Category: Kids (Page 19 of 19)

Ok, Mom, this is for you. Pictures of the kids with their new haircuts.

And the mint brownie recipe comes to you from the Holly Cleg Trim and Terrific Cookbook. Although these brownies are terrific, I don’t know how trim they are, especially since they are so fabulous you have to eat 5 of them. But here’s the recipe:

Chocolate Mint Brownies

1 box reduced fat or regular brownie mix

3/4 tsp peppermint extract, divided

3 TBS reduced fat cream cheese

3 TBS margarine, melted, divided

2 cups powdered sugar

few drops green food coloring

1 TBS cocoa

1 TBS water

Preheat the oven to 350. Coat 9 x 13 pan with cooking spray.

Prepare the brownie mix according to the package directions, adding 1/4 tsp peppermint extract. Cool completely.

Mix together the cream cheese, 1 TBS margarine, the powdered sugar and 1/2 tsp peppermint extract. Beat until smooth. Add a few drops of green food coloring. Spread on the baked brownie layer.

In a small bowl, mix together the remaining 2 TBS margarine, cocoa and water. Spread or drizzle over the cream cheese layer.

Makes 48 squares. Yummy

On the way back from taking my daughter and her friend to take dance pictures (SO CUTE, by the way!), it was non-stop talking.  This friend of Jenna’s,(I’ll call her “B”) in fact, has an opinion on everything, and seems to think she’s an expert in many things.  If she were my daughter, I’d probably blog about nothing else.

B:  “Look over there at those birds!  They are going to get shocked on that power thingy!”
J:  “I hope they are careful.”

B:  “If you touched one of those power things, you could get shocked.  And petrified.”

J:  “Uh-huh.  Only I don’t know what that is.”

B:  “Neither do I, but it will happen to you.  Unless you are wearing gloves.  Those guys that work on those things wear big thick gloves.”

J:  “Even mittens.  If they wear mittens they won’t get hurt.”

B:  “Or be unconscious.  That’s when you go to sleep and you don’t wake up for a long time.  Like until midnight!”

(At this point I felt it my duty as a mom to give them a little lecture about how power lines will still hurt you even if you were wearing gloves, and how you should never ever touch a power line if you see one on the ground.  They just went right on with new topics.)

B:  “Hey, I just saw a deer!  I mean, not a deer, a bear!  I saw a BEAR over there on the mountain!”

J:   “Oh, me, too!”

B:   “And I see it’s cave.  There’s it’s cave with a little bear cub inside!”

(Imaginative, that one.)

J:  Cute!

B: Cute!

Yes, it was cute.  About as much cuteness as I could stand.  At this time I say a silent prayer of thanks that the dance studio is really quite close to my house, and make a mental note to not sign up for things with this girl that are more than a 10 minute’s drive.  Because I don’t know if I can stand that much cute conversation on the drive.

What cute kids those are! All the better to snuggle with!

Or squint with, as the case may be.

I thought I’d entertain you with a few pictures of our halloween celebration. This first one is our trunk, all decked out for a trunk or treat. Then we have John looking a little tired at the ward Halloween party.
Megan had fun with the donut eating contest, and Ryan kept us entertained with his juggling. Then he found a baby who was asleep and needed holding, so he took over that job.

John and Mommy had a fun time, too.