Uggggg, I am tired of the way this blog looks. I need an overhaul. Oh, and here's a recipe.

It must be February.  I am tired of the old and ready for a change.

This is one of my new favorite recipes.  It is crock pot potatoes au gratin.

It is the best.  In fact, it got me searching for more crock pot sides.  It has been so nice to have a main dish and a side cooking all day.  Yummy.  

Here is the link for the site I got it off of.

http://chickensintheroad.com/farm-bell-recipes/slow-cooker-potatoes-au-gratin/

Enjoy :0)

The road trip that hated discount tires.

9 kids on a 5 hour road trip, sounds fun, right?  I know you are jealous.

Entertainment:  Becca's foot on the ceiling.  Yes, that is her foot.

 Look, miracles do happen.  They do like each other, and James now loves books.  Wow, I know.

 How many hotel rooms?  Too many.  One room had these 3 little ladies,

These 4 rug rats in the attached room.

And sadly I forgot to take a photo of room 3 that had these bed jumpers plus a 14 year old plus a 9 year old. Oh and John and me.  

This is why we didn't go swimming.

Matchy Matchy cousins.  Wow, we miss this kid.

A new Hyrum's creation.  Pulling Mia on a sled with his remote control car.  Brilliant!

Bonus:  A dance recital.

(Sorry, forgot to rotate.)  Here is the sweet dancer girl.

(I was using my mom's camera and I obviously don't know how to use it.  So blurry photos, but you can use your imagination, right?)  They were taking over the dance stage.  Fun dance moves.

More dance moves, but I think they had better practice a little harder.  They don't look like they are even on the same song.

Hyrum and Annie's creation.  An ice/slush wall.  Awesome!!!!!

Here we all are.  What a good looking bunch of coconuts.  This is our goodbye to Brett photo.  He is going on a 2 year LDS mission to San Fernando, CA.

Dang, another blurry and sideways photo.  But another Hyrum creation.  A skate board behind his remote control car.  Double awesome!!

And now we go home.  Bummer.

Here is where discount tires comes into the picture.  My check tire light for my right rear tire had been warning me that it was low. So, they day we left, I hauled 3 kids into discount tire and told them my problem. The dude checked the tires and filled them up and told me I was fine.  Well,  I wasn't fine.  There was a huge bolt stuck in the tire.  So, the warning came up again and my very smart husband pulled over and had to change it before we were stuck on the side of the road.  It was so dang freaking cold.  James was a great assistant.

After the flat tire, we ran into a horrible storm. Even more fun. That made the ride even better.  So our 5 hour ride home, took 7 1/2 hours.  Totally awesome.  woot woot.  Love me an awesome road trip.

FHE Harlem Shake

Family home evening at our house is always entertaining.  Sometimes noisy, ok, I take that back.  Always noisy.  But we have way too much fun.  So we jumped on the band wagon and made a Harlem Shake video.  It is the new viral video.  And since we are super trendy, here is ours.

So, what do you think?

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EkVx7q0R_4)