House of Happy Chaos

Well, its been a couple of crazy weeks since I wrote last. It always seems like things all come at once. My brother Patrick and his wife, Alicia, graduated from BYU. Alicia got her Masters in accounting and Patrick got his Bachelors sociology and is going on to get his Masters in public administration from the U of U. Next, Andrew graduated from the U of U with a Doctor of Physical Therapy. It was great fun to see them all finish such big accomplishments. I am so proud of them. As the older sister you sometimes feel like a little bit of a mother hen, so sometimes it is still crazy to me that they are all so grown up - graduating, having kids, living in far flung places. Speaking of having kids, Pat and Alicia are going to have a baby! Yeah! Another big change in their lives and another big congratulations from The Green Hamsters!
With the graduations, my brother, Corbin, has been in town. That has been soon fun for us. We miss him terribly. He is still very busy trying to get his final film project up and running, but we are glad he took time to come to visit. Just having him around makes me happy.
In other news, our fence is finished and it is awesome! We love it. We have also had Jorge put a new garage door on the house. It is fabulous. It closes all of the way! I can even operate it with one hand! It is a beautiful thing. Our next project is our crumbling front stairs. I can't wait. Our front stairs have this hideous AstroTurf covering them and they are disintegrating as I write. I can't wait for the gleam of new, glorious, uncovered concrete.
With all of our Frost family together and with the new additions to our house. We thought we would have a barbecue with everyone. It was a lot of fun. We did get rained on a little bit, but with our screened in porch it wasn't bad. It was great to feel like we could have people over and entertain.
As far as the kids go, Carter had to do a "show and teach" presentation in school where he picked something that he liked to do and then he had to teach his class how to do it. He really likes playing games so he taught everyone how to play the board game Othello. He did really well. His school year is fast coming to a close and we are both having mixed feelings about it. He has grown a lot this year and will miss his class. I can't believe I almost have a 1st grade child. Also, we are trying to get his two front teeth to come out. His new permanent teeth want to come in and they are pushing his other teeth to stick way out. Typical Carter, won't let me touch them though. I am thinking that another visit to the dentist is inevitable.
Lily gave her first talk in church over the weekend. Dwight helped her and she did a terrific job. She was a little nervous, but she did great. She talked about repentance. It makes a mom feel so happy!
Well, I suppose that I'd better get to reading my book. It's The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. I have been invited to join a book club and our first meeting is tomorrow. I am excited about it. I hope that I can keep up with it. It will be a little bit of a challenge to fit it in, but I am going to try.

Whole foods trip

So, today I took the kids and went to pick up our second ever basket from the Bountiful Baskets Food Co-op. It went a lot quicker this time. There wasn't any waiting and we came home with another beautiful basket of fruits and veggies. I worked all morning on getting the veggies ready to be eaten and all of my food storage that I bought at a case sale put and away.

Then after Dwight got home we went and picked up my mom and went down to The Whole Foods store in Salt Lake. It was a lot of fun. None of us had ever been there before. It was fun to see all of the things that they had. I was a little lost as to what I really needed to buy there, but I settled on some exotic grains and a few other things and am feeling quite excited about the possibility of cooking with them. We got quinoa, millet, amarynth, spelt flour, red lentils, pumpkin seeds, ginger, shitake mushrooms, and pearled couscous. I wouldn't even know that half of these existed if it wasn't for my wonderful sister-in-law. She has always got something new for me to try, Thanks Tor. You should check out her cooking blog - http://www.iwanttobedomestic.blogspot.com/. It rocks!

I also got a chance to go with a friend of mine, Kelly, to the ballet last night. It was so fun. I can count the times I've been to the ballet on one hand, but every time I've gone I have really liked it. They performed Balanchine's America. It was beautiful. They danced purely effortlessly. I can't imagine ever being that strong. They did a great job and it was fun to have an outing away from the house. I have a great husband for those of you who don't already know. He encouraged me to go out while he stayed home with the kids. They all had a big race off on Mario Cart. What a peach! I am very blessed.