Happy Halloween!!! :)

so our Halloween started on Monday :) For Fhe we carved some fun pumpkins can you tell whose is whose?




Now can you? :) hehe




then Tuesday i had my friends over for a early Halloween party :) it was fun the girls made some decorations while the boys played wii. :) Then we all played bingo and had some treats. Here are some pics :) ...














Then thursday we went to our wards halloween party it was fun but sorry no pictures. Mady didn't enjoy taking the candy from people dressed up for trunk or treating but she sure does enjoy candy just as much as her mom... uh oh :)
Then saturday we spent well i spent making sugar cookies some included spiderwebs like this one.... john watched football and played playstation :)



Last night was our family Halloween party that was actually on halloween :) We had lasagna and garlic bread and salads. Then we voted on best and funniest costume. Then we took a halloween quiz winner won a bag of candy. Then we enjoyed dessert of spider web cookies and poison root beer floats. :) then we ended the night chatting with brandon kristen and ethan :) it was fun :) John was indiana jones i was a fairy catcher and i caught a very cute fairy... Madylena :) Tyrel was a fighter pilot, vandy was a pig. Jason was doodle jump. My mom was a cowboy :) My dad was a doctor :) see if you can guess what kind haha it was hilarious :) here are some pics... :)




















Well i think that is about it :) here are some recent pictures of mady :) soon i will post pics of our family that laura did for us :) have a good week :)

Homemade soft pretzels and pumpkin chocolate chip cookies

My plans got canceled today so I decided to do some baking :) here is the link to the pumpkin chocolate chip cookies :)
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/george-duran/pumpkin-chocolate-chip-cookies-recipe/index.html

And here is my recipe for homemade pretzels :)

10.5 oz water
.33 oz yeast
16 oz all purpose flour or 12oz bread flour and 4 oz pastry flour
.1oz salt
.3oz sugar

soak the yeast in the water and then add to the flour and mix it all together. Make five ounce balls and roll into a string and make into a pretzel shape. Dip into baking soda and water. and cook at 500 degrees for 8-9 minutes or until brown. Cover in butter and salt and enjoy :)

Pizza rolls

So that is what i tried for the first time. you stuff the pizza toppings minus the sauce in Pillsbury pizza crust and top it with garlic salt butter and Italian seasonings. Bake it at four hundred for like 15 minutes and then dip it in warm marinara sauce. It was the best recipe but i think it would be better if you made your own pizza dough. It would be a fun recipe for a date or to do with kids. coming up next for recipes are: creamy mac and cheese, pumpkin chocolate chip cookies, soft pretzels and spider web sugar cookies.... prepare yourself!!! :)

A new way :)

so after looking at a lot of great recipies on blogs i have decided that i'm going to make a lot of them. We spend a lot of money on food anyway why don't i make it more fun and interesting. The question i have is when i post them do you want me to just do the picture or do you want the recipe as well? well i will probably be putting up my first one soon let me know :) should be fun :)

I Just knew stacie would tag me :)

I actually don't mind i don't have all that much to do Mady is still sleeping thanks to the wonderful winter early morning darkness :) so i was tagged to answer eight questions so here we go :)
1-what is your recent favorite commercial right now?
This one is way to easy and I'm sure a lot of people will agree with me on this one... its the Geico this little piggy cried wee wee wee all the way home! seriously just an awesome commercial :)
2-what do you and your husband argue most often about?
Usually its either me wanting him to do something like talk more, clean up after himself, or money issues and not wanting to eat out and get fat and poor. But more often than not it is usually on movie characters, whose voice is which character, what other movies they played in.... that kind of thing :)
3-if i was the lunch lady at school what would i make for lunch to gross them out?
This one is a little more difficult and as i recall Stacie a lot of people loved that Pb&j pizza :) I don't know I'd make liver and onions i guess cause that is what they always say is so gross in all the movies. I've never had it and i will never have it either :)
4-which clique would you say you belonged to in high school?
i don't know which clique i was in... i wasn't in the popular group the weirdos or losers but i wasn't in the goody Mormon group either.... if anybody would like to tell me which group i was in i would much appreciate it :) upon asking this question i now feel so lost and confused hahaha :)
5-post the seventh picture down in your first file of pictures what is it?



This picture is outside of Jackson hole at the top of the hill. john and i went here quite a few times before we got married. that's about it.
6-what is your worst experience as an employee?
Working at sonic i had this white trash couple chew me out for not having a certain meal anymore which obviously i had NO control over. They were both yelling and swearing at me and i just said there was nothing i could do that is corporate and i just bring the food. The other people eating called the cops on these people because they were being so incredibly mean to me. I went back in to sonic and did the one thing i absolutely hate doing in front of people...i burst into tears.... worst experience ever.
7-what item can you never walk by in the grocery store without seriously thinking of getting?
ummmmm everything! and i usually end up getting it. any of you who have been to our apartment know we have everything available to snack on at our place. If you are hungry come here that's what we are known for ahaha.... oreo's are up there lately though :)
8-the most awkward thing that has happened to me in the last week?
when Jason and I were driving to and from St George i wanted to sit up front with Jason but Mady demanded my attention so i had to crawl into the back by going in between the seats. It was hard to do and i was practically sticking my butt in his face and everyone Else's driving by. It wasn't so bad to do when i was skinny but for a fat person it is a little more difficult :) and embarrassing.

Well that is eight questions hope you enjoyed it haha :) so now i have to make up eight questions and tag eight people to answer them so here we go....
1- watch show do you secretly love to watch but wouldn't want anyone to know? :)
2- Which of the five senses would you get rid of if you had to choose one?
3-get into the third folder and go to the tenth picture and post it and tell us the story behind it. if you don't have ten pictures in that folder go to the next and count to the number you had left from counting the last one... does that make sense?
4-who is your favorite family member in law style!!! :) haha good luck
5-what are you most excited for this christmas?
6-if you had to choose between having 12+ kids or only being able to have one which would you choose?
7- To get ready for halloween, name one of your biggest fears?
8- if you only had a few words to describe me what would they be? :) hehe had to throw one in about me of course :) hehe

so now i have to tag eight people... here we go... ready?....drum roll........ ok they are....
kristen murri
allison miller
amber miles
bonnie haas
jessica reid
emily duncan
vandy and tyrel murri
allie beck cooper

Feeding the ducks and St George.

So the last little while our lives have been about the same. John working and looking for new jobs and tiny and i at home learning and growing each new day :) but we just got home from going to st george. It was a blast. 100 degree weather and lots of swimming and boating. We were only there for about two days which made the seven hour long drive there and back long but it was worth it :) here are some pictures in so particular order. John, mady and i feeding the ducks. Our halloween decorations, mady sitting in her new green chair she loves to climb onto and of course our st george trip. Enjoy :)