Spring Fever

My honey and I have spring fever, which is causing us to get out and so a little more and surprise ourselves in the process. Larry loves animals, I do too, nothing like him. We adopted some rabbits and birds this weekend, to add to our growing farm. As the typical mother mentality, I enjoy watching them grow and hearing them chirp.

We were also able to visit the Ogden temple, for the first time. This temple will look different in a few years because it is going to have a complete remodel. It was a wonderful experience, being able to do family work there. It is beautiful to see what it is like before and then after. I am not sure how many know, there is also a Daughters of the Utah Pioneer Museum on the temple grounds, and a wonderful ice cream shop across the street! I had fun taking pictures as usual.

Stake Conference

Last weekend we had stake conference. Many good and insightful speakers, full of spirit and enlightenment, I soaked it in. One thought I wanted to share:

The speaker was speaking of serving a mission in the Philippines islands and what the members of the church. Some people were SO Poor, it was surprising how they lived. Often they would eat rice, that was what they most often ate, for every meal. Sometimes they would have a little extra money, they would buy a vegetable to put on the rice. One day a father of a large family caught a fish. He sat the fish on the table. His children went to touch, admiring and desiring to eat it. He stopped them, needing to save the fish for dinner.

Pointing to their rice, he said, "Look at the fish, Eat a bit of rice... Look at the fish, Eat a bit of rice!"

In our lives, we desire to have it all! He was telling us, that we can look at something we want, and only take what we need... look at something we want and only spend what we need. It is a idea I have thought about the last few days. It takes a humble person to be able to desire something but resist it at the same time.

Recipe for Curry Butternut Squash soup

I got this from Taste of Home recipe book about Nov. 2008 edition. Made it for Millcreek Garden Soup and Pie day, it was yummy. Makes alot. Be careful at the end, it burns easily when you add milk.

4 lbs butternut squash*
1 large onion
2 T butter
1 T minced fresh ginger root
2 1/2 teaspoons curry powder
3/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper
3 large potatoes, peeled and cubed*
6 cups chicken broth*
1 1/2 cups milk- good without this too.

*I used more than this recipe calls for.

Cook Squash, microwave, boil or oven cook it.

Saute onion, butter until tender. Stir in Curry, Ginger, Salt and Pepper. Cook for 2 minutes. Sir in potatoes; Stir in Broth. Bring to boil, reduce heat, cover and simmer for 15-20 minutes, until potatoes are tender. Cool slightly.

Blend potato mixture in a blender until smooth. Add squash and *more chicken broth, until smooth. Do a little at a time, not to overwork blender.

Return to pan, stir in milk, if desired.

I put in crockpot to keep warm- great for alot of people.

Wheat Bread Rolls

This is from a neighbor Louise Hill, visiting her she gave me some of her rolls. It is a delicious recipe. She said she got it from a lady years ago, originally who came from Holland. Within minutes, Larry quickly ate 2 out of the 4 rolls she gave me. Larbear loved them too!

2 Tbs yeast dissolved in 1/2 c. water
1 tsp sugar

add to the following four ingredients that have cooled to lukewarm:

5 c. hot water
2/3 c. vegetable oil
2/3 c. honey
2 Tbs salt

after mixing the yeast mixture into the above four ingredients add:

3 cups of ground wheat (7 cups freshly ground whole wheat flour)
enough white flour for dough to pull away from sides of bosch bread mixer (maybe 5 cups)

Add enough white flour until it pulls away from the sides of your bread mixer (maybe 5 cups or so). Knead for 5 minutes. Raise until double in bulk (about 1 hour). Roll dough in hand and set out on cookie sheets. Raise again for 1 hour. Bake for about 15 minutes. Makes 4 dozen rolls.

SNOW!!!!

We still have lots of snow and loving it too!

Larbear's 1st Birthday Party

We enjoyed a intimate 1st birthday party for Larbear Monday night. The theme was John Deere tractor and farm, since Larbear loves green, eating anything green... most recently peas. He wasn't really sure what cake was or frosting, but Daddy made sure he got introduced to it. Larbear enjoyed the toy tractor the best of all, we had fun watching him be introduced to frosting.

Larbear 1st Birthday

Tomorrow is LT's 1st birthday. we are having cake at our home at 6 pm. then we are going to a magician show at the huntsville library at 7pm. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, LOVE YOU! Mamma April

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mosiah 29:10

mosiah 29:10
and now let us be wise and look forward to these things, and do that which will make for the peace of this people (family).

my thoughts: it takes wisdom to do what is wise and not emotional, to do what is best for your family and not for yourself. it takes wisdom to not react, but to act. to be calm in the storms of life. good scripture for my life today.
february 5, 2010

saw the story of jane eyre last night. it is a nice drama of a woman who acts wisely. i liked it.