Jesse 14 months

Jesse is growing superfast!

• He loves his brothers and gets so excited when Aidan and Kyle come home from school.
• He has had his first haircut.  
• He has started climbing onto the dining room table by himself which causes all sorts of problems.
• He loves saying, "No No No"
• He copies a lot of words that we say.

Orin's New Haircut

Friday Night Pizza Evening

On Friday nights we normally make pizza together as a family.  Here is the recipe I use.  It is delicious.


500g flour
1 tsp salt
1 tsp sugar
1 10g packet of dry yeast
45g butter/margarine
300ml lukewarm water
2 cups cheese


I double the ingredients for my family and then we have pizza for lunch the next day.


Sift the dry ingredients together and rub the margerine in with your fingers.
Add the water a little at a time to form a dough and knead for 10 minutes.
Let the dough rise for 5 minutes.

A teenager in the House!

Happy birthday for the 15th my boy.  You are a wonderful young man and you make us extremely proud and grateful to have you in our family.

 Thanks Michaela, for helping your old sister out with this cute cake!

Uncle Chace and Aunty Ruby-Lynn entertaining the little ones with "C is for Cookie"

Life

When Logan came and told me that Kerry had passed away I was busy making supper - frying meat burgers in fact.  I didn't believe him at first.  Thought that he had made a mistake, that he had heard wrong.  I eventually understood that it was really true.  I cried a lot.  But I learnt a great lesson.  Life does truly carry on.  I had to still feed my family, I had to bathe the children, cuddle them and put them to bed.  The house had to be cleaned.  I had to read my scriptures and say my prayers.  President van Rheenen spoke at Kerry's funeral and as he spoke about Kerry carrying on her work in Paradise it strengthened my testimony.  I thought of how devastating it would be if I didn't believe that Kerry would be with all of us again.  That Kerry is......not was!  I could see that Kerry's family understood that.  They were so composed and dignified at Kerry's funeral.  I know that this makes them very heartsore but they will be with her again.

Missing someone gets easier every day because even though it's one day further from the last time you saw each other, it's one day closer to the next time you will.  ~Author Unknown

Spring is coming....

Even though we are having a very cold spell I thought I would post some pictures of my apricot tree to brighten my day :-)  Sorry to all those in the northern hemisphere.

Kerry's Garden of Hearts

To see the night time photos click here