Star Fish Crackers!

We had a fish theme for school today and tried making homemade Goldfish crackers with a change - Star Fish Crackers! They turned out pretty good and the kids loved them!

Tagged!

We moved our tag post to here! Amanda - Thanks for Tagging us! It was cool to learn about you. So here it goes: Up front - We tag the Loughmiller's and Jeff & Valerie (and Karen did you see Amanda tagged you?)

1. What was I doing Ten years ago?
1998: I was a senior in High School and Looking forward to graduating and doing my 1st semester at Ricks College. Things I was into - my friends, trying to figure out a major for college, playing the piano and flute.

2. 5 Things on my to do list
1. Do fun school activities with the kids
2. Get my 2 month menu shopping list completed
3. Go Visiting Teaching
4. Find a Babysitter for tonight
5. Organize my files!!!!

3. Things I enjoy
I enjoy playing with my family, planning projects (garden and landscaping, quilts, furniture, vacations, enrichment, etc.), researching things online.

4. If I were a billionaire
- I would buy a small farm (5-10 acre) with a few cows, horse, pigs, chickens, fruit trees, large garden, and hay field
- We would build a fun home just the way we want it - let Brent build a cool bridge on our property just for civil engineering fun!
- I would buy a designer dog like a miniature goldendoodle or a cavapoo
- I would pay for all of Karen's flights and treatments
- I would set up an account for future family expenses for each of my children
- I would invest in good family businesses - clean entertainment creators or providers, humanitarian efforts, etc.
- Buy a timeshare for a home on the coast
- I would pay more tithing!
- Get a small airplane for us to fly home or any where we wanted!
- Take a trip to Europe, Australia, India, Peru, Alaska (go fishing!), Washington DC, NY, and other fun places!
- I could keep dreaming forever, but back to the tagging!

5. Three Bad Habits:
- Spending way too much time on the internet
- Thinking I know everything
- Not showering everyday!

6. Places I've Lived:
Tanya: Plain City, UT; East Fork Bear River, Uinta Mountains; Rexburg, ID; Moscow, ID; Caldwell, ID


7. Jobs I've had:
- Babysitting, Bean Picker, Potato Harvester, Subway Sandwiches, Home Health Aide, Nursing Dept. Lab Assistant, Home Health Nurse, Med/Surg Nurse, OB/Nursery Nurse, now I am Queen Wife and Mother of the Brent Orton Family!

8. Most Afraid Of:
My children getting hurt

9. Favorite Food
Cantelope with homemade vanilla ice cream and raspberries on top!

10. Natural Hair Color:
Golden Brown

11. Are you a neat-freak?
Sometimes - not as often as I need to be!

12. Ever been skinny-dipping?
No

13. 20 Things you may not know about me:
1. I have a masters in nursing education but not using it professionally right now
2. I enjoy having my very own children - The whole process: Being pregnant, labor, watching them grow up, taking them to the zoo and park and fun places, reading with them, feeding them, playing with them, talking with them, etc. etc. etc.
3. I love watching good clean happy movies and listening to great music
4. I have never skiied even though I am from UT (and I am not sure I want to start now - but maybe)
5. I really would like to have a family milk cow and milk it twice everyday and make my own butter, yogurt, sour cream, ice cream etc - just for the experience of it all.
6. I like to sing and play the piano and flute
7. I worked at a Boy Scout Camp for 4 summers as a teen as a camp cook and first aid merit badge instructor.
8. If Brent agreed to it - I would paint every room in my house a different color (I still might, but Brent likes the color our house is right now!)
9. I love camping
10. I have eaten es cargo and sort of liked it.
11. I love flowers and plants and gardening - but have a lot to learn about growing them!
12. I like waking up early in the morning and taking the dog for a walk
13. One of my goals in life is to complete an intricate piece quilt
14. I really enjoy learning about other cultures and religions and understanding where others are coming from
15. I cut my own hair for the first time when I was four (it was a disaster!) but I still enjoying doing it now (even though I still haven't gotten much better!)
16. I love to wear comfortable plain but cute long sleeve cotton/poly shirts in just about any color.
17. I love learning about new things- gardening, dogs, technology, children, geography, culture, hunting, cooking, etc, etc.
18. I love candy and sweets and berries- just about any kind, but I hardly ever buy them!
19. I love reading the scriptures and other good books
20. It took me 4 days to finally finish this!


For all of you who read this - thanks for caring! We sure do love you! Hope you have a great day!

Tanya's Two Months of Tasty Menus

I just added my plan for the next two months of menus. My goal is to rotate and reuse it 6 times through the year, and adapting it for holidays and special occassions. Each day has a theme and different recipies to go with the theme. Have the supplies for each meal and mark when you use the recipe. Some of the recipes can be trippled and frozen for the next time. I am going to be making a shopping list and food storage goal list from this menu. I'll let you know how it goes!

Email me tanyaorton@gmail.com if you want the excel file. I am going to try to post it on my blog!

Welcome to my Bog!

Welcome to my Blog!

Here I am going to share some of the projects I have been working on, my mother moments, and anything that comes to mind that I think you might be interested in! Please share your great ideas too!