Morgan made me do it...

So my bunco buddy, Morgan has a stinkin' cute blog, and she has called upon me, yes me, (well not me personally) to give out the best cookie recipe EVER.

As many of you will testify, we do have the best CCC recipe, and I'm not afraid to share it.

Choc Chip Cookies

1 Cup Butter Flavored Crisco (Oh yeah!--partially hydrogenateds are your friend in these delicious cookies)
2 eggs
1 Cup Brown Sugar
1/2 Cup White Sugar
1 tsp. vanilla (none of that imitation crap, mind you)
1 tsp. Baking Soda
1 tsp. Salt
2 1/4 Cup Flour (I even sometimes use 1/2 white flour, 1/2 wheat flour and they're still very tasty!)
Lots of MILK Chocolate Chips (I like the Guittard brand the best-and does anyone actually know how you pronouce that?)

Now just mix it all together and put in a 350 degree oven for 9-10 minutes (I take them out as soon as they start to brown a little so that they're soft).

Time for a new post, yes?

Okay, so besides suffering from severe allergies (thanks to our filthy home and lack of a Kirby) here's what's been keeping us busy the last few weeks--since you're all DYING to know...

At the end of April, my parents came out for Ben's graduation. It was quite memorable for 3 reasons:

A) President Monson spoke.

2) It was UVU's first graduating class (Go Wolves!)

AND

D) UVU now holds the record for longest, most boring, most painful graduation ceremony EVER (except for President Monson's 10 minute talk). Even the graduates lost their enthusiasm by hour 3, and little did they know we still had another hour and a half to go.

Because of my final horrible graduation experience, I would like to put this out there for all to know: I will not be attending any more graduations except for my own children's and even that is questionable.

Anyhow, the day before the marathon graduation, we hit the Tulip Festival (kinda pricey but well worth all the free tulips the kids picked)

Here are the B-E-A-U-tiful (name that movie) pictures I took:

I should be a photographer

Strike a pose

View from Our backyard

Hey Weezie!

After a fun-filled visit with my folks, we headed to St. George for a Jackson Family reunion trip. It was mucho fun. Lots of swimming, sunburns, Ranger rides, relaxing, and eating. We also went to Pioneer Park where I was lucky enough to chaperone the kids through "the narrows". They don't call it the narrows for nothin'. Couldn't even fit my camera in my bra to prove I did it. Ha!


Tyler got this shot on his New Blackberry as we emerged from the narrows. And, yes, I am bragging about Tyler's NEW BLACKBERRY! You see, since the Utah Jazz can't win any kind of important competition, the Blackberry is the next best thing in his life now.


The Pioneer Park Tortoise


Nash LOVES the pool!

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In other news, Nash has finally started walking "full-time". He has been playing with the idea of walking for about 2 months now, and today, he decided to make it his job.

He's also starting to say more words we can understand like:
he-yuh (here) as he's handing me something
bye-bah (aka--bye-bye--it's way too easy just to repeat the word, so he throws in a new vowel on the second word just to mix it up)
nite nite (he said this once a few nights ago, but now that he's figured out the semantics of it, he refuses to fall for it again. He may be young, but he's not dumb).

He loves the slides at Aunt Erin's house!