Day 7 - share your favorite recipe(s)

My quickest recipe is

Easy chicken Casserole

1 Rotiserie Chicken deboned

1 can of cream of chicken

1 small container of sour cream

1 pkg of ritz crackers (crushed in crumbs)

1 stick of butter

mix together chicken, soup, and sour cream. place in a casserole pan. sprinkle ritz crackers on top and melt butter and pour over the top. Bake 350* 30-35 min.

Kids love this recipe. Yummy quick and easy.

Day 6 - List some of your favorite blogs.

Like i said i am pretty new at this. i really get a kick out of my sister-in-laws. Surviving Plan B. I think she is a awesome story teller. I also like her husband because I know she is writing it :)
I also like my own :)

Day 5 - A Youtube video you think is funny

ok this is too new for me i can't seem to put youtube videos on here. But i think the one with Charlie Bit me, the kid after the dentist cause i wish my son was that way after the dentis instead of flipping out and las is the one where the little boy is talking about his brother having blood on his face. I like it when he says,"It's not funny."

But then again i really don't watch youtube a lot. i kinda think it is lame. I was gonna post a video of bailee chasing the chickens outside, yelling at the dog, and finally grabbing the chicken by the neck but I recorded it wrong. Sorry. Maybe next month I will post it correctly.

Day 4 - A list of what you ate today

actually I have to switch this one with day 3 cause I have to scan the picture so today I ate:
breakfast - cinnamon rolls (2), pepsi, tortilla chips, pepsi, homeade chicken fried steak, corn and yummy mashed potatoes, and cheese balls. Some kind of dessert.

Day 3 - A photo of you taken over ten years ago

Ok like i said i had to switch day 3 with four. This picture was taken in 1996. I was in Nottingham England. This is a trip i would definatley go on again. I plan on taking Jesse Gaige when he gets older. i really like this picture. Believe it or not its one of the ones i really like of me.

Day 2-your favorite movie

ok this one was a little hard cause i like a lot of movies but i would have to say the ones that i can watch over and over and over again are:

i also like all of the Disney Movies. That must be the kid in me.

Day 1 - Introduce yourself

My Name is Susan Mae Western (I would love to put my maiden name in there somewhere). I am a young woman 34. I have been married for 12 year. I am a mother of four children and two of them keep me pretty busy on my toes. We were sealed as a family in October 2008 in Logan, UT. I have a dog that i rescued from the pound about four years ago and I just purchased 7 chickens (hopefully all hens). I am a little out going it all depends on where i am going and what i am doing. I like the outdoors in the spring and fall. I am a helpful person. My favorite colors is yellow and red, favorite number is 3 & 7 & 14, sports i love baseball, and i really want a cabin in the woods. Oh yeah my favorite things are moose, bears, and of course John Deere tractors (I wish i can have the one on 25th street that makes ice cream in my front yard. Or just one in my front yard period. I would sit on it day and night and wave at all my neighbors that pass my house). This should be a interesting blog month. All of my excitement of the two monkeys named Bailee and Jimmy will have to wait for May. Or if it is too exciting i will have post it.

Hope you all enjoy this month.

April Fools - Just joking i will do month blog thing.

Day 2-Your favorite movie

Day 3- A photo of you taken over ten years ago.

Day 4- A list of what you ate today

Day 5- A Youtube video that you think is funny

Day 6-List some of your favorite Blogs.

Day 7- Share your favorite recipe(s)

Day 8-A song from your childhood

Day 9- Provide pictures of five celebrity crushes.

Day 10- A photo that makes you sad

Day 11- Your favorite television program

Day 12- A photo that makes you happy

Day 13-Share one of your favorite tunes.

Day 14- face morphing

Day 15- favorite book

Day 16-Talents of yours

Day 17 - Favorite place to shop

Day 18- your favorite color

Day 19- A photo you took

Day 20- What you are craving right now.

Day 21- Your favorite quote

Day 22- some hobbies of yours

Day 23- a photo of your parents

Day 24- Zodiac sign and do you think it fits your personality

Day 25- A deceased person that you wish you could talk to

Day 26- a bad habit you have

Day 27- something that facinates you and why

Day 28- (It was missing so i will make up my own) Favorite food

Day 29- Photos of personal thing (pets, home, family, etc...)

Day 30- A photo of your right now

the end of the month.

well so far this week is heading off slow. The babes are both sick. Bailee started out with croup and now I think it's A.) a common cold B.) sinus infection C.) full of piss and vinegar. You sure can tell when she starts to feel better... She's beating up the dog, not going to bed til wee hours of the night, and starting to act like ohhhh... Bailee. If it was savable and actually worth something, i think i can bottle a full quart of snot between Bailee and Jimmy. Gross. I am going to try and do a cute idea my sister-in-law got from a friend about a month of post about yourself In April. Sorry Jenny I'm gonna steal your idea. :) I don't know i have one more day to think on doing it. We shall see if i do it or not. It will be a surprise.

say hello to my little friend(s)

well I broke down again... I got each of the kids and myself some chickens. Chiara and gaige named them well theirs.

