Christmas Spirit Candy Cane

Recipe to Grow a Christmas Candy Cane
1 bag oreos
1 candy cane seed
1 bucket (we think the red ones work best)
lots of Christmas Spirit

1- Turn oreos and the filling into crumbs. The filling will act as fertilizer for the candy cane seeds.

2- If you have a big bucket - fill the bottom with Rice Krispie cereal. It will act like pebbles to help your Candy Cane seeds grow.

3- Just pat down your oreos - not too compact or the seeds can't grow

4- Plant candy cane seed

5- With lots of Christmas Spirit, kindness to others, obeying Mom and Dad the candy cane seed will begin to grow into a Candy Cane.

Diamond Rio: In God We Still Trust

The Christmas Sweater

Michael took me to see the production of "The Christmas Sweater" last night. Glenn Beck did a great job being all of the characters, I must say that I was sceptical when I heard he was doing the whole show himself. It is a story of redemption and love. The show was good but I liked the book even more (what else is new) All of us can find things in our lives that we aren't grateful for, that we should be. There are those around us that would love to help us, if only we would let them in. If you want a new feel good Christmas book, this is a good one.

Giving Thanks

Giving Thanks

This year leading up to Thanksgiving we are going to each write on a strip of paper what we are thankful for every night at dinner. Then the papers will get looped together and hung in the kitchen. Thanksgiving morning before going to dinner we are going to read them all again and talk about how many things we have to be thankful for.

In search of the great pumpkin?

The youth council did a food drive last week in exchange for pumpkins
I have a bunch of extra pumpkins that need a good home for Halloween
Bring down some canned food for each pumpkin that you would like. REMEMBER the Food Bank is in desperate need of food, so give generously
The food box is in my garage so just use the honor system

Leelou Blogs

This is where I get most of my cute blog backgrounds. She has made it easy to change your backgrounds PLUS you shouldn't lose your widgets. Go check her out, she's doing a bunch of giveaways this week

Tag

8 TV Shows

• ER (I've watched it since high school)
• Grey's Anatomy
• Heroes
• Good Eats
• Private Practice
• 24 (another date night show)
• phineas and ferb (it's funny & em's favorite show)
• local news

8 Restraurants

• Happy Sumo
• Jason's Deli
• The Garden
• Melting Pot (cheese or chocolate fondue but not the main dish)
• Market Street Broiler
• Ruby River
• Macaroni Grill
• PF Changs

8 things I did yesterday

• Primary Meeting
• Key Scouter Meeting
• Primary with the bishopric meeting
• Had everyone dressed and to church by 12:40!
• Spoke in sacrament meeting
• Went to hold the new bunnies at Grandpa's
• Worked on Em's new hat
• Snuggled 2 of the 3 girls to sleep (I really enjoy snuggles when it's not a ploy to get out of going to bed)

8 things I looking forward to

• All of the new pipes being done (they haven't even started the ones in my yard yet)
• Em learning to read (remind me of that next year when she is reading agonizingly slow)
• Running again
• Knowing when my house is going to be torn down
• AR goal being done for this term (why did she pick such a high number & not take tests for the first 3 weeks of school!?!)
• A new chef at Welcome Home
• My new house
• When the girls will do their daily dozen each morning BEFORE school

8 things on my wish list

• My new house
• Disneyworld Vacation
• London
• Run
• Clean house that keeps itself clean (except for the kids own chores, they still need to learn how to do them)
• Economy to improve quickly
• To learn photoshop quicker
• Jobs being done happily

8 people I'm tagging

• Debbie (welcome to blogging)
• Angie M
• Angie P
• Denette (do you have a blog yet?)
• Kim
• Tracie (yep, we found your blog)
• Carrie
• Ginger