Pizza Night

Homemade pizza is one of our favorite foods to make. We took advantage of having Lane home for the night and invited his family over to our house and made pizza for them. We make the dough which is super easy and fast. We have a kitchen aid but I guess it's a smaller once because I'm not able to put all the flour in without it going everywhere so here is Lane mixing in the last few cups. And of course Brookie is helping.

I love her face in the picture below!


You can use the same dough for pizza, cinnamon rolls and bread. It's all delicious. Except for this one particular time I used really hot water and it killed the yeast, so the cinnamon rolls and bread didn't rise. My loaf of bread looked like pita bread and the cinnamon rolls were pretty much minature cinnamon things. They didn't taste very good, the pizza turned out really well, just not anything else. Oh well it was still a fun night to have family over and spend time together.

I even got into the mess. By the time we were done, flour was everywhere; all over the floor, table, counters, me and Brooklyn, EVERYWHERE! But it's okay Brookie enjoyed it and it cleaned up really easy.

After dinner the boys went to Lane's ward basketball game while the girls stayed home with the kids. I have really grown to love my in laws. When we first got married almost 4 years ago I never thought we'd be where we are today with our relationship with his parents. I can say I truly love them and I know that they love me too.

I want a good song!

Our camera is fixed!!! Yay!! I had Lane take it to a camera store and told them what was wrong and he looked at the lens at there was a big huge fingerprint, thanks Brookie! Well it was painless and free so it's okay.

A funny thing that Brookie does is we'll get in the car to go somewhere and she says, "Mamma I want a good song." I turn on Carrie Underwood 'Wasted' and she says, "yeah this a good song." So I sing it to her and she has the funniest facial expression, she sings along to the chorus. I am so sick of the song though because to her it's the only good song there is. I even turn on a different song by Carrie Underwood and she freaks out. I remember when she was a brand new baby, if she was screaming in the car I would turn on Rascal Flatts and it would put her right to sleep.

Lane is halfway done with his CNA course and is really enjoying it. He's already signed up for an EMT course which starts right after the CNA one. Hopefully after he's finished the EMT course he'll be able to get a pretty decent job. Brooklyn has adjusted well to all the changes that have been going on lately. We just love having her in our lives!

Singing with Grandma

I am finally able to get the videos off my camera. This is from Christmas up at the cabin, she is singing with my mom. Notice the bear in the background!

Car Show

Don't mind all the pictures, something is up with my camera and it needs to be fixed!! It makes me so mad! Oh well so sorry the pics are blurry maybe one of these days I'll have someone look at it. Anyways, today we went to the Car Show. I'll be honest, I wasn't all that thrilled to go but we asked Brookie if she wanted to go look at the cars and she said, "Yeah!!" We went with Lane's Dad and sister.




Brookie actually enjoyed going, for the most part she just sat in her stroller and looked at the cars.


Don't know what these are, but they're really nice! Stupid camera.



Someday I will own one of these, a Cadillac Escalade, soooo nice!!


Some more that I don't know what they are.




A car with handprints all over it!



It wasn't that exciting but it was fun to get out and spend some time with Daddy!! After we left here we headed over to Pei Wei for lunch which is like P.F. Changs but faster and cheaper! It was so good, I think I like it better than P.F. Changs!

Update

Ever since Lane lost his job doing mortgages a couple months ago, things are been pretty stressful and it's been an adjustment for the whole family. Thankfully I had my job and he had his 2nd job working as a server at nights at Chilis. We've been debating what the next step would be. He was looking for a job but never found anything. So he decided to go back to school, some things fell into place and it worked out that he started yesterday. He is taking a CNA course offered through IHC which is only 6 weeks long. Hopefully when he's done he'll be able to get a job at the hospital, don't worry we are aware that CNA's don't do a whole lot or make very good money. We feel like it is a step in the right direction. Lane has always wanted to do something in the medical field but neither one of us can get to excited about all the years of school. And for the past 4 years he had a really good job that we benfeited from. We are where we are today for the job he had. We were able to buy our first home, I was able to be a stay at home mom, and we pretty much had the luxury to do whatever we wanted. So I don't regret those 4 years one bit! But I hate the fact that we're starting back at square one. Better late than never. After this 6 week course is done, he'll most likely go back to school get his associate degree (which he almost has) and then continue on for something in the medical field. He's not sure what speciality but that's why we're hoping he'll get a job in the hospital and then he'll be able to see what he wants to do. I'm excited becuase I know Lane has the potential to do something great! I'm grateful for the jobs we do have know that have helped us through these rough times.


