Chicken Legs

Growing up my family ate chicken quite frequently. As a kid my favorite piece was always the leg. I didn’t have to bother with a knife and fork because it came with it’s own built in handle for my little hand to hang on to. It usually had a nicely browned skin as well and [...]

Angry Birds

On Saturdays ODD can only sleep in so long. His internal clock is so accustomed to waking up early that he can’t manage to sleep in very long. I, on the other hand, would sleep until 11 if left to my own devices. Once ODD is up and banging around the house it doesn’t take [...]

1.21 Gigawatts

For Christmas the kids got an easel from ODD’s brother’s family. They love it and use it almost every day. The chalkboard especially gets a lot of use. Peanut and Wingnut draw pictures together (sometimes happily; sometimes not) on it and Peanut likes to practice writing letters on it.

This morning I noticed a large [...]

Pumpkin Carving

We attempted to grow pumpkins again this year and actually got a couple that were somewhat respectable. One of them didn’t turn orance but we carved them both anyway. The rest were bought at a little pumpkin patch in South Jordan. The Monday before Halloween we carved them all and put them on our porch.

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Fall Leaves

Growing up, my house didn’t have big trees that drop loads of leaves. I envied some neighbors up the street who had a couple of huge, leafy trees in their front yard because they always had heaps of leaves to play in. I had to make do with playing at the local elementary school playground [...]