Cookie Monster

This week has been hard on Deakon. He was sick on Tuesday and has been acting out a lot. I keep getting told (which I hate because it makes me feel like a bad mom) that he is BORED and needs to get out or do something new. So... last night when I got a craving for Grandma DuPaix's Chocolate Chip Cookies, I knew that it would be fun for us to do together. And... it was. He absolutely loved adding flour, attempting to break eggs, and helping me mix the dough. Oh, and his favorite part was that I gave him a handful of chocolate chips just for him to eat. This will definitely have to be a repeat, yummy cookies and a happy cookie monster.

Apparently the consequences of a bored little boy:

Facebook Tag

I did this tag on facebook and thought it would be fun to post it here:

25 things you might now know about me...

Rules: Once you've been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 25 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you.

1- When I was in preschool, I wanted to be either a nurse or a lifeguard when I grew up.

2- The younger five siblings in my family had a club called the "Secret Five" and we would meet on Sunday.

3- One day I would like to run a marathon and go sky diving.

4- I insisted on changing the spelling of my name from Angie to Angi so that I would be unique in 6th grade. I kept it up, although a few of my siblings kept pronouncing it An-guy and my Dad to this dad still adds an e to the end.

5- I recently moved to Canada... and really like it for the most part.

6- I tried out the last name of every guy I ever liked with my first name to see if they sounded good together.

7- I love stars! Not the kind outside, just the shape. I required stars on my wedding cake.

8- One day I would love to get veneers.

9- I hate doing dishes... they are so yucky...

10- I love to blog and wish I had more going on in my life to blog about.

11- I hate being put on the spot around people I don't know... Even if I know the answer to the question, or have an idea to add, I will act like an airhead and say, "I don't know"

12- I have no ideas or talents required to make my hair look cute, I guess that it why they invented elastics!

13- In middle school, my favorite body part were my forearms.

14- I HATE HATE HATE having my elbow-pit, wrist, or the front of my neck rubbed. It seriously makes me sick.

15- I didn't eat hamburgers for years... then I got pregnant and that ended pretty quickly.

16- I broke my wedding ring in September and so now I don't wear one.

17- I wish I had a hot pair of boots.

18- I love country music the most out of all music.

19- I love scruffy looking guys with facial hair.

20- My favorite drink of all time is Dr. Pepper.

21- I hate how I sound when my voice is recorded. It is really awful.

22- There is a spot on my butt that refuses to tan... I found this out when I was into indoor tanning.

23- When I was like 13, I promised myself I would name my first daughter: BreonnaMarie Lynn (yes, BreonnaMarie is one word) Aren't you glad I decided to break that promise?

24- I absolutely love to embarrass Kyle in public. It isn't very hard. Just talking really loud is enough to make him pretend he isn't with me.

25- I sing as loud as I can when I am alone, or just with Deakon, in the car. He is young enough not to complain yet. :)


***I am not tagging anyone, but I would love anyone who reads this to do it because it was super fun!

Yoga asks...

"Yoga asks us to make a choice in our life to forgive, and then to remember that again and again"

I love doing Yoga. It is hard, but really rewarding. Unfortunately, since we moved here I have only done it like 4 times. Sad, I know. This morning I woke up feeling driven. Deakon was sick throwing up yesterday so we hardly did anything. This morning we did laundry, cleaned up, went to the store, and made Kyle lunch. I promised myself right off that I WOULD do Yoga today- no excuses. As soon as Deakon went to bed and Kyle went back to work, I started clearing off a space. The last week or so Ron and Doreen have been making lots of changes to the house (painting, new light fixtures, and fixing the in-floor heating) so there have been a lot of different people going in and out. Oh course, I start doing Yoga and the plumbers show up. Perfect excuse right? Wrong! I will have you know that I continued to do all of my downward dogs, swan bows, and pidgeon something or other with one guy going up and down and up and down the stairs probably wondering what would provoke me to try and move my body in ways that nobody should ever do. So, at the end of my awkward journey the above quote appeared and it made me laugh- I guess I will have to forgive myself for forcing myself into such a distressing 30 minutes...

