Not a Very Happy Hour!

So...if you like to visit Sonic during Happy Hour, you are aware that drinks are half price between 2 and 5pm. Over the years they have changed, from 3-5, Mon through Friday, then Monday through Saturday, then who knows what....well today, I get there after the girls' gymnastics...4:17pm....only to be charged FULL PRICE! They changed happy hour again!!! Good Grief! And then, what? You can't send your drinks back...to make a point that you are so mad they changed it again....because the kids are screaming in the back, "Give me my drink! Where's my straw! Etc..." And Really, you are so thirsty, you can practically taste the diet caffiene free vanilla coke with slushy ice in your mouth....and then you think of all the money they make changing "Happy Hour" all the time, confusing people and they end up paying full price. Grrrr. So to all my sonic friends, you must be told, Happy Hour has again changed and is now from 2-4pm only....and who knows what days of the week. So don't let them sucker you in to buying full price after 4pm now. :)

Book Tag....

This could be interesting. I haven't posted for awhile, so I will contribute to this tag. (Sorry Maile, I missed the bag tag....) Here are the rules:
Pick up the nearest book.
Turn to page 123
Post the fifth sentence
Tag 5 friends

Nearest Book:


"They were almost dying from walking so long," the mother told our cameras. "We will share our very last piece of bread with them."

This is an amazing book for anyone who needs to be reminded that "Being a Mother" is the most noble calling.

I tag: Megan, Sabrina, Michelle, Angie (my sis), and Kelli. :)Enjoy. Let's see what you read. :)

Happy Easter!

Halle was the first one awake this morning. She was so excited, I could hear her run into the living room, check out her basket, and run back into the girls' room to wake them up. It was so funny. Mia woke up and said, "I love the Easter Bunny!" They woke up this morning and found their easter baskets in the living room. Then they hunted all their eggs the Easter bunny hid. :) They had so much fun. They all got candy, a toothbrush, and a kite in their baskets. Sienna just got a toy, since the Easter Bunny knows she doesn't eat candy yet. :)

After eating candy, and playing all morning, we decided to watch a cartoon about Jesus. "He is Risen." Obviously, Easter isn't about the Easter Bunny. It IS about the Resurrection of Christ. It is about Jesus being resurrected three days after dying on the cross, and Him living again. Just as He was resurrected, we all will be some day. Whether you believe it or not, it is a fact. He died for us. But most importantly, He was resurrected and still lives. How grateful I am for the knowledge of the Savior. How grateful I am we will all be resurrected again after death and can all live again.

A Great Change...

Today, Nelson and I painted 80% of our upstairs. We painted the entire kitchen, living room, front hallway, and the girls' hallway. It took us about 10 hours total, but it was quite easy and fun. (Until the 8th hour, then we just got tired!) But we really enjoyed it, and we both LOVE the color. (Thankyou Sabrina!) :) The color is actually called "Silver Sage," it is a blue-ish/green-ish color, depending on the light and what time of day it is. It is absolutley beautiful! I am sure you can't see how pretty it is in the picture, so you will just have to come see it yourself in person! :) We still have a few things to do before our house is in order again. We are framing in all the windows in the living room and kitchen with white and putting crown on top of them. We are also putting white crown around the entire house where we painted. The color of the paint and the white crown are so pretty together...again..thanks Sabrina! :) I have ooh'd and aah'd over her walls for a while now, so finally I decided to do something at my house. What a day! We are excited to rest tomorrow!

Called to Serve.....

My brother in law, Benson, just received his mission call today. He is the last of the 14 kids. We all gathered at the Cluff home to watch him open his mission call. It was really fun! He is called to serve......... in the Spokane, Washington Mission! He is very excited. Of course, Nelson and I are also, because we both served (me only part) our mission in the blessed Northwest. :) It will be a great mission for him. Anyone who has served a mission thinks their's was the "BEST" mission on the planet, and he will agree no doubt. His mission includes Washington, the top of Idaho, Michigan, and a tiny sliver of Canada. He leaves June 25th to go to the MTC. He will be a great Missionary! And extremely missed! Congratulations Benson!

Decorating Easter Eggs

Last night we invited Nick and Corie and their crew over for Family Home Evening. We had a lesson on Jesus, and the importance of Easter, and then decorated some eggs. It was a little wierd, since it was actually St. Pattys day....so our treat was the green shamrock rice krispie treats....yet we were doing stuff for Easter this weekend!


The holidays are a little too close this year! It was fun nonetheless, the kids (and Corie) had a blast coloring and decorating eggs... Now we have some for the Easter Bunny to hide on Sat. night! Hoorah!


So the final product????

PS I made the rice krispie treats without butter...I used fat free spray butter to coat a large microvable bowl, put marshmallows in, and sprayed the top of the marshmallow with a little butter. Microwaved them...mixed them up and threw in the cereal, worked great! Now they really are low fat.

Happy St. Patrick's Day!!!!!

What does it really mean? Who really knows? Luck of the Irish...do I know anyone Irish? Just the girl on American Idol! Did I wear green today? No, but I did make a green dinner and green clover rice krispie treats. What more can we do? None of my girls have green on either, even Mia, who's favorite color is green! (We ran out the door this morning early, and in a hurry...didn't remember to put on green!)But they are more than happy to pinch others without green! And of course they loved the green "tomatoes" (potatoes). O' Happy Day!

Happy Early Easter!

Yesterday we had the "Cluff" Family Easter Party. It was a lot of fun. The girls have been counting down until the party, and they were so excited.

We started the morning off by playing pin the tail on the bunny!

Then after that they had a ring toss, which was fun!

After the games, we went hunting for eggs in the basement...it was 39 degrees outside! The girls were so excited to hunt for eggs with their names on them. As you can imagine, it was chaos with something like 22 grandkids and 17 adults looks for eggs, that let's face it, weren't exactly hidden too hard! PS. Those eggs on the couch weren't dropped...they were "hidden!" :)

Sienna, of course was just happpy to be on the floor with so many things to touch, grab, and stick in her mouth.
But she didn't enjoy the true fruits of the "egg hunt" until this morning when she got to play with her basket and all the contents. After the egg hunt, everyone ate, and visited. All the boys went paintballing in the afternoon, and we played games. It was a fun day.