Henny

Penny

Lenny

Denny

Benny

Kenny

and George!

Lol just pulling your chicken legs. their true names are no name yet, no name yet, no name yet, no name yet, no name yet (although my friend Renee says I should name it after me cause of my crazy hair dos I had. That would be Kenny),

Reese's( Which is actually the Denny) and flicka ( George chick). there is a special story on flicka :)

see it is the chicken chiara picked (even the expensive one out of the bunch). Well we got the chickadees home and poor old (well I mean new) flicka plopped out of the box with it's eyes shut. I thought oh no is there a doctor in the house. Well being the mother hen that I am I gave the poor limp lifeless chick some TLC. Wrapping it in a paper towel so it wouldn't poop on me, and giving it a little water through a syringe. I made it a special bed out of a samoas cookie box thinking maybe the girl scout gods will come and heal our poor chickaroo. I thought maybe the poor chick would be alright. But folks the one and only true flicka chick passed away the next morning. It was lying in the cage lifeless so I picked it up and rubbed it a little bit and it opened it's eyes to me and said goodbye. I was a little sad but then I thought oh boy I gotta get a new chick before 3:20. One that was a little similar. So what did mom do ran to IFA and got another chick to replace the old one and play super hero mom. Plus I had to get my crazy haired chick. Chiara was so excited to see that her chick was alright.

Then there is gaige_" what happen to the chick mom?"

"I revived it :) "with a big grin on my face.

Gaige just shaked his head. I think he knows my secret but I played stupid.

a cute moment last night 3/28/11 bailee was sitting over by the chicken cage and she would try and feed them little pine shavings that we put in the cage and she has a favorite one. It's one of the cute yellow ones and she would stick her fingers in the cage and pet it's head and say don't be sad. Don't be sad. It was too stinking cute. There's the big one that would come over and peck her fingers and she would just giggle.

The Week of the SMURF'S

On Tuesday, March 22, i was home with the babies and i decided to get in the shower thinking oh the babes will be in Chiara's room, making a mess. Well when i got out I can hear little pitter and patters upstairs in the bathroom. I thought to myself "Self what can they be doing?"

As i walk up the stairs i can hear a glass clank on the floor. "What in the world?" With a confused look on my face. thinking "Where did they get glass from? they are too small to get into the cupboard."

Well folks you will not believe what i came to around the corner of the fridge.

We shall call him "Clumsy Smurf". He does trip over his own two feet

And we shall call this one "Smurfette"

"Look at my hands and feet mom"

I called my friend Renee to see if she had any fingernail polish remover. thank goodness she did. I threw the kids in the tub so they wouldn't be in the way and to see if it would flake off. (the cheap kind will) Well this wasn't cheap kind i guess. As you can see Bailee wanted every last drop on her feet cause there is the perfect round circles on the top of her foot from her shaking the bottle on her foot.

Well We didn't get it all off the Smurfs but i did get it off my bathroom floor. I figured it will just have to wear off the kiddos.

When i got all done with that. Last but not least The Buttonnater went into Chiara's room and grabbed a marker and did another number on herself.

"Nooooooooooooo"

I think i will send them to the circus so they can entertain and not drive me crazy. Or maybe they can go to Vegas and try out for the Blue Man Group.

Happy Birthday to my unbelievable boy

Today my son was placed in my arms 12 years ago. He's done a lot of progress through the years from sticking his head into the toilet when he was about 2 - Cutting his finger (it needed cosmetic surgery) at the age of 10 and now he is 12. I sure hope he's learn a little about life.

Happy Birthday Jesse Gaige!!! 12 Years Old !!! Oh Boy!!!

Week of March 14-18

The kids really enjoyed playing outside. Especially Jimmy. He was trying to follow Chiara with plating in the mud. Thank goodness he didn't get too dirty but he was eating the dirt. Yummy. I thought of the song from Primus - My name is MUD. Not too bad yet, This is his "Cheese" look.

Then Jimmy decided he wanted to wash the window.

He found a new toy...

"THE SOCK !" " Baaakkk Bakkkk..."

I was amazed that i had a celeberty stop by my house.

CHER!!

On Wednesday my friend and I were coming home from getting street tacos and i thought i was in Redneck ville?

What a week :)

Who believes in Leprechauns?

Really who believes in leprechauns? Well the first graders do. Chiara was so excited for St. Patrick's Day it was cut. She came home from school and told me she set traps in our living room upstairs everywhere for the little leprechauns. I was thinking. Oh boy what a mess this way going to be. I told her the best place to set a trap to catch a leprechaun was in her room. She wanted to set the traps to catch them so she could get their pot of gold and three whole wishes.
i sat there and thought great us parents have many roles in our lives. Santa Claus, Easter bunny, Halloween candy giver, thanksgiving feast provider, birthday party hosts, and now the leprechaun. wow what next? any who here are the wonderful pictures of St. Patty's Day leprechaun trap from Chiara.


