What I've relearned

We have a Father in Heaven who loves us and will answer our prayers and take care of us. I was reminded of this wonderful fact this week. Tuesday afternoon I hurried to pick up Jacob's prescription at the health center; when I came back out, the car wouldn't start. I prayed, tried it again..still nothing. I don't know what it is about me that our cars don't like, but things always seem to break when it's just me driving. Luckily every time something happens a kind stranger and amazing family members offer a helping hand, and this time there was no exception.

A man came and took a look at it, he thought it was the starter; just then another girl parked next to me offered to jump me. It's always worth a try, unfortunately it didn't work this time. I called Jacob, and he said his mom would come and pick us up and he'd take a look at the car. So Steven and I began to wait for Susan to come when I randomly tried one more time to start the car. It started, so I picked up Jacob since he thought he knew what was wrong and we came home to fix it. We couldn't. Normally it wouldn't be a big deal to be out of a car for a while, but I had a crock pot full of chili for a ward party that night. Luckily we were able to borrow Jacob brother's (Alex, who has this great blog where he posts songs he's written. Check it out, seriously.) car who lives just a couple of blocks away. We were able to go to the party and on our way back we decided to see if we could get the car started once again while we had another car to drop it off at a car place. Well before getting out of the car I prayed that we would be able to start the car so we wouldn't have to inconvenience any more people. I got it started on the first try! We dropped it off at the repair shop and then we returned Alex's car. After a day and a half in the shop, Jacob's parents picked it up for us and everything is taken car of, which is such a blessing.

I know it sounds silly, but I know that Heavenly Father knows us and how much we dislike inconveniencing people. So He allowed us to start our car so while we already have a car, we can handle getting our car fixed by ourselves. I also know that He is aware of our concerns at the moment and will put people in situations to help us bear our burdens. I'm just so thankful to those who listen, respond, and help. I just hope I can help others like we've been helped.

Pumpkin Patch

Last weekend we went to the pumpkin patch in Farmington with these people...

(I know the picture's color is messed up but seriously it's taken me a long time to upload these pictures, so I'm just running with it)

and with these people, you know we all had a great time!

And this boy loved it! He loved walking around among the pumpkins

He found this pumpkin, sat right down and started patting the pumpkin like they were good friends.

He also enjoyed the children's corn maze. Jacob went with him and let him explore, Steven actually made it through with just a little help from Jacob.

Here are all the cute kids

Steven's adorable red haired cousin Malachi, look at that curly hair!

4 Pillow Wife

I just went to the doctor's office today and everything looks good. I'm now 24 weeks along and I'm loving this part of pregnancy. I feel good, I don't have the aches and pains yet, and I still feel good about my growing belly. There are only two problems,

1. I have a wonderful appetite, which means I want to eat....a lot. Most of the time it's baked goods: cinnamon rolls, cookies, cobbler, donuts. You get the picture. I'm having a hard time remembering I don't really NEED those things. Luckily my wonderful in-laws have the BEST apple tree that has supplied us with some great snacks.

2. I am now a 4 pillow sleeper. Yes this is 3 times the pillows my husband has. There are two for my head, one in between my legs and one for my back in case I roll over at night and sleep on my back.

On the bright side I found the camera....on Jacob's desk on campus. So now I can show off my adorable pumpkins I made from here. I'm so happy how this turned out. I love having fall decorations more than just Halloween ones so I can keep them up until Thanksgiving! Anyway I wanted to add a little more to our decorations that we are slowly adding, but there isn't a lot of room to hold many so I came up with this.

I got the fabric from D.I. for $1 each, they are fabric napkins, so I didn't have to cut anything! Then I got this cute red vase/candle stick as an accent for $1 and the shelf was also $1 from D.I. that we painted black. So for $5 I got some cute classy decorations, I love it!

* Note: I made the pumpkins different sizes by using differently used toilet paper rolls. I used one new one, one that had 3/4 of the paper left and one that was almost gone. With the smallest one I actually cut 1/4 of the roll off height wise so it was actually smaller. Though I did need to wrap this one twice in newspaper so it looked more full (There just wasn't enough toilet paper to make it round enough for me.)

Rainy Days...

I usually really like a good stormy day, but not today. The whole day I've felt so blah, BUT I'm trying to break out of the mode of thinking and doing something kind of productive and update the blog. I've been waiting to update until I take some pictures, but I can't find the camera...so I'll have to do this without the pictures I wanted and I'll add those later. But first look at our little pumpkin a year ago. Oh my how he's grown!
Anyway I've been really into baking and trying new cooking recipes lately and I've found a few gems. First I tried these granola bars, Jacob admitted that he thought they wouldn't be that good. I'm not sure if that lack of faith was directed toward my cooking skills or the recipe....we'll say it was the recipe. BUT he loves them and they are SO easy! Although since there's peanut butter in it his acid reflex flairs it up. Does anyone know a good substitute that I could put in instead of peanut butter? Anyway here's the recipe.

No Bake Peanut Butter Granola bars

1/2 cup honey
1/2 cup natural peanut butter
2 T. Real Maple syrup
1 T. canola oil
1/4 c. brown sugar
1/4 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp vanilla

2 cups rolled oats
2 cups puffed brown rice cereal { I use rice krispies}
1/2 cup chopped nuts {peanuts, walnuts, pecans, almonds….your choice}
1/2 cup dried fruit {raisins, craisins, apricots, figs…..your choice}
1/4 cup wheat germ
1/4 cup ground flax seed
1/2 tsp salt

Prepare a 9x13 baking dish with some non stick spray.
Heat the first seven ingredients in a saucepan over medium-low heat until bubbly and hot {approx. 4-5 minutes}. Keep stirring so as not to scorch it. In a bowl mix together the dry ingredients. Once the peanut butter mixture is melted and bubbly remove from heat and pour on top of the dry ingredients. Fold in carefully until completely incorporated. Pour into the baking dish and press evenly into the bottom of the pan. I put a sandwich baggie on my hand and use it to push the mixture into the pan so as not to get all sticky. Put in the refrigerator to cool, cut into bars or squares and enjoy!