Candy makes it ALL better

Tonight while getting Evelyn ready for bed she started crying and saying "ow, ow, ow" so I started asking what hurt, and pointing at things to see where the owie was and how to make it better. after asking a few questions I still hadn't figured what hurt or how to fix it, so I asked what would make it better. She immediately stops crying and says to me with a straight face "candy" I laughed and called her a faker, at this she laughed and ran off giggling and saying "faker" a couple times.

yummy healthy bran muffins

So I have been wanting something that I can keep around the house for healthy, quick snacks. The result is this recipe for great bran muffins that are 125 calories each, 6 grams of protein, 4 grams of fiber and 1/5 gram of fat. This is a recipe that I came up with and took me about two months to perfect. Even kids like them. For those of you who have been to the Greenery in Ogden they taste like the mormon muffins there and they are great with a little bit of honey butter.

4 C raisin bran crushed

1.5 cups whole wheat flour

1/2 cups vital wheat gluten

1/3 cup brown sugar

2t baking soda

1t salt

2t vanilla

2 egg whites

2/3 cup applesauce

1 cup unsweetened plain or vanilla yogurt

1.5T cinnamon

Mix all ingredients and bake at 350* for 26 minutes. Yield 16

For family home evening Monday we took evelyn to the pumpkin patch to pick out pumpkins.we had planed on getting her a small/medium size pumpkin, but as soon as she saw the little pumpkins her face just lit up. she was so happy that she had one just her size.

Today Evelyn got to paint her pumpkins. She had so much fun with it that After she was done painting pumpkins I showed her how to finger paint. She loved smearing the paint around and then realized her hands were dirty, and that alarmed her just a little.

Well I am fianlly an aunt and I love it. Evelyn and I went up to Moscow to visit the babies and they are so cute. Evelyn was so sweet and gentle with the babies, she would gently stroke their hair and give gentle kisses to the head. Every time she got to hold one her face would just light up.

Emily is Matt and Lyndees Llittle girl and she is the one sleeping in all of the pictures, she is about a month old. Madison is Jay and Camilles, she has dark hair and makes this cute little monkey face where she opens her eyes real big and makes an "o" with her mouth, she is about a week and a half in the pics. And of course theres Evelyn, a pretty little handful.

Debbie and madison

Evelyn's fall photo shoot

Amanda and Evelyn had a good time playing photo shoot at Gardner Village. Here are some of the highlights.

Evelyn here is sporting her first real hair cut. Our little baby is now a little girl.

I mentioned yesterday that evelyn does fun new things every day. Well she has discovered that if she hauls her pink Ikea stool around the house she can get into a whole lot of fun new things. I heard her playing with something that made a crinkling noise and went to investigate. I found her playing with my birth control, and I had to explain to her that she couldn't eat mommies "special candy" that prevents a baby from getting into my tummy. She looked very confused and a little bummed.

According to my dear sisters blog, I have not updated my blog in quite a while, and alot has happened. Andy came home from his year long deployment at the end of february, i've done a ton of school, got a job, that is going really slow, so I rarely actually work, evelyn turned two, and continues to do new fun things every day.

When andy came home, our neighbors put together a heroes welcome for him and lined our street and filled our yard with flags it was really an awesome sight.

Shortly after andy came home we went and spent some time with his grandma, natalie and quin and then took a weekend cruise to ensenada. I had heard alot of great things about the food on cruises, and i am now wondering if most people don't have taste buds, because I thought it was awful.

I got a new car and evelyn loves to play in it.

Evelyn turned two in july and we had a little party with some family and friends. Quin and Natalie were able to make it ot town just in time for her party and it was great to see them again.

Evelyn currently loves Elmo so I made her this Elmo pull-apart cupcake cake. I was surprised that it turned aout as good as it did.
For fathers day andy got a shop vac and evelyn had a ball playing in it and the box.

We just got back form a trip to lake powell. I have never had so much fun camping( I'm not really a camping fan, probably because I suck at it)

We went with some friends the Fiacks, and they are always so fun. Rob (bottom) and Chris (top) were splashing the wall while water skiing. There were a couple times chris got so close to the wall I thought he was going to slam into it.
Here is where we jumped off the big rock, It looked alot higher standing on top of the rock.

Evelyn is a little bit of a neat freak and the first day we were there she would whine that there was dirt on her shoes and she would walk funny to avoid touching the dirt, but once she realized how much fun dirt could be, we couldn't keep her out of it, she had a ball!