Mother's Day and Red Velvet Cake...

I was treated to my Favorite French Toast and Orange Julius this morning. Can't go wrong with a breakfast like that. Than off we went to church. I love the Mother's Day talks. I was left feeling inspired. Than it was off to visit our Mother's.

We went and awaited the phone call from Elder Bush. In his honor we did a Red Velvet Cake Contest!

This is my Mom's cake boy doesn't it look amazing.
Here are the Contestants minus one, sorry Ambs not sure why I didn't get you.

My food coloring went pink instead of red and I was just going to drizzle a little red aka pink on top but than it came out in a blob and well you can see for yourself that I must not have one the color nor the presentation award. ha. ha.
Here are our wonderful judges! They meant business.
We were judged on our color, moisture, texture, taste and overall favorite. :)

We all used this recipe below, that Elder Bush sent home to us from one of the members in his area. It was so fun to talk to him. He is such a cool kid.

Red Velvet Cake (Makes II Cakes)

2.5 cups of sifted flour
1.5 cups sugar
1 teaspoon soda (probably baking soda)
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon cocoa

1 c buttermilk
1.5 cups of wesson oil
1 teaspoon vinegar
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 eggs
1 bottle of red food coloring (1 oz.)

Bake 3 layers 350 degrees for 25-30 minutes.
Do Not GREASE SIDES OF PAN

I often go walking...

I have been blessed with some great Women in my life! I have wonderful sisters and sister in laws who I think the world of and who are amazing Mothers!

Than their are my own Mother's! Who leave me in awe of their incredible Mothering ways!

You make me want to be a better Mother and hopefully one day be half as good at it as you both are. I learn so much from you. Thank you! I love you. Happy Mother's Day.

Cole sang with all the primary kids today at church. It was so fun and a little bit scary to let him go up there all by himself. He did great. He ran up the ramp a little irreverently, and we were afraid he would just run around the whole time but he ran up there and finally settled on a spot to stay and sing. :) They sang I often go walking, which is such a sweet song. (Which is why I reposted this picture, although I wanted to post a picture of my mom and mother in law. But it is lunch time and so I can not search the pics right now, Hungry mouths to feed!)

I got this from my sis in law and I really liked it.

"I'm fairly certain that with a little chocolate, the right tiara, and a cape, mothers could save the world!"

BYU Women's Conference

Last week I had the opportunity to go with some of the girls in my family to women's conference at BYU. Kevin stayed home with the kids and we went early Friday morning.

I love going and being with the girls in the fam. (Missed ya Mel and Amber!) I love to rush to the classes even though we sometimes don't get into the classes we want to and than end up sluffing and going to the bookstore for some yummy chocolate covered cinnamon bears and other fun things to bring home.

We also play a fun game. Kind of like where is waldo but it is to spot certain things. Some items on the list:

Find someone eating a mint brownie

Find someone talking on the phone at an inappropriate time

Find someone crossing on the grass

Find someone from another state

I cant remember them all. But we had some fun ones to add to the list. Like a women reading a romance novel during a talk. ha ha . it was so fun.

We even met a lady from the netherlands who knows a family from my brother's mission, that we helped raise money to come here to the temple! That was pretty cool.

Despite some of our irreverent games we play I still get a lot of great things out of it.

There is something amazingly powerful being with all those women. Women who are Mother's and who have strong testimonies of our Savior and know that the most important thing we will ever do is within the walls of our own home.

20 Miler

Last Saturday was the longest run for my training schedule. Had to run 20 miles. Madness you say? Why Yes it was. I ran with the running gang and did not feel nearly as bad as I did last saturday when we had ran also 20 but really was suppose to be 18. I wore asics shoes one saturday and than brooks the next. Both new pairs but I only got a blister with the asics shoes so I took them back and stuck with the Brooks and I really like them.

I am blogging about this not to boast in the fact that I am running but merely to remember:

A. This has been hard my body is sore and tired. I hate the soreness but also love it.

B. It is a big time commitment. Thanks Kev you have been so supportive especially since it was during busy tax time at work.

C. It has been an awesome experience.

Thanks Rach for letting me train and run with you and the other fun girls.

D. I love getting up and getting going in the morning even though that first reaction is to hit the snooze button. I also have learned I do love to sleep in too!

Fun times to Remember:

-We decided to run a 16 miler on a friday night!

-We almost got hit by the same biker twice on the Jordan Parkway he was not happy.

-All the husbands coming to pick us up

-Einstein Bagels and Jamba's (yes sometimes these were our ending point)

-sunrises

-running from copperton, and all the deer that ran right out in front of us.

-Rach saving us from cars hitting us alot

-construction on the parkway (walking hunched over to get to the other side of the parkway)

-bathroom stops

I am talking like I am done. No no. Not until May 15th!

I am excited now to taper down. I don't even know if I spelled that right. (still not a "real runner") We only have 9 miles this Saturday. Wahoo!

catching up...

Easter was great. We had a fun weekend with conference and easter Sunday.

We did our Easter egg hunt with the Bush Fam on Saturday and the week before did a dinner with the Dearden family.

Conference was great as always and I love that we could celebrate our savior and the atonement while eating good easter candy and hearing from our wonderful church leaders.

Riverton Half Marathon

First I should start by saying this: One of the things I have always wanted to do is run a MARATHON! I have been afraid to do this and never fully committed myself to it until, my cute sis in law Rach said she was going to run one. So I hopped on the ban wagon.

We have been training for it and we are running in the Ogden Marathon on May 15th.

I must say after I signed up and still I wonder What Have I Done?

I am excited and nervous for it. Last Saturday we ran in the Riverton half marathon with some other good ladies who are doing the marathon with us. It was fun. We were cold before the race had begun though because for training that day we were supposed to run 16 miles and the race was only 13.2 so we ran 3 miles to the start line.

We had some great supporters!

Thanks guys!!!

Newborn baby and big sister...

Here is big sister Maddie waiting to go see her new baby brother. She was so dang excited all morning long!
My dear sister had her second baby. Her first baby boy. He is adorable and very small. I did not get any photos. I kept forgetting to take my camera in when I took turns going into the hospital room. Since the rule of no kids in the room besides the siblings of the new baby.

But we are so excited that Baby Garret is here safe and sound. Way to go Jeff and Amber he is so sweet!!!