Christmas Cards

Hi Everyone,

We want to wish you all a Merry Christmas! I am grateful for the birth of our Savior and all he was able to do for us so we can return to our Heavenly Father.

K-I-S-S-I-N-G

Bart and Gail sitting in a tree........... and you can imagine the rest.
They were married Dec. 12, 2009. Congrats guys. Hopefully Tami can post their pictures. May you have a wonderful and happy life together.

Grandma's Star Quilt Pattern

Look who stopped by...

We are so glad that Grandpa and Shirley were able to visit us in between their travels. We had a great time catching up and getting to know Shirley. Brady LOVES his great grandpa. Thanks for stopping into Cleveland and saying hello, it was a great treat.

Oh yeah by the way

Stephen is getting Married in the Temple Nov. 28 to Holly Morgan. So I guess Thanksgiving is up here. Congrats Stephen!

We need more family recipes

How about everyone list a recipe for General conference. That will be fun.

Egg Casserole

1/2 dozen of eggs

1 cup of cheese

1 cup of sour cream

1 lb of sausage

cook sausage on stove. Drain grease. Lay sausage in 9x13 pan. Sprinkle cheese of the sausage. Mix eggs and sour cream together and pour over the sausage and cheese. Bake at 350 degrees for 25-30 minutes.

You can add anything you want like onions or bell peppers.

Chocolate Zucchini Cake

1/2 C butter
1/2 C oil
1 3/4 C sugar
2 eggs
2 C grated zucchini
1/2 C buttermilk (can be substituted with 1/2 C regular milk and 1/2 TBSP vinegar. Let sit for 5 minutes before adding)
1 tsp vanilla
2 1/2 C flour
4 TBSP cocoa
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp salt
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp baking powder

Combine and mix ingredients. Pour into greased 9x13 pain. Sprinkle 3/4 C brown sugar and 1 package milk chocolate chips on top. Bake at 350 for 40-45 minutes.

Notes: I used semi-sweet chocolate chips and only 1/2 package. I have had it both ways and prefer it with the semi-sweet.

Delicious! Even the kids love it.

I guess this is my queue, thanks Ash...

Bun is in the oven.

Grandpa's Surgery

Dad is doing good. Shirley says he ran in some problems. So they kept him for another night. He will be staying in Cali for the next couple of weeks so he can go to his post op appt. But so far he is doing great from what we hear.

Crafty Passeys

I posted this on Facebook and I'll be sending out an email as well...

Can we get a headcount of what you would be interested in making and who will be needing childcare and for how many children?

These are not final so we want to get an idea of what would generate the most interest

1. Hairbows, flowers, headbands, etc.
2. Retro aprons
3. Birthday Banners (see passey blog)
4. Jewelry making with Robin
5. Turning a men's shirt into a little girl's dress
6. Eating yummy food and hanging with your favorite women

Is this thing on?

I think there's someone that has something they would like to share with the class....feel free to let us know anytime now!!!!

skirt

I thought this was so cute. you can see the tutorial on their site modabakeshop.com.
For those of you who sew of course.

Crafty Passeys

Another craft that will be on the agenda for June 6. If you have a girl under the age of 5 then be sure to check this out.

http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=170402.0

Happy Mothers Day Grandma

Happy Mothers Day Grandma Passey, I have been thinking about you all day. We sure miss you! Thank you for all the love and kindness you brought and bring into our lives. 

With Love, 

Amy, Jeff and Liberty

Hand me downs

If anyone has boy hand me downs. That would be great. I need 12 month and up in size for summer clothes and jammies for Hunter. Thanks

Crafty Passeys!

So far I was planning the banners that Shanda suggested and I have all the hairbow stuff.

If you have another idea please share so we can have something else as an option too. I want to make sure there is something for everyone!

We could also have a sewing station? I know I always have those kinds of projects around too.

Hit me with your ideas!

Birthday Banner

Here are a few ideas on the Banner I wanted to make for craft night.
YOu could use it to say anything you wanted.
Skies the limit.

Updates from our end

Hanna is in the car driving home from Mexico. She will be here tomorrow night.

Trevor and Gavin are off to make money this summer so if you need a job get in touch with them ASAP.

Anniversary party Saturday has been postponed one week for Sam and Tami.

I think another branch of this familia has a baby coming soon too so we'll be waiting for your updates!

Cool Website

www.readthescriptures.com

You can choose the speed at which you want to read (finish in 1 year or 1 chapter a day) and it sends the reading to your email inbox each day.

It's pretty cool and a nice reminder for tech geeks like me that struggle to keep the daily habit.

crafty cousins

HEY EveryBODY!
Ashley told me today she wants to have a bow making night with family.
I thought it sounded fabulous and I figure if we do that I might be able to try and make the Birthday Banner that I have been wanting to make. I want to make the ones that have individual letters on a triangular fabric swatch.
Anyone else want one? I say let's do it.
(sorry to lazy to link a site to the banners, but you can google it)

Baby Hunter's arrival

He was 8lb 15oz and 20 inches long. He arrived at 11:02pm on March 19.

BABY NEWS

HELLO! I had NO idea Macey had her baby almost a month ago.
I know I am not always in the LOOP, but that's what this is for.

*alright i'm done venting*
ARE WE GOING TO USE THIS THING OR NOT? =)

CONGRATS MACEY!

