New Year

This week was our anniversary! We've been married for 3 years now! We swap babysitting with some friends in our ward that live near us, so they watched Joslyn while we went to see the new Star Wars movie. We really enjoyed the movie.
Also, every year on our anniversary we go get a new bear from Build-a-Bear Workshop. The closest Build-a-Bear is at the Mall of America (which is only like 20 minutes away), so we headed out there right when it opened to avoid all the crowds.

Joslyn had fun with the toys at the mall

It was a good thing we did, because right as we were finishing our bear, a big birthday party came in to make their bears! Because we went to see Star Wars this year, we decided to make a Star Wars bear!

Joslyn is still a little scared of the bear, but she sure loves his light saber!

For New Years we didn't want to keep Joslyn up all night so we decided to go the the zoo on New Years Eve. They have a big event for kids and instead of counting down to midnight, they count down to noon, and drop beach balls shaped like animals. It was really fun! They had lots of fun activities for the kids, plus the normal zoo and conservatory. Joslyn had a great time.

We got a few inches of snow, so of course we went and played in it. Isaac made this awesome Olaf snowman for Joslyn and she loved it!

Our recipe this week is crock pot chicken and dumplings. I can't take credit for this recipe, I found it on Pinterest forever ago. 

Ingredients:

• 2 boneless, skinless chicken breasts (I doubled the recipe since we were cooking for extras and I only had three chicken breasts. It worked out great though.)
• 2 Tbsp. butter
• 2 cans cream of chicken soup
• 1 (14.5 oz) can chicken broth
• 1/2 onion, diced OR you can use 2 Tbsp. dried, diced onion
• 1 Tbsp. dried parsley
• 4 Grands flaky refrigerator biscuits

Put chicken in the crock pot, and then just put everything else, except the biscuits on top of it.  Cook on high for 3-4 hours, or low for 6-8 hours. After the chicken is cooked, shred it, and the put it back. Then cut the biscuits into 9 pieces each, and put in the crock pot, and cook on high for another hour (I usually make my own  biscuit dough, and just drop spoonfuls of it in the pot). Then stir it up, and serve.

This is a great recipe for cold winter nights.