"Add a generous tablespoon of regular (salted) butter into the hollow. So basically, 1 1/2 tablespoons, except I’m in denial about my butter use and prefer to say “generous tablespoon.”
quick pic of the kids together the other day, but here are a few more cute ones.
(Zach is obviously a vampire, but if you couldn't tell, Christian's a skunk & Faith's a vampiress who forgot to bring her teeth.) Tammy always plans a plethera of fun Halloween activities for the kids, so there will be lots more pics to come!
here. I feel so lucky because I know there are many, many women who have gone through more than I have and don't even have two precious angels to show for it. But sometimes, just every once in awhile (actually, a lot more often now that Christian's two!), that proverb about being careful what you wish for comes to mind. :) On Sep. 17th, my little stinker got into my makeup bag! But at least he's a hard worker: he managed to coat his face, the bathroom floor, cabinet doors, bathtub and his baby potty in cover-up stick and liquid eyeliner in 5 minutes flat. He's so smart that he picked the two items that would be the most difficult to remove!
where men volunteer to cook up their best dish and you pay $10 to sample everything, with all the money going to the YCC Women's Center. It is so fun to try all the food and such a worthy fundraiser, I encourage everyone to get out to it next year! There was a bunch of my family there, and after the kids were done eating (they were so well behaved that day!), Jordan took Christain and his daughter Sierra out to play on the train they have on display. The kids obviously loved it!
On Saturday, the 20th, we decided to try out the brand new Chuck E. Cheese that opened in Layton. First, we had some pizza, and then we started playing the games.
Christian loved one where a light 
goes around a wheel and you push a big button to stop it. If your light lands on certain spaces, you win tickets. As luck would have it, the first time he played he won 100 tickets!! I don't know if he understood about the winning part, but he sure loved watching it (<---) and pressing the button!
Faith's favorite was, of course, Deal or No Deal, but she and Buddy also loved this half virtual "bowling" game. It was too packed in there for me to get a good shot of it, but you bowl the ball into what looks kind of like a skee ball game, and then the top part is a computer screen which uses a censor to determine what your ball would do from about half the lane, on. Clear as mud? Anyway, it was fun! 
Christian quietly got into trouble and made a mess. When I got up to make popcorn about halfway through, I found that he had gotten all the pasta out of my lazy susan and had built this great tower. I also found the floor covered in little pasta bits because he had discovered that the box of fettucini was open and that it's super fun to break apart. By the end of the movie, he had unwrapped the multi packs of maccaroni and cheese and had laid out the individual boxes, plus the boxes from his now deconstructed tower, in a 20 foot long winding pathway down the entry hall. At least I got to watch a movie in peace!
and the trees and mountains had an etherial beauty because of the low hanging clouds. Unfortunately, the rain also made it impossible to get a decent picture. We bought some delicious local raspberries from a truck on the side of the road, but Gossner Cheese Factory was out of cheese curd! The nerve!!
On Sunday, the kids and I went over to my mom & dad's for the second session of conference and some delicious ham and funeral potatoes. Tony was out in the cold, bonding with his dad and nephew while hunting ducks and geese. Luckily, they didn't hit any :D 
When the cousins arrived, Christian played cooking set with Lily and was so cute "feeding" her with the fork that Jordan asked for my camera to get a picture of it from his vantage point. How adorable!
