortable cottony/sweat panty pants.
All.in...large.
And I head straight to the cashier.
No stops to the dressing room.
They should be fine.
Pay for them.
Go home.
Put a pair on.

WHAT THE....
to small?
I am instantly depressed.
I pick up Alyssa.
She smiles with her two little teeth showing.
I give her a big hug...

and tell her I'm so glad I have her.

And I am.

Sick Days

As I mentioned before the girls all got sick. While we were down in SG they picked up a cold and seemed to be getting better but then Hailey got croup. Luckily I had medicine for in so that went away really fast but she still has a cough. Alyssa was sick and tired all week. She just couldn't seem to get feeling better and started in on a really high fever. Ashlynn also had a pretty impressive fever so I made all of them an appointment with the Doc. I guess I was worried because we had just received the H1N1 flu vaccine the day before. Anyway, he told us that it was just a virus, but I still felt that was weird because I have never had the girls get a cold and then a week later, have the fever. It seems that the fever always comes before the cold.

Am I remembering right?

So we went home. The next morning I realized that Alyssa hadn't peed all night and come to think of it, hadn't peed all the day before. So I called the Doc.

Again.

I told the nurse on the phone that I was worried that Alyssa was either dehydrated or that she had a UTI. So I had to go to her appointment 45 min. early to get a U-Bag put on her and we waited around for her to pee. Boy is that fun! When se finally peed they were able to see that she definitely had something going on so they prescribed her Omnicef and sent us on our merry way.

All that night she was up feeling horrible. The next day she seemed a little better but the next day, Sunday, 45 min after her first dose in the morning, she started getting a rash all over her belly. At first I thought it was a reaction to a new detergent so I bathed her and changed her clothes and then proceeded to wash all of the clothes that I had washed in the new detergent. When she woke up from her nap the rash had spread so Anthony and i decided that she needed to go to the insta care.

Come to find out she is allergic to Omnicef. So the Doc at the insta care prescribed her Augmentin. The next day after her first dose in the morning she starts with a rash again. This time I was able to call her pediatricians office. After much debate we all decided that it was better to switch her medicine to something totally different.

Again.

My poor sweet baby. I feel like she had been the ginny pig. Today she seems to be feeling fine. Hopefully the new medicine will work and we can get back to figure out why she got the UTI in the first place.

Dear Blog....

Oh how I

miss

the days when I used to sit down and jot something down on you.

How I

miss

your posting and your comments.

It's been to long.

First we were out of town.

Then my kids took turns being sick.

I promise to be a better friend in the future.