Saturday, September 4, 2010

It's Hawkeye Football Time Folks!

GO HAWKS!!!
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Future Hawkeyes!
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Also future class clowns...
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Game time! Got to watch part of it at home.
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Happy because the Hawkeyes are winning!
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Touch Down!
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Field Goal is Gooooood!
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Tailgating in dad's truck
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Playing with the bean bags
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Snack time!
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The boys made a new friend today. Oliver loves dogs so this was too cute!
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Oliver and Jordan having a little break
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Listening to the music
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Making crafts at the ICM booth
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Basketball Time
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Grandma Patty and Thomas
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Go Hawks!
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Hokey Pokey at Fry Fest
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Oliver Dancing
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Friday, September 3, 2010

Trains Trains Trains!


Oliver really loves trains, cars, airplanes, and tractors right now. But he especially loves choo choo trains. He likes to play with the train table in the basement and race the trains up and down the track and his favorite book to read is a book about trains. Lately I started letting him watch little clips of Thomas the Train on netflix and he has been going crazy over them. Looks like we have another little engineer in the family. :-)

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Chocolate Frosting...Because it is a Chocolate Kind of Day!

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The boys and I baked some goodies today. I made my favorite recipe of chocolate frosting to go over our brownies. It is the absolute best chocolate frosting ever and goes well over both cakes and brownies! We love it!

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Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup butter
  • 1/2 cup crisco
  • 3-4 cups confectioners' sugar
  • 1 cups baking cocoa
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1/4--1/2 cup milk

Directions

  1. In a large mixing bowl, cream butter and crisco so is completely smooth. It helps to soften the butter and crisco a little bit in microwave. Add vanilla and mix well. In separate bowl whisk together cocoa and powdered sugar. Slowly add to large mixing bowl adding a little at a time to butter mixture. Add enough milk until frosting reaches spreading consistency.