Snowmobiling, New Years, and Family Fun!!!!

I am SO thankful for Stacy keeping up with her blog. Someday I'll get back into it, but for now check out all the crazy fun we have had the last few weeks on her blog... GRANDMA,CLICK HERE AND IT WILL TAKE YOU TO STACY's BLOG TO SEE THE PICTURES

Jalapeno Pepper Jelly

Put gloves on!

3 Green Bell Peppers
1 Cup Fresh Jalapeño Peppers (I take the seeds out of all but a few)
1 ½ cup distilled white vinegar
6 ½ cup sugar
1 bag liquid pectin (there is two in a box)
-Chop peppers in food processor
-In a pot combine chopper peppers vinegar, sugar.
-Stir until boiling
-Stir in pectin
-Boil 5 minutes longer
-Skim foam off the top
-Ladle into jars
-Process for 5 minutes.

Serve with cream cheese and club crackers!

wanna help out?????

have you ever noticed if you search mormon on google that wierd images come up? my brother in law (who works for the church)is doing an experiment that will change that. all you have to do is post this picture to your blog.

Parenting: Touching the Hearts of Our Youth

Darron found a bunch of pictures that were on our external hard drive. I thought I would put this on the blog. I can't believe how time flies! This is when we lived out in GA a few years ago. How fun it is to reminisce!

First Day of School 2010-2011

First day of school! First Day of School! I feel like we have great teachers this year for Ashlee and Zachary. They woke up before I did. I could hear them singing to ABC, 123 by Micheal Jackson. I made them blueberry pancakes with their favorite home aide syrup. I took them to their classroom, gave them a hug, and that was that! I can't believe another year is starting. They both are excited though and ready to conquer the world! Michelle and I are headed out the door right now to go pick them up and I am soooo excited to see how it went.

Around 600 B.C. When Lehi left Jerusalem, the rest of the world was…

The first polo game was recorded in north Persia about this time.

The nomadic Scythians bordered the Hallstatt Culture in the East. They introduced to the Celts the custom of wearing trousers.

Aesop said: "We hang the petty thieves, but appoint the great ones to public office."

Analysis of pottery from this time indicated that Mayans made cocoa drinks as early as this time.

Turquoise was first mined in the American southwest about this time and began to show up in Mesoamerica.

The first horse race on record was in the Olympic Games of Greece and the first prize was a "woman of well-rounded domestic skills."

Family Pictures 2010

To see ALL the pictures of EVERYONE click HERE. PS Michelle's fell and bonked her face right before pictures. Here lip usually isn't that fat.

Provo and Benjamin 5K

Since Amy and Travis have been visiting from Georgia, we have been able to run in a couple races with Stephen (my very fast nephew). I get very nervous before the game, and the fist mile is always a killer, but I love coming across that finish line. I have finished in the 26th minute in both races. Ashlee and Zachary ran the Kids K's and won 1st and 2nd in their races. Below are a few of the pictures taken. To see ALL the pics of the races CLICK HERE.

The Red Barn with the cousins

Help! This is the only picture I have of the past couple weeks of craziness. I your pics Amy and Stacy!

Ashlee's Baptism Dress Pictures

These pictures were taken outside the Provo Temple. What a cutie!

Hawaii 2010

I know I have a ton to post. Lately I haven't had time so here are some pics to hold ya over till I have time! Hawaii was amazing! We went on a new adventure every day we were there. After shoveling 6 inches of snow today we are wishing that we were back!

Happy Birthday Dad!!!

Here is the latest pictures of the Ekins clan. Scott and his family is in Virginia.


I thought this was hillarious! Mario Cart was so intense!

We went to Porter's house to see what Santa brought him. This was Michelle's favorite toy of Porters.

Christmas Morning 2010

I am so glad the didn't wake up at 2am like they did last year. This time it was more like 8am. Ashlee was delighted to find her very own digital camera and a bunch of horse stuff, clothes, and Bakugons, and some Wii games.

Zachary thought for sure that for sure that Santa would forget about the Bakugons. He was sooo excited to see them on Christmas morning. He also was suprised to find a bike, skate board, and some Wii games.

Michelle was LOVING every second of whatever was going on. And I don't know what Chloe the dog thought.

Darron is the king of KSL classifieds. He has bought all of his fun toys off ksl. Its almost a hobby for him. These were our latest deal we found for the kids. They weren't working when we picked them up, but D did some fine tuning and now they work like they are brand new. The kids LOVE to ride. The mom just lets the dad watch them, becasuse she is a nervous wreck when they are zooming around in the snow.

Puzzle Time

This is the 1000 puzzle that we did this year at Christmas time. Darron likes to take the credit for it.. but we all worked hard on it. Unfortunately we couldn't find that last piece. Oh well, it was still a lot of fun.

Michelle and the Chair

Michelle climbed up on the chair while we were putting a puzzle together. As you can see, she thinks she is as big as her brother and sister. What a cutie!