Vroom!

Friday night we went over to Ronda and Gary's for dinner. It didn't take long for Hunter to find the Flintstone car and climb on in. He was having a great time and Reagan thought he was pretty cool in his new ride until.... his cousin Trevor found him in it! It didn't take Trevor long to take over and, well.. you'll see...

One of these days, Hunter WILL learn to fight back!! :-)

I promise I'm not a slacker...

Hi everyone! So as you can see, I missed the last 2 days of my 30-day blog challenge. It was not intentional, I promise! It was a couple of crazy days finishing up the last touches on our neighborhood Easter Egg Hunt. I'm the chairperson for the social committee so I just can't let anyone down:-) It turned out fabulous and we got some really great pictures. I'll post those as soon as my camera battery charges up!

I hope everyone has a wonderful Easter!

Truly not a baker...

I'm hosting a Tastefully Simple party tonight and part of the preparation is making some dips, drinks, etc.. You have no idea how simple Tastefully Simple food is to make. Each food item only requires adding 1 or 2 ingredients such as sour cream, mayonnaise, cream cheese, or some sort of alchohol. Well for normal people, these tasks would be very easy. For me, on the other hand, I am almost always destined to screw something up. I'm sure I just wasn't meant to ever be in the kitchen, no matter how simple the baking should be. It all started with the drink buckets. I am making a Tiki Mai Tai drink and Pomegranate Blueberry Margaritas. The mix comes in a bucket and all you have to do is add rum to the Mai Tai bucket, tequila to the margarita bucket and water to both. Here's the clincher... they needed to be added YESTERDAY so they could freeze overnight. So say a prayer that 11 hours is enough time for them to freeze because of course the drinks are the thing I'm looking forward to the most tonight! The next screwup came while making the Key Lime Cheeseball. The directions say to add the #1 packet to 4 oz of cream cheese. Very simple, right? Well, the girl-who-doesn't-belong-in-a-kitchen added BOTH the #1 and #2 packet to the cream cheese. So, now the mix looks like green cream cheese with brown boogers mixed in it. The #2 packet is the graham cracker crumbs that is supposed to go ON the cheeseball, not IN it. Ugh... I think I'll just blame the mistakes on the two toddlers who were yanking at my legs while I was trying to make it. I can't really blame the drink mistake on them though..dang! The good news is that the other 5 dips, beer bread, and the chocolate chip toffee almond cookies turned out great! I must have paid attention to their simple directions.

P.S. My friend Susan challenged me to a 30 day blog challenge. So far I'm 3 days in and doing okay. There probably won't be any pictures today though... Well, I guess I could take a picture of the brown booger cheeseball!! :-)

The Johnson's Move Away:-(

Today was our last day with Amy & Weston. Amy is so very special to me because she is my very first friend I met after we moved back Colorado. We met at the gym in step class and I knew she had to be cool because she was from Texas! Texas plates and all:-) They are moving to Missouri tomorrow. Weston's job moves them every 9 months to a year so I knew it was coming but of course it always comes too quick. They will be 8 hours away so at least we can road trip it to their new place!

Today we went to 3 Margaritas since that was our "first date" restaurant:-) I again had margaritas but Amy had to go the non-alcholic margarita route since she is now "with-child":-) Cody Weston Johnson will be here in August. I am so sad I won't be around for his birth! We'll go visit afterwards though... Here's some pictures of the twins telling them goodbye. By the way, Hunter LOVES his Amy. He acts so giddy and bashful around her! It kills me! He doesn't act that way around anyone else. Ahh.. his first crush;-)

Grandpa's New Boat

A couple of weeks ago, we all (Granda Brett, Grammy Jan, Ryan, Hunter, Reagan, and I) went over to Barr Lake by our house to "Christen" Grandpa Brett's new fishing boat. It was the perfect day. Luckily he didn't bash the bottle of champagne against it so we had plenty for the boat ride and picnic:-)

Hunter was lovin' the picnic food

The perfect Colorado day. I am really ready for more of these...SOON!

16 months old-yesterday....

So.. I am learning that with every month that passes by, life gets a little bit trickier. You'll notice that I don't have any cutesy pictures on this post. Well.. it seems I only catch Hunter and Reagan in ornery acts these days..not cutesy acts. The proof is in the pictures...

Umm.. yeah.. just where you should be when your parents are scrambling to get to church on time!!

Who said mashed potatoes are supposed to go IN your mouth?? In your hair is much, much better...

"I just like to do what Sissy does..."

Maybe the stair-stepped shelves weren't such a great idea for the playroom... This is where I found Hunter when I went in to get him for breakfast.

Okay... the crazy bedhead is pretty cutesy if I must say so myself:-)

So here's the big one.....

I'm thinking about buying stock in The First Years considering we need to buy absolutely every safety device they make! I knew I needed to buy a lever lock once Hunter figured out how to open the pantry door. I was okay with the temporary fix of moving all the food items to the top shelves so they couldn't reach it. That temporary fix quickly ended the other morning. Hunter and Reagan were playing ever so well in their playroom while I was in the kitchen paying bills. They were hiding in the closet which they love to do. I probably left them in there a good 15 minutes while I listened to them having so much fun. I finally decided to go in and check on them. When I rounded the corner, much to my complete HORROR, I found the basement door WIDE OPEN!! Keep in mind, the stairs to our basement are straight down and at the very bottom of the very long flight of stairs is nothing but cold, (VERY!) hard concrete! I knew they hadn't crashed to the bottom considering I would have heard it but I raced down the stairs nevertheless. I got down there and you would have thought they hit the jackpot. Hunter was throwing around everything he could possibly get his chubby, little hands on. Reagan was sitting in the middle of all of her old toys having a glorious time. I think they were most amused by the traumatized look on their mommy's face. Ahhh... 16 month olds....gotta love 'em:-)

These two love their Jeopardy

Dancing with the Stars Nerds on jeopardy

For quite some time we have been trying to capture what we call the "Jeopardy Effect" where the kids tend to zone out and dance to the theme song of Jeopardy. Although this clip wasn't the best representation of the phenomenon, we caught Reagan caught up in the moment when she realized the theme started behind her. Concurrently, Hunter was jamming out on his new little chair.

Amanda's footnote: I just want to make sure no one is jealous of my "look".. especially my hair because it is really hard to get it to look that great! Thank you to Ryan for posting this post because I always fail in the video upload area;-)