Days #346 - #356

Here are the pictures from the past two weeks. Hope you enjoy! :) 

Tuesday, February 9: Mini Chocolate Cookies 

Wednesday, February 10: Microwaved Pancake

Experimenting to try and find easier ways to make pancakes without frying ;)
This actually turned out better than expected. The only thing missing is the
fried part :P Imagine eating just the inside of a pancake, no brown part. That's what
micro-waved pancake tastes like :D 

Thursday, February 11: The Driver's Handbook

Want to guess who's reading it? ;) 

Friday, February 12: Birthday Present

Thank you so much, Mom and Dad!

 Saturday, February 13: Teddy Bear

Sunday, February 14: Aspiring Cook

Monday, February 15: Latin Flashcards

Tuesday, February 16: The Pantry

After grocery shopping, our shelves usually start to look like the store itself ;) 

Wednesday, February 17: Bacteria Experiment

Thursday, February 18: Homemade Backed Churros

 Friday, February 19: Bacteria again! 

If I had only thought ahead of time, I would not have rubbed my fingers over the
whole dish. Because guess what? I have to count all the bacteria colonies. And in case you're
wondering what the bacteria colonies are....they're the teensy weeny dots all over the agar. After about 4-5000
I had to stop since my eyes were feeling very strained :P But yeah. Lesson learned. Read ALL the instructions
BEFORE you do the experiment!! 

Homemade Baked Churros

Hey everyone! :) Just thought I'd share a picture of an experiment I tried today. 

Did I ever tell you I loved baking? ;) In my last post, I said that I liked watching baking shows, well, here is the result of one of the videos I watched a couple days ago! This recipe came from Gemma Stafford at Gemma's Bigger Bolder Baking. It looked sooo good and I thought it might be fun to try out. It was actually a toss up between churros (which Tiger Lily confused with burros, for some reason :P) and macaroons. Since I didn't have whipping cream for a ganache, it ended up being churros. And I'm so glad I tried it! It's really delicious and lots of fun to make! 

And the melted chocolate. I just love making a thick, creamy chocolate! Watching the wooden spoon swirling around and around in beautiful dark melting chocolate, and whiffing the rich chocolatey smell, mmmm! 

Oh, and a pleasant surprise! This pastry is actually the same kind of pastry that you use for cream puffs! So...you want to guess what I'm going to try next? ;) 

Days #296 - #309

Monday, December 21: Movie Tickets

Dad, Mom, the two older boys, and Snow White were planning on watching Star Wars 7,
so I made some tickets for Dare Devil and Toblerone so that we could have our own little movie theatre
at home :) 

Tuesday, December 22: Bowling

Found a little fan ..... lots of fun :P 

Wednesday, December 23: The Wiebes

 Thursday, December 24: Baking Buddies

 Friday, December 25: Merry Christmas!! 

 Saturday, December 26: Little Light-Up Tree

Sunday, December 27: Hair Dressers....lots of 'em! :) 

 Monday, December 28: SNOW!!!!! 

Thank you LORD for giving us such beautiful, fluffy white snow!!!! 

Wednesday, December 30: Happy Birthday! 

We combined Ironman and Tiger Lily's 10th and 14th birthdays into one party partly because
it was before school started and because it was a time when everyone (meaning the cousins and family) were
available to play laser tag!! :D Lots of fun, let me tell you! :) 

 Thursday, December 31: Sledding! 

 Friday, January 1: Happy New Year // Rosy Cheeks

He loves sledding! 

 Saturday, January 2: Making Snow Angels

 Sunday, January 3: Chocolate Goodies...mmmm!