Yeah!

I am excited because my sister had her baby. I got to be there for the birth and it was a neat experience. The baby is so cute. I was very grateful that I was allowed to be there. 

Congratulations Katy!

What?

Again it's been quite awhile since I wrote on my blog. The last little while my husband and I have been trying to make life changing decisions. So all my time was spent thinking about it or trying not to think about it. For those who don't know we decided to move back to Cedar City. The last year we both felt has been a disappointment and a waste. We knew we had to do something else. We chose to move to Cedar for quite a few reasons. But it's going to take some sacrifices on our part to make it possible. For example, I have to move down here practically without Abe until he can find work down here and we get someone to rent our condo. We thought about selling but considering how the market is we think that might not be possible. So if anyone knows of someone who who wants a place in Eagle Mountain let me know. So of course we are going to be tight on money for awhile. The funny thing is I keep looking at getting a job because I don't want to give up Netflix. Can we all say how spoiled I am?

Gwen is starting to act like a little girl more than a baby. It is so fun to watch her now. She is cute and goofy. And I can understand her a lot more. She still throws tantrums like a two year old but that is her age. She still limits what she says though. Every animal is a bear, cow or bird, every person is 'Daddy', and every drink is 'water too'. But at least she is using her words.

I went through a time where I started writing a story. During the summer my family does a summer school for the nieces and nephews to keep them busy. My sister Katy did one online that was a writing class so I pretended to participate. Now I went back to the assignment and started working on it again. Maybe if I practice enough I'll be able to get better at writing. If you couldn't tell by my blogs, I'm really bad at it. My sister Christy Hardman has a couple of books out. "Against the Giant" and "Santa's Secret" My brother has a book out on Amazon called "The Living Dead the Reapers Reward" under the name of Oliver Church. My sister Katy is trying to get a book published and my sister Kari is writing one on how to get your kids to work. And to top it all off my brother John thought up a book and sat down and wrote it in three days. He pretty much can do anything he wants to and he's good at it. I'm so jealous. So I guess you could say my family is a writing family. I just can't do it very well. I wrote a short book years ago that ended up sounding more like a screen play than a book. That tells you the extent of my talents. Maybe someday if I'm daring I'll put it on my blog for people to read and make fun of. Anyway now I'm really rambling on again so I'll stop before I start boring you all to death. And I'll try to write again before too long.

Let's see if this works

In this video every time Gwen pretended to crack a pistachio she made a funny face. Hope you enjoy.

Fun Photos

Here shows Gwen's love for berries. She'll even eat them with a teaspoon, while singing a tune, with a cow, eat them now, she'll even eat them here or there, and when she does they get everywhere.

We also see Gwen here in her favorite perch on the counter stirring noodles. Yes she did try and add juice from her cup.

                                              

More of Gwen goodness

I must be a little slow but I finally realized something today. Every once and a while Gwen will be sitting on the floor then will crawl over to some ones foot and lick it. It made me giggle and I just rode it off as one of Gwen's oddities but I finally figured it out. She is playing doggie. She did it again tonight first daddy's foot then mine and in between she was making some sort of barking noise. Now I know why she licks peoples feet. It's a relief to know that there is some reason behind it and that Gwen is not just crazy. 

I mentioned earlier that Gwen likes to call her panda bear 'Cow' Well now she has me calling it that. If we ask her 'Where's cow?' she'll find him. Likewise if we ask her 'Where's bear?' its the same result. Abe said today that we will never know whether she thinks it's a cow called bear, or a bear called cow. I guess it's one of the mysteries of life what is going on in a child's head?

More cooking fun, Gwen the other day made me put her on the counter and said "Cook?" At the moment I didn't have anything to cook so Gwen was disappointed. Another time I gave her something to stir and she stirs it forever. She thinks it's hers now and will not let me touch it. All the while I have to keep things away from her so she doesn't add salt and pepper, sesame seeds, minced onions, or whatever she can reach and open to the mixture. 

Birthdays

For all you who don't know tomorrow is my birthday. I used to really look forward to my birthday. While growing up my mom would make us our favorite dinner and bake us a cake served with icecream, and then of course it was great to get presents. Then there were the birthdays were you turned an age where you got more privileges like going into young women, dating and driving, being old enough to be considered an adult, and being able to go on a mission. 

Now to have it the same way, I would have to cook my favorite meal and the clean up that goes along with it. If I made myself a cake, let's see there is Abe, Gwen and me to eat it. Talk about being sugared out. As for presents I still enjoy those but each year is different. Some years finances aren't good so you feel guilty even receiving a present. And now that I'm past all the ages where something happens, I am just getting older and older. I remember as a kid thinking how old everyone was. My eighteen year old sisters were just right but after that you were just old and decrepit. I don't have the same view as I did then luckily otherwise I would feel like I was knocking on deaths door. But I do feel like the sands of time will not be stopped and every year I get older my body is now going to start falling apart. I've already noticed some things already that don't work the same as they use to. For example, I use to be able to eat anything with no side effects unless I ate too much. Now I get indigestion with some foods, and other sorts of symptoms which I won't mention because of embarrassment. But I'm sure some of you can guess. 

Well I have to stop this rambling now because Gwen needs me and I'm sorry that this one doesn't have a point. I'm sure if given more time I would have come up with something. So it's up to you to give it a point. Try to end it on a happy note though because sad endings make me cry. 

Gwen's Cooking

It has been fun to let Gwen help me cook. The other day we made some more cookies. She helped me put the ingredients in the bowl spilling half of the contents onto the counter. Then when I let her crack the egg she was a little too enthusiastic and cracked it all over the counter, floor and my hand. 

Then a few days later I let her help me with dinner. This time she brought her favorite toy with her. It's a very cute panda bear that she likes to call "Cow".  The first thing she does is plop him down onto the stove then she reaches over and tries to turn on the burner. After that plan was thwarted by my husband she takes panda and puts him in my kitchen aid mixer. And she turns it on. Luckily it was unplugged. Gwen then takes a dash of flour and a smidgeon of salt and puts it on the bear. Mix some more with the unplugged mixer and it was almost ready. She then gives the panda a kiss and she has just completed the recipe A La Panda. It was a lot of fun to watch. I love how she had to give him a kiss just so he knew there were no hard feelings. 

This concludes cooking time with Gwen please tune in next time for more recipes of cooking exotic meats and in some case endangered species.