Her Blessing Day pictures!

Our friends from San Francisco area came to visit on the day of Paige's Blessing. Jen is a photographer and offered to take some pictures of her in her blessing dress. It is the same one Callie wore. I think the pictures are so beautiful.

Paige's 1st limo ride

Last night my friend and I went to this Uptown Girls Spring Fling in Redlands. It is about 15 minutes away. We parked at my friends Salon and got complimentary back and neck massages and a hand massage. We then waited for the limo to take us to all the other stores that were involved. The stores were Kissui(kids store), Shop Suey boutique(shoes and accessories), Peek Inside(home decore) and you just shopped and then waited for the limo to pick up again. The best part was it was free. I tried to get a picture of the limo but it didn't turn out. So here are Paige and I inside the limo.
My friend Lindsey and I inside the limo. We had to take the pictures ourselves. We were the only ones in the limo because we were the last to be picked up. It was kind of nice, some of the women had a little too much to drink and all smoked. I am sure we smelled good when we got home last night.

CUW-California Utah Womens

Every 6 months this takes place at the Disneyland Hotel. You go and walk around this ballroom and there are booths set up of kids stuff, jewelry, scarpbooking, temple pictures, and all kinds of stuff. We shopped around for a while and then did lunch at the Olive Garden. It was a nice get away from the kids. Thanks Taylor for the day out.

Oreo cupcakes

I made these for Enrichment tonight. My friend showed me this recipe and it is from allrecipes

1 18.5 ounce package Devil's food cake mix

1 5.9 ounce package instant chocolate pudding mix

1 cup sour cream

1 cup veg. oil

4 eggs

1/2 cup warm water

2 cups semisweet mini choc. chips

Preheat oven to 350. In a large bowl, mix together cake, pudding, sour cream, oil, beaten eggs, and water. Stir in choc. chips and pour batter into lined cupcake pans. It makes 28. Bake for 18-21 minutes.

Brown sugar cream cheese frosting

1 1/2 cups butter

8 oz. cream cheese

1/4 cup brown sugar

1 tsp. vanilla

pinch of salt

4-6 cups powdered sugar

2-4 tbs. milk

Cream butter and cream cheese. Add brown sugar, vanilla and salt. Add 2 c. of powdered sugar at a time. I used 6 and no milk. Fold in 8 oreos with filling removed. Frost cupcakes and garnish with a half of an oreo.

Chocolate and caramel covered pretzels.

We had these at Disneyland and they were to die for. So my mom came up with some just as good.

Caramels

1 3/4 cups light Karo syrup

1 tsp. vanilla

3/4 cup butter

2 cups heavy cream

2 cups sugar

Put sugar, syurp, butter and 1 cup cream in a heavy saucepan. Cook over low heat, stirring constantly, until sugar is dissolved. Cook slowly to soft ball stage, stirring constantly. Add 1/2 cup cream and cook again until soft ball stage. Add remaining cream and cook to firm ball stage. Add vanilla. Pour into a greased cookie sheet. Let cool.

Cut strips of caramel and twist around long pretzel sticks. Roll them in pecans or your favorite nut. Put them in the fridge or freezer for 30 minutes. Dip in chocolate almond bark. Don't use semi sweet choc. chips. It was too thick. The almond bark worked the best. I found it at Alberstons and it tasted the best. To garnish, drizzle white chocolate over the top.

Pizza Dough

Callie had a preschool field trip up at a restaurant where they learned to make pizza a month ago. It was so good and I decided to make it for dinner tonight. I halfed the recipe and made to small circles on a cookie sheet. That way I could make one for the kids and one for us. They turned out so good and usually when I make homemade pizza it doesn't taste good.

Pizza Dough

1 cup warm water

2 pkgs. active dry yeast or (2 heaping tbs. yeast)

1 tbs. sugar

sprink yeast and sugar over water. Gently combine and allow to rise until double. about 15 minutes.

1 cup water

2 tsp salt

2 tbs. oil

5 cups flour

Add additional water, salt, oil and flour to yeast mixture; beat well and allow to stand 10 minutes. Roll into pan and top with favorite toppings. Cook in a 425 oven for 15 minutes.

I cooked the dough for 5-8 minutes and then put the toppings on baked it another 10-15 minutes. Tonight I pulled some stuff out of the freezer and made a really yummy pizza. I had some Cafe Rio dressing and used that as the sauce and then added chicken, black beans, mozzarella cheese and then after it cooked added avocados. You gotta try it. Sorry no picture.

More of Paige

My favorite. I love the red and black. Very glamorous.

Baby Paige

My friend took some great pictures of Paige. I thought I would post a few that I love.

Famous people!

While waiting for Callie and Preston to ride this ride, we met the actress from My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Nia Vardalos. She said to me what a small little baby. My sister then said, "ARe you from"... and she said, "Yes" very quietly. We also ran into our Relief Society president and my cousin who I haven't seen in years. It was great to catch up.

I forgot to post this with our Disneyland pictures.

Worn Out!

Callie is not pretending to be asleep. In fact she starting to bob her head and almost fell out of the stroller. Taylor had to catch her. Two days in a row makes you very tired. It is 2 days later and I am still tired. But I am staying up at night with a small baby. We had so much fun at Disneyland and now we have passes and can't wait to go back.

Preston and I watching the parade. He loved it. He waved to all the characters.


This was on a Toy story ride and you shoot targets and you earn points. I got to level 2 and Taylor got to level 3.

Waiting for the Pixar Parade

We were saving seats for the Disney Pixar Parade. It was so fun.
Preston and Baylee. Sorry, Preston had crackers in his mouth.
I think we look a lot a like in this picture. I say that because the older we have gotten, we seem to look less alike.
Preston eating his yummy sucker.

Mickey and Minnie

Minnie Mouse kissing Paige. She even made the sound effect.
Minnie admiring Paige. It was cute.

California Adventure

California Adventure is right next to Disneyland. When you buy a ticket you can get into both parks. It was built in 2001. It had more of the Pixar characters at California Adventure. The kids went and saw Playhouse disney like on the Disney channel. They loved it. It was cute to watch their faces.

Meeting the Disney Princesses

Baylee giving Belle a hug. So sweet.

Princess and the frog. I can't remember her name. I never saw the movie.
Ariel and Callie. She loved meeting the princesses. Afterwards there was a shop to buy all the princess accessories. Preston got a sword. We got one for Callie too so they can play together.

Disney characters

I love this picture of Callie and Preston covering his eyes in the background.


My neice, Baylee kept telling everyone she was going to see Mickey. It was so cute.
Preston loved all the Disney characters. He really likes Mickey Mouse.