I'm Lucky, so Lucky!

So much to say, so little time! First off, I have to announce that my sister is coming to visit me!!! Yippee! Josh was going to surprise me and have her come, but it was getting too complicated with all my plans coming up. When he told me I couldn't believe it! She will be out here from a Friday to a Monday. Quick trip, but she will be out here without kiddos. {I don't know if some of you get like this, but sometimes things just seem so impossible with kids. I thought it would be a couple of years if ever that Denise would be able to come out.} I am so excited. Josh is so thoughtful to do this. Love him to pieces. He got a voucher when he flew out to his grandma's funeral in the fall and decided to give it to Dee. I have been missing her so much. It is almost everyday that I am in the city and thinking, "this would be cool to show my sis." Cannot wait!

In other happenings, I have just come off of my two weeks living off our food storage. It was an experiment we did as part of my calling at church as the Provident Living Specialist. It was a good way to assess my food storage, but oh so miserable! Seriously, I became such a whiner during the last few days. We ran completely out of milk on day 9 and I didn't want to use dry milk. We did a lot of toast for breakfast. I kept craving fruit so I had canned pineapples and peaches a lot. So sick of those. It was funny because knowing that we had to ration out things made us want to eat them even more. Like the milk for instance! I made cookies one night and we HAD to have milk with them, not water. Ugh! One of the biggest things I learned was to always have ranch dressing and peanut butter. The ranch will get Presley to eat her veggies and peanut butter was such a great energy booster when the meals were lacking. We put pb in oatmeal and bake it in a lot of desserts. It was good to have items that I use in multiple recipes. Tomato/spaghetti sauce, black and refried beans, CHEESE (of course). I froze two loaves of bread and from now on will always try to have at least one loaf in the freezer at all times. It thaws so nicely in the fridge. I atually started a blog for my calling. I am just too bloggy sometimes I swear. The blog is www.cambridgefirstpl.blogspot.com if you want to check it out for any provident living tips. It's kind of fun:).

I'll conclude this post with some spying pictures of my kids. They do the cutest things. I swear.:

Noah almost had Charlie asleep on his lap. Presley was jealous he wasn't on her lap!

Presley got her coat on and went outside. When I went to check on her she was twirling with her umbrella.






Look out Jasper Johns!

Once in a while I will have the energy and patience to let the kids get out the paints while I am working on dinner. They didn't do too bad this time.