Silly Girls

Fun in the Sun

Elk

These are the elk we saw on our drive over to Seattle. In the second picture notice all the ones in the background!

More Baby Pillbugs

Spring is in the Air

Finished trellis (or at least 3 panels for now!)
Emma likes to rake a pile of dirt into a "house" and decorate the roof with leaves.
Pillbugs--Lily's favorite thing to pray about--"Dear Jesus, thank you for the baby pillbugs. Amen."

Lemon Tea Bread

Prep: 15 min. Bake: 40+ min.

3/4 cup butter, softened
1 1/2 cups sugar
3 eggs
1 1/2 tsp grated lemon peel
2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
3 dashes of salt
3/4 cup 2% milk

Lemon glaze:
3 Tbl lemon juice
6 Tbl powdered sugar

Directions:
In a small bowl, cream butter and sugar. Add eggs and lemon peel; beat well. Combine the flour, baking powder and salt; add to creamed mixture alternately with milk.

Transfer to 2 medium loaf pans coated with cooking spray. Bake at 350 degrees for 40-45 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean. Combine glaze ingredients; drizzle the glaze over warm bread. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pan to wire rack. Yield: 2 loaves.

Spring Break

The girls enjoyed eating Daddy's birthday S'More cupcakes and decorating them with whole wheat bunnies!














The beginnings of the trellis.

Last of the Easter Pics

More Easter!

Easter Pics

Neapolitan dresses!

Chocolate Peppermint Scones

I'm having trouble uploading the gymnastics videos, so we'll go with another recipe for now.

Ingredients:
2 cups flour
1/2 cup whole wheat pastry flour (I've just used regular whole wheat and it turns out just fine)
1/2 cup baking cocoa
1/2 cup brown sugar
2 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. baking soda
1/2 cup cold butter
3/4 cup (6 oz) vanilla yogurt
1/2 cup buttermilk
1 egg
1 cup 60% cacao bittersweet chocolate baking chips
1 Tbl coarse sugar
2 oz bittersweet chocolate, melted
1/4 cup crushed peppermint candies

Directions:
In a large bowl, combine the first six ingredients. Cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. In a small bowl, whisk the yogurt, buttermilk, egg and extract; add to crumb mixture just until moistened. Stir in chocolate chips.

Turn onto a floured surface; knead 10 times. Divide dough in half; transfer each portion to a greased baking sheet. Pat into a 6 inch circle. Cut into six wedges, but do not separate. Sprinkle with sugar.

Bake at 400 degrees for 18-20 minutes or until puffed and tops are cracked. Remove to wire rack to cool. Melt chocolate and drizzle on top, while scones are still warm. Sprinkle crushed candies on top. Enjoy!

Gymnastics Show

Check out the tatts!

Lily's Drawings

We're into The Lion King currently (and The Aristocats)!