Winter Time in Boise

The cold weather has begun. Here is a great recipe for hot cocoa that I tried out tonight. It is way better than anything you can buy because it has no hydrogenated oils or artificial flavoring.

Hot Cocoa
1 1/2 C baking cocoa
3 Cups powdered sugar
5 Cups Powdered milk

or reduce sugar by 1/2 cup and add 12 candy canes crushed in food processor

For other great recipes check out my web links to the right.

Andrew has been asking me a lot of questions about santa clause. At school they made a 25 chain link count down till Christmas and Andrew asked it Santa would see it when he came to our house. He is trying hard to get along with Jackson so santa won't skip us this year!

McCall Blad

McCall is still so small and dang cute. She is nine months old and loves to smile. Her new thing is to stick out her tongue rubbing it on her gums. She started army crawling a few weeks ago and now gets into the kids playing area. Andrew will say, "mom, she is ruining my train track, get her off."

Thanksgiving at the Brown's

Andrew has had a countdown of the days till we go to Grangeville for Thanksgiving. Everyday he says, "only four more days till we go," this stared with six.

We ate our traditional homeny casserole and honey glazed ham that mom brought. Lance mashed the potatoes as he does every year. Brandy made mom's yummy homemade crossant rolls. Between Cynthia, mom, Brandy and I we had 13 pies to eat in 3 days! We almost pulled it off.

There was so much snow that the kids spent most of the time sledding out Brandy's backyard. The kids made a nice track with a jump. Amazingly no one was hurt. Andrew did come in once because he had gone out with no socks on and snow got down in his boot! The older kids spent the night out in the half court size gym that the Brown's built for their kids two years ago. Brandy made us work out the next morning in the gym to work off all those pies.

We all had a great time.
Thank you Joel and Brandy Brown!

Weekend in McCall

November 9, 2007

We started our weekend in McCall thanks to Justin and Rebecca Bledsoe. Friends of my parents own the Timber Crest Resort where Rebecca signed up for a free nights stay. We were invited to accompany them along with the Gerratts. We had a blast playing a murder mystery game, sitting in the hot tub, and strolling around downtown McCall.
My parents took the boys for the weekend so our stay was much more relaxing. McCall did great and got along well with Shaydon (3 months) and Trey (2 yrs).
Thank you Bledsoes!