Chocolate Covered Strawberries

While you're still waiting on Valentine adventures, here are some teasers.

Since Jeremy knew he wouldn't be around for Valentine's Day, he made chocolate covered strawberries for me the week before.

 

O.K. O.K. O.K. I have to stop right now because of something funny I just discovered. 

O.K. I am the type of person who types with her fingers on the home row keys. Shout out to elementary school on a dark stage typing on the computers with the green screens. It worked well for me. I don't look at the keyboard while typing (except for numbers/symbols that are on the same keys as the numbers above the letters). Often I'll type in the dark. I just realized something while typing that my husband made chocolate covered strawberries for me.

If your fingers are over to the left one key from the home row keys, if you try to type "for" it comes out "die." Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha.

So I was trying to type that he made chocolate covered strawberries for me but I was distracted or something after typing "strawberries" so I put my fingers in the wrong places and it came out he made chocolate covered strawberries die. Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha.

Actually, I'm the one who made them die by eating them. Bwah ha ha ha ha ha.

O.K. I think that's enough to share for this blog post. I hope you got a good chuckle from it like I did. 

Blog later.

Things to Share but No Time

I have Valentine things to share but I don't have the time right now.

We had several days of Valentine activities which is why it will take time that I don't have.

Sooooo...

One morning, Jeremy sent me this picture before work.

Oooooh. 

I ran out to get a picture of our sky. Not as brilliant, but still cool. 

O.K. Thanks. Blog later. Bye.

Mmmm, Brownies

You may have noticed that we like brownies in our family. We have a recipe for brownies that I've been using for many many many many years. It's my go to potluck dessert. Even the kids will make brownies if they need a dessert for something. It's simple. It's easy.

But I'm not going to talk about those brownies right now.

I'm going to talk about Cream Cheese Brownies because February 10 was National Cream Cheese Brownie Day. I can never remember what recipes I've used in the past for this holiday. So this year, I found a new recipe (I'm assuming I haven't made it before because I found it on the internet this time). It's from Tasty and the recipe was for Cream Cheese Boxed Brownies.

I didn't used a boxed brownie mix. I used our tried and true recipe, which is quick, which is good because it was getting later and later and I wanted to make those cream cheese brownies for the holiday. 

I would do this recipe again to see if I could get a better swirl on the top. Oh well. Looks aren't everything.

 

Jet's Turn

 

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Lunar New Year Celebration at the Library

Monday, February 9, was National Pizza Day.

Since I had plans to take family members to the Lunar New Year Celebration at the Orem Library, we had to do quick pizza celebrating.

I managed to get pizzas put together but they needed to be put in the oven. I didn't have time since I was going to pick up Nichole from campus and pick up Lucky from rehearsal before quickly eating and getting to the library.

I figured Nichole would be able to put the pizzas in the oven so this is the conversation I had with Jr. Jr. and Jet.

 

Mom: Nichole will be in charge of putting the pizzas in the oven when I get back.

Jr. Jr.: Got it. Jet will be in charge of putting the pizzas in the oven.

Jet: No. I'll be in charge of taste testing the pizzas.

 

Have I mentioned how much I love my family?

 

I got everybody home, we ate, then Jr. Jr., Jet, and I went to the library for the celebration. 

Jet and I made a Chinese lantern. We trotted like horses because it is going to be the year of the Horse. We did a scavenger hunt and earned fortune cookies. 

Jet took a break to play with things in the main area of the children's section. 

Jr. Jr. took that time to juggle. I love that he likes to continually learn new tricks.

We went back to watch the Lion dancing in the auditorium. 

 Then Jet played some more and we went home.

 Nice night. And we ate pizza.

Superb Owl Sunday Sketches

In September I took the kids to Back to Hogwarts Night at the Orem Library. Nichole took this picture of an owl while we were there.

This was the picture they based Sunday Sketches on for Superb Owl Sunday.

 

Jeremy (quite the superb owl)

Nichole

Jr. Jr.

Lucky

Jet 

I Learned Some New Skills

Superb Owl Sunday was on February 8. Jeremy, Nichole, Jr. Jr., Lucky, and Jet all contributed to Sunday Sketches. I will post about that later.

Jeremy fed us some Rootinest Tootinest Breakfanootinest Casserole (his own creation- we haven't had it in years, though). 

Since the weather was nice, I wanted to take a nice relaxing drive in the afternoon. Several of us got in the van and went for a drive through Provo Canyon, around Deer Creek Reservoir, up into Midway, around Heber Fields, and back through downtown Heber, around Deer Creek Reservoir, and through Provo Canyon again, where we had a tire blow out after we got out of the canyon.

So I got to learn some new skills and recognize many blessings. If I was on my own (without Jeremy), I would have freaked out. As it was, we were both able to support each other. Jeremy looked up YouTube videos and was able to get the spare tire out of the trunk (and managed to get the old tire off and into the trunk- it was heavy). I was able to crawl down on the ground and figure out where to put the jack. We both took turns lifting the van with the jack. I got to put the spare on and put the lug nuts back on. Jeremy did more tightening than I did. We both got to see that the spare was flat so I called some friends and since we were not too far from home (huge blessing), I was able to get a ride home to get our portable air compressor and drive back with our other vehicle. Then I got the experience of learning how to use the air compressor to fill up the spare tire. Jeremy and I worked well together. That's another blessing.

It was a beautiful night. Kids were well behaved. Nichole took Jet walking up and down the sidewalk because we pulled over off the main road to a road that didn't have much traffic. Jet was well behaved in his cute Seahawks jacket. I put that on him because the Seattle Seahawks were playing in the Super Bowl that day (and won). Jr. Jr. kept himself entertained by juggling.

It ended up not being too late when we got home, too.  

The next day, I was able to get kids to school then drove to get a new tire. I got to read some more of The Hobbit at the tire store while I waited and then found out the tire was still under warranty. Woohoo. Yay for more blessings.