The view out my kitchen window !!!

Spring is in the air trala !!! This is a peach tree in my back yard that gets so full of fruit every summer. However it is so high up and I'm so low to the ground it largely goes un-picked!! So if you want peaches this summer come and bring a ladder and you can have all you can pick !!

First come, first served !! LOL

A word about the girl !!!

She is actually holding down a meal !! Her Aunt Sarah asked her what she wanted her to make her for dinner tonight, she requested her famous Rigatoni. She cooks the sauce all day and the flavor is very rich and full flavored !! It is awesome. And Hill had to get better because she knows it's against the law* to throw-up her Aunt's Rigatoni. (*It was passed when there was a Republican in office !!)

Okay I spoke to soon !!! She broke the law !! This is an old picture from a few months ago. I lost my camera in all of the excitement Saturday night !!!

Take a look, so I'll be accountable to someone !!!

Hey I started a "diet" blog !! It is entitled "Okay I'm singing", you can go there by clicking on my link below !! I am hoping to go in a whole new direction, hence the picture !!! Isn't that the cutest car, it looks like mine only it's the wrong color !! (I figured it is really "Kiwi" but I am going so fast she has heated up!!)

On a happier note !!!

Whole Wheat Herb Bread

2 cups warm water
2 Tbsp. yeast
2 cups whole wheat flour
2.5 cups white flour
1.5 tsp. salt
4 Tbsp. powdered milk
1 Tbsp. sweet basil leaves
1 Tbsp. crushed rosemary
1 Tbsp. ground marjoram
1 Tbsp. crushed parsley leaves
4 Tbsp. olive oil
.5 cup honey
1 large egg

Combine .5 cup warm water and yeast in small bowl. In a large mixing bowl combine wheat flour and 2 cups of white flour, salt, basil, rosemary, marjoram, parsley and powdered milk and mix well. In another bowl mix together 1.5 cups of warm water, oil, honey, and egg. Combine with the dry ingredients and mix until well incorporated. Add yeast mixture to flour mixture and remaining .5 cup of white flour.Turn the dough out onto a floured surface and knead until smooth, adding additional flour to prevent the dough from sticking. Place in lightly oiled bowl and let rise in a warm place until doubled. About one hour. After the bread has doubled, work it down and shape it into 3 free-form rounded loaves or into rolls. For rolls, roll dough 1.5" thick and cut with a biscuit cutter. Cover, let rise for 1 hour. Heat oven to 325* and bake bread on cookie sheet for 20-26 minutes, or until lightly browned.

Sisterhood is awesome !!!

I have felt very loved thru this whole ordeal !! I had personal visits yesterday from Susan Tanner and my mother made us a pot of her famous potato soup and brought it over yesterday !! (gone by last night), and Allyson went out late last night and got us Gator Aid, plus on my blog I have had the most endearing comments and best wishes and prayers from all of my blogging friends. And today I had personal visits from Linda Saunders and Heather Bonham (RS president Academy ward), telephone calls from Linda Ryan (even tho she is sick herself), Allyson (before work and on her way home too) and Linda Jaeckel !!! Plus Julie has called several times today too, checking on Hill and I wishing they were closer so they could help us too !! Not to mention my sweet sister Jamie has called several times checking on Hill and I and making sure Hill doesn't have fever and if she's seen the doctor again, she's an MA and has worked for doctors since High School !! My Nieces Melissa and Jessica have called to make sure we are okay and what they could do to help !! Plus my sister-in-law called to ask Hill what she wants her to make for dinner tomorrow night !!!

It has almost been overwhelming, and if I stop to think about it I'll cry !!!! I wish everyone in the world had the great and wonderful family and friends I have. It is truly a Sisterhood of righteous women who watch over me and Hill, and we are awed by it and thankful !!!

Thank You too all of you Angels...

Thank You to all of the "Angels on Earth" that I know !! Thanks for praying for Hill, she is really in need of your prayers !! She has not stopped vomiting (probably more than you want to know again) all night !! She doesn't want to have to go back to the doctor in the morning !! And I am praying she is better so she doesn't have too !!!

I am grateful for Allyson and her willingness to serve !! She came to the hospital with Dave and Kent Stringham to give Hill a blessing !! She was there to lend moral support and to make us laugh !! And when we came home 3 hours after Hill's surgery she made us dinner and it was just what the doctor ordered !!! And then tonight she went out after 9pm to get us some Gator Aid to help me so I wouldn't have to go and leave Hill alone !!! I called her because she usually has Gator Aid in stock, but when she didn't, out she went !!! Hill is not able to keep it down either but I'm praying she is getting something from it !! She even thought of me and brought me chocolate knowing full well the way I deal with stress is to eat chocolate !!! Thanks Friend you have a large mansion prepared for sure !!!

I don't want to go to sleep in case she should choke and I not hear her, my hearing is not so good any more !!! So I am blogging away to stay awake. There are many more blogs ahead to thank all of those who have made this all possible !! (My being here with Hill 24/7 )

Most importantly I wish to thank Father in Heaven for the advances in medicine, and the country we live in and it's amazing medical care, and his saving my daughters life yet again, and all of the blessings we enjoy even tho we don't have the Priesthood in our home, and for all those men we know who honor their Priesthood and are willing to bless the lives of others so willingly !!

There are so many Angels among us !! Thank You all for being there for us yet again !! Love to you all !!!

My Pay it Forward treasures !!!

Today I received my pay it forward gifts (yes I said gifts) from Susan !! I know I have posted twice today but I couldn't wait to show everyone my treasures !! She gave me a handmade handkerchief for "happy tears" only !!!

She made us little loaves of homemade bread made with fairy dust !! Yum Yum they were delicious !! By the time I got a camera, this is all there was left of the bread !!

The pin she created for me was made from her wedding china and came with the accompanying scriptures and poem on a bookmark !!! (Sorry I couldn't get a better picture cuz it wasn't my camera !!)

"The Lord is nigh unto them that are of broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit. Psalms 34:18

"He taketh the broken pieces of our lives and redeems... restores... rebuilds. "

"He maketh everything beautiful in His time... Ecclesiastes 3:11