"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?

Yummy!

I found another fun Valentine's Day dessert on 2cleverblog.com. (awesome blog) Check out this EASY and YUMMY treat...


All you do is, cut the twinkie in half diagonally, shape into a heart, and top with strawberry or raspberry topping. Mmmmmmm!

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Fun Valentines Day idea!

I came across this awesome idea on a fun blog called www.makeandtakes.com (check it out, it is a really fun) I am totally making these for EVERYONE this year. I think they are so cute. I'm hoping I can still find the candy canes on clearance. They were 90% off at Wal-mart last week. If you see any on sale somewhere else please let me know.
Make sure you take the plastic off the candy canes first. Place your candy canes on a silicon baking mat on a baking pan or with a pan that has vegetable spray. I arranged them how I wanted them to look when they were done, but they do come out soft and you can mold them later. Set your oven to 250 degrees and cook them for 10 minutes. Right out of the oven they should be playable and easy to mold, caution - they may be warm/hot to the touch. I was easily able to mold them however I wanted. I smooshed the bottoms together and the tops together. I let them cool, placing them in my fridge for faster cooling. Now you can eat them, give them as gifts, or use them as decorations for this Valentine’s Day. They would be cute hanging with a red ribbon.

Now it's your turn to share...
What are some fun traditions, crafts, goodies that you make for Valentines Day? Do share!