Burst

The evening of my grandma's funeral Brandon had gone home to do something and he suddenly heard a noise like running water. Come to find out we had a pipe burst. Lucky us. In all honesty, we have been expecting it to happen. Every year our pipe to our upstairs shower always freezes. We are just so lucky that Brandon was there when it happened so he was able to shut off the water with minimal damage. We had to stay at his parents house and were finally able to come home last night. Its hard to be away from your house for that long. Brandon and his dad spent most of Sunday trying to work on it. They tore out one side of my shower and come to find out they didn't need to do that! All they needed to do was go outside and fix the pipe through our siding which was much easier. Oh well though. Guess I'll be getting a new shower! Think we'll be going to get some new tile this week and hopefully we (when I say we I mean Brandon! It kinda sucks not being able to do much to help) can get it back to normal and working this week. Crossing fingers. Oh the joys of being a homeowner!

Labor Day Happenings

We headed up to the cabin... again! What can I say we love it up there! I was able to finish 2 books while we were up there. I had started a book called Divine by Choice but the dang book fell apart while I was right in the middle of it. Just fell apart literally. That put a little stress on my reading. How do you read a book that is falling apart? It was a little too difficult obviously cause I started Eat Pray Love. It was coming out in theaters so I decided I really wanted to read it before I saw it. Well, that didn't happen. I went and saw it with my mom and mother-in-law last week and I hadn't finished the book. I wasn't so sure I loved the book until I saw the movie. Book was way better. I know they always are but I was really hoping for more from the movie. Anywho, I brought Eat. Pray. Love to the cabin and thankfully all us girls got to spend lots of time reading!

I finished Eat. Pray. Love. and thankfully brought up Divine By Choice. I finished both! Woot! I have 4 books stacked on my nightstand right now that I am ready to dive into.... one of them! I need to start saying no to people when they tell me about new books I 'gotta' read. I need to start finding more time to read too.... sigh. Eventually.

So basically the cabin was great! Spent time with family did some eating, reading, sleeping, riding, and relaxing! What could be better?!

Sawyer did get hurt this trip. Not terribly but his face is pretty banged up. He was out watching the fire with his gampa and his cousin Kylee and decided it would be a good idea to try to run in the dark.... with big rocks under his feet. Didn't turn out so well. He's got some nice cuts all over hims poor boy face. It was sadness hearing him come screaming. He's ok though. He's a tough kid!

(This is us at Lily Lake) Not the best shot every but it will have to do!

Another Sawyer Story

Forgot to post this.... Sunday was a bad day for me. I was just all sorts of on edge and emotional. Started out with Sawyer not eating great in the morning. Then we went to church and the first speaker in sacrament talked about her mother passing away from cancer. Any type of cancer stories get me. Makes me think of my dad.... naturally. I had to step out before I started to sob and have snot all over myself. Not an attractive look. While I was out I guess Sawyer threw a big tantrum for Brandon. When I got back he was fine. Weird. After sacrament was over I wanted to have Brandon take Sawyer to nursery to see if he would do better if he dropped him off instead of me. I stayed back a ways so he wouldn't see me. Apparently he had. He started throwing a fit and trying to throw up. I went in and was going to sit with him in nursery but he did the gagging thing. I knew I needed to get to the bathroom stat. I was outside the womens restroom and BLAH..... He puked ALL over himself and me (and apparently the floor. I didn't know that until Brandon had told me later). Guess what I did... in church.... I SWORE!! Of course it wasn't empty either. There were tons of people in the hall scrambling to go to classes. I didn't think about it at the time but now looking back I am pretty embarrassed! Swearing in church.... who does that?! Meeeeee! hhahahahaha Needless to say we went home. I cleaned him and I up and put him down for a nap. That is the hard thing about church. Its right during his nap time so he is never all that happy. After I put him down, I went to go lay down myself since I was in a rotten mood. I didn't sleep. I sobbed. Brandon came in and was going to read but did something out of the ordinary. He gave me a massage! Full body massage! It was amazing! It helped relieve a lot of the tension I was carrying and calm some of my frustrations. I love it when he does stuff like that! Its the best especially when I am in one of THOSE moods! It helped a ton but I was still pretty moody the rest of the day. Sigh. Now there is a story for the books! ha!

