Yesterday was Liam's birthday. He turned 7 years old!
Here are some things about him:
favorite color is blue, green, purple and pink . favorite food is mashed potatoes . likes to collect pokemon cards . enjoys his break dancing class . loves to play with his best friend, George . likes to look sharp/dapper and tuck in his shirts . very good at imaginitve play . get frustrated when he can't do somthing well the first time (we're working on being patient with himself and understanding that some things take a lot of practice) . enjoys school and excited to be a second-grader! . Learning to be more independent and do things for himself- like make his own lunch . loves the Diary of a Minecraft Zombie books . Always carrying around (and losing) his favorite things (currently his fidget spinner and pokemon cards) . Enjoying drawing more and more . favorite activity is playing with friends . favorite subject in school is math . loves his elephant blankie . wants things to be fair (for him) . Such a sweetheart!
We love you, Liam! Happy birthday!
For Liam's birthday, he got to open presents before Daddy went to work so that he could play with his new things all day. He went to his best friend's house, and then chose Leatherby's for dinner so he could get his own banana split!
Liam an Reese got a split and shared with Mama and Daddy, but both of them at too much ice cream and got sick. I felt bad for them, but at the same time I felt like this was a good lesson- there IS such a thing as too much dessert!
About a week later, We had Ice cream cake with the Fabers. Liam asked for a pokeball ice cream cake, so I joked that instead of singing "Happy Birthday" we were going to sing the entire original Pokemon song. My siblings thought this was a great idea, so that's what we did! My family is so nerdy-cool!
gag-gle noun \ˈga-gəl\ : a group, aggregation, or cluster lacking organization, which is exactly how I feel about my family every day.
Saturday, July 15, 2017
Wednesday, July 5, 2017
More Stuff
Some Summer Fun
Made hats at the Uta Arts Festival
And found an R2-D2 statute, hand made
Oh, and I want to give a shoutout to my favorite Artist we found there. I'm going to get some of his paintings when I'm ready to decorate our family room:
This is Bernadette. She's having a bad hair day.
The artist is Richard Lorenz and his paintings remind me of the whimsical James Christensen paintings we had in my childhood home. And They are so fun!
We went swimming
With friends
And to a Real Monarchs Soccer game
Which, by the way, was intense and awesome
We played with cousins
South Carolina
Our first activity of summer break was to fly to South Carolina and spend the week in a house by the beach with family
We visited a lighthouse
We got photos on the beach
We played with cousins
And make shapes in the sand
We stopped at an East coast frozen custard joint
We went to live music in the park, where we also got balloon animals (or swords) and face paint.
We played with Gramma and Grampa
And did a lot of driving...
And flying
And had a blast!
Stuff
Reese and Liam both entered their first science fair this school year.
Liam wanted to do an experiment on rocks and crystals, so we did some research and visited different locations to get different kinds of rocks. Then we cracked them open to see what was inside.
Reese did an experiment to find out why there was always a puddle of water around her cup when she left it out on the table. Her research indicated that water in the air can turn to liquid water if the temperature changes, so we set up an experiment to see if we could get the water to condense around her cup.
She did awesome!
Summer time E Z Bake oven brownies
We're into making our own mixes so we don't have to buy them.
And they turned out great!
Liam is taking break dancing
And seems to really like it!
I like that they are teaching him the history as well as the moves.
Tuesday, July 4, 2017
Chocolate Mousse Pie
Happy 4th! What's more American than apple pie? Chocolate everything. We American's have a corner on what I affectionately call the "cheap chocolate" market. So I'm sneaky and add in extra cocoa to my chocolate confections to make them even more chocolatey.
I always make apple pie when I bake for Independence Day, but the most popular at Heath family gatherings is the chocolate pie. So I make two of those. And now you can, too.
I always make apple pie when I bake for Independence Day, but the most popular at Heath family gatherings is the chocolate pie. So I make two of those. And now you can, too.
Anna’s Chocolate
Mousse Pie
Ingredients
2 prepared 8-inch chocolate
cookie pie crusts*
1 tbsp unflavored gelatin
3 tbsp cold water
1/2 cup boiling hot chocolate
(any desired flavor)
Pinch salt
¾ cup sugar
3-4 tbsp cocoa powder (3 for
regular, 4 for dark chocolate pie. I use 4.)
2 c heavy cream, very cold
2 tsp vanilla
Method
1. Prep a mixing bowl and beaters by placing in the freezer
for at least 15 minutes. Chill cookie
pie crusts in refrigerator as filling is being prepared.
2. In a small bowl, sprinkle gelatin over cold water; stir
and let stand 1 minute to soften. Add
hot chocolate and stir until gelatin is completely dissolved. Let stand to cool. (Alternately, refrigerate just until cool,
but not gelled.) Mix in salt.
3. In chilled mixing bowl, stir together sugar and cocoa
powder. Add heavy cream. Beat at medium speed until stiff peaks
form. Gradually pour in cooled gelatin
mixture and vanilla, beating continuously at high speed until well-blended and
soft peaks form.
4. Spoon into chocolate cookie pie crusts and refrigerate for at least 1 hour or until firm enough to serve.
Makes 2 pies.
* You can use store-bought crust, but I like to make my own and then I can garnish the top of the pie with leftover cookie crumbs.
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