Melarky

This is really easy, and one of our favorites. Mark says it tastes like a Jamba Juice, I like it, but I can’t say if it does or not, cause when I do go to Jamba Juice, I usually only get the Pina Coloda one (I’m kinda boring like that).

When I make this smoothie, I usually make a lot, cause Mark, well he’s kinda of a smoothie hog and can down a whole blender-full himself. Did I say hog? I meant pig.

This is a recipe without exact measurements, but I’m positive you’ll figure it out. Come on’! It’s a smoothie, not rocket science.

• Equal parts of frozen strawberries and peaches.

• A spoonful of Hawaiians Own Passion Orange frozen juice concentrate.
• Some water (preferably cold and I usually just guess-you can always put more in if it’s too thick)
• Couple of spoonfuls of orange sherbet.

Blend it all and you’re done! See. Easy huh?!

I didn’t really mean for this smoothie recipe to turn into me being mean to my husband or to insult melarky readers, I just like to tease. But I’d also like to mention, on a totally unrelated matter, Mark has been known to eat whole pies and entire cans of Frito Lay bean dip and he’s dang sexier for it!

-Christmas Eve we took Welly on a sled ride around the block. He loved laying down in the sled all bundled up. He was sure cute in that sled.

-Christmas morning we slept in a bit. Welly woke up super grumpy and was for quite sometime. We made creps and opened our presents.

-After our own Christmas we went over to my parents. My sister Carrie, and sister Barbara and hubby and baby Sadie were there. As well as niece and nephew, Dianna and Jeff, and my Mom. I didn’t see my Dad really, cause he was back asleep by the time we got there, he had a long night at his graveyard job the night before.

-Welly loves his cousin Sadie and makes sure to give her kisses. But he’s very particular, on the mouth only! The cousins were pretty cute in their pajamas, opening presents.

-The day after Christmas we went shopping downtown for a new coat for Mark.

-Welly has been pretty cute with the snow. Eating it, falling in it, he’s also gotten to be a super pro at kicking the snow off his boots.

Stuff #1:
It is our anniversary today. Mark and I have been married 5 years now. Crazy! It’s been great, gone by fast/seems like an eternity, and very, very wonderful! I’m the luckiest girl to be married to such a great guy! He spoils me, hardly ever beats me, keeps me laughing, and keeps me sane. And you know after 5 years, I’m still surprised by him, and that’s hard to do cause I’m a snoop, but somehow he manges to keep me on my toes. I love you Marky, you and your little beard!

Stuff #2:
For an anniversary present I got my hair cut and colored. It was long overdue. I was feeling pretty homely, I wasn’t sure if I could get my hair dyed while I was pregnant though, but after calling my doctor I found it was perfectly safe. I went to my favorite, very talented, hard-to-get-into hairstylist, Angie. She always does a great job (which makes waiting for an appt. worthwhile). I took her a few pictures of some hairstyles I liked, and got exactly what I had imagined. Better actually. She cut about 3 inches off, but it’s still pretty long. This color is more true to my natural. I’m very happy with this new look.

Stuff #3:
Christmas was great. Welly got lots of fun toys, books, socks (*not so fun), boots, big boy underwear….etc. Mark got a lot of fix-it type stuff from me. A book with illustrations on how to fix things around the house, nuts, bolts, he also got a real Louisville slugger baseball bat. No, Mark is not a big baseball buff, it’s our own home protection system. Mark gave me some great gifts, I don’t know how I lucked out so well this year. I got a light tent for photography stuff, chocolates, dishes, and more more more. We had a great Christmas, but I’m glad its over, now it’s time to get ready for a new baby to come.

Stuff #4:
I’m about 25 weeks along. Head to heel, our baby now measures about 13 1/2 inches. Weight —about a pound and a half , starting to get his baby fat. His wrinkled skin will begin to smooth out and he’ll start to look more and more like a newborn. He’s growing more hair and if you could see it, you’d now be able to discern its color and texture.

Getting ready to stuff my face!

Kids are trying out their new toys!

Father-in-law is snoozing the big one!

Everyone is having a merry Christmas!

I finally finished my Christmas shopping this afternoon. I was out there with all the men, doing their last minute shopping. I still have a few things to wrap, and the kitchen to clean, but I mostly just want to do as little as possible the rest of the night and just relax.

Mark is breaking tradition and wrapping my gifts himself this year. He usually gets his sister to do it for him, but as I’m writing this he is cutting, taping and working away at making my Christmas a fun one.

Welly is taking a nap. Thank heavens! He really hated going from store to store today, and was a total grump. Lets just say there was a display torn down, a few tantrums and some screaming, all in all it was good fun for everyone within a 10 ft radius of us. I’m sure he’s glad to be done with shopping as much as I am.

Hastings for the second time in one day

After Mark worked a few hours today we went out to lunch. After all that shopping, I was so hungry and I told Mark, “I’ll eat anything, just pick something, and I’ll eat it!”. “Poo?” he said (classy, I know). “Dirty Snow?”. Doesn’t he know not to tease a hungry pregnant lady? Don’t get between me and my food. We went to one of our favorites, El Sol, and had a fun Christmas Eve lunch, non-alcoholic margaritas and all!

Eating Mexican food in the nerdiest Christmas sweater ever!

Tonight we have plans with family, in the morning-Christmas Crepes and presents. Hope you all have a Merry Christmas tomorrow!

Wellington was so cute in his super-nerdy Christmas sweater at church today. He was such a good boy in nursery or so it seems since he wasn’t brought out to me. He seems like he is really doing well in nursery now, and I’m so glad. It’s so fun to see him go into nursery without a fuss, to bring home pictures he had colored, to peek in on him and see him sitting down eating a snack or singing a song. It makes him seem so big and grown up.

After church, we had Temple recommend interviews. Wellington was so patient waiting, even though he was very tired and hungry. The hallway that we were waiting in before our interviews was lined on the walls with pictures of Christ. Welly was so smart and could pick out which one Jesus was. So smart! He also pointed to the pictures they had up of the First Presidency and he just called them, “guys”. That works for now. We’ll have to work on their names later.

While he was trying his two-year-old hardest to sit still, he was entertained with my phone. His Dad took these pictures while I was in having my interview.

That last video I posted, was kinda weird, and scary, and not in sync with the true Christmas spirit, in my opinion (although that song is Christmas-fun). When Welly saw it he grew very concerned for all the crying kids.

So to make up for that last one, here’s one that will hopefully it put you in the Christmas giving mood.

Video Courtesy of KSL.com