"You want me to do what?"

I had one of those great 'motherhood' moments this week. Luke's pediatrician wanted me to bring in a urine sample for his Kindergarten check up. The nurse called and asked me to come in and pick up a jar and then bring the sample with us in the morning. I went to pick up the jar and almost laughed out loud when she handed it to me. I thought, you want me to do what? You honestly think my four year old that struggles 'aiming' into the large toilet bowl will be able to pee into this little thing, this ought to me fun. Let just say...it was an adventure. Motherhood, so fun!

Dinner Ideas

OK so my family and I have been sticking to our New Year's resolution to not eat any fast food, and to cook dinner each night! It hasn't been too bad, but I am running out of new meals to try. I know tons of you are great cooks, and I think I have seen some cooking blogs on some of your blogs before too. So, does anyone have any EASY, and yummy dinner ideas for me to try...or even a great cooking blog I can check out? Thanks everyone!

Homemade Playdough

So some of you asked for this Homemade Playdough recipe off of my Carpenter Column, so I thought it would be more useful on our Joys of Motherhood blog. My preschool kids enjoyed it just as much as my own. I really like the consistency of it! Here it is:

Playdough

2 cups flour

1 cup salt

4 tsp cream of tartar

2 tbsp oil

2 cups water

Food Coloring

Combine all ingredients together. Mix well. Cook @ med. heat stirring constantly until mixture follows spoon. Turn out on floured area and kneed until cool.

Pictures

I came across a few pictures recently that I had to post. Our scanner is pretty bad and so I apologize for the poor quality. They were also scanned from copies of the pictures so that may have something to do with it. Anyway, I came across this in this month's Ensign. How fun for you Heidi! Way to be such an example of a cute family!

Here's the next picture. Who's that cutie? My husband is Sarah's cousin and I found this in some of his old mission stuff. What a cute family as well! I can't believe that's little DJ. Was he ever that tiny?