i spy. . . Easter

I spy
two pairs of blue shoes
Hiccup
colors of chalk
Grandma Burgess's Easter tradition
3 books, which one you can color
a yellow submarine
Grandma Chamberlain's General Conference tradition
and
a Friend

What a great weekend we had for our little family. This was our first Easter, as well as, General Conference weekend spent with just the 3 of us. Usually we are surrounded by extended family for both occasions. Unfortunately, we were not able to be in the valley of the sun, attending a very lovely wedding with the rest of the family (school is to blame, a midterm and a final). Instead we woke up to several inches of snow Easter Sunday, while the rest of the family had a sunny 8o+ degree day.

Side note: Grandma Chamberlain's General Conference tradition is blueberry muffins. This week I was thumbing through some cook books and found a recipe for homemade blueberry muffins. So I gave it a try. We generally make ours from a box, to save time, since we have lots of people and are making other tasty delights.
I vow that I will never make blueberry muffins out of a box again.
These were just too good!

Peep of the week

PEEPS.
Not just Peeps, but Peanut Butter covered, Chocolate dipped, Peeps.
Yum.
One of my most favorite places I lived, while at BYU, was just off Center, in Provo, with two of my favorite cousins Karly and Adrienne. The treat of the week was introduced to me by Adrienne. She has a love of Peeps like I. She also loves to make perfectly good treats, outstandingly better!!! Like popcorn is great, but its so much more tasty with sour patch kids mixed in, she taught me things of that nature, and I love her for it. I can remember the day that we made Peanut Butter, Chocolate dipped Peeps. I remember them laid out on the counter cooling. I will never forget that day.
Now. I love Peeps, Josh on the other hand does not love Peeps. And, well, Chamberlain, although he looks identical to his father, has taste buds that parallel his mother! He LOVES Peeps. And come to find out, Josh likes Peeps when they are covered in Peanut Butter and Chocolate (his true love).

Let the Peep making begin!

The Finished product!






These look interesting but, that's what happens when you have a 3 year old chef!

I'm so proud of him, Chamberlain did a great job!
A few after thoughts that Chamberlain and I had after making these delicious Peeps.

1. Next time we will try using Peanut Butter Chips and melt them down and dip the Peeps, instead of frosting them with Peanut Butter. Which happens to be extremely messy with little hands.

2. We would also like to add pretzels to this mix of marshmallow, chocolate and Peanut Butter goodness.
3. The possibilities are endless!

Peep On!

sunday

Today was the warmest day of 2010.

We welcomed it with a backyard BBQ, March Madness, a yellow cake, and

had the windows open all afternoon.

Looking at it now, in the picture it looks like we have a grill

built for little people. And our grass is well. . . weeds. We have a

lot of work to do this spring!

This July

we will be welcoming a new baby girl to our family.
We had pink sugar cookies, pink balloons and pink succors to celebrate the exciting news.
Chamberlain has already thought of a name for her,
Baby Peach. I think he is playing too much MarioKart.

march madness

Does your fridge look like this?
We have March Madness! This is one of our family traditions and this year it was fun to have Chamberlain pick his own bracket. He has BYU not only making it to the championship game vs California (of course this is where his grandma lives), but winning the whole thing! Josh and I picked the Cougs to make it at least to the Elite Eight if not the final four.
Which if the Y makes it past their first game (in just a few minutes) against the Florida Gators they do have a pretty awesome chance of getting there.

Rise and Shout!

meet the neighbors.

Today we decided to walk over and meet our new neighbors, with Grandma.

They are quite charming. We wouldn't mind keeping one at our house!

In total there are about 13 puppies that we could count and two nervous mommas. About 6 are pure bred Weimaraners and the other 6 are bred with. . . well i don't remember the name but its a chocolate dog similar to a lab.

I think we will be visiting more often now that the weather is warm.

i just want to remember

you sleeping in, skipping class and going out for your favorite breakfast, all you can eat french toast.




a successful family picture complete with empty plates!





Chamberlain just cant get enough of the birthday boy. And spending the rest of the morning looking a flat-screens, and no birthday, can be complete without a quick stop at the Honda chop shop. Soon it was off to work for you.





However, your day wasn't whole without a dinner date (in the car). Chamberlain and I surprised you with your favorite BBQ chicken bacon n' Ranch pizza. Which looks kinds scary in the picture but its really quite tasty.





Dinner is never complete without dessert. We just happened to make your favorite peanut butter cookies. We brought enough for you to share with the everyone in office. Although we forgot the ice cold milk.


Today was a great day.
Life for us is Good!