Recipe for Special Occasion Rolls

Recipe for My Special Occasion Rolls:
The first amount makes one Costco size cookie sheet of rolls-about 25 to 35. (I usually do rows of 6x5 on cookie sheet). Double or triple as needed.
In large bowl add:
5 Cups Flour
¾ Cup sugar
2 Tablespoons yeast
1 teaspoon salt

Heat 1 cup of milk and cool until not hot-just warm. Add a cup melted butter (2 cubes) and 3 beaten eggs. Stir these into the dry ingredients and chill overnight.

Divide this dough into 4 parts and roll each out like a pie crust about 1/8 inch thick. Use only as much flour as necessary. Cut the round dough like pie pieces-into quarters then each quarter into 2 or 3 (depending on how big your circle was). Roll the wedges up starting with the wide end of triangle and place on sprayed cookie sheet. Let raise 2-2.5 hours. Bake at 350 for 11-12 minutes. Don’t over bake. Yum Yum.

For the Future

I just created a new blog for Jordan. It is called Elder JM Peterson. When he goes on a mission (end of year apx) I will keep his letters and pictures there. I might start it a bit early with his graduation coming up-but just a heads up. Instead of forwarding all his email to everyone I am going to publish him on the blog and you can follow there or not. Kerry

Movie Recommendation and Spring Break Update

I can't think of ever recommending a movie on my blog but Matthew and I saw Date Night and we laughed so hard I had to hold my sides during the movie. It seems that everytime I thought it might slow down and just be a movie I was cracking up again. Really worth a good chuckle.

We also loved How to Train your Dragon, which we saw in IMAX 3D while in Southern California. It was awesome in the huge theater.

Speaking of Southern California, we went for Spring Break this year and had a really nice time. We stayed at Huntington Beach and got to spend a couple days with our good friends Jim and Tami and their beautiful children. I love good friends, the years just make no difference in friendship. We went to Disneyland one day, it was enough. We loved staying on the beach.

I think we ate our way through the whole Southern State, ha. There were places we had to re-visit because we loved them when we lived there like Earth Wind and Flour and Islands. Then we found some new places. BJ's Restaurant and Brew House-(and they have one in Tacoma)-the best avacado egg roll appetizers. We also went to Texas Roadhouse BBQ and Claim Jumper, needless to say the trip wasn't too good for dieting. Jordan on the other hand loved every bite of it (much of his life is centered around good meals). Allison liked everything with french fries, she actually got lobster with fries at Claim Jumper, whats up with that one? Megan liked it all.

I can't believe Jordan is graduating in June and will be gone from home soon. He is planning on a semester at UVU and then a mission at the end of the year. He also wants to be a endodontist one day(go root canals!?).

On the way home I-5 was closed North of Redding for most of the day due to a huge accident and ice and snow. We ended up taking the detour route to the coast-Hwy 299 and then up to Crescent City and then back to I-5. It took a long time, although not as long as it should have with Matthew racing as quick as he could around the corners (and there were many). We were all a little car sick but enjoyed the Redwood Forest. We stopped and got a photo of the kids hugging a tree, I will find it and add it soon. All for now. Later....K

My update-or why I am still going to school-either one

I haven't even visited a blog in so long, I could be fired from my own blog writing! So much has been happening, which might be why I haven't been sitting around writing. I am an official RN since last summer but I have gone back to school for more education, not just because I am a glutton for punishment, I actually have a goal in mind and to get there I have to have more education.

I ideally wanted to be a family nurse practitioner, but when I discovered it took a masters degree to get there I quit thinking about it-I am now working on that plan. I finished my RN program and felt strongly that I should go on-what can I say, I am one to follow those strong feelings. In my opinion it must have been divine inspiration because I had grown pretty tired of school.

A bachelors degree gives a nurse many more opportunities for different types of jobs and management positions-and it is on the way to the other program. A nurse in Washington only has a few years to complete the FNP program at a masters level before it is changed to a doctorate program, at least at WSU, where I am going. (UW has already switched to the doctorate program). WSU (go cougars) has a distance learning program for the bachelor degree portion and clinical s can be done locally-which makes the option of my continuing education much more feasible. My plan is to graduate next summer (2011) with that degree and continue on through the masters program out of the Vancouver campus. I hope to finish that degree next summer- 2013. I had to take statistics and six other general classes to complete the general education part of the degree. Wrapping up the last two next quarter-I have plenty of credits but not in the right area so...enough about school.

It is Jordan's senior year. All of the kids are growing up so quickly. I am looking forward to our spring break this year. We won't be going to Hawaii and I will miss that, but we are driving to Southern California and I haven't been there for years. We are staying at Huntington Beach (Hollister Beach-according to the kids).

On a sad note, our beloved, rock fetching Wedgie got bone cancer and we had to put her down before Christmas. She was true till the end. We will probably always miss her. We got another Rottweiler pup right before Thanksgiving who is now six months old, named Khaos. She will be a good dog and has a fun personality too. I think that is enough update for now.

Matthews New Project

For those of us that use the game room and our friends and family who come and stay with us-you will all be happy to hear that there will soon be a bathroom in the game room! We have the apartment down below but it has been occupied for the past few years and so that moves the bathroom to the field or the house which can be a bit inconvenient if you were sleeping there at night. On the other side of the bathroom, in the TV area, there will be a small kitchen area. Mostly just a couple cabinets and some running water.

So yesterday, being the Saturday before Labor Day, we labored in the barn. Megan and I stained the new cabinets and Matthew and Jordan framed in the new bathroom. Pictures to come.

Lake Powell

Beautiful Lake Powell-Sun going down in our cove

Allison, Kaitlyn, & Savannah-who had the camera and took photos of themselves

The girl cousins jumping. Allison, Nikel, Megan, Savannah, & Brooke

Jordan Jumping

Jordans Quilt- and -Fishers of Lake Powell

Last summer I made my first quilt with Mom Peterson's help-for Megan. Then I made one for Allison. Jordans turn. He picked out the materials with me. Denim and flannels. I send them off and someone else with a machine quilts them up but I think it turned out pretty nice and he loves it.

I haven't even found the rest of the photos-someone downloaded them somewhere-my computer probably-which is being backed up -away from home this week. But here is a photo of Dallen, Brooke, and Wyatt, with Uncle Davids help, catching fish. This was a daily, evening occurance staying on the houseboat at Lake Powell. The kids, and the rest of us, had such a good time. More photos to come of cliff jumping and such, when located.