Birthdays, Cookie Parties and Fun

My daughter has a really good friend who has a daughter (Kailey) that was having a birthday!  This is the cake that I made for her.  It was pretty fun to make.

Kailey had a princess party, so here is Princess Carlee and Princess Kailey.  They had tons of fun!

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Earlier this month was the Festival of Trees in Arco.  The elementary school children all sing on the first day of the Festival.  Here is Collin's second grade class singing their Christmas songs.  He's in the middle with the red and white stripped shirt.  They were all so cute and sang very well!!

Carlee had a great time listening to all the singing.  Of course she was dancing all over the place!

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Well looky here!!  Collin has finally lost his first tooth!!  WooHoo!!!

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Kami hosted a Cookie Exchange Party at her house.

This is the table of all the cookies and candies that were brought!!  What a fun time!!

Wedding Entrance

I totally love this video!!!

More Fun at the Fair

Just have to show you more pics from the fair!!  Kami and the kids came to watch the cake competition but of course we had to do a few other things.

First we ate some yummy fair food.  Well maybe not a big deal, but Kami and I had hamburgers, kids shared a foot long hot dog and Mark bought cajun alligator strips!!  Woowee were they spicy!!!  

After eating we made our way to the petting zoo.  That's our favorite place to take the kids!!

Here's Carlee just wanting to hug that goat.

Mark had fun petting them too!!

Collin really had fun chasing the goats!

Then there was the cake competition.  I thought that maybe everyone would get bored waiting for it to be over, but the kids had a great time!!  Collin would love to enter a cake in the show!  Too bad he still isn't old enough.

After the show, we were off to see the chickens.  For some reason, Carlee is fascinated with them!!  She loves hearing the roosters crow.

 

 Here Carlee is looking at the bunnies wishing she could hold one!!

  

Ummm Eric!!  Carlee wants one of these!!!  She just loved the miniature horses.

  

But...when we went around to the other side where the big horses are...Carlee didn't want anything to do with them!!  That's her usual stance when she gets scared or upset.  Thumb goes in and starts scratching!!

Since we had Mark home for over the weekend, he made us some baked brie!!

  

 This had a round of brie and some spices inside of some puff pastry.

Then you bake it and it comes out real gooey and yummy!

 

Tasted like a fancy cheese stick!!

This is what we did with the left over puff pastry!!  Filled with vanilla custard and raspberries.

Since Joe didn't get to be at the fair with us the first day, I had to go back with him again!  Oh that was so hard!!  We also asked Joe's sister, Lenora, to come along with us.  We had a great time!!  We were able to go through all the building that we usually don't get to when we have kids with us.  

We ate dutch oven ribs, potatoes and green beans and then later I bought an egg roll.  Mmmmm-mmmm!

Lenora wanted to go through all the livestock buildings.  I love to look at the animals too!!

 

 This was a big 'ol boy!!

 

I think Joe was embarrassed to do this!!  Bwaaaahahahahaha!!!

 

This turkey was really showing off for us!!  Hmmm...now I'm wanting turkey dinner!!  Is Thanksgiving coming up soon?

Now I can't wait for next year!!  I love going to our fair!

Cake in a Mug

My sister Jody sent this recipe to me in an email. I thought it was interesting and I have never heard of it before, even though it's all over the internet!! I can't find who the original recipe owner is so if anyone know, please let me know!!

Here's how it goes:


A RECIPE EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW


The Most Dangerous Cake Recipe


5 MINUTE CHOCOLATE MUG CAKE

4 tablespoons flour
4 tablespoons sugar
2 tablespoons cocoa
1 egg
3 tablespoons milk
3 tablespoons oil
3 tablespoons chocolate chips (optional)
a small splash of vanilla extract
1 large coffee mug

Add dry ingredients to mug, and mix well. Add the egg and mix thoroughly.
Pour in the milk and oil and mix well. Add the chocolate chips (if using) and vanilla extract, and mix again.
Put your microwave safe mug in the microwave and cook for 3 minutes at 1000 watts (high).
The cake will rise over the top of the mug, but don't be alarmed!

Allow to cool a little, and tip out onto a plate if desired.
EAT! (this can serve 2 if you want to feel slightly more virtuous).

And why is this the most dangerous cake recipe in the world?

Because now we are all only 5 minutes away from chocolate cake at any time of the day or night!
You are going to print this out straight away, aren't you!!

I thought this would be so fun to do with the kids!

Here's Collin stirring his.

Carlee had her own made with the egg replacer. I was curious to see if they would come out the same!

Here it is rising in the microwave.

It sank right before we took it out!

It came out of the mug easily. To me the cake was really heavy, dense, tough, but the flavor was good. don't know if it was stirred too long from some little helpers! Next time I may try and add something else to make it a little lighter. Notice there is no baking powder or soda in the recipe!! Hum! Anyone have any suggestions? I know my cake buddies will know!

Carlee enjoyed to ice cream very much!! She wouldn't even touch the cake. Maybe she though it looked weird!

This is Collin's face of approval. Can you tell what he thought of it!! He ate most of it!