Are you Prepared?

Hey just a little idea to get you a little more prepared. No panicking here but just making a few little changes to keep you and your family safe in an emergency. I posted about water before but took another class that was very informative. So here are a couple of tips. You don't have to rotate water that is stored properly the first time. WHAT! I did not know that but this is something I learned. Just do it and forget about it. This simple idea could save your life and make things easier in an emergency too. Start buying your soda in liter bottles and when its gone rinse really well. You can even use a little bleach to make sure it it is really clean. The idea is to store very clean water to start and then forget about it. The next idea is to simply put water in your empty laundry detergent and Clorox bottles. Don't even worry about rinsing out the soap. Just label them for cleaning only. Just fill them up with water and store them everywhere under beds, in the garage, deep cupboards etc. Every time I empty a bottle I immediately fill it with water and every time a little voice in my head says "Way to go" you are on a roll. It feels so good to do the right thing and be prepared. Now I know none of us have enough room in our houses to store a whole year supply of water but store as much as you possibly can. Find a way to make extra room and then start thinking about getting some kind of water filtration system. So that you can clean any water you find in an emergency, but I'll go more into that another time. Its also a good idea for every household to do this. Don't expect that your mom's house will have everything you need. What if you can't get to mom's? Just a thought. This is counsel from our prophet not just a good idea. So get busy and do this one. It really is a no brainer.

Oh and just think of all the plastic we will be keeping out of the landfills. We are going green too.

Anyone want to track your calories or loose weight

Check out this website: www.sparkpeople.com

It is very close to weight watchers website but Free!

My username is jillypooh77 and beth's is tiggytails. So make sure to add us to your friends.


Good Luck everyone!

Dad's Wedding

Attention skinny (or formerly skinny) girls

I'm looking for one or more formal dresses in a size 0, maybe a 2 if it's alterable. Jorden has a couple events coming up in the next few months.

Thanks!

Pot Stickers

1/2 pound ground pork
1 green onion, finely chopped
2 water chestnuts, drained and finely chopped
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon sesame oil
1 (14 ounce) package wonton wrappers
5 tablespoons vegetable oil
3/4 cup water


DIRECTIONS
In a medium bowl, mix together the pork, green onion, water chestnuts, salt and sesame oil. Place a tablespoon of the pork mixture into each of the wonton wrappers. Fold the wrappers, and seal the edges with a moistened fork.
In a large, deep skillet, heat 3 tablespoons vegetable oil over medium high heat. Place the pot stickers into the oil seam sides up. Stirring constantly, heat 30 seconds to a minute. Pour water into the skillet. Gently boil 7 to 8 minutes, until oil and water begins to sizzle, then add remaining oil. When the bottoms begin to brown, remove pot stickers from heat.

Ashley made them for me on New Year's Eve. Delish!

A few more on Mom's recipes

I forgot a few more. I made the crepes this morning. YUMMY!

Do over

I redid the blog list, let me know if I forgot anyone

Cookie time

Here is some cookie information:

Cookies are $3.50 per box
Orders end: February 2, 2009
Cookies arrive: March 2, 2009
Money is due: March 15, 2009

I will ship the cookies in bulk to one address for each area.....ie: Taylor, Mesa, Maricopa, etc...

There are the same classic cookies...Thin mints, Samoas, Trefoils, Do-si-dos, Tagalongs

There are also the sugar free chocolate chip cookies, Lemon creme cookies, and the NEW **Dulce de leche** They are a shortbread cookie with caramel chips and caramel drizzle. Bart and MacKenna have said they are gooooooood!

Thanks for your support!

Congrats!

I wanted to say congratulations to all the beautiful Mommies popping out babies! Glad it's you and NOT ME! :) You girls are awesome. Keep the family growing. Loves and miss you all!
Krista

Grandma Passey's Favorites

Beth and I put Mom's Favorite recipe's together in a scrapbook for all the kids. I thought everyone else might like to have these as well. I can email them too. Just leave me a note and I will check back. Maybe for the next reunion we can do this as a craft for anyone that would like them.

a new Barnes

UPDATE:
Keara and Alan had their baby girl this morning.
Around 7 their time (am).
Still tossing around a name.
She weighed 8lbs. 14 oz.
That's all I know. Oh her contractions started hard at 2:30 in the morning.
So it went FAST, which is what we like.
Say she looks like Calvin with Keara's ears.

This is all I know but thought I'd put it out there. these were taken from the phone, so there will be better ones to come.

Meatloaf

ATTENTION COOKS OF THE FAMILY~ Bart is bugging the crap out of me for Mom's meatloaf recipe with the burned potatoes and what-not. He even bought me an electric skillet for Christmas so that I could make "meatloaf like Mom's". If anyone has her secret recipe for it, please post or let me know. Appearently Schwan's isn't doing the trick anymore! Tami, Dayna?? Anyone, Anyone?? Bueller?

Change it already!

Hey Jilly...change the stinkin background on the family blog...PLEASE. I tried to do it but apparently I'm not special enough to do so.

Also, note to family...I made the cheese ball recipe in the book Jill & Beth gave us and took it to our New Year's Eve party and it was a hit. Even the kids ate it. I used sliced almonds and cracker crumbs for the outer coating and YUMMY. I think I made a meal out of it.

Loves and thanks for a great gift Jill & Beth. It was great to see Mom again.