Kate Palmer

(A More Real) Love Story

Posted on 30. Apr, 2010 by Kate.

I love this song anyway, but this rendition first made me laugh and then cry. I blame the pregnancy hormones. Enjoy!

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Killer Beans

Posted on 19. Apr, 2010 by Kate.

My husband’s aunt and uncle used to own a picture framing shop. Nate and I stopped in one day–I don’t recall why–and ended up having Christian (Nate’s cousin) recount his family’s famous Killer Bean recipe to us while he measured and readied a large frame. At that organized point in my life, I opened up [...]

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Putting Down a Few Books

Posted on 16. Apr, 2010 by Kate.

Years ago in college, I watched an object lesson unfold in Relief Society. The teacher called a volunteer to the front of the room and proceeded to hand her book after book while she (the teacher) continued the lesson. As the volunteer’s stack grew more precarious, I wondered why she didn’t say, “Just a minute,” [...]

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Day 5 Race to the Finish (Spring Break 2010)

Posted on 09. Apr, 2010 by Kate.

Day 5
We spent our last day at Arches hiking the shorter hikes just off the road like Balanced Rock. Then we ended up at Sand Dune Arch. This is my favorite place at Arches and I was excited to introduce my children to it.

They caught on pretty quickly that this is a place to run [...]

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Day 4–Cold, Cold Day 4 (Spring Break 2010)

Posted on 08. Apr, 2010 by Kate.

Cold, Cold Day 4
It poured rain all night while the wind blew so hard at times I thought the trailer would fall off it’s jacks. So what do you do when it’s cold and rainy? Get in the car and drive to La Sal.
Why La Sal? Fifteen years ago my husband and I honeymooned in [...]

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Day 3 (Spring Break 2010)

Posted on 07. Apr, 2010 by Kate.

Day 3
Back to Arches we went. We started out at Devils’ Garden so we could see multiple arches along the way to our ultimate destination: Double O. We passed a man in shorts and sandals getting out of his car. No shirt. My two-year-old pointed and said, “Go bath huh Mom. Go bath.”
It was quite [...]

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Dump Cake

Posted on 06. Apr, 2010 by Kate.

Let’s make a birthday cake without an oven. My sister-in-law, Heidi, brought this recipe back from a Colorado ranch she worked on in the summers. This is so easy to do in your dutch oven. Plus, you can bake it in a 9 x 13 pan at 350° and get great results as well. Let’s [...]

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Day 2 (Spring Break 2010)

Posted on 06. Apr, 2010 by Kate.

Day 2
Tuesday morning we hiked to Delicate Arch. It turned out to be my five-year-old’s favorite hike. Kind of surprising since it’s one of the longest in the park. He hiked all the way in and out without complaint, and never lagged behind. He later told me he wished Delicate Arch was closer to our [...]

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Spring Break 2010

Posted on 05. Apr, 2010 by Kate.

I hope you all had a beautiful Easter celebrating our Savior. Maybe you noticed I was absent all last week. Our family took off on a week long spring break trip. It’s the first time we’ve had an entire week for spring break so we decided to take full advantage and borrowed my parents’ camping [...]

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