Fried Ice cream! My favorite!

This recipe was found by my sister Britney. My family are big connoisseurs of fried ice cream. We tried it a few months ago and loved it. I made it when we first moved to California again and wanted to share it with you.


Fried Ice Cream

6 flour tortillas
vanilla ice cream (blue bell is best)
Fry tortillas in vegetable oil until browned.
Sprinkle with cinnamon and
sugar mixture (1/2 tbs. cinnnamon/1/4 cup sugar)

Crushed up cinnamon toast crunch cereal

Honey butter

1 cup honey
1 cup butter softened
5 tbsp. powdered sugar
1/4 tsp vanilla
dash of cinnamon and nutmeg
Warm honey in microwave (30sec-1min)
With mixer add softened butter until blended well.
Add remaining ingredients.

To assemble. Put tortilla in bowl to form shape.
put scoops of ice cream into tortilla.
Drizzle with honey butter.
Put crused up cereal on top.
Enjoy!

Carving pumpkins

For FHE we bought some pumpkins and carved them. Callie thought they were really scary. The next day she kept going outside on the front porch to see if they were okay.

Just relaxing!

He looks so darn cute.

Preston' 1st haircut.

I finally took Preston in for his first haircut. We went to this little barber shop. Preston sat in my lap while getting his haircut. He was really good so he got a sucker and loved it. He looks like a little boy now. He has changed so much. Preston is finally walking too. He has been for about 3 weeks. He is everywhere and into everything. He also likes to go up the stairs. He has fallen down a few times.

Callie's first Ballet class

Callie's first day of Ballet. She went to a friends class once in Texas and absolutely loved it. She has been asking ever since if she could take a class. She does a good job. She listens to the teacher pretty good.

We love the mountians!

This is the view from upstairs. You can see the golf cart. We live on a golf course. Some areas in the neighborhood you have to watch for flying balls. We luckily don't have too. We love the mountains. Their just so beautiful.

Our house in Yucaipa, California!

Our house here in California is about the same size as it was in Texas, but this house is a two story. It makes all the rooms a lot smaller so none of our furniture fits. The one thing I do like about this house is the kitchen. It has granite counter tops and lots of counter space. It has the lighting under the cabinets so you can see while cooking. The things I don't like are the paint and the stairs. The paint is this ugly green color. The owners of the house are going to have someone come and paint it. I will never have a two story again. I run up and down the stairs about 20 times a day. If you forget the kids shoes or have to brush your teeth, up the stairs you go. We do like it our here in Yucaipa. We have adjusted well. Better than we thought we would. We have already made some great friends. For those of you who don't know where Yucaipa is it is 20 minutes from San Berarndino and 35 minutes from Ontario. The other direction is Palm Springs. It is about 30 minutes away.

We finally made it to California!

I just wanted to update everyone on our move out to California. We moved to Yucaipa. It is about 15 minutes east of San Bernardino. Yucaipa is a smaller town of about 50,000 people and located at the foot of Big Bear mountain. I do love the mountains. We have a great view from the upstairs bedrooms.

We have not had internet set up yet. When we do I will post some cute pictures of us at the beach and at the Hollywood sign. When we first got out here it took a while for the kids to adjust. They were getting up at 5:00 a.m. We like our new ward here. Everyone was so welcoming. Hope you all are doing well.

Preston's first Chuck E' Cheese experience.

He had a lot of fun. He kept wanting to get down and crawl around. He is definitely a boy; he loved driving the car.

Back view of the bow's.

How many bow's are in her hair?

Callie put every bow she owns in her hair. My mom called me into her room and I thought she looked adorable. Then Callie put the bows in Grandma's hair. I didn't take a picture of Grandma. I didn't want to get in trouble. She enjoys doing people's hair.

Twins dressed alike.

I went to Arkansas to visit Britney for a week before we moved to California. We went to church and ended up wearing similar dresses. Great minds think alike. I thought it was a fun picture. I am going to miss being close to Britney.

Callie's first hair cut!

Callie's hair was getting long and stringy and so I decided to cut it myself. It didn't go very well. I kept cutting it to get it even and it was getting shorter. I took her to a friend and she did a great job. I really like the cut on her.

My little hair dresser!

Isn't she so cute! I found her in her room doing her dolls hair. For Christmas last year she got a salon chair and all the accerories to do hair. She is always wanting to comb mine. She might be a hair dresser after all.

So Silly!

We were eating lunch at our regular time, and Preston decided to stick a carrot in his mouth. Callie is definitely a follower so she went along as well. I thought it was really funny and had to take a picture.

Swimming at Mimi and Papa's house!

Taylor's sisters both came over to his parents house to visit before we move. Callie always has fun with her cousins Tyler, McKayla and Rylee.

Our trip to D.C. My whole family!!

I think this is the only picture of all of us. I have a great family.

Washington Temple

We went to the visitor center and walked around the temple on Sunday. The temple is so enormous. It is beautiful too. You can see if from the freeway with trees on both sides. It is a grand site. A friend of Taylors was visiting the Washington D.C. temple many years ago and saw a sign on the overpass that said Surrender Dorthy. I thought it was pretty funny.

Famous Name!

We were leaving D.C. and saw this Hotel sign and just had to take a pictue.

Center of Washington, D. C.

Here are all the kids standing in the center of Washington. It is in the U.S. Capital.