My so called true color

What's Your True Color?

My Result: Green

You're green, the color of growth and vigor. Good-hearted and giving, you have a knack for finding and bringing out the best in people. Green is the most down-to-earth color in the spectrum — reliable and trustworthy. People know they can count on you to be around in times of need, since your concern for people is genuine and sincere. You take pride in being a good friend. For you, success is measured in terms of personal achievement and growth, not by status or position. Rare as emeralds, greens are wonderful, natural people. It truly is your color!

What are you?
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Happy Birthday to Justin!!

Yesterday was Justin's 34th birthday! It was a fun day for him, I think, and especially the kids.

Justin had already opened his main presents a couple of weeks ago, the stinker. He decided after going to a train show at the Union Station that he wanted to start up doing model trains. He knew exactly the kind he wanted and the accessories. He put it on his on-line wish list at Amazon and told me where to find the tracks on eBay. I ordered it thinking that he wouldn't have known when it came. He didn't say anything for a while but started asking if any packages had came. I of course said no, even though they had. After a while he started saying things like, are you sure no packages have come. I asked if he had been tracking the stuff and he admitted he had. So no point in waiting until his birthday to let him have it, he already knew what it was and that it must have came. He was so excited to have it and whats even funnier is that Tucker probably loves it more than he does. Almost every day Tucker asks to have it out so that he can "watch trains".

We did take him balloons yesterday with a bag of some of his favorite snacks. That's always a hit with Justin to take him balloons when he's at work. I painted the windows of his car and our back sliding glass door. We put up streamers and a sign. I did get him a pair of shorts, something to open. We made him fajitas and baked him a cake. It was fun for the kids. They were probably more excited then him.

Anyway, Happy Birthday Justin! We love you!

Spring, Spring, Spring!!!

Finally, signs of spring! Today is such a beautiful day, 80 degrees. The kids and I have been outside watering tulips and playing on the swing set. I got a little picnic table/bench thing for Easter for the kids. It came with an umbrella. They have been outside on it a lot today. It's been a long winter inside. So nice to be outside and playing with the kids. I can't wait to start seeing everything in bloom. Some of the tulips have opened up and the daffodils are starting too. The ornamental cherry tree in the front is starting to have blossoms on it.

Sawyer didn't know what to do with being outside, he's never really experienced that yet. I think he will start to love it like the other two and not want to come back inside for naps and stuff.

I am rambling, but it's been a really nice day to just be outside.

Book Tag and Diaper Bag Tag?

Sorry I never did the diaper bag tag thing. If I would have listed all of the things that I have in my diaper bag, it seriously would have taken up the entire page. When I go places with my Mom and sisters, sometimes they will help carry things for me. They all can't believe how heavy my diaper bag is and the things that I have in it.

I am not reading any books currently. Although, I will be starting one this week hopefully.
Our Stake is starting challenge month again and the first week is no screen week. That's hard for me when I am at home and the kids are sleeping. So I want to get a good book to read. I have heard that the secret of bees is good? Does anyone know about that book. I love reading fiction. I love fantasy. I love church fiction mixed with real events, (Fire of the Covenant). I love dramatic fiction too. Anyway, when I start reading something on Sunday night I will then answer to the tag.

Baptisms and Singing

So this weekend we went to Morgan to see my nephew Myles get baptised and receive the Holy Ghost. It was fun. I played the piano for two of my sisters and my sister-in-law Julie played the flute with us. They sang an arrangment of Jesus came to John the Bapitist.
When it came time for Myles to go under the water Kendall was unusually interested. She has seen others get baptized but this affected her differently. My brother Jared held Myles under longer than anyone I had seen before. Making sure that he was completely submerged.
Kendall decided that she didn't like that and maybe she wouldn't get baptized after all.

Then today I sang with my two sisters, Beckie and Merribeth, for my Sacrament Meeting.
We sang, "How Shall I Live". Despite me having a very horse voice and sore throat we did really well. It's funny when I sing with my sisters (not very often because I am usually playing for them) people will come up to me and be so surprised that I can sing or as a lady put it today, "Sara I didn't know you had talent". So I guess when I play for them I don't really have any talent, only if I sing with them. Anyway, it was fun to share our testimonies through song.
Now the kids are taking a late nap and I think I just might join them. There has been a lot of sleepless nights in the house lately with me being sick, Tucker waking up often and Sawyer waking up often. Got to love being a parent though.

Coloring is fun to do, to do to do to do!

So tonight we colored Easter eggs with Kendall and Tucker. They thought it was great fun. Justin even got in on it. Kendall felt like a pro because she had colored eggs earlier in the week at preschool. She kept showing Tucker what to do and that it must be done a certain way.
She did a lot of pink. Tucker on the other hand wanted to just dip and take out, dip and take out.
He at one point decided that the egg dye looked yummy enough to eat. Much to his dismay it didn't taste very good. We put white vinegar in it to have the colors brighter and stick better.
Justin and and I put little dorky messages. It was good times with our little family!

More of the Green

When I went to pick up Kendall from preschool, she had so much to say. She had learned a lot about leprechauns. She kept saying that they were sneaky, and tricky and that we had to watch out for them. Every time I suggested going to find one she would freak out and get really scared. I think that they read some stories about them that made her very nervous.
I stopped at Lee's (the old Acres) and got some corned beef. I asked the meat manager if he had any Irish Bacon, he said, What? I then proceeded to give the history of why Irish Americans use corned beef instead of Irish Bacon and where the tradition came from. Also why they use cabbage. He was impressed. Justin would have been so proud. Any who, I made Corned Beef and sauteed cabbage (so yummy) and mashed potatoes and Soda bread (actually it wasn't really soda bread, I couldn't find any it was artisan bread)
Justin came home and was very excited to have such an ethnic meal. It was fun. Tucker wasn't very excited, the only thing he ate was the corn. Kendall ate everything. She is such a better eater now than she was. There is hope for Tucker. They had the left over green punch and cookies from Kendall's snack at preschool. It was fun.