Last Teenage Year

"Grease is the word..."

Adam decided he wanted to dye his hair black, so he bought some dye and my mom played hairdresser. As the dye was setting, I thought he looked like someone from The Incredibles or maybe Meet the Robinsons.



Here he is with his newly colored hair. All he needs now is some grease and a flick comb!



Jesse has started baseball and here are a couple of shots...





And lastly, I made some green crepes for St. Patrick's Day complete with HOMEMADE WHIPPED CREAM. I am so addicted. I can feel my eyes going wide and get hyper every time I make it. I know I sound like a freak, but it is just soooo good.



Just for kicks, 'Adam in the treetops'. Along with Grease, I also seem to be channeling Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. (That is the title of the score in the movie for when the character Adam gets kicked out on his wedding night.) I'm on a roll!

Student of the Year!

A couple of weeks ago, Kate was chosen as the Student of the Year! Quite an award. Last night we attended a ceremony at Orem High School for this very thing. The ceremony awarded all the winners from each of the schools in Utah county. There were yummy orderves and a nice ceremony followed. There were a couple of dance numbers and an elementary school choir provided some music. They spotlighted each winner and gave them a plaque for their win.





*On a side note, a little while back I made a heavenly chocolate mousse pie, with homemade whipped cream (I am obsessed with that stuff). It looked cool, and tasted REALLY good. I can't wait to make it again!

I'm Officially a Pro at Catch-up Posts

A while back, I tried my hand at making a 'rainbow cake'. Funny story- so I thought in order to have enough batter for 6 layers, I'd better quadruple it. After about the 2nd or 3rd ingredient, the beaters died. Awesome.
My solution = pretend I'm a pioneer of sorts and stir it all by hand. My arm felt as though it was ready to fall off, not to mention the bowl with the (quadrupled for goodness sake) batter weighed like 40 pounds. At least it tasted good.


Anna's 10th birthday


Before grandma left for Cali, we had a girls-only book club :) We discussed "The Goose Girl" and had Ugly Ducking Cake. It was very fun and would have been fun to do more often.


Kate's V-Day box for school (she's definitely related to me)


Anna's


and Jenna's


And lastly, my contribution to "The Day of Love"

Sittin' On The Dock of the Bay-- I mean Megan

A Fine Time

I have to say, December this year hasn't been too bad. We've enjoyed living very close to family, aka, Sunday dinners and hanging out.

Earlier in the month, we attended Jesse's choir concert. It was a combined concert featuring Mountain View High School. I was very impressed. There were some great numbers like the funny song about fruitcake, and a tribal number. All in all, they did a wonderful job.



A couple of weeks ago dinner was hosted at our house. Beforehand, my mom and I scored some cute (and cheap) plates and such at Target. And I'll be honest- i struggled (and wrestled) to keep those name tags ON the cups.





Anyways, we had some very tasty salmon, salad with pecans, apple slices and raspberry dressing, and red velvet cupcakes with cream cheese frosting. Such a delicious meal! Despite the fact that by the end of the night, nearly every cupcake left no longer had any frosting. Oh children.



My mom and I had fun making these edible gifts for our visiting teaching sisters, along with gpa and Sarah (don't worry, we didn't forget gma. We gave her a book light). I'm not much for 'smores, but these looked yummy :)



And just for fun, we Norris' like puzzles- I think... I know Jenna and I do :)