CoEd Soccer 2009

A good fun season of soccer. They made it to the second game in the tourney. The team played well this game against the supposed #4 team. (I did the bracket backward to figure out the seeding... recreation geek I know) The team had momentum and energy and played very well. They lost during the PK's after the 5 minutes of over time.

One of the Pike sisters was sad that she had forgotten her camera and wanted a team picture. Then I remembered that I had brought mine.

Everyone is in this I think... except the Argyles

This one is a bit more...umm organized?

Ken and Kelsey brought oranges. They were delicious.

At this point I think I was taking random pictures

The Pike family. They even got into almost height order for me. :)

Lauren put on a wonderful baby shower for me. There were even Costco muffins. Yum

Cute table arrangement

Fun gifts... baby clothes, bibs, candy... what more could a person ask for?

Jenn is very wonderful and she made this hooded towel for the baby. It even matches the towels we have in our bathroom. I opened it and everyone said put it on put it on. So I did...

After the game and present opening all of the sisters sat and talked with each other. It was wonderful.

Work Going Away Party

Kimi and I had a going away party. Since the office has 4-H and extension workers there is always some food involved. Kimi chose brownies to be the food of choice. So we had a brownie party complete with ice cream.

Everyone brought their best type of brownie. JoLene was trying a whole wheat sugar free type... that one did not make it out of her kitchen. Someone brought brownies with black beans in them. Linda, Marie and Cathy's brownies were the best. Cathy's may have won in my book though. Since I had no chance of winning best taste with all these amazing brownies... I went for cutest. They are colored marshmallows that I cut up to look like leaves and flowers. I got the idea from Betty Crocker.

Cathy and Lindsey presented Kimi and I both with baby blankets. Kimi's is jungly with brown and green stripes. Mine had Noah's Ark on the front and this amazing green bumpy fabric on the back. Both of them have fuzzy fabric on the backs. They were not tied yet so the party activity... true to 4-H was to tie them :)

Lindsey then gave Kimi her "real gift" it is a lunch time apron. It is signed by all the people in the office. Kimi tied the ribbon around her head and pronouced that she was a housewife.

Kimi I'll miss you!

FHE at the Park

So I bought some brats on sale and decided it would be best to eat them as part of a picnic.We cooked them first in a frying pan, made potato salad and headed off to the Canyon.

Mmmm

So I think this boy has a nature affinity toward water. Every time there was a way to access the river Jesse had to get as close as possible.

Pretty view of the Canyon

We decided to take a walk down the river trail. This must be a popular place for skate and long boarders because we saw a million. or more. The scary ones where the ones who were lying on their stomach going down the hill head first like the skeleton. No helmet mind you. Now how do they stop??

See more water

You can see my tummy from the front now.

Haha... he threw the sticky thing at me first.

Luckily our dog is very well trained and does not trespass. Well if we had a dog he would not trespass.

So this picture is the fence directly to the right of the no trespassing sign. Reading is a really hard thing for some people. Maybe it's the comprehension not the reading. Either way...

Spit bugs! Jesse found it amusing that I enjoy destroying the bug's house and then putting him back.

37th Ward B-B-Q

On Saturday we had a ward/quad barbecue. There was quite a turn out. The line stayed long for awhile. We had hamburgers and hot dogs. And the ward members all brought something to share. There were some amazing spring rolls, chips, pistachio pudding, brownies, cakes, brownie ball like things covered in white chocolate, cookies and homemade root beer.

Here is the line. We are standing near the back of it. That is Joowan's backside.

It's us...

Brian grilling burgers. I didn't notice until now that I also got Cathy and Annabelle (his wife and baby) in the picture also. (sorry if I spelled baby's name wrong)

Enjoying the food

The line is still there... lots of hungry people

Brett found a caterpillar on his knee. The bandage is because he suffered from some turf burn. Brett says "I never knew people were like trees. We ooze sap too." As a comment about his burn. His wife just rolled her eyes when he started the analogy.

Brett tried to give the caterpillar to a little boy in our ward. His facial expression was no, no, not me. I'm not touching that. After he finally took the stick from Brett he promptly handed it to Jeremy.

What is left of the lentil chocolate cake. The little kids kept coming up and asking for more. That is how most of it disappeared. I guess we could say it is a successful way of getting them to eat something sort of healthy.

Extension Class

Extension is a wonderful program. This class was dedicated to cooking with beans. I learned that there are some delicious things one can do with beans. We learned how to cook with the beans and how to store them.

This is Lisa. She is a wonderful lady who teaches foodsense classes for Extension. In the pot is an amazing combination of rice, coconut milk, garlic and chickpeas.

This is pinto bean pie. It tastes just like pumpkin pie.


Mmmmmm... chocolate cake. Made with a secret ingredient...

Lentils!!

Shopping Adventures

Last night I was playing with a stretching your food dollar website. They quoted our family with needing to spend almost $400.00 a month in groceries. Then when I clicked on no we spend less... it told me we must make our food dollar stretch.

Here is our latest shopping adventure. Jesse told me it looks like a grocery display. He is currently trying to find a place to put it all. Albertson's was having a wonderful sale. One of those buy this many and save four dollars. The beans and the enchilada sauce ended up being 75 cents and I really really like refried beans. And I don't think we'll need cereal for a least a few months. Sadly though they were out of frosted flakes so we had to substitute with Poptarts.

Here was the real deal... the cereal ended up being 1.50 a box which is pretty good for name brand cereal. Not to mention that these cereals may actually be good for one's body. Well turns out there are some dollar off coupons on the internet for these same cereals. 50 Cents a box!

Here is the reciept. Now granted we were at Albertson's and they are a bit pricey. So the $73.11 savigs is based on prices about 20 cents higher than Walmart.