"All Lebracons Welcome"

Before the Leprechaun came and ate the Cheerio and took all the money.

Man it sure can make a mess. NO LUCK on trapping it. All though there is a additional piece to the trap

A cup of golden Nuggets and a flower mood ring.

And a wonderful Thank You with his/her foot prints

Happy Saint Patrick's Day Everyone :)

Back To School March 9th for Susan

This week was kind of a normal week. Except I felt like Billy Madison on going back to school.on Wednesday I went to school with Jesse Gaige and sat in his class. The reason for this was cause Gaige was missing lots I mean lots of assignments. I wanted to see why he was missing these assignments. Well the day started off with, "oh my i have 15 minutes to get ready for school." i wanted to chase the kids out of the house yelling, "wait for me!" but, i didn't want school breakfast.

i hurry and drop the babes off at my friends and race off to school. i am late (barely). I go and get my hall pass to go to class. Oh my I am a little nervous so I walk slow to the sixth grade class. I arrive and and sit in the way back.
the teacher was explaining the new lesson on estimating fractions and I was in the dark until almost the last problem.then it finally clicked. Duuuummmmbbbb founded. Man, I need lessons on math. Math was my best subject until now. Holy mother gravy. i only stayed til lunch then i had to go and get my own lunch. Yummy street tacos.

I have a count on the war wounds going on in our home.



Girls 1




Boys 2 (one caused by a girl)





Bailee's war wound... who knows she was in the living room and then all of a sudden a cry blared out of the thicket. She came running into the kitchen. I didn't notice the war wound til later. But it was ok. It's on her nose.



Jimmy's war wound... Bailee being the big sister and Jimmy was in the way so she grabbed a plastic puppy dog toy and whacked him right by the eye. Oh boy. she got a little talking to . "she was sorry" she says with a grin.


Jesse Gaige's war wound...I asked him to take some cookies to a person that had bought them and he decided to ride his skateboard and whap... he fell down and hit his head on the concrete. Huge goose egg above his eye. Sorry no pics.

It's been pretty calm though. If anything changes trust me i will let you all know. :)

ok one more silly thing at our house is I asked Bailee "What should we do today?" I get this... hmmm...

Let me think. HA HA HA. Silly Bailee.

I sure have been blessed with this one. You know one of my relatives said that Bailee is the one that keeps me busy so i don't breakdown and have a melt down. Which i believe is true. Thanks Button, Mom love ya. :)

This was neat to see that our kids still go through some of the stuff we had to when we were in school. This is Chiara's. I'll have to find mine. And put up Gaige's too.

I want the daughter of the year award seriously!

March 5 - Well sitting on the dock of the bay... Just kidding. I am here in Evanston, WY. visiting my mom and delivering a few things. Well, I was up all night with the kiddos (Bailee and Jimmy). I got oh about 4 hours of sleep. i get up and get in the shower and i am trying to get ready to go into town to deliver a hearing aid for work when i hear grandma, "Chiara you know you need to put these things up honey. Bailee isn't aloud to have them. Look she's drawn on my floor with the crayons." I thought to myself, "Where's the camera?" But i couldn't run out at the time because i was just getting out of the shower and all i had was my birthday suit on (Yea that would have been a lovely sight). Well grandma got it all cleared up before i got out fully dressed.

I went into town and did my good deeds and i am glad the kids were good today.

Later on in the day...

I thought i was in New york at the Rockefeller Center. There was a huge ice sheet in my moms car port. (And this is were i need to be nominated to be daughter of the year). I had rigged the rain gutters on the roof of the covered deck so there wouldn't be any water going onto the deck.

Then i thought i would shovel up all of the ice that the car was parked on cause i had a still small voice in my head. You need to do something about this ice or someone is going to slip and fall and either bash their head on the concrete stairs or break their hip. Plus, i can just imagine my dad asking can you please do something about that? That's all we need is your mother falling on that ice and hurting herself.

Mom kept on telling me,"Honey you don't have to do it. I was going to sweep it up." Sweep it up? How can you sweep it up when the shop broom is stuck in the ice sheet? Plus again i can hear my dad saying, "I can only do so much up here in heaven to protect your mom. I need your help a little to take care of her." So being the good daughter that i am i put myself to work shoveling 2" thick ice off the concrete that is in the car port. So many things were going through my head like , "Were is the ice oger and we can probably go ice fishing when we are done. I wish i was Nancy Kerrigan so i can ice skate and not fall and hurt my tail bone. Holy ICE!" i did the best i could cause it was getting later and it was freezing again. But i worked my little monkey heart and my hands are killing me. i actually realized today I'm glad my mom and dad raised my the way they did (little Wyoming hick that can actually help out and a little tomboyish)Then when i was all done cause my hands are on fire and hurting, Buddy (my step sisters dog she had before she passed away) wanted me to throw his stick. I threw it oh 1 time!