I love Pinterest!!!!!!

I am soooo full! Even 3 hours after dinner. It tasted so good, that I couldn't stop myself.  A few days ago, I pinned a recipe of Homemade Gyros off my friend's board.  Since I've been having a hankering for some "Ya Ya, Niki's" I decided to make it today.  It was so wonderful, I had to have two.  

We made everything homemade: The pita bread, tzatziki (the "sauce" made of yogurt, cucumbers, and garlic), beef steak, lettuce, and onions.  Well, I guess we bought the vegetables, but the beef was from a steer we butchered, and the bread was homemade.  I was so proud of myself. :) 

It was so delicious!!!!!  We had to change a few things, like in the tzatziki, it calls for non-fat yogurt, but all we had was sour cream.  It turned out great and my favorite part.

Even the kids liked it. 

Here is the link to the recipe: http://annies-eats.com/2009/06/02/chicken-gyros/

Easter Morning Fun and Outfits!

As a tradition in my house growing up, we had a trail of jellybeans lead us from our rooms to our Easter baskets on Easter morning.  Sometimes my parents even dipped their fingers into flour and placed bunny paw prints on the flour.  We also hid our eggs around the house and search for them.  So, I wanted to try some of my traditions on the kids and see if they liked them.  Yesterday we colored eggs with crayons inside of dying them, something we'll have to wait to do until they're older.  It went alright.  Boston's interest lated as long as any of her other coloring experiences.  She mostly liked smashing the eggs on the table.  Valin liked the idea of coloring, but lost his desire when he smashed in two of his eggs because he pressed the crayon too hard.  So out of 6 boiled egg, only one remained whole, the one I did.  Then we filled plastic eggs with jelly beans, which I might have the easter bunny do next year.  Valin liked doing it, Boston mostly ate them.

Previous to this we watched the New bible video on the LDS.org website entitled "He is Risen" and the old 1976 tv special called, "The first Easter Bunny" on youtude.  I wanted to emphasize both parts of the holiday, secular as well as spiritual, so the kids can enjoy both.  I kind of found it hard really to explain the Easter bunny and it's connection to Jesus Christ.  Does anyone have suggestions? I've LOVE to hear them!

Here is a video I took of the kids waking up Easter morning:

Here are pictures of the kids in their Easter outfits:

Happy Easter everyone!

A New Post...yes, I can't believe it also!

It's high time for me to post.  It's a lot easier to post regularly when I have the internet at my house.  So, I hope to post more often now.
Anyway, so on to the updates:
We are officially living in a suburb of Salem, OR called Keizer.  It's been about a week since we moved, so we really don't have much of an opinion about it yet.  We're very optimistic.
I'm pregnant with our third and due about the middle of October.  I am now reaching the the part of my pregnancy where the sickness is starting to wane.  Thank Goodness!!!!  It has been a hard few months being sick everyday.  I stopped exercising and started eating things that I craved, mostly cheese and chocolate.  So I've gained weight and felt like such a lazy bum.  But now that I'm feeling better, I hope things will be better.

But a post, is not really a post without a picture, so I'm going to share one of my favorite pictures of my kids.  They are the cutest things I've ever seen! I love them so much!!!