Day 313

My hair is really thin so every time I try to put it in a bun, it looks like I have a pencil eraser on my head. Seriously, it looks ridiculous. So I heard something about using an old rolled up sock to make the bun look bigger. Ryan had a lonely mismatched sock, so I decided to try it out. I really like the way it looks, but I still find it a bit small looking. I think the next time I end up with a mismatched sock, I'll try it again.

Day 254

Ryan and I headed out to a near by grocery store to buy a new soy butter peanut butter alternative. I heard rave reviews about this stuff so I was anxious to try it out. We had tried a few other alternatives in the past that were all a bust, so I was really hoping that I wasn't wasting another $5. On the way there we spotted these people having a horse drawn ride, getting soaked in the rain.

We were just amazed at how much this stuff actually looked, smelled, and tasted like peanut butter. So if anyone out there is missing peanut butter after having to deal with an allergy or wished you could send you kid to school with a peanut butter sandwich, I highly recommend this. It's even made in a 100% nut free facility so it's a great safe alternative.. It's called "Tastes like peanut butter" and even Ryan, the pickiest kid on the plant gives it a huge thumbs up.

Day 183

Today I wanted to take the kids to the splash pad, but once we got there, we saw that there was a huge fair going on. The kids were disappointed, so I decided to turn around and drive an hour in the other direction to another splash pad. Once we got to that park, it was also packed with some kind of "family day" activities. I decided that we would go in anyways since I had just used about a quarter tank of gas and drove all that way. Well the kids weren't having it. I guess the drive made them cranky or something, all they wanted to do was go down some little baby slide. After getting into it with them and putting up with screaming and yelling, and dealing with an oncoming headache, I had had enough, packed them up and dragged them home kicking and screaming. I could have kept them home where we have a slide for free.

At home I told them, that after taking them out for fun and fresh air, they were not going to sit and veg in front of the TV all day. They could do anything else, but no TV. So this is what they chose to do:

  I had some left over cake in the freezer and decided to see if I could make some petit fours and fondant roses and leaves. It turned out really messy, but they still tasted good :)

 

Day 113

This is the first roast chicken I have ever made. Whole chickens were on sale at the grocery store for $5 each. How could I pass that up? So I rinsed it, patted it dry, rubbed it down with butter, made a paste with olive oil, salt, pepper, paprika, oregano, basil, and onion powder, and slathered that all over it. I chopped up some garlic and green onions, salt and peppered that, and drizzled some lemon juice over it, and shoved it all in the cavity. I popped it a 350 oven for an hour and 15 minutes and it turned out so delicious! The skin was so yummy and the meat was juicy and tender. I'm quite impressed with myself!

Day 110

Ryan got some kind of decoder in a cereal box and we thought it was cooler to use as a viewer to see how the world would look if it were red. I got the idea to put it up to my camera lens and took a few pictures with it. Everything looks pretty funky through a red lens. :)