The joys of Spring

Today spring has arrived at the Corry household. There are few things I enjoy more than eating dutch oven food. One of those things is cooking dutch oven food and today I did just that. I went out to plant the garden after waking up from my post-call nap and the weather was so nice that I decided to break out the ovens. The only downer is that I'm still getting over a bad case of stomach flu that kept me in bed most of Sunday and Monday so I didn't actually eat much of the chicken and potatoes, but it's all about the fire anyway.


Looking forward to many more smoke filled evenings in the backyard.

Twilight Revisited

No, I'm not going to bash Twilight again (well not alone anyway), but after seeing the movie I figured there had to be something else to Edward. The character I saw in the movie just didn't match what I had heard about this guy. What is so special about this dude? Of course I didn't want to read the books to find out so I went in search of another male voice who could explain it all to me.

This is what I found.

Some of you aren't going to like this analysis, but it was a very entertaining read for me. I may even watch the movie again with my newfound understanding.

One Month Old

Today Kamryn is one month old. After one month I have to say she is a very good little girl. She took to the bottle like a pro and has since had very little problems with gas. What a blessing for her mommy and daddy. I can't begin to explain how nice it is to be able to use burp clothes instead of burp blankets. She actually likes tummy time to which I think is directly related to the above sentence. She has the cutests little sneezes in the entire world. She can sit contently for long periods at a time and if she start to fuss it is just her way or reminding mommy it is time to be wrapped up and put down for a nap. And most of the time, it is that easy. She has just stated to find a happy little voice and coo's occassionally. I love it. It is so fun to watch her little personality start to develop. I love her so much and am so grateful to have her in our family. Here she is at one month!!

Happy Easter

Easter snuck up on us this year and was gone in a flash.

We dyed eggs on Friday since Jacob was on-call Saturday. The kids had a great time dying and we managed not to have any spills or stains on clothes. I attribute this to their crazy mother who would let the kids set the eggs in the cup and then promptly set the cups on the counter away from any danger of being knocked over. I would bring the cup back long enough for the kids, to retrieve their egg and put it in the carton to dry. I think the part they enjoyed the most was coloring on the eggs using mom's "special" box of crayons that aren't broken into tiny pieces. And Kamryn enjoyed her bouncy chair the entire time. All in all, I would consider it a very successful Easter egg dying day.

On Saturday, we went to visit dad on-call. We came home with just enough time for a quick bath and then pj's and bed. Since dad was on-call and wasn't going to be home Easter morning I made a call to the Easter Bunny and requested that he bring the Easter fun while we were at church rather than in the night and he graciously complied.

Sunday Morning Jacob got home with a great case of the stomach flu. He was kind enough to dress up for an Easter-Family picture and then crawled back in bed again. I made it through my first sacrament meeting with 4-kids alone and have to say with few battle scars. In fact, I was rather impressed when the meeting finished and the only person I had to take out was Kamryn to change her diaper.

We came home to find that the Easter Bunny managed a visit while we were at church and the kids had a fun hour finding, sorting, and eating Easter treats. Notice how amazing the Easter Bunny is at color coding those Easter baskets. I don't know if the kids noticed but their mom sure did :)

Here is a video of the kids finding their Easter baskets. Kristian didn't find his basket for quite some time after we stopped filming as he was more concerned about eating the candy from his trail.

Our Easter Dinner wasn't quite up to par but what you gonna do. Since Jacob didn't feel good and I didn't want to get on the kids case for not eating the casserole potatoes I decided to bag the whole Easter Feast idea. Instead I made the kids their favorite, fettuccine alfredo (aka white noodles), made Jacob a slice of toast, and I enjoyed a wonderful egg salad sandwich, my favorite food of the Easter season. So everyone was happy and there was one pan to clean. Nice!!

We were not able to participate in the Annual Corry Egg-Stravaganza Egg Spinning Contest this year we had our own small family spinning fun. Spencer got pretty good at spinning his eggs and Jacob and I got a kick out of watching Kristian and Jessi stand up, and then lay down, and then stand up, and then lay down as they watched their eggs spin.

I hope everyone had a wonderful Easter and enjoyed the time to reflect on our Savior and his marvelous gift of the atonement.

Heber J Grant

Growing up there was always a wealth of quotes and pictures of Heber J Grant in our house. One quote in particular was often recited and I believe my mother has a few wall hangings with these words on them:

"That which we persist in doing becomes easier for us to do, not that the nature of the thing is changed, but our power to do is increased."

I have always correlated these words with President Grant's acquired talent of penmanship, and wondered what great talent I could acquire. Maybe I could learn to play the piano or something of the like, but up until today I had never really understood that he may not have been talking about some special talent that goes from pathetic to wonderful (as with the penmanship). Maybe he was talking about life in general.

I'm currently on my 4th call of my second month of OB and I've got to tell you this has definitely become easier for me to do. I still don't love OB and I'm not too excited when my pager goes off, but my power to handle what comes during an OB call has really increased.




Maybe if we have a few more kids it will be easier for me to deal with crying babies.......or maybe not.