Good Gravy

What good is food storage if you can't get the lid off!

I'm about ready to get the drill out and start drilling holes in the top.

The instructions "break here and lift" leave something to be desired.

Break with what.

All I need is 2c of oatmeal.

The food storage is supposed to make my life easier....

Food Storage

So I have a new calling and entails food storage and training others for it.

I have followed one blog for a while in hopes of improving my own food storage and making sense of it.  For Christmas I gave Reed (don't be jealous now) a 3 month food storage plan with menus and items needed.  This included a list of what we would need for these menus (supposing we couldn't get anything fresh), what we had already and we still needed.  The original plan was to get all the items and be done, but I decided to shop the deals for them instead.

I have since found another site (which has a contest going on right not) that covers similar items.  It is a coming together of 3 different blogs that teach food storage, money saving and cooking with food storage ideas.  Great combo.  You have to love the internet when it can make so many things so much easier.

So go check them out and share any sites you have found too.

Happy New Year

I bet none of you still have pumpkins on your porch.

We're lucky like that.

We had a fabulous Christmas.  My goal: lots of fun memories.  I think it was accomplished.  Sledding, parties, ice skating, movies, games, wii competitions, lots of fun and we all enjoyed just snuggling up in the house and hanging out with each other for a lot of the time.

A few fun pics of the whole holiday vacation fun follow:

The first one is my dad at 1 year old.  He got a rocking horse that he still has.  Hadley asked for one just like it for Christmas...and the elves remembered how to make it.  She was very excited.

pjs on Christmas eve...don't they look really excited.

Max and Jadey were caught trying to change the clocks in our room at 3am (one of the clocks alarms went off)

Soccer with some families from the ward.  Followed by a traditional make doughnuts and take them around with some caroling.

School sing.

Fudge

Anybody know any good recipes for fudge.

We have tried one with powdered sugar/butter/choc chips, and one with sweetened condensed milk/choc chips/butter.  Neither were just right.

Does anyone have a tried and true recipe.

have a laugh on us

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

Merry Christmas

So I thought it would be really fun to post something everyday of December.

Favorite traditions.

Fun finds.

Cute pics (you should see the # of ways a nativity can be set up...maybe you are seeing it in your own home)

But alas it is the 3rd and this is my first post.

So Merry Christmas if I don't make it back.

But I do have great intentions.

Printer Suggestions

Our printer has officially bit the dust.

Do you own you like?

Any suggestions?

I like to print some pictures, I do scan and copy some, but mostly print black and white words and letters.

I would prefer one that doesn't guzzle ink.