Foster 4.0

Dinner, Dinner

I've been wanting to blog about this for quite a while now, but have never gotten around to it. As many of you know I am not a very good or motivated chef. Trav doesn't like much of anything, everything is "it's OK." And I've taken that personally over the years, but as Audrey is getting older and as we were going out to eat WAY too much, I've decided to do something about it!

I have the funnest neighbors, we really became friends through a play group that was started about 1.5 years ago. And in Feb decided to try this new dinner idea that a woman told me that she and her friends do.

So...how it works.

Monday-Michelle cooks a meal for everyone except Holly(They decided to only receive 3 meals)

Tuesday-Holly cooks a meal for everyone except Michelle

Wednesday-Suzanne cooks a meal for everyone

Thursday-Katie cooks meal for everyone

Friday/Saturday/Sunday-Fend for your self

UNDERSTANDING? So we only to cook once a week, and although we have to cook multiple meals, it's only one day a week! We are nearing the end of our second month and it's working out fabulously!!

We get together right before the month ends and plan the menu for the following month, Main dishes and one side.

Pretty cool that It's 4:01 and I have to leave for work at 5 and I'm just waiting for our dinner to show up. It's pretty much amazing! I'd definitely recommend it!!

Lets all learn them together!

Follow this link and I expect you and all of you kids to know this by the next time I see you...ha ha

The sweetest thing...

Someone made me breakfast....

Audrey came in and woke me up at 7:05 in the AM and told me that breakfast was ready...

What? So i followed her down to the kitchen and she had poured three bowls of oats with spoons in them. So funny, but how long had she been down here? SCARY!

Desperate times call for desperate measures

So, we "lost" Audrey’s binkie for a day and she did WONDERFUL! That is until she woke up from her nap and came out with this stupid thing in her mouth. Remember how she used this as a joke for her Halloween costume when she was 4 months old?!

St. George

A couple of weekends ago we went to St. George with Ashley & Andy and Nate & Lacy. It was really fun to get away and I wish I lived there. I'm trying to talk Trav into finishing school down there, we'll see if I can.

I suck at taking pictures lately so I stole these off of Ashley's blog.  Thanks Ash for taking pictures of my child!!

This Is Audreys attempt to eat with chop sticks, She did pretty good. And although the food tasted great at the time, 1/2 of the group had a bad case of DIA that night. SO FUN!

Audrey and Dallin...so cute These are the three babies, how long are they considered babies? Anyway, this is Audrey(almost 3), Lyla(9ish mo.) and Dallin(19 mo.)

My attempt to journal Easter

Cutest Cousins! Grandma Brown had the funnest easter egg hunt! These babies were the biggest fans! since they are the youngest of like 30 cousins, with me being the oldest. Actually they are the three oldest GREATS.(Great grand kids) Thanks grandma for including them like everyone else, like all of the normal cousins!

(From the left: Brock, Jamie and Jasons, Audrey Girl and Emma, James and Vivians)

To all mothers and all you mothers to be....

II was this on Megan's Pristine Wives blog. I love that blog, It's amazing how foreign some of the concepts sound, but really in my heart of hearts i truly believe them and yearn to live that way.

Mothers,
“Yours is the work of salvation, and therefore you will be magnified, compensated, made more than you are and better than you have ever been as you try to make honest effort, however feeble you may sometimes feel that to be. …Do the best you can through these years, but whatever else you do, cherish that role that is so uniquely yours and for which heaven itself sends angels to watch over you and your little ones….The very fact that you have been given such a responsibility is everlasting evidence of the trust your Father in Heaven has in you…. If you strive to love God, if you try your best to be the best parent you can be, you will have done all that a human being can do and all that God expects you to do….Remember, remember all the days of your motherhood: ‘Ye have not come thus far save it were by the word of Christ with unshaken faith in him, relying wholly upon the merits of him who is mighty to save.’ Rely on Him. Rely on Him heavily. Rely on Him forever. And ‘press forward with a steadfastness in Christ, having a perfect brightness of hope.’ You are doing God’s work.”

Jeffrey R. Holland, “Because She Is a Mother,” Ensign, May 1997

Reflections of Christ

I saw this on Cairens blog and just had to post it on mine. It is really touching and even Audrey watched it 3 times. Click Here.

Pregnancy, Pregnancy, Pregnacy...

As many of you know, I have had a rash on my arms and hands for the past couple of months. I have been to many doctors and they diagnosed it as eczema. But nothing they were giving me was helping. It was really frustrating since for a profession I use my arms and hands regularly.  So last week I went to a dermatologist who did a biopsy.

The results came back as Papular dermatitis of pregnancy. Basically I got this the week of conception and will most likely have with each pregnancy here after.  Which leads me to believe that I will only be giving birth twice.

Well hopefully twice, after researching this i found out that there is a 27% fetal mortality rate. Which SUCKS!     And is scary and sad and I hope we just make it full term.

Anyways, thats the up date and will up date as the days go on.....