Tiny Tim...the Roast

Mom J. makes the most amazing Sunday Roast. I learned how to make roast from her, almost immiedietly after Matt and I were married. This was a neccessity since we have barely lived in Utah at all during our marriage. We just couldn't live without Sunday Roast. Back to my story...we have learned that cooking a whole roast is much to much for my little family to eat. Us girls are not big meat eaters, so the left overs would just go to waist. A few years ago, I started cutting the roast up into three sections. This gives us just enough for us all to have our fill, with enough left over for Matt to make a roast sandwich later on in the week. We found our little roasts so comical we have named them Tiny Tim Roasts...they just shrink up after they are cooked. So, Cheers to our little roast, and Cheers to making a $7 roast stretch for three meals! This post is dedicated to Mom J. !

Operation Towel Replacement

My wonderful mom-in-law has visited us many times in Texas. Each and every time she has come, she tells me I need new towels. I never really had thought about it before. Sure our towels were a little ratty on the sides and ends, but there were no major holes. We have this habit of using things up until the are for sure, competely dead and done for. All of our towels...every single one of them, were wedding gifts. So our towels are over 11 years old!! Ok, Ok, it is time to replace the towels! Mom you would be so proud of me, my new goal is that whenever we are in a store with a linen department I pick up two new towels. Once I get home, two new towels get put in the linen closet, and two old towels are taken out and turned into rags. Of course, this is me and I am being compulsive about it...I am buying Navy blue and cream towels for the kids bathroom...and sage green and tan towels for the master bath. Silly, silly Amber...but if I am going to buy new towels, I am going to get the colors I want!

Porcupines!

Since we have moved to California, whenever we go to town, I have noticed a common occurence. A sea of Porcupine heads. It seems to be the new, hip hairstyle here in California. The hair is shaved evenly maybe 2 or 3 inches from the head...and then spiked out. It looks like the back of a porcupine all over the subjects head. They are everywhere....a sea of porcupines!

What a Day!

Election day was a huge day here in California. Unfortunately we are still registered in Texas, so we could not participate in voting on all the issues on California's ballot. It all seemed to pass well anyway...without Matt and I voting. Having voted early, it was interesting to see Electorial day unfold...listening to all the discussions going on in grocery aisles and such. I, personally, did not vote for Obama. He and I have many personal and political differences that could not be overcome enough for me to vote for him. However, I still feel that it was a remarkable moment in history. Knowing our countries past so well ( the Civil War era is where I have concentrated most of my History studies), and believing that slavery is one of our countries worst sins, What a moment it was to have an African-American elected President. His acceptance speech brought tears to my eyes, and hope that finally our country can begin to forgive itself and heal from so many wounds. My prayer is that God will continue to bless this country, and that our new President will seek God out during his service to us.

Your my Prince?

It was a Success!

It's chocolate mama, a chocolate eye!

Hannah loves, loves, loves sugar!

Can't wait to dig into this!

Hey, where's mine?

The kids enjoyed the Halloween aftermath. Going through there loot and giving mom and dad their castoffs. Still, you know they are growing older when you can't talk them out of that mini candy bar. Now they know what the "good" candy is! They are also old enough to remember what was in their candy bucket...so no snitching for parents! Darn!

We rounded off our Halloween celebration with our traditional halloween movie. This year was perfect, because Halloween was on a Friday. Normally we are in a rush, because the next day is a school day, and the kids are getting to bed late. This year we really partied! We broke out the picnic blanket and we sat down in front of a showing of Tim Burton's "A Corpse Bride". It was great. Can't get much better then pigging out on candy, in pajamas, watching a movie!

Jeppson Halloween Hauntings

Dad all punked out

Jeppson girls Halloween 2008

Cora is a Cinderella Princess

Hannah is a vampire bat

Anya is a Dragon


We had a fun Halloween this year. Dad took the girls around trick-or-treating, while mom stayed home and passed out candy. We lost track of the older girls for a little while. Without permission they ran ahead with some friends and just kept going. Eventually Dad found them again...which is not hard to do in our neighborhood. I love our neighborhood. It is the perfect set-up. In the center is a huge common area with a field, community center and large playground. Then all the houses in our neighborhood are built around the common area in a huge rectangle. It is all very central, so luckily the kids really couldn't go anywhere far. Still we had a long talk afterwards, which was torture for the kids because it delayed candy eating. I went through 7 bags of candy, and still ran out before the kids stopped coming. Someday I will get the ratio right! All in all, I think it was a success. We had a great time, and especially enjoyed having dad home with us this year!