Let the Savings begin

Is anyone else like so stinkin excited? Disney projects are so much stinkin fun :)

Some Haps

So Mom and Dad got to come hang out with us on conference weekend and it was so much fun! Mckay of course got to catch a fish with Dad and I think it made his life :).

Practicing his skills...with no pants. It was so funny, every time he went to release the line, he had to shake his butt to get the bobber to come down haha. Lyla also liked it because she would chase the little bobber around until he reeled it back up.

Real men fish without holding the pole to make room in their hands for bit o honey's haha.

She doesn't cuddle...it's not fair :) Papa's got the magic touch

She wasn't super fond of how the boa felt on her skin haha

We're not public health workers...just doin our part to get the word out lol...I thought this was a pretty spot for a picture but none of us realized the banner was in the background

It had been pretty warm the week up until the day Mom and Dad got here...then it snowed like 4 inches :)

Mckay and Papa got to go to the zoo together while the girls went shopping! It was cold, but Mckay couldn't stop talking about how much fun he had

Apparently camels pee funny...that's what Mckay learned with Papa at the zoo haha

Also, Wes and I got to go on a real live date the other night! I have been watching a girl in my ward's kids a couple of times, and so she owed me one on the babysitting front. Captain America was AWESOME and it was so nice to get to spend some alone time with the hubby before his life gets all summer crazy!

And here are some new tricks of Lyla's that she's been showing off. I just cannot believe how big this girl is getting!!

She has got the bye bye wave down, but we have a hard time getting it on video :).

She likes her walking toys a little too much...

Yay! And then here's one of Mckay's special trick. Haha. I was doing cartwheels and stuff and every time he told me he was going to do a cool trick...this was what he did literally 30 times in a row. I think he got dizzy after awhile haha.

Lately...

 So I found this really cool cardigan at the mall! I love Dr. Who stuff! If it actually fit me and wasn't gigantic I totally would have bought it because it is so cool!

We had so much fun overnight babysitting Connor. Tyler and Jessica spent the night away for their anniversary and we got to play house with this crazy, cute kid! My favorite part was how confused this kid was in the morning. He wasn't quiet awake and neither were we since we're not use to an early alarm on Saturday mornings, so we put him in bed with us for a bit. It took him like 5 minutes to realize that we weren't his parents. As soon as he figured that out he got all shy and with a tiny giggle waved good morning at Taylor. It was pretty cute!     

Totally reminds me of Emilee and salsa!!!

I love this silly kid and am glad I get to live so close.

 So, my car got hit by a flying object on the way to work. It scared the living daylights out of me! The first thing I did was call my husband while balling my brains out. Yeah, he got freaked out because I couldn't really explain things well between sobs! What happened was a landscape company was working along the side of the road and right as I passed them something hit my passenger window HARD! It sounded like a gunshot! Glass ended up on my seat and in my driver's side door panel. Luckily I didn't get cut! It was possibly the worst day to be late to work but I felt so blessed by the way things worked out.

 The guys edging and mowing were big, fat JERKS! I couldn't believe how rude they were to me. They acted like it was my fault the window broke and there was not possible way they could have caused it. Luckily their manager was a little more reasonable and was willing to pay for it to be fixed. AND it actually was able to be fixed later that day which was amazing. You know, crap happens sometimes but the Lord is always looking out for us!

Clementine Poppy Seed Muffins

don't mind my terrible picture taking abilities lol

So when my in-laws were here last weekend, they bought us a large Costco-sized bag of clementines.  While I love clementines, there are quite a lot and they weren't all that sweet, but they were juicy and pretty good. I wanted to make some type of baked good, and I came across a clementine poppy seed muffin recipe. Sounded delicious, but had terrible reviews, so I sort of combined it with a lemon poppy seed muffin recipe and omitted some spices I don't like and this is what I came up with. The muffins were moist and delicious and I will be making more today to freeze a bunch :). Anyways, here's the recipe I ended up with:

Clementine Poppyseed Muffins:

1/2 cup butter, softened
2/3 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 cup plain yogurt
3 clementines
2 1/4 cups flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
2 heaping Tbsp poppy seeds

Preheat oven to 350º.

First mix the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and poppy seeds in a bowl. Zest 2 of the clementines and add the zest into the flour mixture.  Now you get to decide how to use the rest of your clementine in the muffins.  I peeled and diced mine into small chunks and added them to the dry ingredients, but make sure you cut them somewhere you can reserve the juice that escapes while dicing (I used my cutting board that has a groove on the outer edge), you will want that juice for the wet ingredients. If you don't want chunks in your muffins you can skip the dicing and just juice them for the wet ingredients. I liked the chunks okay, but because some of the clementines were a little bitter, it made for some not so great bites of muffin here and there. When I make them today I'm going to skip the chunks and just add the juice. But the chunks would be nice if the clementines were sweet.

