Requested recipes

Here they are for your eating enjoyment!

Peanut Butter Bars

1 pound powdered sugar
2 cups graham cracker crumbs
8 ounces peanut butter
8 ounces melted butter
Combine these ingredients and then press into a 9x13 pan. Then melt one package of chocolate chips with one stick butter over low heat. Then pour chocolate mixture over the crumb mixture and cool.

Chocolate Raspberry Bars

Crust
1 c. flour
1/4 c. powdered sugar
1/2 c. butter
Mix these ingredients and press into 9x9 pan. Bake at 375 degrees for 15-18 minutes until lightly brown.

Spread 1/2 c. raspberry jam over warm crust.

4 oz. softened cream cheese
2 Tbsp. milk
1 c. vanilla flavored chips
Mix these ingredients together and put on top of raspberry jam layer. You have to do it in blobs since it is kindof thick and doesn't spread well over the jam. Put the pan back into the warm oven for just a few minutes to soften the chips. You don't want them to melt. The chips should still keep their shape just be softened. Let cool for 1 hour or so.

3/4 c. semi-sweet chocolate chips
2 Tbsp. shortening
Melt theses ingredients in the microwave and spread over the top.

To make a 9x13 pan size double the ingredients.
Also it needs to be refrigerated because of the cream cheese.

Enjoy!

Coleson has arrived!

Dime Coleson Fromm arrived last night about 6pm. To our astonishment he was 9 lb. 4 oz. and 20.5 inches long. I am happy to relinquish the title of delivering the biggest baby to Lindsey though it's only by 2 oz. and Spencer still has him beat by .5 inches in length. Rest assured I am not worried about regaining the title. Coleson has lots of blonde hair. We got to go and visit him today and he slept through our entire visit. It's hard for me to imagine now that Spencer was just like that when he was born as he was all over the place and I was trying to keep him out of everything in Lindsey's room. Lucky for Brian and Lindsey he seems like he will be a good baby. We are excited for you Brian and Lindsey. Congratulations!!!

His cheeks are so cute!

Doesn't he look comfortable?

The proud parents!

 

Dog Pile

When Chad plays with the kids, he does dog piles with them (not rough of course). The kids love it and love to pile on top of him. Hannah was being pretty grumpy the other day and Chad said to her, "I think you need a dog pile Hannah!" Her initial reaction was "No, I don't!" She quickly changed her mind and said, "sure". She proceeded to go into the living room and then laid on the floor so she was ready for Chad to dog pile her which he did. It was quite amusing to watch her from the initial reaction to laying on the floor. We got a good laugh from her and it helped to change her mood. Way to go Chad!

Time Out Room

This is our new time out room.

Spencer

Spencer is in one of my more favorite stages. He is just so darn cute sometimes. He loves animals! He walks around the house saying E-I-E-I with out the O. He has started learning the animals sounds and his "MOO" is so cute as is his "SSSS" for a snake. It won't be long before he will be able to do all of the animals sounds. He has also been learning his body parts which is fun to watch. To go along with his head shaking 'no' he has now learned to do 'yes'. It's not just his head that shakes yes though. It is an entire body movement. He is starting to say words. You ask him to say a word and he really tries to say it. He does quite well actually. Last night when he was in the bath I asked him to say Hannah. He looked at me and he actually said it! You could tell that he said Hannah. I had Hannah come in and hear him say it. Hannah says, "Are you big enough to say my name now?" It was quite adorable to see the two. He can now give you a closed mouth kiss which is nice instead of the open mouth slobbery kisses. It's fun to watch his expressions too.