Thank goodness for Pamela and Crohn's Disease!

It all started when I heard that somebody I kind of knew was driving down to Utah after Christmas. I immediately called my mom and asked her if she could make a GF goodie box for me and send it back with them. Of course, being the good mom she is, stuffed a whole box with Rice Chex, Corn Crunchums, Envirokids rice bars, chocolate, brown rice flour, hot cereal mix, and a big bag of Pamela's Baking and Pancake Mix. Just imagine... a Celiac's dream box! Now, I am sure that you can get a bunch of this stuff here, but it isn't free, packed with love, and have a hand written letter to go along with it. I immediately dove into the cereal, but wondered what I should bake first.

I couldn't decide..... My sister, Meri heard that my mom had sent me extra fine brown rice flour and took it upon herself to talk me into making GF donuts. We have a weekly Skype date almost every Wednesday during Deakon's nap. We had done one other cooking Skype session, but it didn't turn out well. Her camera wouldn't work and I made the great decision to make ginger snaps and not buy all of the ingredients. But this time it worked out pretty good, although her donuts looked WAY better than mine (I stole pictures from her blog) mine tasted pretty darn good. I was pretty happy about making something! A week ago Saturday, Kyle's brother showed up and announced that he was going gluten free. He has Crohn's Disease and has heard from several people that eating GF helps. Man, I was SOOOO happy. We headed off to the GF bakery for some bread and lemon loaf...(heavenly). They do such a great job, but we have decided that because I have all of these good mixes we should do some baking ourselves. We have since made cinnamon raisin bread, sour cream coffee cake, and I made myself some yummy pancakes today. It feels so good to bake, and have someone to share with! I have never been happier about somebody having a disease before in my life! Thanks Bret! Here are some pics documenting everything but the coffee cake!

Bret:

Pamela's:


Donuts:

Raisin Bread:

Pancakes:

Family and Sillyness

I just found these 2 pictures on my computer. I thought I had lost them, but no, I am just dumb about how I label things. Marilyn and Kirsten came to Alberta after Christmas. It was fun seeing them again so soon and we had a few get togethers. I feel so bad though because the only 2 pictures I have are of Deakon and his cousin Brodie. No adults allowed I guess!

These are just a few pics that I took of Deakon being a silly little boy last week:

My Little Hockey Man!

Ginger

I promised 2 posts this week so here is number 2. I know this is from like 3 weeks ago, but it was lots of fun. Deakon got a gingerbread house kit from his cousins so we put it together for Family Home Evening. Oh, and Deakon really has been wearing more than this rob everyday of his life. :) It is so cute and perfect to put on with his jammies.

"Here comes the Olive!" UPDATE!!!

***UPDATE***

Now, here is one HUGE excuse for why I haven't blogged. Enjoy the pics and then I will write why it was such a big deal near the end:

(darn, Deakon just woke up, you will have to check for an update story later!)

I hope you have enjoyed checking out our new Jeep!!! We absolutely love it, in all of it's olive green glory. Now, maybe some of you are wondering why getting a new car is a good excuse for not blogging. I will tell you right now: If you move to a different country, DON'T take your current vehicle if it isn't paid off and DON'T think getting insurance for a new car in the new country is easy. Man, I have literally spent hours on the phone the last few weeks talking to our US bank, old insurance companies, my mom, new insurance companies, car transporting companies, the DMV, my mom, Canadian banks, Fedex, oh... and my mom. Did I mention my mom? (thanks mom!) It has been incredibly stressful talking to all of these people in Utah and them not understanding what I need. I swear, it's like nobody knows what Alberta is and don't understand that they do things different here. The good news is that we have a new car and we finally are getting our old car sent down to Utah to be traded in for some mulah.

Excuses, Excuses

I have a million excuses about why I haven't blogged in weeks... I am sure nobody wants to hear them so I am really honestly planning on making 2 real posts this week. Stay tuned!