Stuff Lately x13

Poor lil' Dilly always has to wait until I get around to her for  her turn in the bath. This night her brother and sisters took so long she put herself to sleep in front of the TV!

Daddy Joe gearing up for Chipmunks with all 4 babies while I went up north to Gloria's mission farewell

Grandie's dinner plate

My dinner plate....not quite, but my goodness these were good. German Chocolate cupcakes

On a trip to Kmart last week I got each of the kids one of these toys. I anticipated fights over which belonged to who, but as it turns out, both of the girls walked in the door from kindy and school and said I was so kind to buy special toys for Dallin. So I just left it at that, they're all Dallin's

Pretty sweet for only $2 each

Faith's homework writing on Friday afternoon. Thanks Faith, this just scored me a few hours to myself on Saturday arvo

Faith's first selfie

The soup I  made for our linger longer after ward conference

I'd never made it before so it was a bit of a gamble to take it to something, but it ended up being quite nice....liquid lasagne as my lovely husband said. (sounds kinda gross but it was the first to be finished so that's gotta say something)

Faith's got her new beenie on about 23/7 these days

Family history is happening in earnest around here.....I'm hooked at the moment

So cool to see Mum's handwriting and all the hard work she put into researching her genealogy.  I read some cool stories about her family last night....like when Gran's sisters were young and they accidentally got drunk.

The scripture that she'd written down at the top of the left page here is pretty serious....

15 And now, my dearly beloved brethren and sisters, let me assure you that these are principles in relation to the dead and the living that cannot be lightly passed over, as pertaining to our salvation. For their salvation is necessary and essential to our salvation, as Paul says concerning the fathers—that they without us cannot be made perfect—neither can we without our dead be made perfect.

When I got out all my family history folders a few days ago I found this letter that Nan wrote to me with all her brother's and sister's details. There's something about seeing people's handwriting that makes things more special. Will have to remember that and stop using a computer all the time

Daddy Joe randomly brought these egg rings and I absolutely love them. It's always dangerous sending him to Pak N Save, I asked him to pick up about 3 things for my tomato soup and he came out with $50 worth of miscellaneous stuff, including these egg rings! Each time I asked why he got something he said 'the kids asked for it'....lucky he doesn't do our grocery shopping every week or I'd hate to see the bill. If I got everything they asked for our bill would be 5x the price....but they know Mum always says 'maybe one day' or 'we don't have enough money for that' or 'that would be really bad for your teeth'. I wonder who they'd rather go shopping with?!?!?!

Anyways, I digress, One of my favourite foods ever is a Bacon 'n Egg McMuffin from McDonalds and despite my best efforts I've never been able to make one that taste like theirs.....until now that is. I know, how hard can it be? It's just egg, bacon and an English Muffin! But I've now realised that just having the egg cooked in these rings makes all the difference. Bacon 'n Egg McMuffins will be happening here every couple of weeks now I think...so if I start looking like one you'll know why!