Snowboarding

A big group of my friends and I went snowboarding yesterday at Snow Basin. I haven't been snowboarding for about 6 years and I sucked when I went then. This time I did pretty well on the bunny hill for not having much experience so I went with the big boys on the harder stuff. That was a big mistake. First off, when I got to the ski lift I was with my husband and friend Jeff. I was so concentrated on getting ON the lift that I didn't pay much attention to my board and it got turned sideways and caught on the snow and off I went! Yeah, you heard me right. I fell OFF THE SKI LIFT! I would say it was embarrassing but I think I was in too much pain to think about how big of a fool I looked. I landed face first so I jarred my head, giving me a huge headache the rest of the day and with the board grabbing the snow it twisted my ankle. Sigh. Yeah I am a dork. They had to stop the lift so I could get back on. Brandon and Jeff were laughing at me but my head hurt too much to really care. Once we got to the top I got off the lift with ease {thank heavens don't know if I could have taken another embarrassing moment like that!}. We waited for everyone to get up there and started down. I was pretty confident when we started even though I can do toe side which annoys the heck out of me. We kept going, me at a really slow pace, and I was fine until I fell and felt my knee pop out of joint. I couldn't move so I yelled for Brandon to get my bindings off. Tears were just streaming down my face cause my knee hurt like a MOTHER! lol I felt like an idiot cause there were a few of our guy Friends watching me so I sucked it up and kept going. The rest of the way down was awful. I was so frustrated and I kept hurting my knee every time I fell. I was so thrilled by the time we got down! I was done too. I found my friend Heatherly and we got some hot chocolate and went home! We had both had enough beating up! I went to my moms to get the baby and iced my knee until Brandon go there.
When I woke up this morning.... Whew! all I can say is PAIN........ EVERYWHERE!! Not kidding. From my head to my toes! My knee isn't swollen or anything so that is good. No doctor visit for me. It still hurts like a mother though as does the rest of my body. Kinda makes me feel old!! I would like to say I will never do that again but I really want to. I want to be good. I had fun until we went up that huge hill. I need to learn the basics before I go up there again. I think next time I will take a lesson though. Learning by myself didn't seem to work so well! Today, my best friend is Ibuprofen!!!!!

This is me when I fell off the lift. Thankfully my actual fall didn't get recorded! :0)

Funny Thing Kids...

So Sawyer did something so completely hilarious today! I had turned on Elmo for him so I could get on the computer for a short time and thought Elmo would keep him distracted. I was very wrong. I hadn't heard him making noise or touching the TV buttons like he normally did. He was quite. Too quiet. I went to look for him and found him in the kitchen with a big thing of VASELINE!! He had rubbed it all over his hands and all over his hair! My first thought was to get upset but then I looked at him and busted out laughing! He looked so dang cute and funny! I had to run and get my camera. Here he is all Vaselined up!
Vaseline is a very hard thing to wash out of hair! I washed his hair 3X and it was still all greasy. I got him out of the tub and thought I had put the Vaseline up high enough but I was wrong.... again. I went back in the kitchen not 2 minutes later and he had done the same thing AGAIN! I now know I need to put things up much higher than I use to! What a little stinker pot! Kids.... gotta love em!

Sad Accident and Baking

We had a little bit of an accident today. I bought Sawyer some new pants over the weekend but he is so darn skinny they fall down to his ankles a lot. My mom was trying to pull them up but could only do it with her one hand since her other is in a sling. She pulled on the pants and he face planted on the kitchen floor. I thought he had just hit his head so I rushed over to him and started looking for a goose-egg and then I saw that his mouth was bleeding very bad. I kinda turned into momma bear when I saw all the blood. I was worried he had bit his tongue {since he always has that thing sticking out} or he had knocked a tooth loose, or bit through his lip. Thankfully, all he did was get a little slice in his upper lip and a goose-egg on his head. It was the saddest thing ever. I hate when kids get hurt. It breaks your heart.

Yesterday, I was in a baking mood so for breakfast I made German Pancakes which turned out beautifully....

Then I decided to make brownies and a new cake....

This delicious looking cake is called the Berry-Glazed Chocolate Cake. Here is how to make it...

Ingredients:

1 package devil's food cake mix

1 package instant chocolate pudding

4 eggs

3/4 cup water

1/2 cup apple juice

1/2 cup canola oil

1 teaspoon rum extract

1 cup semisweet chocolate chips

Raspberry Glaze:

1/4 cup seedless raspberry jam

2 tablespoons apple juice

1/2 teaspoon rum extract

Chocolate Icing:

2 tablespoons baking cocoa

1/4 cup heavy whipping cream

2 tablespoons butter, melted

1 cup confectioners' sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Make it:

1-In a large bowl, combine the first 7 ingredients' beat on low speed for 30 seconds. Beat on medium for 2 minutes. Stir in chocolate chips.

2-Pour into a greased and floured 10-in fluted tube pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 45-50 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pan.

3-In a small saucepan. combine the glaze ingredients. Cook and stir over low heat until smooth. Brush over cake. Let stand 10 minutes or until set.

4-Place the cocoa in a small saucepan. Stir in cream and butter until smooth. Cook and stir over low heat for 2 minutes or until thickened. Remove from heat; stir in confectioners' sugar and vanilla until smooth. Cool slightly; drizzle over cake. Let stand until set then serve.

It was a fun cake to make and it was tasty! Very rich tho.