New Recipes in Recipe blog

I have finally added a couple more recipes to my recipe blog. My favorite chocolate chip cookies, and probably Steven's favorite chicken dish I make. Probably not the most healthy recipes on earth, but they are pretty dang good! If it worries you, you can always use the lighter variety ingredients to make them a little more healthy. I got the cookie recipe from my friend Julie, and the chicken recipe from my mom. Check them out, and enjoy!

Cody falling asleep while eating

This happened a couple weeks ago. When I set him down to start feeding him, I was completely unaware of how tired he was. It was pretty dang funny, but I felt bad. I wasn't paying enough attention to how long it had been since his last nap. I'm kind of glad though. What a fun memory! Enjoy!

Cody on all fours!

Cody's been getting up on all fours lately. He's even been scooching a little bit, which I guess is pretty much crawling in a way. I'm so proud of my big strong boy! Pretty soon, he'll be so mobile, he'll be into everything! I'm sure I'll be running around after him like a chicken with it's head cut off. Can't wait! (:

This is probably my very favorite picture of Cody...what a cutie!

Cody's on all fours at the very beginning of this video. Look close or you'll miss it. (:

Make A Difference

My mother-in-law gave me this book called "Make A Difference" along with a DVD that went with it for Mothers' Day. I just finished watching the DVD, dried my tears, and logged right into my blog to add this as today's post. It's a really touching and inspirational story, so if you have a couple minutes, take a look by clicking on the website below. You won't regret it...unless you really don't want to cry. (:

www.makeadifferencemovie.com/full/

Happy Mothers' Day!!!

Well, I didn't have one second to myself yesterday where I could post a blog about Mothers' Day, so this is a day late, but oh well. Since this was my very first official Mothers' Day, Steven spoiled me. He got us 8 ballroom dance lessons each of which are followed by an actual dance afterwards, so you can put to use what you just learned. Steven is not a dancer, so this is a huge stretch for him. And Cody got me the new Stephenie Meyer book "The Host", which is pretty good so far. I'm still trying to get over the fact that the earth and just about every body on it has been taken over by these strange alien "souls" and there doesn't seem to be any hope of that changing in this story...that's just a little depressing, but other than that, it's really fascinating. Anyway, we didn't go to church since Cody and I are still trying to get over this cold we got last week (didn't want to get anyone else sick), plus I had to get to my parents house asap. My brother called from Australia at noon. It was so good to talk to him! We spent the rest of the night at my parents' house bbqing, watching a movie and just talking. Oh, and we took Cody to the park for his very first ride on a swing. It was a lot of fun, and overall a pretty good day.

1st official "Twilight" trailer

Okay, as many of you know, I'm a total Twilight freak, so it shouldn't be any surprise that I'm adding this as a post. It's the very first official twilight trailer (along with a movie poster, above) and it is awesome! Check it out!
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=33429578

Cody sitting up!

Cody is sitting up so well now! It's so amazing to see him learn and grow. Even though Cody's growth has slowed down a touch (he's now in the 75th percentile instead of the 99th) he's still such a big boy. I love it. It does make me sad that he's growing up so fast though. But each stage is so fun, so it's ok.

Myanmar tragedy

Hla Hla Htay / AFP-Getty Images
"Families that lost their homes to the cyclone take shelter Monday in a buddhist temple in Yangon, Myanmar."

"YANGON, Myanmar - At least 15,000 people were killed in the Myanmar cyclone and the toll was likely to rise as officials made contact with the worst-hit areas, the military government's foreign minister said on Tuesday."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24459578

-MSNBC News Services-

I just thought it appropriate that I do a post about what's going on in Myanmar right now. I think it's hard for us in our comfortable every day lives to really comprehend what these people are going through. I know it's hard for me. But I try to imagine what it would be like to, I don't know, have lost Steven in the cyclone maybe and to be living in a small shelter with an enormous amount of people with little food, little water, no power, and to have Cody there with me. I try to imagine what he would be going through. An innocent little thing that hasn't seen anything even close to this kind of tragedy. I understandably can't think about it for too long because of the depression that surrounds me when I try to really put myself in that position. Well, that's what these people are going through right now. It may be hard to imagine, but it's true. It is their actual reality. Anyway, my whole point to this is that I just wanted to throw out a reminder to all who are willing, to say a prayer in behalf of these people. On top of praying for the people, pray that the government will become humble enough to accept real help from the international community. If anyone knows of anything going on in OUR community to help, please let me know.

A couple videos & pictures from the past couple weeks.

At Rick and Valerie's house

Eating in the car...he couldn't wait

Here's McCartlyn looking so cute

Videos of Cody laughing and showing his new bad habit with blankets.