HELP!!!!

I need help!!!! My ward has a recipe exchange group. We meet every other month or so and have a different theme each time. This is a very popular group and tons of fun. We all make our recipe and take copies and then we sample everyones and take home a stack of recipes. I have gotten A LOT of good recipes (and quite a few nasty ones, but thats the way it goes.) Well, the next one is on April 1 and the theme is 5 ingredients or less. I have been racking my brain and going through my recipes, but I cannot find something to take that fits. So, if any of you have a recipe that is really good and has 5 or fewer ingredients will you please help me out? You can post a reply (it should fit in the comments -which I fixed Megan- since 5 ingredients is a short recipe,) or you could email me if you have my email. Please, I am begging for help! I will even pass along any good recipes I get if you'll help!

Girly Time

So Kiara has been begging me to color her hair ever since Aunt Megan did it. I have been telling her no because she is too young. Well, I've been thinking, my mom permed my hair since I was in Kindergarten, so maybe she isn't too young. At least for highlights anyway. And then my sister visited last week, and when they were leaving, Kiara wanted to go with them and live with them. After some joking about her doing all the chores and sleeping on the floor, all of which she was willing to do, we asked why she wanted to go. Well, she said that then she could have a sister, Sierra. She was DEAD SERIOUS. So I decided we should have some girly time and we went ahead and high lighted her hair this morning. Here are the before, during and after pictures.

BEFORE
DURING

I kept poking her head - I told her beauty came at a price - she wasn't happy with that answer.

AFTER

So pretty and shiny!

Little cake

I made this cake for one of my activity days girls who turned twelve. She is moving on to Young Women's. :( I will miss her, but at least I get to teach her on Sunday until next January!

Zander Crawls - kind of

So Zander is finally crawling. Well, one leg scoots, the other almost walks. I think one of my neice's did a similar crawl. Very cute, and I have to say he is getting quite quick with this method. Last night Paul turned on the faucet to get a bath for Kegan and Zander was in the middle of the kitchen floor when he heard it. I think he was at the bath tub in 20 seconds. He loves the bath. We need to get him some bath toys though. All our old ones from the other kids were rather gross and were thrown out. He needs a rubber ducky!

He used to need motivation to get him to crawl (the graham cracker). Now he's all over the place without the lure of food. Oh, and sorry about Payton in his under wear, he'd rather not wear pants for some reason, and I let him get away with it on occasion.

Hair Poll

It was hair cutting week at our house. For the older two boys at least. I'm trying to decide whether to cut Zander's hair..... My kids have all needed haircuts around when they turn 1, and Zander has 3.5 months to go..... But his hair is soooo uneven. But cute still. Check out the new 'do's and tell me what you all think, is it time to trim Zander or wait? Kegan looks studly with his spikes. Now if he would just smile for the camera...
My sweet Payton and his slick 'do!
Can we say clown hair? Well, should I trim him up?

(It doesn't stick up on its own, I did that - if it makes a difference to you.)

Photographs of Spring! It's coming!

I've been going to a photography class (enrichment) so I went outside with the kids to take some pictures. Our camera has tons of different settings but I don't think I've used them, other than auto. So I used the sports setting on the kids swinging and jumping on the tramp (it stops the action), a portrait setting on Zander (it focuses close up and the background is more blurred). I think thats the setting I used for my tree picture as well. And then back to regular old auto for my emerging daffodils. So enjoy my celebration of spring!

I think Payton would swing for hours. He kept saying "Mom, ush eee! No ic ure!" But I did get a few of him smiling!
It took a few tries to get someone in the air, but I got the timing figured out. That is Kegan's friend from down the street.
First time Zander is feeling grass on his feet, he kept lifting his feet up and wiggling his toes. Then I decided to put socks on the poor guy. He was much happier. But he had fun watching Payton go back and forth on the swing.
See the little buds on my fruit tree! I think this one is an apple, but it might be the peach tree. But all the fruit trees have buds; leaves are on the way!
The Garden restaurant has a gazillion daffodils in front and I noticed the other day they were already several inches tall. So I have been watching for mine and I finally have a few. (The Garden daffodils get sun all day, and mine only have sun in the morning, so we're slower.) But soon we'll have pretty yellow flowers to look at!

EARTHQUAKE!

So I had just stepped out of the shower this morning when I felt a little shaking and heard things rattling about. I figured the kids were running around the house, but when I opened the door they were all sitting down. (They were yelling at each other about someone farting and then being pushed off a chair, but still, they weren't running.) I thought, "hmmmm, that's wierd I wonder if that was an earthquake." But I figured I was imagining things and went about the morning. Then as I was taking Kiara to school, they were talking about the 6.3 earthquake near Wells, Nevada and about how they felt it! So I wasn't crazy after all! Kiara heard them talking about the earthquake and wanted to know what it was. So we had a quick plate techtonics lesson and talked about what to do if there is a really bad earthquake. Hopefully Kiara doesn't hide under her desk at any small sound today. She left the car so excited and couldn't wait to tell her friends about how she felt the earth move under her feet. (Well, the kids did NOT notice a thing!) But her and Kegan both have some great tall tales of what happened. Kegan's story is helped by watching The Land Before Time, I am sure, because he calls it an "earth shake" instead of earthquake. Hopefully all is well in Nevada, it sounded like it was not too bad from the story I read online. Have a great day!