How many women does it take to make a Souffle?

My book group just read My Life in France by Julia Childs. Last night we attempted one of Julia Child's recipes in her cookbook, Mastering the Art of French Cooking. We were all a little apprehensive and intimidated to make her souffle recipe, but had a blast during the process. I think Stacey had Julia Child's accent down the best!! I realized this recipes and probably many others in the cookbook are not too practical and my children would like German pancakes just as well. Caroline, however said she wants this cookbook for her birthday. :)

Grandpa the next computer expert!

John's dad has been staying with us for a few weeks and I have been giving him a few lessons on using his new laptop. This makes me laugh, considering I really don't know what I am doing half the time on my computer. I showed him how to load his pictures, set him up an email account, and even created a face book account for him. His favorite thing about the computer were the bookmarks that let him go to his favorite sites. It has been fun opening the "wonders" of computers and the Internet to him.

Let it SNOW!!!!

Fun day sledding during the holiday break.

Holiday Games

We played two games repeatedly over this winter break. The first one is a group game called "signs" (for the rules click here). We did it a little different from these rule, we touched the person instead of pointing at them and if wrong waited 5 seconds to touch someone again. We played this in the BYU lounge while waiting for our bowling lane and a few other times with family and friends.

The other game is a board game called "The Game of Things". It is a really simple game, which results in a lot of laughter. You can find it at Walmart and Target.

Time Capsule--New Years Day

For ten years this time capsule has sat on the top shelf in our cold storage. The kids were really excited and curious to open it on New Years day. In it was a letter each child wrote or dictated to themselves 10 years in the future. They wrote goals, things they liked/disliked,their chores, friends, and anything else they wanted their future self to know. They each also had put in a few treasures and items in it like a newspaper, beanie baby, pokeman card, shell, pictures they painted, Christmas card, pictures of each of them and other random things. We all sat around reading our letters. Then we read each of them out loud and both laughed and cried (John and I). These letters truly captured what our life was like 10 years ago.

In my letter I wrote, "I recognize that I only have a few precious years while the children are young...". This was so true, time really does go by fast.We are now out of the baby and toddler stage and have mostly teenagers. In ten years only Joseph will still be at home. For family night we are going to put together another time capsule to open up in 2020.

In another part of the letter I wrote; "Today I washed and folded 8 loads of laundry. It is a challenge for me to keep up on the house work and organizing seems like a constant activity". I guess some things never change!!