Misc pictures from 8-31-09 to 9-13-09

Karah had to make a book for a Kindergarten assignment. (I guess they share it with the class when it's their birthday.) Here it is...

Karah Leigh Barrett

My Family

I love that she drew us on bales of hay!

My pet is... (none!) We puppysat Winston

My favorite color is... all the colors of the rainbow

What I like best about me... My eyes & my smile

My favorite TV show is... Martha Speaks, Word Girl, Curious George...

My favorite sport is... Dancing & Fishing

I am special because... I am silly!

I like to eat... pizza, pears, avacado, cherries, cucumbers

My favorite book is.... any princess book

I would like to visit... the Salt Mine in Germany

When I grow up I want to... be a Mom!

Here is the recipe for Tarragon Chicken. (It's even a freezer meal so if you are looking for more of those. It's wonderful fresh, when I eat the ones I froze I'll have to let you know how it is.)

This is what I call vegetable spaghetti. Brown the chicken, make the noodles in a different pot. Add zucchini (summer squash if you have that too) and green bell peppers to the chicken. Cook a little, then add spaghetti sauce, heat and add strained spaghetti noodles. Easy peasy lemon squeezy!

After the fun Doman party, Lys crashed on the couch-she was exhausted!

Karah got a cupcake maker for her birthday from Grandma and Papa Bear. It makes cupcakes, brownies, cookies and cakes.

They are tiny!

It even has a frosting and sprinkle station!

Needless to say, Karah loves it and begs to make cupcakes every day!

Alyssa was dressed in her flag shirt and her red skirt but she decided she needed to add a few things!

Her pink tank top around her waist, her purple shorts, yellow jammie bottoms, then her blue shorts, and her yellow jammie shirt on her head...

Is that enough? I'm sure she tried to put more on but couldn't walk so she gave up with 7 articles of clothing!

Thanks Karah for keeping your clothes on!

These girls spoil me-they are so sweet and constantly remind me how blessed I am!

Oh ya, I got my hair cut. I like it straight but it is so curly after my showers that I wonder why I even try to fight it. Some days I just let it curl up and look straggly because hmmm I don't really care. I guess I should...

My and Alyssa

Karah and I

My sweet girls!

Antelope Island 9-5-09

Shawn's parents were in town so we thought we'd check out the balloon festival on Antelope Island with them. There were booths set up with food and activities. Here the girls are watching a clown make balloon animals. I love how they are always right next to each other!

One of these things is not like the other...Which one doesn't belong? Could it be the full grown man in the kiddie train?

People were flying kites, having relay races, etc.

Of course, we grabbed some cotton candy on our way out...yum!

closeups

We'd never been to Antelope Island (in the Great Salt Lake) before so we thought we'd explore a little.

We saw buffalo, real and fake.

And of course antelope, which I didn't get any pictures of...

We found the Fielding Garr Ranch and had a good time seeing how people lived on the island in the 1800's. Karah practiced her roping techniques.

cool old tools

And very old washing machines, SOOO glad we have nice ones nowadays!

This cracks me up! Alyssa wouldn't come, she was having fun playing in a grove of tree. Karah went to go get her-hands on hips and all!

Here she's "bringing" her back to me! Hands on hips again in the last picture! LOL

We enjoyed watching the horses. If you look past them, that's where we live! After the water of course!

Time for candle making (they also had doll making but they ran out)-the girls keep begging me to let them make candles at home now!

I thought this was so cool! It's a VERY old motor home. I guess it was for shepherds-on the right is a picture of the inside. It's crazy that the concept hasn't really changed much over the years (just gotten way fancier!)

Have I mentioned that I love old stuff? There's something so beautiful about it!

The girls also loved the hummingbirds and keep begging me to buy a hummingbird feeder-maybe next year!

Look closely and you can see an owl in the tree!

I didn't realize that Alyssa is in all of the following pictures...Can you see her?! (Karah's in the blue so that's not her...)

See her?

Still hiding!

There she is! Who knew giraffe print worked so well as camouflage! I mean I know that's the whole purpose of animal print but I didn't know it really worked!

Sweet!

We will definitely be coming back! It was so peaceful and relaxing and nice outside!