Friday, September 5, 2014

6 Minute Caramels recipe::Sept 5

I just saw this recipe on facebook. It looks delish! If you try it before I do, be sure and tell me what you think! ♥ ~ Melody

6 minute caramels

Ingredients:
1/4 cup butter
1/2 cup white sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup light Karo syrup
1/2 cup sweetened condensed milk

Directions:
*Combine all ingredients.
*Cook 6 minutes, stirring every two minutes.
* Stir and pour into lightly greased dish. (8x8 for thick caramels, 2 batches fit
9x13)
* Let cool.
* Cut ( I cut into strips with knife then used a scissors to cut into pieces),
wrap in wax paper & store in an air tight container.

Wednesday, September 3, 2014

Labor Day Weekend::Saturday

Many, many moons ago, I decided that we should dedicate Labor Day as our family's time to get together. In past years that has meant getting together and going camping; this year, rather than just going camping, we also visited museums.

On Friday evening, Josh, Hayley, & the kids (except Miah, who stayed home with Nana KC. she was involved in a foot race that went wrong, and she had lots and lots of scrapes. :( ), Michael, Steve, and I went up into the mountains for hot dogs and marshmallows. The plan was for Josh, Hayley and the kids to sleep up there, but Jared and Ruth brought news of a bear cub sighting not too far away, so everyone came home and slept at the house.

The next day, I offered up the suggestion of going to USU Eastern's Dinosaur Museum in Price. Everyone liked the idea, so we hit the road.


Ruth, Josh, Hayley and the kids down below looking at the dinosaurs


Jared and Matt


I don't remember if it was Aiden or Teryn who really wanted to touch this skeleton - it was a representation of early man hunting a wooley mammoth (Steve is in the background)


Everyone gathered in the kids' area when they were done looking around - it was also a nice place to take the kids when they needed a break from just looking


Michael loved this dinosaur head on the wall :)


Ben really enjoyed the sand pit filled with dinosaur bones - he also loved flinging the sand and smelling the paint brush (or was he tickling his nose with it? I don't know :)


Ben and Aiden


Aiden liked playing in the sand


Teryn took uncovering the dinosaur bones very seriously and played in the sand pit for a long time. Maybe I'll get my archaeologist yet!


Josh, Hayley, Matt and Mercedes working a puzzle (and scooting on the table :) )


Teryn and Ben - Ben kept bugging Teryn when he'd want to cover the bones back up or flip sand at Teryn. Poor Teryn just wanted to dig! And Ben just wanted to have fun!


Ruth and Jared - they helped out a lot with the little ones but would occasionally go off alone to look at stuff and talk


Steve and Mike taking a rest and waiting for everyone else to be done too


Good-bye, dinosaurs! Hope to see you again soon!

Years ago, Steve & I took a drive and wound up in Price. It was then that we discovered a cute little floral shop and this cool, dinosaur museum. I've been wanting to take the kids down for a long, long while, and I'm glad that it finally worked out where we could go!

Tuesday, September 2, 2014

35/52::September 2

On Saturday we went to a dinosaur museum with the whole fam damily. Josh & Hayley +4 (Miah had gotten all scraped up when running a race, so she stayed home with Nana KC), Jared & Ruth, Matt, Michael, Steve & I all went - it was our Annual Labor Day Family Weekend :) (LOTS more pictures to come!)

This dinosaur is in the kids' room with an archeological dig already in process (dinosaur bones covered w/ sand, paintbrushes for removing sand are provided - there is also a slide going into the sandbox/dinosaur excavation area), a table for doing puzzles and coloring (and for crawling/scooting, of course :) ). Matt put his hand in the dinosaur's mouth, and Michael thought it looked like a cool idea and did it too - I think that this dinosaur was his favorite part of the museum! :)

"A portrait of my child, once a week, every week, in 2014."