Monday, March 31, 2008

PoTaTo SoUp

So I made this soup today and thought I would post the recipe on my blog because its delicious!! Its my Grandma Risenmays recipe!

Potato Soup
2 packs of chicken noodle soup
(make the soup as it calls for on the box)
2 cups of potatoes
1 -2 cups carrots
1 cup evaporated milk
2 tbs butter
garlic to taste

add the carrots and potatoes and noodles to boiling water all at the same time
after potatoes and carrots are soft
add garlic powder, salt or fresh garlic to taste
add 1 cup of evaporated milk to thicken up the soup
then add butter

i like to add extra potatoes and carrots because i like my soup chunky
i also dont add all the 8 cups of water that the noodle soup calls for
i add about 6 cups (this makes the soup a little thicker, if you like soup a little more runny add all 8 cups to the noodle soup)

you can also add celery, peas, chicken chunks and anything else you like in soup. you can also serve with shredded cheese on top.

its great with just the potatoes and carrots though!!

let me know if any of you try it and what you think!!

Saturday, March 15, 2008

Nothing New

Not much has happened in our lives so I thought I would post some more cute pictures of Behlie!



We had set down the pizza and Behlie in the living room and went into the kitchen to get some drinks. I came back into the living room just in time to see Behlie reach for the pizza. So i rushed over to stop her and saw that this was not her first time going for it! HA HA! She sure liked it!!


Behlie's sun hat!



Behlie's first taste of licorice!! She loved it!

Valentines Day 2008

Behlie's favorite toy!

Saturday, January 26, 2008

Behlie Behlie Behlie

I had a request for more pictures of Behlie. So here they are!! Enjoy!!
This is her first time in a booster seat. She did well.
She loves the bathtub!!

I promise...



She loves to pull faces



Getting ready to go to the Provo City Christmas Parade.

Behlie's first saltine cracker!!


Behlie loves her tigger bouncer!



Makayla and Behlie on Christmas


Learning how to sit by herself.


Cheese!!


Her Christmas model pose


Sleepin ZZZ

Christmas

This year we had Christmas as the Graul cabin just out side of Heber. It was perfect! There was tonz of snow and it was just really cozy!


Jacob and Behlie. She is looking at a book that her Great Grammy and PaPa from Maine gave her.





Tuesday, January 1, 2008

CRUNCH!!

On the evening of Dec 13, 2007 Jacob had come to pick me up from Aubreys house. We were on our way home around 5:30pm driving south on Orem Blvd. It had just started to snow a little bit. We came to the stop at 800 S. We were sitting there talking when all of the sudden CRUNCH BANG BUMP! We had been rear ended!! My first concern was Jacob and Behlie!! We were hit so hard that we hit the lady in front of us and she hit the guy in front of her! Behlie started to scream! I was terrified! I didnt know if she was ok or not. Jacob and I were visibly ok. I got out of the car and checked Behlie and she was ok. She was in her car seat buckled into the car. (thank goodness for carseats!!) It has just scared her to death! As we got out of the car the guy who hit us asked if we were ok. He was driving a Dodge Durango. (ouch) We think he hit us going about 30 mph. I walked up to the woman we hit and asked her if she was ok. She was on the phone with 911. A few minutes later the whole brigade showed up! Lights! Sirens! Fire truck! Ambulance! A few cop cars! WOW! We sure drew a crowd! Everyone involved was ok and didnt need to go to the hospital. We exchanged insurance info, got the police report and drove our poor battered car home. We went to the doctor the next day just to get checked out. X rays were ordered and everything looked good. We took our car to the body shop to get an estimate and found that it was going to be close to $7,000 to fix! We knew our car wasn't worth that much and were planning on having the ins total the car. So off to look for new cars. Not what we were planning on getting for Christmas but... So we DID end up getting it totaled and getting a new car! I will post pictures of it later!!