Happy Veteran's Day!

Today is Veteran's day and that means there was 50% off at thrift stores! My sister and I went to two and found lots of good stuff. Here is my favorite find: It's a shelf thing that's really supposed to be for clothes and things like that but I found a better use of it for now...

It's my new pantry! I like to have a lot of extra food so now I have more space to store it where it is easily accessible instead of in the garage in boxes! I'm so excited to have more storage space!

Jack's New Skill

Jordan playing

6 Quirks

My sister tagged me to do 6 quirks about me. So here they are:

1. The 10 or 15 minutes after church are some of my least favorite minutes of the week. I have to go home get the kids in bed, which is great, but then Jack wants yogurt, Jordan wants to eat, I'm hungry, Doug's hungry, I just had Jordan all relief society which always stresses me out because I want him to be silent, plus I usually pick Jack up from nursery with Jordan because Doug is in elder's quorum forever after I get out of relief society and sometimes Jack wants me to hold him and it's hard to carry him and Jordan in a car seat and sometimes when I don't he gets sad and throws himself on the ground in the middle of the hall and people look at me like I need to control my child (ok that really only happened once, but that was enough to make me not want it to happen again) so my the end of church I'm ready for the kids to be in bed and have a relaxing few hours while they sleep. But then there's the yogurt and bottle, which always seems like it will take forever.

2. 8:00 is similar to the time after church. I start to go crazy if my kids aren't in bed then (or almost in bed)... except when we're with family. Then it's ok.

3. When my kids take a nap at the same time, I usually am very unproductive. I like to be onthe computer and read emails and blogs and take surveys (a new hobbie of mine), talk to my sister on google chat, and anything else I can come up with. But lately I've even enjoyed making baby food during naptime.

4. I'm kind of obsessed with saving money these days. I read blogs about how to get more out of your money. I never knew there was so much to saving money but there really is. This saving money thing is why I have started doing surveys online... I can earn money and gift cards by doing this. I'm not as into it anymore though. It doesn't seem to be that great of deal. But the surveys are fun to take sometimes. Trying to save money is one of the reasons why I've started to make some baby food too. It's also why I am sitting in a dark hourse right now with no lights on even though it is starting to get dark.

5. I hate getting up early. I do everything I can to make sure my kids are in bed until 9 or at least 8:30. Jack's easier. I can tell him it's not time to get up and give him his binkies. When it's dark it's especially easy to convince him that it's night time. To keep Jordan in bed longer (happily) I give him his binky and wrap him up. These things almost always get until 9. I like to wake up though at 8:30 so I can read the scriptures before I get them up. When I don't read them before I get up my morning never seems to go as well. When the boys do insist on getting up ealier than I have finished reading, I bring them in to my room. Jack will just read books until I'm done... well he usually gets a little bored before I'm done.

6. Whenever I eat chocolate I like to eat goldfish crackers with it. Whenever I am at home I pretty much always eat them together. Neither seems as good without the other. One exception is when I eat EL Fudge cookies... They have fudge in the middle but instead of eating them with fishies I like them by themselves. I like to make a fudge ball with the fudge and eat it after I eat the cookies. It's really good. You should all try it :)

And I tag everyone. I think you should all do this!

The fruits of my labor

Today I made some homemade baby food. I also made some yesterday and a few days ago. I enjoyed making it. It was really easy and I liked the feeling of making something from scratch that I never thought I would. So far I have made applesauce, bananas, pears, and carrots. The carrots didn't turn out as good I don't think. I think they'll be a little to chunky for Jordan. I think if I would have made more since the blender would have been able to puree it better. I found that using a blender works much better than using my chopper/food processor thing. It has a puree button and I just push that and it does it's magic. I'm not sure if it cheaper than just buying it though with all the different food you can make. I barely seem to get enough apples to make it around the same price I pay for baby food. But I figure it's probably healthier this way. And I enjoy making it for now ...

Jordan eating some homemade bananas. He likes them just as much as the store bought kind. Doug tried some too and he said it was pretty good :)

Jack's new hair cut

After

Before... Notice how skinny he is...The pants aren't too tight or small. They're Jordan's pants. 6-9 months. I accidentally put them in Jack's side of the closet and then put them on him. And I didn't notice until that night that they're actually Jordan's pants. I thought they seemed a little short.

Trunk or treating

We went to our ward trunk or treat on Halloween. There were a lot of games for the kids to play before the actually trunk or treating. Jack loved playing the games. There was a spider throwing game where he tried to throw a spider into holes in a large piece of wood. He touched the spider as little as possible. There was also a throw the candy in a the pumpkin pot game. Jack's favorite game was bowling. He had to roll a ball to knock down some pop bottles. But he didn't really roll it, he just threw it. He got better each time he played. He also loved getting the candy from trunk or treating. After we went trick or treating to a few houses in our neighborhood.