Cookie Dough Fit

My sister, Miss, recently gave me a recipe for egg-less cookie dough. That's right folks. Eat it to your heart's content. It is so stinking delicious and I made it once a week for the first little while. My kids love it too. Jonas loves it so much in fact, that this is the result of telling him "no more". 

Pretty adorable if you ask me. Not so funny to him though! So I decided that if I am going to get fat off of delicious goodness then the rest of the world should have the opportunity also. Well, at least those of you who have zero self-control, like me. Enjoy!

1 cube butter (room temp.)
1/2 c brown sugar
1/4 c white sugar
2 T milk
1/2 tsp vanilla
1 1/4 c flour
1/2 tsp salt (if you use salted butter use a little less than this)
chocolate chips

Cream the butter and sugars. Add milk and vanilla. Blend well. Add flour and salt. Blend well. Stir in chocolate chips. Refrigerate just long enough to get the dough firm (about 15 mins.) and roll into balls for easy consumption. Store in the refrigerator. Ahhh, I can hear my arteries clogging just thinking about eating it.

First Day of Preschool

I can not believe my babies are growing up so fast. Wednesday was Saydi's first day of preschool and Weston's first day of his second year of preschool. I said I would never put my kids in preschool and now here they are doing two years of it. =/ We love their teacher and it is so convenient only walking two houses down the block.

 This is probably my favorite picture. Mostly because Weston was talking to Saydi about where they were going and showing her where their school is.

And lest you think that capturing these pictures took a moment of my time - the outtakes:

Really Saydi? Really?

Ha!

Again, Saydi? Really?

Anywho I just love these big kiddos and seeing them have their own experiences. Even if it does make me a little sad! They loved their first day and I was so proud of Weston and how well he retained everything he learned last year. He wrote his name almost perfectly and hardly colored out of the lines at all. Saydi had no problems leaving me at all and at the end of the day said that school was her favorite thing she did.

Labor Day

We went to Ross Park for Labor Day with all of Mark's family. It was a great time and the last thing to be crossed off of our summer bucket list.

 Doing what big brothers do...splashing Saydi. =)

 After Ross Park we went back to Grammy's for food and cards. The kids all took a bath and I love these next two pictures because they perfectly capture Saydi's free spirit. Three kids looking (two of them under two) and Saydi is totally in her own world, oblivious to what is going on around her.

 Yep. That's Saydi. (Side note: poor Baby J fell and hit his chin on a brick wall at Ross, hence the nasty scrape.)

 These cousins love each other!

It was a fun day. The next day, after church, we went back down to Blackfoot and had more food and cards at Jakob's house. It is always good to see family!

Catching Up

We have been super busy around this joint so here are some random pictures we've managed to sneak in.

Jonas does this to the toilet paper every single time he manages to get into the bathroom unattended. You'd think it wouldn't happen very often since we know he is going to do it...but somehow it happens ALL the time.

 I love Saydi's crazy hair after I take it out. Cracks me up.

 I was making dinner one night and looked out my window to see this. Love it.

 Daddy is a master at building forts. The kids have been going through our old blog books on almost a daily basis and they made him recreate one that they had seen from the past. =) Jonas loves forts too!

 I do not understand this boy. He sleeps so crazy.

And just plain adorable.

 Last weekend we had a mini-reunion with the family in this area at my grandparents house. The boys were spinning circles on the teeter totter instead of going up and down. It was pretty funny. Weston kept slipping off and thought that was pretty cool so then he started doing it on purpose. Funny boy.