Easter in Vernal

This cute Rabbit and Chick were made by Kamir's feet.  How stinken cute it that?

Daddy set up a fun Easter Scavenger Hunt for the kids.

First clue.  Daddy did a great job making them tricky and fun.

I know it's in the kitchen...Somewhere!

Really having to think.  That tricky Dad.

It's somewhere in the Laundry Room.

We finally found them.

Checking out all our Easter Fun.

All our Easter Goodies.
Happy Easter Everyone.

Moving to Vernal, Utah

We had a Family Emergency that caused us to leave Korea early and move to Vernal, Utah to live with Grandma and Grandpa. We packed up on Wen and Thursday and flew out Friday April 4th 2014.  It was a challenge to get all our luggage under 50 lbs.  What to pack, and what will we need while we live in Vernal.  We finally figured it out and got all our luggage under 50lbs.  Yeah!!!!  

Daddy loaded us all in the car.  He is a great packer.    Yeah!!!  

The kids are big helpers.  They all grabbed a cart and filled it up with all our  luggage.
We had to take a shuttle to the airport at 5:00 am. Our flight didn't leave until 2 PM.  We had to kill 7 hours in the airport.  Happy kids for being up so early.  They are very good travelers.

The Incheon Airport is very nice.  They had all kinds of awesome  places to explore and kill time as we waited for our flight to leave. 

Beautiful flowers and a walk way.
The kids loved to explore and walk through the flowers. 

The even have a stage that people perform on. 

Beautiful Sculptures!

This is how the kids hung out at the airport.  We had a perfect spot a place to charge our electronics so the kids could read some books, watch movies, and play games.  it was perfect. 

Chandler, was the first to crash!  He was so cute all snuggled with two blankets.

Brooklyn was busy reading and crafting.

Kayden refused to nap.  He wasn't tired. 

We met  a really nice guy that visited with us.  He spent the 3 hour layover in Los Angeles sharing jokes and riddles with us.  It was so fun.  He loves golf just like Daddy.  Chandler and He played a couple games on his iPad.  What a nice guy.

We had the best surprise at the airport.  We thought Just Grandma and Grandpa were picking us up.  But NOPE the entire family came.  It was so wonderful to see my family in our time of need.  It totally make me cry.  What a blessing Family is and I'm so grateful for them and for all their love and support. We are so excited to be in the United States again.  We loved our adventure in Korea.  But We are soooo happy to be home.

Fasnacht (Doughnut) Evening

Every year my friend Michelle has a Fasnacht party.  She grew up around Pennsylvania and her family would eat  fasnachts on fat Tuesday. Fasnachts were made as a way to empty the pantry of lard, sugar, fat, and butter, which were traditionally fasted from during Lent.
I just love this little tradition of Michelle.  Come to find out that Fasnacht is basically a Spudnut doughnut and I made these with  Manine a couple years ago. Last year I helped Michele roll out the doughnuts and cook them.  This year I offered to help her with making some dough. She was going to have about 60 people over for Fasnaucts this year

Michele, Tina, and Brooklyn.  The cooks are in their aprons and ready to go.

Michele made 5 batches of dough and I made 2 batches of dough.
The kids and I started Rolling out the dough 

That is a lot of doughnuts to roll out and cut.  But We totally did it!!! 

First two batches of Doughnuts

Tina Sarah, and Michele.
Here we have a lot of the doughnuts.
Notice the ones behind us.  There were so many doughnuts.  As soon as we cooked the doughnuts
they were dressed with all kinds of different toppings like chocolate icing, tang, pink lemon aid, cinnamon and sugar, key lime glaze, chocolate and powder sugar, and any other kind of topping you could want.  They have had strawberry drink mix what ever you want.  The kids sure have a good time putting the doughnuts in the brown paper bag and coating the doughnuts.  What a super fun tradition.  I can't wait to continue with this super fun Doughnut party.

Learning how to cook Korean Food

We had a great time at our District Relief Society Korea Themed Activity.
I signed up to learn how to make Bibimbap. It's a signature Korean dish.   The word Bibimbap means "Mixed Rice" it's served as a hot dish. The bottom is a fried white rice, with lots of seasoned vegetables. there is also a red paste and sauces you put in the pot you top it off with a raw for fried egg. You can put meat in it or leave the meat out for a vegetarian dish. It's delicious.  It's so fun to learn how to make a yummy Korean dish.

This is what we will be putting in our Bibimbap.  

The presentation of the Bibimbap is so important.  You have to start with the rice on the bottom of the hot bowl then you add the meat.  And the veggies have to be placed just right.  You can't have two reds together or two yellows they have to be layered on the rice just perfect. *** Note you have to cook the veggies separate. and make sure you cook the carrots last so that the colors do not mix.***

All the veggies are placed and looks so yummy

Now you cook the egg and place it in the middle.  Our lunch is complete.  YUMMY!!!!

The next cooking class I took was learning how to make Korean Dumplings.  You can have Mandu which is a steamed dumpling or you can fry the dumpling and that is called Yaki Mandu.  

Here are the ingredients for the Mandu.  There is Tofu in this recipe.  Crazy!!!  I've never like Tofu but I love Mandu.

Look at all the yummy ingredients. Cabage, Carrots, onions, tofu.

After you blend it all up it looks like this.  It doesn't smell very good.  

These are the little shells for the Mandu.  

You take a little spoon full and put it in the wraper.

There are two ways to shape the Mandu.  the half moon or you can connect the corners to make a cute little shape.  I'm not sure what it's called. 

It's so fun to meet and learn from some amazing Korean Women.

Here are the Mandu being steamed. 

Here are the Yaki Mandu being friend.  They are soooo yummy

After my two cooking classed I learned a Korean Kraft.  It's called Hanji Paper Craft.
this craft is made from mulberry paper, 

Here is my fun little Hanji Paper Craft.
So much fun.  I love learning about this great country we get to live in.

Girls Weekend with Crystal

Crystal and I left our husbands and kids to have a fun overnight trip in Seoul.
We stayed at the Dragon Inn in Yongsan.
We left home around noon on friday.  We drove to Seoul.  We had a couple really good conversations and just enjoyed each others company.  

After we checked into our hotel we headed out for dinner.  I was trying to find this indian restaurant  but alas I couldn't find it so we opted to try this Thai Restaurant.  

It had the funnest environment.  I love the lights.  

This was the door on the way into the restaurant.  How fun is that?  So cool

This was a free drink.  I'm not sure what it was.  

Crystals Dinner

My dinner

After dinner we did a little bit of shopping and went to Jamba Juice and got a yummy smoothies.
We went back to the hotel and got in our bathing suits.  We took our Jamba Juice down to the pool and spent the next hour sitting in the hot tub just talking.  We had the whole place to ourselves.  It was pretty awesome.
We closed the pool.
We went up to our room and started making some fun cards.  We stayed up until 3am.  You would think being away from the kids would allow us to sleep in.  Ha ha ha...  We had a great time craving and talking all night long.

The next morning we ate breakfast and went to the Orphanage.  We spent 2 1/2 hours snuggling, feeding, changing and loving on 20 infants.  I fell in love with one little girl.  I asked if she wanted to come home with me.  She put her little hand on my check.  It was so sweet.  I named her Jaclyn Marie.  I wish I could have taken her home.  She was just precious.  She had the roundest little face and the cutest little eyes.  She was so adorable.  What a fun experience and what a fun time.  I love snuggling these little babies.  I think I could have a weekend like this every month.