Spring Tulips

Spring is such a wonderful time of year. Spring means sunshine, sandals, and flowers. And one of my favorite flowers...tulips! Well, we got to dance through some tulips today. Ok maybe it wasn't literally dancing. But, still appropriate to write about in this blog right? This was our first time at the Tulips Festival at Thanksgiving Point and we loved it. Check it out if you haven't yet, it's beautiful!

 Logan, looking all cool in his sunglasses.

Best friends skipping along

You could try to look a little happier, Lizzie.

Entrance into the "Secret Garden"

Em and Logan, love this picture!

Nutella Stuffed Chocolate Chip Cookies

Don't these sound and look divine? Well they are. As it turns out Nutella and chocolate chip cookies make a perfect combination. It can get kind of messy when making them but they turn out so good that it's ok. Try it out, you won't regret it.

What You Need:
1 cup butter
3/4 cup granulated sugar
3/4 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
2 1/2 cup flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup chocolate chips
1 jar of Nutella (you won't use it all)

What You Do:
Mix butter, and sugars until well blended. Mix in eggs. Add flour, baking soda, salt, and vanilla and mix together. Stir in chocolate chips. Chill cookie dough in the refrigerator for an hour. Spoon 24 dollops of Nutella on a cookie sheet and stick it in the freezer for 30 minutes. Chilling makes it easier to wrap the cookie dough around the Nutella.

After dough and Nutella have been chilled, you're ready to make some magic! Preheat oven to 375 F. Spoon out some cookie dough, flatten it in your hand or on the cookie sheet, place Nutella dollop in the center, and then wrap dough around it. Repeat until you're out of Nutella. Bake for 10-12 minutes. Enjoy the chocolatey goodness.

Moving + Zoo Day

We had a pretty busy week! Tyler, Lizzie and I finally moved into our new apartment and are very excited about it. I'm beyond grateful my parents have let us stay in their home for the last few months, but it's nice to have our own place again.

We decided to end our crazy week on a fun note and took a little trip to the zoo! Lizzie has been very interested in animals and making animal sounds so I have been looking forward to her first zoo experience. Sure enough, she loved it. She made all the appropriate animal sounds too. The highlight of the zoo for Lizzie was actually riding on the carousel. She was beaming the whole time. I wish I could have gotten a better picture of it. Bare with me, these aren't the highest quality pictures because I left my Nikon at home and, therefore, was stuck using my iPhone. Oh well. 

 

 

 

  

Our General Conference Weekend

I love when General Conference comes around. I always feels uplifted and inspired by the time the weekend is over and this time was no different. I'm not going to lie though, the weekend did not start out great for me. Lizzie cried through most of the sessions on Saturday. Apparently anything on TV that is not Frozen or Winnie the Pooh is unacceptable to her. Fortunately for me, I was able to get something out of a few talks. Here is a favorite quote of mine from this General Conference, it was what I really needed to hear and it is just a good reminder for everyone:

Another thing I like about General Conference weekend is girls night while the men are at the Priesthood session. This time, I stayed in most of the night but it was nice because I got to spend time with my mom, sister, and sister-in-law. Naomi offered to paint our nails so of course we accepted. She did a good job.

Sunday started out with a delicious french toast breakfast, and then we watched Conference at my in-laws. Lizzie did much better this time around. She kept herself busy playing with water. It's seriously her new favorite thing to do. 

                      

It was, overall, a nice weekend. I'm grateful for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints that I belong to, it's leaders, and most of all a God who knows and loves every one of us. Have a fantastic week!