Look at what we found!

We took a spur-of-the-moment trip down to St. George last weekend to escape Heber's 30 degrees-and-snow forecast. It was lovely down there, of course - about 78 degrees and sunny. Rob and Mindy and the girls ended up coming too. Dave went shooting with Evan and Rob while us girls went to the playground, where Abby and Megan conquered the stegosaurus riding toy.

When we got home, this is what we found in the window well of our basement:

And no, we don't own a cat.

Anybody want a kitty?

Our day.....will come...

Remember this pretty picture? (How can you not? It's just right there below - mocking me!)

This is what we see every morning when we wake up and look hopefully out the window -

I want to know what happened to spring in Heber?!?

I know spring has sprung in other places, because every time I tell someone what the temperature is here, they respond with "Really?! It's ___ (fill in the blank with any temperature above 65) here and sunny today!"

The locals tell me not to get too discouraged just yet - they all guarantee me that it'll snow at least once in June. Sigh.

Happy May Day!

I'm not exactly Bakerella

This is a picture of the cupcake pops that Amy and Rebekah helped me make for our recent Ladies' Night Out at the store. Pretty cute, huh?

Heavenly.

Any of you who know me very well know that I LOVE homemade mashed potatoes. (That was always my birthday-dinner request.)

I found THE BEST mashed potato recipe recently. It's so good that we have had them on multiple occasions in the week or two since I found the recipe. (Hmm, that could explain why Dave and I are looking a little chubby lately...)

No, this is DEFINITELY not a low-fat, healthy version. But they are just plain yummy.

Try them. You won't be sorry.

Delicious, creamy mashed potatoes

Wishful thinking

Sigh.

Doesn't that look wonderful?

I can't wait for spring.

Sew, very old one! Sew like the wind!

I decided that I'm going to get back into sewing - a hobby I enjoyed a long time ago.


I haven't really sewn (except for an occasional item here or there) for quite a few years.
And since most of the subjects that I want to sew for aren't living in my house anymore, I decided that a dress form would be helpful. But the ones you can buy in the fabric stores or online seem really expensive, so after some encouragement from Rachel, I made my own! (Rachel had seen some instructions for making your own dress forms on a couple different sewing blogs).


A roll of brown packing tape and about half an hour later, this is what I ended up with.







Yep, that's Bekah's figure right there. She had fun pretending she was being mummified, and I ended up with a dress form that will hopefully be helpful as I sew for her while she's at school.

So far in my new sewing venture, I've made a dress each for Abby and Megan (no picture), and I've made this shirt for Megan (I've got another one for Abby in process).





Here are a few of my upcoming projects.







In addition to the dress I've started for Bekah, I'm going to sew a dress for Rachel (she's going to pick out the fabric when she's here in a couple of weeks), and one for myself. Then I want to make some curtains and pillows for the house.



That should keep me going for a few weeks.

And it only took me 25 years

I've been making whole wheat bread for... oh, about 25 years. Sometimes it has turned out pretty well, and many more times not so good.

But thanks to Bekah's roommate's family recipe (which I also saw almost an exact replica of today on another blog), I have finally made a light, soft, fluffy, DELICIOUS loaf of whole wheat bread! Yay!!!

Here's a picture in case you don't believe me.

I guess the secret is adding wheat gluten and dough enhancer. Who knew? (Apparently everybody but me!)

Here's a link to the recipe http://hubpages.com/hub/Perfect-Homemade-Bread