another mouse and fun foods

When your dryer starts making a high-pitched noise, watch out. It may be a mouse!! Yep, we had another mouse in our house. Our dryer started making a weird noise so I asked Clark to check it out. He took everything apart and inside one of the vents was a shrivelled (that might be misspelled) up mouse! Ewww. On the flip-side, I love being married to such a handyman!

Cheese bread and marinara sauce make such fun messes!

Nutella is fun too. These next two pictures are a tribute to my Grandma Weatherford. She didn't eat much chocolate, but she LOVED nutella. If you've never tried it, you should. It's a mix of hazelnuts and milk chocolate. It's great plain, as Rosie is demonstrating. Or I like it on graham crackers.

We had a great Easter! Since it was rainy outside, we hid the eggs around our house. Will was so happy every time he found an egg.

We dyed eggs with Betsy and Eric (my sister-in-law and soon to be brother-in-law) on Saturday. Now I have to figure out what to do with all those hard-boiled eggs!

Sad Realization

I usually don't vent on my blogs, but today is an exception. I realized something . . . read on! :)

Tuesday and Wednesday I watched my friend's 17-month-old son, (he's just 2 weeks older than Rosie). It was a lot of fun, but a lot of work! It seemed like at every moment at least one of them was crying and another one was getting into something.

I came to the realization that I'm not ready for another kid. It hit me hard because I've been really thinking I was ready to have another one . . . soon. After this boy's dad picked him up, I just crashed. I didn't do the dishes, I didn't pick up the house, and I went to bed early.

It made me appreciate and feel awe-struck at the women who raise multiple little kids. I've been contemplating whether some women are born with the "power" to have a lot of kids and some women aren't. Or if it's something learned. I'd love your opinion.

Anyway, I do think I will have at least one more child, maybe even two or three more. However, I want to be able to be a good mom and make sure their needs are met before I introduce more kids into the family.

Family

I don't have much to say, so I'm just going to explain the pictures from this week. :)

Here's Laura rocking Rosie. I am so glad Laura lives so close to us! Sisters are the best!

My Mom made an authentic Dominican Republic dish for lunch. It was a bean meadly over rice. It was quite good!

Here's cute Amy watching conference. (I made her pose for the picture)

Josh entertained Will and Rosie by blowing up a balloon and then letting it go and watching it fly. They were CRACKING up!

Rosie found a new love - fry sauce! She was slurping it off of her high chair. It was hilarious!

just more fun happenings

We just got back from some good times with Clark's family. Unfortunately my camera battery was dead before I could take one picture! Quick summary: We went to Flaming Gorge, Clark went golfing, we saw some dear friends and their new adorable son, and ate delicious food - Clark's mom is the best cook I've ever met.

Before we left for Spring Break, we decided to go camping.

Clark's making dutch oven potatoes (the best potatoes you'll ever have).

Around 8 o'clock it started getting cold. Really cold. Clark had the brilliant idea of not staying the night and instead heading home. Sounded good to me, so we didn't end up camping, just setting up our tent, eating dinner and sleeping in our warm beds at home. The next day we went up and hiked around and took our tent down.
How were we able to go camping, you might ask? We got a truck!! Clark is thrilled (and actually I love it too)! Now we can take off anytime and go up to the mountains or we can haul a mattress or any other thing that won't fit in a car. What possibilities! :)

Mops, Blankets, and Balls

Rosie has been a very good helper lately. She loves to throw her dirty diapers into the garbage. Yesterday she carried the mop around the front room and mopped our carpet.

Will was begging me to watch "Finding Nemo" one afternoon so I turned it on for him. A few minutes later, I went in to check on him and I found him asleep under his blanket. What a kid!

This really cute guy asked me to the Brown 'N Gold Ball on Saturday. :) He found a hilarious (or "sweet" in his words) suit at a thrift store. The owner said some guy brought it in and said he wore it in a barber's quartet in the 70's. I tried to find a dress that was somewhat 70's and somewhat modern. We had a great time.