Announcing...

Baby Atwood #3

Due May 3rd, 2012

Josh turns three!

The day he was born

Three years later :)


We were visiting family this year for his birthday, so he was lucky enough to have a party with the Atwood side and with the Bagley side. A few days ago we were at the store and he wanted a toy. I told him no, and he said "Please can I just have one last birthday? Just one more?" He really figured out how to use the system to his advantage :) For about the last six months he's been planning to have a RED party with red candles and red presents and red cake. We had his red party with the Atwoods, and immediately after his party he decided he wanted to have another party but it needed to be blue. So at my parents house on his birthday we had blue cupcakes and blue presents and whatnot. Now he's trying to convince me to let him have a green party. I think I'm about partied out though.



It is so fun to see Josh grow everyday and learn new things. Right now he loves cars and trains. He's learning to write his letters and how to ride his new red bike. He is such a good kid and I'm blessed to be his mother.



Happy Birthday Josh!

Ezra

Here's a little video I took of Ezra today. It's kind of long but I love how his right eyebrow raises when he plays. He keeps saying cheese because he think's I'm taking a picture :) The camera died at the end, which was probably a good thing, but that's why it cuts out.

Valentine's Day

Ten reasons why I'm in love with Blake:

1. He continually strives to become better. He is so dedicated to the things that he chooses to do and is constantly trying to improve and be a better person.

2. He is very good at making me feel comfortable with who I am. I felt just as great about myself at nine months pregnant because he always lets me know that he thinks I'm beautiful :)

3. He loves to play the guitar and sing to me. It makes me so happy.

4. He plays hard with the boys. Yesterday I just sat in a chair and watched them roll around and wrestle and it made me so happy to hear the boys giggling and loving their dad.

5. He likes to cook, and he doesn't make me feel bad for not liking to cook :) He's also a REALLY GOOD cook. He loves to experiment with foods which I'm way to nervous to do. It makes for some really good food.

6. He honors the priesthood and is an excellent example to his boys.

7. He's supportive of the things that are important to me.

8. He is so creative. Every year for Valentine's Day he makes me a coupon book fill with all different kinds of coupons that I get to redeem for the entire year.

9. He is such a hard worker and a good provider for his family.

10. He loves me uncoditionally.

I am so grateful to have married such a wonderful man and I am so happy that I get to spend the rest of eternity with him. He is perfect for me and I love him.

ABC's

So Blake and I have been working a lot with Josh on his ABC's lately. Here is a little video of what he's learned!

Here are a few pictures of the boys from the past week or two:

Sunday Pie Making!

So Rachel and Ihave decided to start a new tradition for Sundays. We got a William-sonoma pie recipe book as a gift when we got married and a little while ago we were looking at it and decided we wanted to make every pie in the book. To do this we decided to make it a fun tradition to make one every Sunday. So the past few months we have been making a fun pie or tart after church. Here are some that we have already made.

This is the first pie that we made. It is a Blueberry pie. So the day that we decided to do this sunday pie tradition was on a sunday and we couldn't go out to buy any ingredients so we were looking for a recipe that we had stuff for. We didn't think it was possible to make a pie that first sunday but just so happens we had all the ingredients for this blueberry pie. It was loaded with butter and actually tasted better than we thought it would.
This is a Chocolate Silk Pie. It was way too rich and we messed up big time on the white chocolate that went on top so it didn't look as good as the picture.

The next week we did a Raspberry Cream Pie and entered it into our ward pie contest. It was very delicious and looked way good too but sadly we didn't get a picture.
This is a Fresh Mint-Chocolate Truffle Tart. It requires a bunch of fresh mint leave and they cook in whole whipping cream so that the cream takes on the flavor of the mint. Then you add chocolate. It was pretty tasty too and looked good with the powder sugar on top.

This is a Strawberry Tart with Orange Cream. It was super tasty and fun. It has an orange cream cheese under all the strawberries. We were suppose to add cointreau which is some sort of orange flavored liqueur from western france but seeing how we don't drink we used simply orange orange juice. Then you add the strawberries and lastly top with an apricot glaze. We really liked this one.

This plain looking pie is actually a Banana Cream Pie. We should have taken a picture of a single slice of pie but we didn't. The filling is actually a custard and is poured over banana slices.

Our last pie from this last sunday is a Cinnamon Apple Crumb Pie. We made it and took it over to a halloween party at some friends house. It also was pretty tasty.

Over all we have really enjoyed making pies every sunday and plan to keep doing it. Josh really thinks its fun too and he helps make the "Pie Dough" and will sit at the counter and smash his own little ball of dough as he repeats "joshy make pie dough" over and over. We plan on making a pie every week and hope to make a post weekly on our pies too.