Happy Birthdays!

It is Birthday time again for tons of family members.

Today is my baby sister Kristy's Birthday. Happy Birthday! I hope you get a chance to celebrate in between taking care of your three children under 2. Here is one of my very favorite pictures of Kristy when she was about 3 years old. Some people have a hard time believing that her hair was once this blonde considering it is now about as dark as mine. I love you and I am so glad you are my sister!

Happy 5th Birthday to Luke on August 1st! I am excited to give you a birthday hug at your brother's baptism Saturday. Luke gives great hugs!
Happy Birthday to Dani (She is Eli's younger sister-bottom center) on Aug. 2nd! Dani is almost 2 in this picture. We miss you and hope you have a great birthday!
Happy Birthday to my husband Eli (just above Dani) on August 5th! He is almost 4 in this picture). We are going to Park City to Celebrate both his birthday and our anniversary (8/28). I'll write more about that later. Thanks to Eli's sister Candi for watching our kids! I tried to plan another surprise for Eli's birthday and he ruined it again. Oh well, I'll have to keep trying.

Happy Birthday to my mom and her identical twin Mickie on Aug. 4th! I love this picture of them together. I can't even tell which on is my mom, but I am guessing since she was born six minutes earlier and is considered the oldest twin she is probably the one in front.
Happy 5th Birthday to my niece Jennie on Aug. 7th! I can't believe she is going to be starting kindergarten at the end of the month! Kate reminds me everyday that she is glad you're not moving like Brookie did.
Happy Birthday to Tom (Dani's husband) our second favorite red head on August 7th too!
We finally get a break from birthdays until Kelly's (Candi's husband) on the 23rd! I have a great picture I could post on his birthday as well that has become a recent family favorite, but I don't know if I can bring myself to do it.

Happy Birthday Kelly 8/23, Tom 8/7 and Eli 8/5!

In addition to the birthdays we also have Eli's brother's graduation, a family reunion, and our anniversary to celebrate. We have quite a busy eventful month ahead of us. I just wanted to take a moment and blog about all the birthdays so no one got missed in all the activity.

Cherish every moment

This weekend we celebrated Eli's grandparents 60th wedding anniversary with a big family party. We were in charge of making a carrot cake for the celebration and Kate was very excited to help me. She kept saying over and over "I'm a good maker momma".



She loved wearing my apron, cracking eggs, pouring ingredients and especially licking the beaters. It turned out pretty well, but I have to give the credit to my grandma Anna Hart since it is her recipe.



A lot of the family wanted to have the recipe for the carrot cake so here it is.....

2 cups flour 2 t baking soda
1 t salt
2 t cinnamon
2 cups sugar
4 eggs
1 cup oil
2 cups grated carrots
1 can crushed pineapple (drained)
1 cup nuts (optional)
Bake at 350 for 45 minutes

Frosting:
1 pkg cream cheese
1 cube butter
2 cups powdered sugar
1 t vanilla

I did two batches of cake and two batches of frosting for this triple layer cake.
It is delicious and a very simple recipe that is hard to mess up. Enjoy!


I forgot to bring my camera to the party, but here are some pictures of Eli's grandparents when they visited us when Beck was born. They use to live in ST. George and recently moved to South Ogden. It is nice having them so much closer. We are grateful for their love and support. What an accomplishment to be married for 60 years. Eli kept joking that we are only a 10th of the way there. Since I didn't get married until I was 27 I will be 87 years old at my 60th anniversary if I am still around for it. It was nice visiting with Eli's aunts, uncles, and cousins that we don't see very often. He has a great family and it all started with these two people or as the quote goes "all because two people fell in love".
His grandparents mentioned that it went by so fast and I can believe that since time seems to pick up faster and faster each year. I was just mentioning the other day that it seems like yesterday was memorial day and now it is already the middle of July. I visited with my dad the other day and he was saying that he feels a bit meloncholy because his children grew up so fast and he misses having his children young and always around. It made me appreciate the fact that I get to stay home with my children and try to make the most of every moment. How sad it would be to lose those precious moments with my children while they are small with me working and them in day care. You only get one chance to enjoy them while they are young and I am so glad I won't have any regrets about not spending enough time with them because of other obligations. I hope I never forget how time flies and that I will always try to cherish every moment.