I just used my mixer with the whisk for this... Cream butter and sugar together for about 2 minutes until light and fluffy. Add in eggs and yogurt until combined. Either juice your clementines at this point and add the juice, or add the reserved juice from when you diced the clementines.

Add the dry ingredients to the mixer, and stir just until combined. Scoop the batter into greased muffin tins, filling them 3/4 of the way. Bake for 15-20 minutes until lightly browned.  Dump out on a wire rack immediately to cool. I made about 15 muffins with one batch.  I'll let you know how the ones I make today turn out ;).


Update: Okay so the muffins i made today with just the juice were AWESOME. it also added to the awesomeness that i made a little glaze with the juice of one clementine whisked with about 1/2 cup of powdered sugar and poured it on top of the muffins. mmmmm...

Disney 2015

Who is excited for Disney 2015?! I am! I am!!! I made this little jar to help us start saving up. It's nothing fancy whatsoever but I promised Erika I'd post it. :)

Family Year Book

I have loved creating these cute picture scrapbooks! They are so easy and pretty well priced when I find groupons for them. This is the third book I've made of mine and Taylor's experiences. I made one for our dating and engaged experiences, one for our wedding, and now this one for our first year of marriage. I'm also creating our 2014 book as the year is going on so January and February are finished. I love reliving our adventures through these awesome books and can't wait to continue making them :) We loved all of our fun experience with all of you during 2013 and I thought I would show off some of those fun time!

Day of Love

I know this is a little late but I figured it was still ok to post. Also, mom told me to get a picture of my curled hair so you guys could see. I figured this accomplishes that as well so why not!

To start things off we had a crazy, messy, but fun party at school. I was in charge of the mustache station. You should have seen the poses my students had with the mustaches, they thought they were SO cool! It was cute! (here you see my none lazyness because I curl my hair quite often, at least once a week)

All of the yummy ingredients for our Valentines Day dinner. I love our bread maker! 

Our yummy pizza after cooking. Don't judge the bite mark
looking piece, there was too much dough and when I pulled
it off it looked like a bite mark!

Our yummy pizza before it went into the oven!










Now onto enjoying what we made! Yes we are
silly and take lots of food pictures but I think
it is so much fun! I'm lucky to have this sweet
boy in my life!

Birthdays at School are Fun!!!

A few cards, a purple pixie stick, 2 rubber band bracelets (those popular
things that don't fit me), a giant Hershey's Kiss, a Hershey's bar, a manicure
kit, cook book, chocolates taped to a card, Hawaiian Punch drink mix ins, a
hostess ding dong, a car piggy bank (left at school), and lotion (left at school).

 When students find out its your birthday (or almost your birthday) they can't help but want to bring you something. Anything. Even if its just a pixie stick.   :) They are hilarious! Well today I got a bundle of cute little....and not so little gifts!

OH, and I can't forget this giant heart cut from plywood and spray painted white and hot pink! I must totally rock if he made me this and wrote right in the middle, "Mrs. Moore You rock" Yeah...I am that cool! Can I just say, I LOVE MY JOB! They make turning 26 not so bad!!!

Shopping ... and making memories

So yesterday I took all the kids to the mall for some shopping. Yeah, I have a death wish. But we had some Old Navy coupons and gift cards expiring so it was now or never. The boys were their typical bored selves in Old Navy, running around like banshees and making loud/crazy noises at themselves whenever they passed by a mirror. But we got Cailyn some cute clothes (turquoise skinny jeans, woot woot!) and the boys some flip flops.  Then we went and had some pretzel bites. We got cinnamon ones and salted ones. It's funny how Jacob and Cailyn hovered over the cinnamon ones (little sweet tooths) and Owen & Landon ate all the salted ones. After just one or two more stores we were done. But at the exit there was one of those little photo booth things and I thought, why not? So we all crammed into the tiny little booth and the boys really had no idea what was going on. Between that and us not all being able to fit, the pictures weren't the greatest but my kids just thought that was the coolest thing ever. We got 4 pics so they each got one and they were so excited. Ahhh, it's the little things in life. :)

 So after that we went to Barnes & Noble to spend a gift card Cailyn had. They had this huge kids area we pretty much hung out in and the boys loved getting books off the shelves and plopping down to read them. At one point I guess Owen lost track of me cuz I heard him calling for me. He started walking out of the children's area, a stack of books under his arm, shouting, "Mooom. Oh Moooom! You're missing somebody!" And yes, he attracted a lot of stares. Funny kid.

All in all my kids had a really good time. More and more I'm realizing that it's seizing the little moments that really matter most in life. There, that's my life lesson for the day. :P