The last snow storm.

We are long past this and now running our air conditioner on certain days but these pictures were just too fun not to share with you.

 On the last snow storm our little boy and his daddy went out to make a snowman.

 They worked so hard and it was really fun. The snow was nice and wet, perfect for building with.

 I stayed inside with a cranky baby girl. Next year we will join in the fun I promise.

HA HA!

This goes out to someone I love. Just wanted to remind you of who is the coolest in this family.

My Birthday...

My birthday came and went. It was at the beginning of March but I still wanted to give my dear Hubby credit for the wonderful job he did making it special. These are my lovely roses that he got me.

 Since my birthday was on Sunday we did most of our celebrating on Saturday. We got dinner out and he decorated the house while I went shopping for about an hour. We saved my cake for Sunday. The best part is that I told him that what I wanted for my Birthday was to have some money to go to the Garden Expo that is the second weekend of May. I am still looking forward to it, it is my favorite event of the year here.

Quinoa Fruit Salad

Ive decided to start posting recipes I make up so that I can pin them on Pinterest and have a online recipe book of sorts instead of a million random pages of handwritten recipes floating around. I made this salad just a few minutes ago and it was better than I expected. I have been watching Chef Brad on BYU TV and thought I would play around with food the way he does. It is really healthy and like I said surprisingly tasty too.

          Ingredients:
2 cups cooked quinoa
1.5 cups brown rice
1 can 20 oz no sugar added pineapple chunks, fluid reserved
1 apple cubed
1 pear cubed
1 cup chopped parsley
1 handful craisins or other small dried fruit (for color and texture)
 bananas chopped
unsweetened shredded coconut

        for the dressing:
the reserved liquid from canned pinapple
1 cup coconut milk
1/3 cup agave nectar
1 tsp cinnamon
2 tablespoons oil, (I used Barleans Flax oil, but olive could work too)

In a large bowl combine the quinoa, brown rice, drained pineapple, apple, pear and parsley.

In a blender or a bowl with a whisk combine the pineapple juice, coconut milk, agave, oil and cinnamon. Blend up well and pour over the combined salad ingredients.

To serve add sliced banana and shredded coconut into each serving and enjoy!

If you are not familiar with quinoa you cook it just like rice, 2 cups water to 1 cup rice. I added some coconut oil and salt to mine before bringing it to a boil. Bring to a boil, cover and turn down to low and simmer until all the water is adsorbed, its about 10-15 minutes.

I used the brown rice because we already had some in our refrigerator but you can feel free to experiment with any other precooked grain or white bean.

 On a different note I know that most of you look at my blog to see pictures of the kiddos. They are really good to each other. J likes to help out (that's normal for him). R likes to watch her big bro.
These pictures are really funny because several times J has asked to feed R. I finally let him try because I thought it might solve his interest when he found out it didn't work for him.

You can see how much she liked it. And look at his face... to cute.

Pictures By a Two Year Old.

The other day I had an appointment and I left my boy home with his dad. When I got home Hubby came up to me and told me that the little man was rambunctious while I was gone. That he was wild and that he got out the chocolate chips and then got a hold of the camera somehow. Later I got the camera out to put some pictures on the computer and this is what I found...

Yup. I keep my chocolate chips in a canning jar.

Princess...

Whats Goin On.

 We haven't been up too much around here except trying to get a certain little girl to sleep better and eat better. Her dad said that she is a little woman because she is so high maintenance.

 Ignore the hideous picture of me here. I am putting this up for my mom. It felt a little wierd getting someone to take our picture outside of the chapel on Sunday. I was rushed because of my calling in the primary. Baby girl is wearing my blessing gown and we got a lot of compliments on it.

 Today we managed to squeeze in a little art time. I told him that he was painting the perfect chocolate car. He then told me no its not a chocolate car its a painted car. If you cant tell it is a perfect brown.

I snagged this picture of little sis right as she was thinking of waking up. I was hoping for a more perfect sleeping angel face but eyebrows lifted will have to do.

 And of course a perfect crying face. We do see a lot of this one around here because she is a little bit picky about how she likes things. It sure is cute though.