Dance Studio's Spring Spectacular

Our Dance Studio put on a Spring Spectacular this year. Daryl, my mother, and I went. It started out with open dancing, then there was some pro-am dancers that performed from around Wisconsin, then was the highlight of the evening...A dancer from Dancing With the Stars (Jesse DeSoto) (the guy), and his partner came to perform. Here is a picture of him and his partner with Daryl and I. He was on dancing with the stars in 2004.

HD TV taking over.

Well, Daryl bought our first HD flatscreen TV 32"? and we mounted on the wall in our bedroom. I love it except, we don't get any high definition channels yet. Hummm....apparently he was so happy with it that when he found a deal online for a 40some inch HD TV for $800, he instanted purchased it to replace the TV in our living room. OK, so now we have 2 TVs that are HD quality, without any HD channels. OK, we do on occasion get a couple through cable. So here we sit...two beautiful TV's....yup, out goes cable and in comes satellite. We are also substituting movie channels with Net Flix. Net Flix has a new feature that lets you instantly watch 1000 some movies instantly if you have internet connected to your TV. Cool. We are so getting with the times :)

Big Oven Recipe Software

I LOVE IT!!! I did a search for the best online recipe program to help organize my life. I found this one rated the best. IT IS. It comes with approximately 200 built in recipes in the program to get you started. From there you add your own, delete the ones you don't want, then go on their web site where you have access to 150,000 more recipes that you can drag and drop into your program on your computer at any time. The program also lets you drag and drop recipes into your "shopping list", or into your "calender" for meal planning. It downs sizes or up sizes for you depending on how many people you are feeding, and tells you the nutrition value, you can print out any of the recipes, or why not create and even publish if you like your own cookbook. :) There is a lot more to it. Check it out.... www.bigoven.com

Time for Spring Cleaning

I LOVE spring cleaning. I know summer is coming, and that my house will soon be spotless. I'm a super clean freak. When I spring clean, say the kitchen for instance, EVERYTHING comes out of every drawer and cubbard. Then I wipe it all down, clean and organize what was in the drawers and replace it in the best spot. I super clean the stove and refridgerator, after I pull them away from the wall to clean the floor and behind them....I wipe down walls, and all surfaces, clean curtains, and windows...I could go on and on. I could have the president over when I'm through. Right now I'm doing Olivia's room. Her carpet is getting steam cleaned (we own the cleaner). I like it because little repairs or updates that have been put off, also get finished.
Yesterday Olivia and I worked outside. It was 50 degrees out. Felt great with the massive cold spell we have had. Livy and I pulled out all our dead flowers from the pots, and she mixed up the dirt with her gardening tools she got for Christmas from grandma and grandpa. We also took down Christmas lights, and raked up some leaves. Our front yard looks nice now.