Sibling Stuffing

Christmas
I'll start with what happened first.
The Harris sibling dinner on Christmas Eve's Eve (or Christmas Adam as a friend of mine calls it).
We went to Tucanos again and ate way too much food. But it was delicious.
I love when all my siblings can get together- it only happens once a year.
Where we call home:
Summer- Stansbury Park, UT
Kelly & Ben- Herriman, UT
Jud & Liz- Jacksonville, North Carolina
Brant- Taylorsville, UT
Kit & Lynzie- San Diego, California

Kit loves the girls. Always has to be in the pictures!

Hot stuff! (I mean Ben)

Liz, Lynzie, Summer, Kit, Kelly

The girls, I had to do my famous hand on hip pose (just for Ben, he loves it).

Can't wait for next year.

Merry & Sprite

This is what I did for our neighbor gifts this year.
Super easy-Super cute

I used THIS TEMPLATE for the Tag.

What did you do?

Yummy Treats

Fudge Revel Bars
(I got this recipe from a blog, and completely forgot which one)
They are yummy, trust me.
1 c. butter
2 eggs (I used 4 T. applesauce)
2 c. brown sugar
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp.baking soda
2 1/2 c. flour
2 tsp. vanilla
3 c. quick oats
Cream together the butter, brown sugar, and eggs. Add the vanilla. Add the salt, baking soda, and flour. Mix. Add oats and mix well. Press 2/3 of the dough into a greased cookie sheet.

Fudgey Goodness
1 can Sweetened Condensed Milk
1 pkg milk chocolate chips
1 Tbsp. Butter
1/2 tsp salt

Put all into a microwave safe bowl and microwave for 1 minute and stir. Keep cooking at 30 second increments and stirring until melted. Pour over the dough and spread out. Sprinkle the rest of the dough over the fudge. Bake at 350 for 20 min.

The boys and I ate some before I took a picture.
Also, the pretzel things are a fabulous new thing my friend gave me the "recipe" to.
Twisted mini pretzels
Hershey's hugs
Holiday M&M's
(Christmas, Halloween, Easter, Valentines Day)

Preheat oven to 200 degrees
Put the pretzels on a (Pam sprayed) cookie sheet, put unwrapped hugs on top
Put in oven until chocolate melts (for my oven it was about 7 mins)
Remove from oven
Put one M&M on top of hug/pretzel immediately
Yum!

Our Trip to the Library

Welcome to a free advertisement for the Herriman City Library.
It...is...Rad!

I just finished Finals, so a huge weight has been lifted off my shoulders and my boys were in a big need of getting out of the house. They wanted to go to the library. You should all check it out (if you live around Herriman, that is).

We really could sit here all day!

We love our new Library!


p.s. does anyone know where I can get egg substitutes, so I can make sugar cookies with my kids?

Christmas Dinner with Clegg Sibs

It's blurry, but we're hot, so it's cool.
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Cafe Trang with 5 of Ben's siblings + spouses.

Ginger Temple

This last Friday was perfect weather for our annual go to the temple lights. It felt pretty darn warm (like 42 degrees-ish).
Thankfully we were able to get Rob & Kandis to go with us last minute.
Here is what we do:
Meet at the Gateway and let the kids choose where to eat in the food court.
Then we ride trax to temple square. See the lights, get hot chocolate, and ride the train back to Gateway. We love it. We might have to do it again, I'm already sad it's over!

We're awesome. (I rolled the top of my boots down...much better.)

Ben's brother Rob & Family

Waiting for the train, drinking hot chocolate. These boys are the cutest! They were so good, and so grateful to be able to go. They love this tradition.

Ben made a gingerbread house with the boys.
We let them do the candy by themselves, it was so adorable.
I LOVE Christmas time!

Thanksgiving in Idaho

We braved the bad roads this year and drove to Idaho to have Thanksgiving with my Grandparents & Aunt & Uncle. We are glad we made the drive. We had a great time in Grandpa's cabin with only 9 of us there for Thanksgiving...it was perfect!


Uncle Scott & Aunt Nina

Uncle Scott is a big tease. Ryan kept pestering him, so Uncle Scott took him outside and threw him in the snow!

Grandma Carolyn & Grandpa Harris spoiled the kids, giving them chocolate frosted flakes and hot chocolate for breakfast. There is nothing like a little sugar in the morning.

It was 0 degrees outside, so we opted to stay in. Burrr!!

Ryan built a train out of dominos. Isn't that awesome?

Ryan was always snuggling with Great Grandma Carolyn. Here he is saying goodbye. He was so sad.

Ethan always had something on his face. Grandma & Grandpa spoiled them, and let them eat whenever they wanted.

We can home to these cute turkeys from a girl in our primary class.
Love it!
(cute idea, right?)

Ugly

I broke down and bought me some fake UGGs (from Costco). And why did they get that name? Because the wife of the maker of UGGs thought they were ugly. True story.
I couldn't agree more. But, it's like being in Mexico in the winter time for my feet.
So I deal with them being ugly.

p.s. Ben totally thinks I bought them because they are "trendy". I did not. As mentioned above, I think they are ugly. I think girls must finally be realizing it's more important for their feet to be comfortable than pretty...I know, it's a stretch right?

Thanksgiving Feast #1

Gotta love Thanksgiving!
This year my mom's side of the family had Thanksgiving the Saturday before, and it...was...awesome. So many people could be there, and we did it at the church, so there was room for everyone. It was great!
The highlights for the kids:
Ornament Painting
Pinata
Basketball/Football
Running Around the Church

My Aunt Syd. The orchestrator. We love her!

Aunt Sydney

Sisters

Wannabe Sisters (yeah, Chels, you know you do)

I invaded couples' pictures. I'm cool.
Kelly w/ Chelsea & Alex

More invading: Kelly w/ Leslie & Doug

Cousins.
Minus Ben (he can only be in one picture with me per function).

Tessa, Ryan & Ethan painting ornaments.

Ryan trying to gather as much as he can!

Ethan also trying to get as much candy as his little arms can handle. This is when they said, "Mom, I need a bag!"

Ryan

Cousin Tessa

Ethan

Utah vs. TCU

We love the U, even though they played an embarrassing game against TCU.
Gotta love the game anyway, here were the highlights:
*Eating at Tony Burger before the game
*Then running from the Engineering building to the stadium (it's far, trust me) because you're late...but you just ate a huge hamburger, fries, and diet coke.
*Blackout
*A Streaker (yup, we saw some boobs) all the guys were excited.

Thanks to my Mom and Marshall for co-watching the kids for us!

And thanks to our friends (you know who you are) for entering our messy bedroom to get our tickets for us, because we forgot them (thankfully they were going to the game too)!

The "Cow" & The Mouse

Ryan brought home "Tom the Turkey" for his homework. He had to make a disguise for Tom, so no one could find him on Thanksgiving. Ryan chose to disguise Tom as a Cow. Is that the cutest thing or what?

We have mice in our house.
It's gross.

I "trapped" one in our cleaning closet--well, either it escaped, or it got out and is now under our stove. I "trapped" it again. Hoping it will step on the mouse sticky pads.
Ethan said he liked mice, and drew it a picture. Ethan is hoping the mouse will come out to see it, and say thanks.