Weekend Review

Hey Everyone! I am linking up here. I didn't take to many pictures of my self... aka none... But I had a fabulous weekend. My cousins little boy turned one this week so we spent a lot of our time with him. He is seriously the cutest little thing. My Sister and her Fiance make amazing cakes and they made Little Kody's first cake. Isn't it the cutest thing?

 Kody was not afraid to dig right in but right after was not very happy with the results... 

So maybe I took one picture I had just come from work and school all day so I'm a little gross...

Don't judge me :)

 Saturday we spent the day with some of our good friends from out of town. We had a BBQ and we were tasked with bringing the desert (my friends know that I a horrible cook so this is our permanent assignment around these parts). Jon wanted to do something different so we combined our baking powers and came up with this amazing cake...

Better Than Sex Cake

It is seriosuly so easy and incredibly delicious we found the recipe here... I don't know if it really was better than sex BUT it was pretty darn close....

INGREDIENTS

• 1 box Devil’s Food Cake
• 1 8-oz tub cool whip
• 1 can sweetened condensed milk
• 1 bottle caramel ice cream topping
• 1 package Heath bar pieces (found in the baking aisle by the chocolate chips)

DIRECTIONS

1. Cook Devil’s food cake in a 9 x 13 inch pan, according to package directions and let it cool.
2. In a large bowl, combine caramel and sweetened condensed milk.
3. Using the end of a wooden spoon, poke holes in the cake every couple of inches. Alternatively, you can use a fork to poke holes.
4. Pour the caramel/sweetened condensed milk over the top of the cake so that it fills all of the holes.
5. Spread Cool Whip over the top of the cake.
6. Sprinkle Heath bar pieces on top.
7. Enjoy! PS: Store leftovers in the refrigerator.

Out of the Mouths of Babes

Today was just a great Sunday. We changed how we are teaching Sunday school and it has just made Primary an all around better experience. I may have explained this before but if  not I will again. I teach the sunbeams...otherwise know as the 3 year old's. I think this is the calling that each newly married couple is required to hold.... like a right of passage into married life as a LDS couple... But really though I am going through the list of all of our married friends and they all have callings in Primary or nursery... 

Maybe it is to show all us newly married peeps that we just NEED to have little nuggets of our own. Personal I think this would have an adverse affect on most. 

Other peoples kids are so bad sometimes especially when you through them in a room with some fresh faced newly wed. Luckily I am now fresh faced newly wed (ok maybe I am) but I have done my time in the class room... teaching kindergarten and first grade at an after care for 4 years and I wont lie when I was 18 I had the primary class from... um... whats a nice way to put this... the primary class that seemed to exemplify what highlight real of Nanny911 might look like, 

 but that is a whole different post. 

This post is about how stinkin' cute my 3 year old's right now are. 

Our lesson today was on Friendship. Wanna hear something cute ask a 3 year old how they know that Jesus is their friend. Best thing I have heard all week. Until I heard this...

This is my screen saver on my phone...

AWWW so sweet and tender right? Not thorugh the eyes of a 3 years old. She go my phone and was like "THAT'S GROSS hes kissing you on your wedding!"

All I could do was laugh. I asked her "Haven't you seen any pictures of your parents kissing on their wedding day?"

She answers...

NO!! Thats sick... Oh wait... One time I walked in to my Mommy's room and saw it... They were kissing on the picture and I was like...

THAT'S DISGUSTING! 

She made that face and I laughed so hard I made her do it again... Of course she was happy to do it. I am in love with my class :) So there you go kissing disgusting... but of course she wanted to look at the picture 12 times through out the lesson. 

Oh and if you ever want a lesson in what parents are teaching there kids at home just ask them what one of the 10 commandments are... 

Here are the 10 commandments according to Cocoa Wards Jr Primary

1. Don't shoot things for fun- This ended up in a 5 minuet conversation about when it is OK to shoot things...

2. Keep the Sunday Holy

3. Jesus healed Moses with mud on his eyes..

4. Don't say Gods name when you are being evil

5. Don't hit your brother

6. Invite your friends to church

 (but my only friend who liked church

 moved to South Carolina and that's to far to come to church)

7. UHHHH Jesus!!!

8. The temple... Moses built it...

9. Don't worship golden cows, TV or being pretty.

10. Dont kiss

  

How to Live Like You Are in Kindergarten...

This week at work I have been with the brand new kindergartners. They don't actually start school until Monday so I get to spend a few extra days with these little guys. They have so much energy and excitement for life, I wish I lived like this every day. So here are a five things I learned from my five-year-olds.
1. Laugh at everything. Seriously, this is my favorite thing about them. The littlest things make them laugh out loud and I am pretty sure every time it happens a year is added on to my life.
2. Go all out. When they believe something there is no convening them it is wrong. They fight, love and laugh with everything they have.
3. Play like you will never get to again. Every minuet they get to play is the best time of their life. Why cant we all live every day like this!!!
4. Color outside the lines. So maybe the Cinderella and Prince Charming have blue faces and red eyes... they are not afraid to color things how they see them. They are not held back by how things "should be".
5. Don't Be afraid to cry. Some time tears are needed, they are good, and if we let ourselves express our feelings their would not be some much pint up stresses in our lives.

Thankful Thursday

This week has been a rather hard one. With all the daily trials and hardships thrown at me I find that mostly negative thoughts run through my head. It is a horrible thing, it makes my days go by slower, my mood worse, even my body hurts. So instead of basking in the glory of my no-good-rotten-mood like I normally do I tried something new. I made a list of what I am thankful for. It started off slowly and then quickly grew.  So I thought I would share a few things that brighten my day.

1. I have a job...although this has been one of my major stress out I am very thankful for a great boss and wonderful kids to teach.(Please ignore out cowboy attire it was western day and  this was our old western picture)

2. School... I am ALMOST DONE!!! I can see the end of the road am I am TRULY grateful for this.

3. We live close to the temple. Heaven on earth enough said.

4. Ruca... Sweet puppy is the love of my life.

5. My Family 

6. A good work out. 

7. I saved the most important for last My Husband because:

Cooks me dinner when I don't feel like doing it 

Dry's Ruca off when I give her a bath 

Cuddles me so I can fall asleep even though he wont actually go to bed for hours

Doing the previously mentioned task when I am grumpiest grump

Tells me when I am wrong

Is patient with me 

Gets me water 

Wakes up early to go to his church meetings 

Goes to the beach with me 

Can shoot a gun/ Owns a gun 

Has really strong arms and lifts heavy things with them  

 Loves people and thinks of them before doing things

Is smoking hot