On the flip side he is still a busy body in constant motion it seems. He has now learned to climb on the kitchen chairs so we have to put the chairs on their sides so that he doesn't climb on the table and over the bannister to the stairs below. He also pulls himself up on the toilet. He climbs on anything possible actually. He has really slimmed down and isn't a chunk anymore. At 6 months he was almost 18 pounds. At 9 months he was 19.5 pounds. At 1 year he wasn't even 20 pounds. When I just took him in for his 15 month check he wasn't even 21 pounds (5%). He has only gained 3 pounds in 9 months. I don't know how he could gain any weight when he expends so much energy everyday. He's as healthy as can be though so no big deal. He really is a happy pleasant little boy most of the time (quite refreshing from his grumpy older sister). He loves to cuddle which I love!

Painting Hannah's Room

On Friday mom and dad Fromm came down and dad Fromm helped me paint Hannah's room. I have wanted to do it for a long time and we finally did it! It is the first time I have painted and it was a good experience. We painted it a light purple color as I hope you can tell from the picture. It turned out great and we are all excited about it. Now I can finish decorating Hannah's room. Thanks dad for your help! 

Hannah's Hair

Hannah has always been blessed with a ton of hair. Amazingly for a little kid she has been good about letting me do stuff with it. That is until recently. Lately it is a fight and she never wants to do anything with it and she cries and screams when I have to comb through all of the tangles. I got fed up with it and tonight we cut it. Hannah was actually excited with the idea (I think because my neighbor just got her hair cut - like 12 inches) and she has been excited since we got home. My initial reaction is that I like it too. Hopefully we'll have a few less tears around here.

This is actually a picture from sunday after having her hair is curlers all night. It's so cute when we actually do something with it. She always gets a ton of comments when we do her hair in curlers. It won't be like this for a while though now.


















Before haircut front view.






















Before haircut back view.




















The new Hannah! What do you think? Am I cute or what?! 

More Pictures

I have had such a hard time getting things to work correctly today to blog. Somehow these pictures were lost in the last blog I did.




 

Recent Pictures

These are just some of the recent pictures of the kids that I thought were cute (I am not biased!)






 

Chad's Birthday

Chad had his birthday on Sunday. Hannah and I were talking about how our family is full of 3's and 1's this year. Hannah turned 3, I turned 31, Spencer turned 1, and Chad turned 33. Kind of interesting. We sang and had cake. We're such party animals things almost got out of control (Hah!) Hannah's favorite part was helping me make the cake. Her idea of helping of course is licking the beaters, spatula, bowl etc. as you can see from her picture below. It made for a cute picture anyway.

Cascade Springs

Chad got Pioneer Day off so we decided to go do something. We went to Cascade Springs which is up American Fork Canyon. I had never been there before. It was a really nice area. There was a ton of water. There is a little paved path which winds through the area and there are quite a few bridges over the water. It was beautiful. We had a good time though it would have been better had our kids been a little older. Spencer had to be watched like a hawk so he didn't get into trouble or fall into the water.




 

Anniversary

A few weeks ago Chad and I had our 10 year anniversary. Wow! Chad’s parents were brave enough to volunteer to come and stay with the kids so we could get away. It was the first time we had done that since having kids. It was nice to get away for a couple of day with no kids and was much needed. We went to Cedar City and took in the Shakespearean Festival, did a lot of hiking, and whatever else we felt like since we could be flexible. We had a great time. The kids did well too. Since we were gone it forced them to warm up quickly to g-ma and g-pa and they got a lot more time together then they would have had we been home. We really appreciate you mom and dad for coming and letting us get away. Thanks so much!! Hopefully we survive another ten years!


















A view from the beginning of Cascade Falls Trail. It was a very short (1 mile round trip) hike but very pretty. You hiked half a mile into the falls which come out of the side of the mountain. Very nice.


















We spent over half a day at Cedar Breaks National Monument. We really enjoyed it. The scenery was very nice as were the hikes. There were 4 viewpoints you drove to as well as two 2 mile hikes. We were able to do both hikes as well as stop at all of the viewpoints. We would recommend it to anyone to visit.


















This is a picture of my favorite viewpoint.


















We went to the Thanksgiving Point Barn/farm before mom and dad went home. The kids got to do the pony ride and see all of the animals. The kids loved it! Spencer loves animals right now.