Ethan is one of the coolest kids ever! He is always smothering holding Roxcy. And he's gotten better at being friends with Seth. He is a goofball (as is evidenced by the underwear on his head). He wrote a funny letter to his dad. He started out by picking out stickers and putting them on a page, then he dictated to me exactly what he wanted to say, sometimes using a sticker as the word. You can blow it up to read it if you'd like, it's pretty funny. And he and Kurt built the block city at the end. Pretty impressive.

The rest of the weekend at my moms went something like this:

Jam!

I made jam with my mudda a while back. Worked all day and had 108 bottles. Whew! 

We asked my dad to take a picture of us but they were either blurry, or we were pulling funny faces. Usually it was both.

So we had to try and take a picture ourselves. 

Ethan started soccer today!! This is his first time on a team sport of any kind, and he had a good time. He was a little less competitive than I was expecting, he spent most of the game running next to the player that had the ball, regardless of which team they were on. We were talking after and he told me that we aren't supposed to snatch toys from our friends!! I told him soccer was different, that was the point of the game is to try and get the ball. I told him that I never got sad when he took the ball from me (we played the night before together) and he said that he didn't want to make the other kids cry. Sweet kid. 

I am posting this recipe because we liked it. I tried to pin it but there weren't any pictures to pin, so hopefully I can pin it from the blog.

Mushroom Sauteed Chicken

"This dish is one my husband requests at least once a week. I make this for company because the look and taste seems like you cooked all day, but it only take 45 minutes to cook. You can use boneless chicken breast, tenderloins or boneless thighs and still have great results."

Ingredients

• 4 (4 ounce) boneless skinless chicken breasts
• 1/3 cup flour
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon pepper
• 3 tablespoons butter or 3 tablespoons margarine
• 1/4 teaspoon garlic, minced
• 1 cup green onions, sliced
• 8 ounces fresh mushrooms, sliced or 1 cup drained canned mushrooms
• 3/4 cup chicken broth
• 1 (10 ounce) cans cream of mushroom soup

Directions

1. Pound each chicken breast to 1/4-inch thickness.
2. Mix flour, salt and pepper on wax paper.
3. Coat chicken well with flour mixture; set aside.
4. Heat a large skillet over medium-high heat; add butter.
5. Saute garlic, green onion and mushrooms for 3 minutes.
6. Remove with a slotted spoon.
7. Place chicken in skillet; cook for 5 minutes per side.
8. Add broth and soup to skillet. Cook, stirring frequently, for 5 minutes.
9. Return mushroom mixture to skillet and reduce heat to low.
10. Simmer stirring occasionally, for 5 minutes.
11. Serve immediately over egg noodles.

This month was very fun filled, although I'm not going to take the time to type it all out when I'm just going to write it in our journals anyway. Lazy, I know..... Right now I'm just hoping we got pictures of everything. Ethan gave a wonderful talk in primary! You can't tell in this picture, but he is SO mad! Kurt wanted to get a picture of him in his church clothes holding a picture from his talk, but when Kurt got home we had already changed..... So, Heaven forbid, kurt actually asked Ethan to put his white shirt and tie on!!! From Ethan's reaction you'd have thought he asked him to throw his bike in the garbage. I had to resort to so pretty extreme measures to get this smile, I believe the phrase I used was 'stinky butt'.

Ethan wanted to be like his dad and wax his nose. I only put a tiny bit on there, but I'm pretty sure he'll never ask for it again.

Movie fort!!! Pizza and a movie, Love this!!

My 26th birthday. Kurt surprised me with the pie of all pies. It was a double lemon cream from marie callenders. So good!! Plus, ethan made me a card that mentioned how he loves me even though I yell a lot, they made me a flower arrangement for my table with my wonderful Mother in law, I got a pretty blue box, and a basketball hoop!! 

Rox is looking a little bored, don't you think?

Hogle zoo with the beautiful Stella. We love her and her parents so stinkin much!!

We didn't even put them up to this, this was their reaction to seeing each other.

This too. The funny thing is they did this same thing last year.

Ethan ate this apple and was very proud of himself. 

I love this sequence of photo's, Seth's attempt at picking up chicks.