Child Chefs-part 2

On our last Iowa visit, Doug's Mom thought of a brilliant way to keep 4 hyper grandchildren in check while cooking lunch: play "cooking show!" She had the kids pretend they were cooking in front of the camera and had to explain what they were doing.
I reproduced that idea into our home and held a "cooking show" while baking cookies. We used our best British accents and explained to Aunt Collette-(who was actually filming this for the use of blackmail) what we were doing. They had to wiggle their butts when "shaking" an ingredient into the bowl. They then had to be my taste testers...which turned into the cutest picture opportunity!! They were so cute about both licking the mixer together!!

This picture is going on my wall!! SOO cute!!

6th Anniversary

Doug and I celebrated our 6th Anniversary this year!! We had so much fun at our favorite sushi bar- the RA!! It was so yummy. We stuffed ourselves beyond belief and I've been craving it ever since!! Here is a picture of one of the sushi rolls we ate-it's call the Las Vegas roll!! Super yummy!!

We've been through a lot in 6 years!! We've moved 8 times, experienced many job changes and trials, received many college degrees, shed many tears, shared many more laughs and many joys, birthed 2 beautiful children together, grew up together and can't wait to grow old together!! I love you Dougie!! Happy Anniversary!!

Child Chefs

A friend of ours had us over for a fun play date to make individual pizzas. The kids rolled their own dough, spooned the sauce on, and completely covered it with cheese and pepperoni! What a fun idea! Josh and Brooklyn had so much fun!

Ketchup Shots!!

Our darling daughter has been known for drinking ranch out of a cup, but today amazed even me. We went to McDonalds for dinner and I filled up 6 mini paper cups with ketchup, and Josh was asking for more ketchup by the time all the food was disbursed. I thought maybe I'd forgotten to put them on the tray, so went back and filled up more. When I returned, I realized that Brooklyn had actually horded all the ketchup and actually drank-or gulped-or swallowed-all the cups of ketchup. Ugh!