Snow Week

Kinadie and her daddy have been off and on for work and school. Most of the time Daddy took Kin to school so I wouldn't have to get the other girls out. I didn't think much of this snow, but it ended up turning into ice. Not Good! We had a lot of down time and played in the snow here and there.

Kara was not interested  in it very much but by Wednesday she started to love it and I couldn't get her out (except to bribe with hot cocoa).



Kaylee Jo loved the snow, too! Loved it enough to eat it! lol



I ended up craving comfort food this whole week so I thought I'd try my hand at a pot pie from scratch. It was a big hit! Everyone scarfed it down and wanted more. Kinadie was very upset that she missed out on leftovers because she was at school. I guess I'll have to make another one before too much longer. It was soooo good!

Today Kara requested blueberry muffins for breakfast. I happened to have fresh blueberries in the fridge so I mixed it up real fast. The mix made 12 muffins with quite a bit left over. I had seen where you could bake things in mugs so I tried it in two of them.

See! Aren't they cute! Muffins in a mug for two! Kris really liked them. This would be a great idea for BREAKFAST IN BED for VALENTINES DAY! (hint, hint) ;o) ;o) Like my husband really reads this. Anyways! lol Hope your snow days were as good as ours!

Kinadie's Class and Team Briley

Kinadie's teacher has a blog also. She puts a lot of cute pictures up along with what they have been doing. There is also a link to the Team Briley page. For those of you that don't know, Briley is the three year old daughter of a kindergarden teacher here. They just found out Briley has Lukemia. Please keep their family in your prayers. Link to Kinadie's teacher's page HERE!

Red Velvet Mocha Buttercream...not really though.

Yesterday started off really good. Kin's Grana got to eat at school with us and she LOVED that! She also got to take a field trip to the stock yard to see all the animals. They have been learning about animal this week and since then she has come home asking for a chicken, rabbit, duck, and goat! :o) I said maybe when she is older. I know Daddy would love for her to show some animals. He's gonna have to help her cause Momma sure didn't do very good raising a pig when she was little! The pig thought so though. It ended up being overweight because I fed it instant oatmeal all the time! But that's another funny story.

Anyways...The other two girls and I wanted to go but they ended up taking a nap. Ah...peace! But it soon ended. Kinadie must have a stomach bug. She was up all night.

I managed to make these cupcakes while she was sleeping yesterday afternoon. I really wanted to experiment with the chocolate and see what all I could do with that. And I also wanted to try making some cupcakes in a jar. Those were a few things I'd seen online.

We are at the end of our stock on groceries so the cupcakes were a box red velvet (I try to get ones that say moist). I used my left over coffee from that morning for the liquid and folded in some swmi sweet chocolate chips to try and bring out the coffee flavor. With the frosting I whipped in some espresso (2 tablespoons) and a little of the grounds into store bought buttercream (I know..but I'm out of pretty much anything in the fridge!). It got runny so I put in some powdered sugar.

I never could get it to taste like coffee but for touched up store bought, these were pretty good. Kris said they kinda had a coconut taste. Hmmm don't know how. lol I am going to try to attempt this again sometime. I need to research some mocha recipes. Maybe I need some extract or something.

More Cupcakes

Friday is my day! So I find its a good day to experiment with my baking.

I've been practicing for Kaylee Jo's birthday and the cake auction for our church.

Yesterday I was inspired by my sister to make lemon blueberry cupcakes with lemon buttercream frosting. These turned out really yummy!

I have also found that the richness of the buttercream tends to mellow out the next day and are very good for breakfast!

Thanks for looking :o) More to come soon!

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Long weekend and First Friend Sleepover!

Kinadie had her first friend sleepover this weekend!! They had lots of fun playing dress up, or in Kara's case "dress down!" I thought it would be fun for them if I made a sleepover bento. This is what they had.

Fortune cookie, fruit salad with whipped cream and pink sprinkles, pizza, my girls had light ranch, E said they eat their pizza with BBQ sauce, popcorn with pink sprinkles, and the cupcakes I was experimenting with. I put little animal faces on some. They also requested Sprite with a cherry. The BBQ sauce and pizza was very good and the cupcake icing seemed really sweet right after it was made but seemed to calm down the next day. It ended up being very good! After supped they decided it was time to turn in for the night and watch my favorite childhood movie, The Little Mermaid!

Kara and Kaylee Jo didn't make it to the end. Kin and E did and watched a little Wubbzy before falling asleep in the living room. Overall I think they had lots of fun! Daddy on the other hand set up fort in our room! ha ha I think he went a little crazy over all the princess & pink stuff! They loved that every now and then he'd walk through the house saying "HO HO HO MERRY CHRISTMAS!" He's a silly Dad!