Brookie is growing up more and more everyday. We finally put her in a "big girl bed." I've put it off for so long for 3 reasons:
*we didn't need the crib for another baby
*I didn't want to buy a new bed
*I didn't want to have to fight her to stay in it, I like the fact that she was caged in the crib


Well one night at like 2:00 a.m. she is freaking out so I go in there and she refuses to sleep in her crib. She wanted to sleep in the big bed with mom and dad. Well I wasn't about to go for that so we took her crib mattress out of the crib and on the floor and told her in the morning we would get her a big girl bed. It worked and she slept on the floor. The next morning I sent Lane over to my parents to get one of our old twin beds. He set it up and she loves it. Sometimes I have to go in there and put her back in bed. She's pretty good about not getting out because I threaten her life if she does! Not really but I tell her she'll be in big trouble.


We spent New Years with our dear friends Todd and Rachel. It was our last Hoo-Ra before they left for Florida. We watched the movie "Leatherheads" which was pretty lame before we watched the ball drop. It was good to see them before they left, and we miss them, but we're already planning a vacation to Florida.
Here are a few pictures with Todd and Rachel. We love you!

Our Christmases

We had a super busy Christmas week. It all started on the Tuesday the 23rd, when my brother, Kyle got home from his mission. He faithfully served in the Santa Rosa, California mission for the past 2 years. It was so great to see him at the airport! We are all so glad to have him home. He is just the same as he was before he left. After the airport we headed over to the Conference Center where he was realeased by the Stake President. Then we went to Ruby River and had a delicious lunch. Since he was home before Christmas we were celebrating Christmas with Lane's family a little early.
Wednesday morning we headed over to Lane's parents home, where we had yummy ham and a "Big Breakfast" in the dutch oven. Since we were going to be up to the cabin on actual Christmas, Lane' family graciously agreed to do their Christmas on Christmas Eve, and so did Santa.




We let the kids open all their presents first and then put them in the kitchen to play with some of their toys while the adults opened presents.

I got a bunch of scrapbook stuff, and Lane got a back light for the truck, since he broke the other one by backing into a pole! He also got clothes, and stuff for school.

Here is Brookie and Jayden playing with her activity coloring tray thing.

Then after we were all done with the presents, Papa brought out the big one for the grandkids. It's a John Deere car thingy. Brooklyn climbed in it, but as soon as it started going she freaked. Pretty much is for Jayden at this point, both girls were to scared of it.



Then we headed up to the cabin in a blizzard, we had to go super slow up the canyon. Once it started snowing it didn't stop for almost 40 hours. I don't have any pictures from the cabin except one. We had a good time, it was good to have the family all there after Kyle being gone. All the girls got new sewing machines, Lane got some hair clippers and Brookie got an easy bake oven. Here is the one picture I have of how much it snowed. We got there at midnight Wednesday night and left Friday at like 11 a.m. and this is how much it snowed.

Here are what our truck and my parents truck looked like, it was insane how much snow there was!


When we got home on Friday afternoon we finally had our Christmas, Brooklyn was really that into it. Lane got me a scensy candle, a new comforter bed set, and some bath salts. I got Lane some pants, pathetic I know but we were on a super tight budget. We wanted to make sure we got Brookie lots.



This was our big present to Brooklyn and where most of the money went. A kitchen set loaded with food and all sorts of utensils and pots and pans. She loves it! She cooks me things all day long. Sorry the pictures are blurry, I'm having issues with the camera.


All in all we had a wonderful Christmases. I'm truly grateful for what we do have and glad to spend time with family. I hope all of you had a great Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Brookie's Class

For Brookie's class that is at the Rec Center (the Mommy and me) they had a christmas party with all sorts of crafts, snacks and toys. First we necklaces, which I mostly did, Brooklyn just pulled the string.


She is so proud!

Here is Mrs. Claus reading them a book, Santa was there too but of course she freaked out so I didn't get a picture, she wouldn't even sit on his lap!

However, she did love this!! This is her all time fav.

I really enjoy going to these classes with Brooklyn, especially since I've gone back to work full time. It is one of the highlights of the week, to spend that one on one time with her doing fun things.