Mmmm, acorns!

The other day Deric was looking at my facebook page and noticed a friend had posted a picture of the cutest little acorns. I was looking for a fun treat and decided to try them that day!!

You start with a lot of these, unwrapped of course!
You need a little chocolate to put them together! (It is yummy to eat with your fingers too!)
Add some mini nilla wafers or bite sized nutter butters, and a mini chocolate chip stem (and a little patience).
And soon your mouth is full like this!!!
Unless you keep making them like this... (like your supposed to!)
The end result is this!! A happy camper with a cute acorn treat!!
Here is one with a card I made for a thank you we were giving out.
Here is the entire "Thank You" platter. (Some people from our church helped us empty our storage unit!)
These were super fun and easy. The ones pictured above have nutter butter top but we made them for he kids to take to school and used mini nilla wafers and they were just as cute. (Sam has a child with a peanut allergy in her class so nutter butters were out of the question!)

Our House, part two

WELCOME! Imagine you have just stepped through our front door, and here you are in our family room. The door you see leads to the one car garage. You can also see a glimps of our dining area.

This is the view from the other side. (You can see the front door.)
Sorry this picture is so dark. This is the dining area and the sliding glass door to the back yard.
The view of the dining area from the kitchen.
In the living room if you walk in and go to the right you will find yourself in this fabulous hallway!
The first door on the left is the bathroom.
Two views is important since it is such a large room!
Across the hall from the bathroom is the Nursery which is now Wally's room, but in a few months a new baby will move in!
Just down the hall on the right is Sarah, Carrie, and Nelson's room. This will eventually become Wally and Nelson's room and the girls will move to a bedroom downstairs!
It is a work in progress!
The master bedroom is at the end of the hall. It isn't huge, but it fits our furniture and we are grateful for that!! Cali (the cat) likes it just fine!
Here is the master bathroom. After living in homes with only one bathroom it is sooooo nice that Deric and I now have our OWN bathroom, no kids allowed (if you look closely you will see I don't follow that rule very well)!!
That is all the tour for now. Part three will come soon including...kitchen, backyard fence, and the downstairs!

Carving Pumpkins!

Hey everyone, grab a pumpkin (and maybe some clothes!) and join us for some fun pumpkin carving!
Don't be shy, it will be fun!
But move quickly, these pumpkins are heavy!

First we will start with a little instruction from dad.

After cutting the top, we have to scoop out the insides!
While dad cuts top after top...
We keep scooping and scraping...
And inspecting to make sure it is all clean!
Then we carve! (Actually we made our designs on paper first!) This sure is a messy job!!!
But all the hard work is worth it don't you think! Can you tell what each of our pumpkins is??
... and the finished product! Ooooo, so spooky!!

Our House, part one

No more moving for us (for a little while anyway!!) It is official, we have bought a home, and we are so grateful to be in our cute new house. Here are just a few pictures of the yard. Part two will give a tour of the inside, but I'd like to put a few more things away first!!

The front yard

The back yard

More back yard!! You can see we don't exactly have a ton of land. We are putting up a fence to keep the dogs and kids in (hopefully), and the other ten million neighborhood dogs out!! Notice there is a one car garage... yeah!

There is a right of way behind the house. It is the neighborhood bike "zone." Our children have joined right in . There are some cars but they all know to keep an eye out for kids!

Moving Again!!

Dear Family and Friends!

We will be moving yet again this upcoming weekend. This move however is a good one. We will be closing on our own home on Thursday morning, and moving is asap after that. The decision to buy a house came from our constant need to move since we have been here in Ephraim. We are hoping that this will be the final move while we are here. Stability for our family is a must and it seems that we have finally achieved it!!

It is due to all of the moving and such that I have been a huge blogger slacker. There have been so many things that I would like to share and haven't. I am hoping that once were are some what settled that I can get back on track and document some more of the wonderful events in our lives and more importantly the lives of our children. Until then thanks for your support and love and patience!!

Love , Muria

Moab, UT

Hi, just in case you may have been worried we did not dissapear from the face of the earth! Life has just been more crazy than usual and blogging has been on the back burner. Summer vacation is almost over and I may find more time to catch up when I am back to a "schedule". Until then... here are a few pictures from the short trip we took while my mom and sister were out visiting us in June.

This one is of Wally and Vinny at a nice little rest area we stopped and had lunch at on our way to Moab. It was just on the edge of Fish Lake National Park. We didn't intentioanl dress them the same, it just worked out that way!
When we first got to Moab we went to Dead Horse Point. It is a beautiful spot that overlooks the Colorado river. Here is the entire crew!! (even the dogs got to come!)
Meme with her grandchildren!
The one arch we actually walked out to. It was a short fun hike for the kids. It is a small arch but we really enjoyed it.
Hiding in a crevice.
This is just before we hiked out to the arch. It was very sunny and hot!
Amazing

We just had to stop and take a picture of this sign for my family... is this anything like "moose crossing?!"
The Family after a potty break on our way out of the park, on our way home!