Baking with Bucks

The Bucks have come to visit our home a few times during Young Men activities while their father, Josh, and our Dad, Rob, fulfill their callings as leaders. On one of those occasions we had fun making snowball cookies from Abby's Strawberry Shortcake Cookbook. We put one chocolate chip in the middle of each of them. They were devoured just like any sweet thing put in front of energetic children.

Hansbrows Come to Visit

Rob invited Brian Hansbrow over to watch a football game in December and so I thought it would be fun if the whole Hansbrow family came too. Jacki and I made sugar cookies with the kids. The dough was WAY too gooey, so we added flour..more flour, and even more flour. While the cookies looked a bit ugly, they still tasted great.

The Amachers Visit Spanish Fork

In October Bekka and Aaron and children came to visit us! Bekka and I have been friends since childhood. We have a whole photo album of photos of us.....because my Mom liked to take pictures--and also because we liked to pose for the camera. Their family lives in Honolulu, Hawaii right now. They were itching to return to the mainland and we were so lucky to be the recipients of a visit from them during thier family vacation. I had to include this picture of Bekka eating breakfast in my kitchen. Still clad in her pajamas, this is proof that she REALLY DID come stay with us. I hadn't seen Bekka and her family in four years!

This is Amelia, Gwen, and Abby. Abby was in heaven as she and I are the only girls in our family. They had so much fun playing together.

Here is Hayden, Bastian, George and Alexander. We're used to having lots of boys at our house, so adding these two to the bunch was great.

Wii fun.

Didn't I tell you they had lots of fun together?

We got out the four wheelers so Rob and Aaron could take the kids for a spin.

Hayden and George played a game they made up with these rulers for hours.

Bekka and I went to the Womens' Broadcast together and got to go on a shopping spree to the mall. We walked a 4 mile loop into the farming area by my house. It felt like being a kid in Colville again.