About Us

We are Angelyn, Bonnie (married to Mark), Monterey, Monica, Laurleen, Heidi (married to Stuart), Haylee,
Sara Anne (married to Sheldon), Shelley (twin to Sheldon), Sondra, Sara (twin to Sondra), LaRae (married to Adam),
Susie (married to Daniel), Tia (married to Ben), Crystel, and then there is Jared not married and is on a mission in Samoa.
We all love home and family and are in the various different stages of motherhood. Between us we have 63 children
and over 500 years of child rearing experience and that's just for now!

Monday, February 20, 2012

Sweet and Savory Bacon-Wrapped Stuffed Chicken

For Valentines Day, I wanted to make a yummy meal, so I concocted a plan to combine as many of my favorite flavors as I could think of that would still complement each other, and the result was this:



Sweet-glazed maple bacon-wrapped creamy spinach alfredo-stuffed butterflied chicken. But that was a really long recipe name, and might sound a bit intimidating to the budding cook, but just know that it really is not that hard to make, and is worth it. My kids, Spencer, and Crystel all give it their approval. So here is the recipe:

Sweet and Savory Bacon-Wrapped Stuffed Chicken

4 large boneless chicken breasts
1 8-oz. package cream cheese, softened
2 Tablespoons dry alfredo sauce mix (half of a 1-ounce package)
1 cup or more chopped spinach
2 Tablespoons chopped sun-dried tomatoes
1+ Tablespoons buttermilk (for creamy consistency)
8-10 strips uncooked bacon (I used maple-smoked)
1/2 cup ketchup
1/2 cup brown sugar, unpacked

Butterfly chicken breasts and salt and pepper them to taste. Using a sheet of plastic wrap on top, pound thin with a meat mallet for easier rolling. Stir dry alfredo mix and buttermilk into cream cheese. Add spinach and sun-dried tomatoes to cream cheese mixture. Spread mixture onto chicken breasts and roll up from the long side. Wrap each chicken roll with bacon, securing with toothpicks if necessary. Place chicken rolls in a 2-quart baking dish. Mix ketchup and brown sugar together and drizzle or baste over the bacon. Bake for 40-50 minutes at 375°, or until chicken reaches 160° internally.

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Yes, We are moving!

OK everyone, you may or may not have heard the rumors yet but we are moving in 2-3 weeks. We are still in the same stake, so it's close. We found out we could refinance our house at the same price as we could buy this house and so we chose to buy it and sell our house. Wouldn't you know we just got the back yard in. Oh well, this time it will be different because the yard and basement are already in. It's a great retirement home for us and we have a great mortgage interest rate and we can pay off the house in increments and lower our monthly. So it's perfect for us. We have not sold our house yet, but we qualify for both payments and David has a bunch of consulting coming in over the next few months so we can afford to wait to sell the house. Here are the pictures since they have taken them off of the web.

Yes, it has a fifties diner with soda fountain, juke box and all. It has two full length decks. It's on 2 1/2 acres but most of it is unusable trees in the ravine. There is a trail that goes right through the property and it's just beautiful. We also have two full kitchens. We took the kids to see it yesterday and they went crazy. We are all very excited!




Basement family room


There are only three usable rooms in the basement but they are huge. Our kids will bunk up but we will still have a guest bedroom!


Master bedroom







Master bath









Office

basement