may in a nutshell

I apologize to anyone who actually views my blog for the amount of time that has passed since my last post. I've been busy.

So if you forgive me, read on. If not, I guess we probably weren't that close of friends anyway, so bye, it was nice knowing you.

For Mother's Day, I was fortunate enough to actually get to spend the day with my mother! And my dad and 2 of my 3 sisters. It was a good day.

Ronda, Mom, me, Leesa

Me and my happy little family. Well, mostly happy.

The reason I love Mother's Day....

Papa was playing horsie with Sam and Cassidee. They loved it....


I stayed at my sister's from Saturday until my dad needed to fly out on Monday. Since Sam loves trains so much, we rode Front Runner from Clearfield to SLC and Trax from SLC to Sandy to meet up with Jason Monday night. The kids loved the ride!

Here we are waiting for the train. (My nieces Kylee and Addison came along too.)


Sam really loved seeing the train with Papa.






A few days later, in Young Women's we had a fun little movie theme night. My table was "The Incredibles." I was told that since I am evil I had to be Syndrome. So I was.



Here are the other leaders.
Obviously we were all from different tables. (Wizard of Oz, Fairytopia, Up, Alice in Wonderland, Fairytopia, Incredibles, Wizard of Oz)


Now that Livia's hair is getting longer, we are having a little more fun with it. Is she not the cutest little Pippi in all the land?




Well, so far it has been a busy month, mostly with it being Sam's birthday. A post will soon be forthcoming to show you what fun we've had with that! So stay tuned!

bountiful baskets

Today I finally got my first Bountiful basket! Ronda has been doing this for the last month and I have been so excited to try it out! You pay $15 to a coop, then they buy produce in bulk and then split it up between everyone who donated.
This is what my $15 got me today:

Veggies:
-head of Romaine
-spinach
-8 tomatoes
-4 artichokes
-6 oz radish
-3 cucumbers

Fruit:
-10 bananas
-9 apples
-7 kiwis
-cantaloupe
-honey dew
-3 containers blackberries


Sam is so excited to see all this fruit... I feel like I don't buy much fresh produce because of the cost... but I can do $15! I'm hoping to do this every other week, since my family is only so big and can only eat so much fruit and vegetables!

I'm hoping this encourages healthy snacking..... apples vs. Easter candy... I think the chance is high!