Ty and Melanie Are Engaged! Wahoo!

Sing-a-ling

We took this video right after church on Sunday, we don't usually dress River in a matching shirt and under-roo's, a dress was over the top of 'em. It also explaines my pajama pants and lacey shirt combo. Oh, and the toy chaos, because everyone knows you're not supposed to do housework on Sunday.



Thanks, Mom, for the adorable pictures of River. There are more cute poses that everyone will be getting when I mail out Cameron's graduation announcements. You'll just have to wait, sorry!

River 'reading' to herself while I catch some shut-eye on the couch. I guess Cameron thought he would be sneaky and get some secret footage.

Crochet, Food Edition

After crocheting a plastic bag holder (boring) I've been wanting to do some creative crochet. To get some ideas I've been surfing free pattern sites. I must have been hungry at the time because food patterns seemed like a perfect new project, but what can you really do with a yarn hot dog? People. The good news is that anything can be crocheted. Anything. Even adorable little cupcakes.

And mini apples. I really really want to make these....aren't they fabulous?! But I can't seem to justify it because I wouldn't actually use them for any specific purpose. Maybe River would play with them...

Or there is this delicious pattern. I'm sure it is just the thing the you've always wanted. A toast purse. And now you can crochet your very own! Looking at this is making me hungry. And reminding me of all the toast and spray -butter I during at college.

This next pattern may actually be useful.

Dressing up for the next Harry Potter film? These yarn radishes would be perfect to use for a Luna Lovegood costume, which isn't complete without her famous radish (or to be precise, dirigible plum) earrings. Though I think they are orange in the book.

And for the man in your life, fried-egg cuffs. This pattern comes for a great site called MonsterCrochet. It has wonderful patterns for things like a Golum hat and spooky severed fingers.

For more fun crochet ideas click the 'Crochet Pattern Central' link in the sidebar of this blog.

Thanks for tuning in.

Easter Fun

We went to a Easter party complete with egg-hunting, brunch and lots of excited kids. River managed to get 4 easter eggs before all the older kids snatched them up.

Cameron helped with the bob-for-donuts game, which was a big hit.

Later that day, my cousin Aaron and his girlfriend came out for a visit.

It's Supposed to be the 2nd Day of Spring :(

We got snow as a Easter-weekend surprise, how delightful. Just when I thought it was warming up, too. River has a cold, so today we've been sitting at the window and staring at the snow. Exciting. Oh well, I hope everyone else's Easter weather is better than ours!

Here are a few words that River likes to say now. My favorite one is 'happy', and she even seems to understand what it means, yet she won't even say 'mommy' anymore. Sigh.

Raptor Rapids!!!

We went to a sweet indoor water park with some friends today and it was a blast. I can at least pretend it's summer, right? I wasn't sure if River liked all the water at first, but she kept trying to get back in the pool, even after she was in her dry clothes and ready to go home. Luckily I had Cameron to chase her around while I went down all the water slides. Just kidding, just kidding. We run an equal opportunity marriage around here.


This is the giant bucket-o-doom in the kiddie area. See the guy in the black shorts? That's Cameron holding River UNDER the BUCKET-O-DOOM! O-DOOM PEOPLE!




River and her friend Gabey. (The camera kind of fogged up...) They played ring-around-the-rosies in the water and ate crackers together like old chums. After we dried off and ate lunch, River found 'Daddy's hat' and ran around playing with it. Super-cute.

Triple Chocolate Deliciousness

I made this triple chocolate wonder for Cameron's birthday. It is DIVINE. It's so great it really doesn't even need frosting because it is almost brownie-ish. Best of all, it is really easy to make and I thought I'd share the recipe with you all. The recipe calls for a bundt cake pan, but I'm sure you could use a regular cake pan if needed.

TRIPLE CHOCOLATE CAKE

1 pkg Instant Chocolate Pudding
1 pkg Chocolate Cake Mix (not pudding type)
1/4 cup flour (for high altitudes..I didn't use it)
1/2 chopped nuts (optional)
1 12oz. package chocolate chips
1/4 cup oil
1 cup water
4 eggs
1/2 cup sour cream

Combine all ingredients and pour into a greased bundt pan. Cake at 350 degrees for 40-45 minutes. That's it!