The next BIG project!

A couple years ago I created a quilt for one of my good friends...( jody if you are reading this please send me a picture of the quilt!) I liked it so much that I doubled the fabric I bought so that I could make one for myself. It has been two years since I made that quilt.. so I decided to pull it out and start the quilt for practice. Why this madness, well my plan is to create 2 ( yes 2) twin size quilts. One for each of my daughters when they move into their big girl beds. I wanted to give them something from me that they could keep and pass on to their own daughters. SO... I need to start somewhere and I already had the supplies. Here is a picture of what I have done so far..by the way I do not have a pattern and I am not quite sure how I did the blue with white stars....so it is off to the drawing board. I will keep you posted on my progress.

Lincoln Logs

The boy has a new favorite activity- Lincoln Logs. Yesterday he decided to build some houses which can be challenging considering there are 4 little hands just looking for the perfect thing to knock down. I asked him to build me a pool in my house he said... "no mommy you can't build pools out of logs" ...I guess he makes a good point.

From The Red Carpet!

So tonight after dinner while I was in the kitchen cleaning up, The Boy pulled the blanket from the couch and spread it out on the floor. He proceeded to get a toy each for OK and Himself. You will notice the Dora bus, fire engine, and toy giraffe that was swapped out for a bag of pretzels. When I came out to see what was going on.... this is what I found. One word...PRICELESS.

By the way this picture was taken close to bed time hence the lay down play!

Homemade Goodness!

So this week I came across a recipe for homemade bagels.. thank you Sisters' Cafe. They were amazing and so easy. Most of the time spent is waiting for the dough to rise. I chose to put Asiago cheese on top.. and the whole family loved them. Actually my husband said " this may be the best thing you have ever made" The recipe makes twelve bagels and not even 24 hours later we are down to the last two. I think I will be making these again.

This next recipe is a keeper for the kids breakfast or snack... Pumpkin Ginger pancakes from myrecipe.com... I found this one while looking for a new pumpkin bread recipe and just happened to see this.. I decided to give it a try... the kids devoured the entire batch in one sitting. Since then I have made them a couple times and prepped all the dry ingrediants so that I can just add the wet ingrediants when we need some more. ( I have also started to make them with 1/2c. white and 1/2 c. wheat flour. Nobody can tell the difference.)

Run Mommy Run!

So about 6 months ago my lovely sister-in-law came to me and asked me to run a marathon with her. Mind you that at this time the twins were only 7 months old. Me thinking I have time to do it said ok lets do it... seeing that I had not exercised since I found out I was pregnant with twins. Which was odd because I ran up til about 6 months pregnant with the boy.. and then trained for my second marathon in San Diego marathon with my BFF ..(KMM) and the boy loved the jogging stroller... So months went by and I kept saying I will start tomorrow and of course I did not. So I reapproached my SIL and said I just can not find the time to get out there and run so let just do 1/2 marathon. Couple more months went by and I was able to get some runs in here and there but nothing consistant... and If you are a mom you know "stuff happens"... So we are now 5 weeks away from the race and I am actually really proud of myself for buckling down and doing the work... Last week I ran about 8 miles total... this week 14 miles... so I am well on my way...

Goggles and Kate Spade

So if you have had the pleasure of meeting the twins OK... you will know that O is the wild and crazy one.. and K just is along for the ride. O has come to enjoy putting anything and everything on her head...I caught her in the corner yesterday with the swimming goggles around her neck along with my kate spade purse ( which has been collecting dust since the arrival of the twins)... all while K took it upon herself to climb in the tupperware cabinet ( not the NO NO Drawer as we call the others) and empty it. This allowed her space to sit and see the floor from a different view. Got to love it. Luckily " the boy" was feeling better and was able to go back to school so that I was able to photograph all the happenings here.

The COmmon COld! I think NOT!

So after spending 8 days 2 weeks ago waiting for this virus to pass with all three kids and the husband, IT HAS RETURNED! The poor boy just wants to go to school! And now one of the twins was also blessed with its presence. I am crossing my fingers that number two.. (AKA: baby A, the wild crazy one!) does not get it as well. So tonight for dinner... hmmm! we stick with the BRAT diet!

A Simple way to communicate!

So after many weeks of spending so many hours looking at other blogs I have decided to create my own. Hopefully it will be a great way to both document and share the happenings in the Turcotte household. Because I am so far behind on all the kids scrapbooks...Next big step.. check into the digital scrapbook software. I hope you all enjoy!