April Love List

Bountiful Baskets - This pregnancy I’ve craved vegetables (never done that before). So I love Bountiful Baskets and now I can just walk down with my little red wagon and pick them up without getting in the car. Yay!

Love this salad dressing, Briannas Ginger Mandarin. Had it at a party and took me forever to find it because it was at Nikki’s grocery store. That’s where my sister-in-law shops and Logan knows I hate it and he tells Nikki that every time they go there. So you can find this at Dick’s Market and not at Smith’s Marketplace (aka Mommy’s store).

I don’t want to move but I dream about rebuilding an old new house where we live. I love love love this floor plan – The Winslow.

Cake stands and tiered stands – I love them but why do they have to be so pricey. I’m in love with this one at Pottery Barn.

Also love this scalloped cake stand at Williams-Sonoma

I love this hand soap. I have a small obsession with basil so I love this. I also love their lemon verbena scent and just saw they have rosemary. I’ve found a few scents at Target but Walmart has the basil scent and a wider variety.

Last but certainly not least - Double Magnums. These are finally available in the US. I'm seriously not kidding when I say that since I had them in Europe every time I see an ice cream cooler I'd make Tad stop so I could see if they had any Magnums. You can now find these at Walmart and I hear Target too.

What are some things you love right now?

Happy Earth Day!

Hopefully today Tad will mow the lawn for the first time this season. I just wanted to pass on a tip that we started doing 2 years ago that I thought I’d never do.

We live on .4 acre, and for the first 7 years we always bagged our grass after we mowed it. Well one day a neighbor who has a gorgeous lawn told us they never bag their grass, it’s too much waste. I just always assumed if you didn’t you’d have piles of grass (think school lawns). We’d easily fill up 1 – 1½ of our black garbage cans with what we’d mow each week and we’d have to limit it to once a week due to not enough garbage space. Most lawnmowers will mulch your grass after you mow them so you can’t even tell the difference (unless extra debris, long or wet grass). So I’m just throwing the suggestion out there if you’ve never tried just mulching your grass instead of bagging it. In case you aren’t convinced here are some more advantages to mulching vs. bagging:

• Saves gas. We get our lawn done in one tank if we don’t bag. It takes more than one tank if we bag the grass. Also you save gas by not having the garbage man haul it to the dump.


• Grass clippings provide additional nutrients to your lawn when they are mulched.


• You could use your grass clippings in your compost.


• Saves time - Less work for your husband and that makes mine happy and complain less.

I’m hoping to throw out some greener suggestions every once and awhile. Don’t worry they’ve been small changes we’ve made at our house but some of the changes have made things a lot easier than the way we were doing them and it’s just another bonus that they are better for the environment too.
Image courtesy of Grievous Bodily Charm

Zucchini Fritters

I had some zucchini I needed to use and so these were it. I tricked Logan into eating them by telling him they were like chicken nuggets. The real kicker is I got Tad to eat 3 of them. MIRACLE! Might be the fact that you fry them and they probably aren’t nutritious anymore or the fact they don’t really taste like zucchini. We’ll definitely make these again. **I didn’t like them as leftovers they were too soggy so next time I’ll save the batter and only fry what we will eat for that meal. Click here for the recipe.

Lay Baby Lay

I have MAJOR spring fever at my house so these last two kind of nice days, I’ve spent every second outside instead of blogging.

Today I want to share my favorite site for nursery inspiration. If you aren’t expecting or know anyone expecting, I’d still check out the site. She finds the most amazing prints on Etsy (Bomobob is one she introduced me to) and most of her stuff on there isn’t way over the top expensive like a lot of other style blogs.

I totally love this Lumberjack room she came up with. I totally want to redo Logan’s room right now. Oh and in case you didn’t know we are expecting another boy in August.

Check out LayBabyLay.com

Warning

Warning – I’ll be back to blogging next week. My weekend goals are this:

• Update blog.


• Join Pinterest.


• Get Logan to quit playing Lego Star Wars for at least an hour.


• Watch Masterpiece Theater.

Heart Cake

Isn't this the cutest cake ever. I'm not a baker at all but I might have to try this with yellow cake mix and chocolate frosting (The Tad's favorite). He'd love me forever (shouldn't he all ready?).

Photo and tutorial are from I Am Baker.

If any one tries this send me a picture or sample.

So I interrupt this blogging hiatus to tell you about the awesome ski/snowboard events coming to Utah the next two weekends.

Oh and if you are wondering nothing exciting going on at our house, I’ve watched LOTS of skiing from my couch and unless I have a huge following of people who want to talk everything skiing I’ll leave you with – Didier Cuche has won the downhill 2 weekends in a row! LOVE DIDIER!!! Logan even claims Didier as his friend. Maybe we should get out more.

This week coming to Deer Valley and Park City Mountain Resort are the FIS Freestyle World Championships. Usually this event is just moguls and aerials but this year they are trying to promote the ski halfpipe, ski cross and ski slopestyle to hopefully make it an Olympic sport so there will be a ton of great skiing to watch starting this Wednesday. We’ll make the annual hike up the bunny trail at Deer Valley to watch the moguls Saturday night.

Next weekend is the DEW TOUR! Sorry I really liked the Dew Tour last year so I’m so glad it’s back again this year at Snowbasin. This event will have superpipe and slopestyle for ski and snowboarding. I’m planning on attending the same events I did last year – finals for ski superpipe and final ski slopestyle. Plan on taking the free shuttle up to the resort (if coming from the South then use the Weber Canyon Park and Ride).

Each of these events has a free concert. In case you are interested it’s Julian Marley on February 2nd and Ice Cube on February 11th.

In case you are couch potato and would rather watch these from your family room click on the links.
FIS Freestyle TV Schedule – click link then search “Freestyle World Championships”
Dew Tour TV Schedule