Cuteness

Pictures and moments can speak louder than words. ;) 

I Made Butter!!!

You know how you sometimes have those spontaneous thoughts that really, you have no idea where they came from..? I know that I do..and today happened to be one of those days where I had an awesome spontaneous thought. My thought: "Can you make butter in an electrice mixer? If you could it definitely would be lots quicker to make!" So, I looked it up and sure enough! You can! Hurrah! I was so happy to find it out. My one fear was that it wouldn't turn out for me like it did for the person that wrote the blog I read. But it did!!! Here is the blog I scanned over and learned from. The pics are the pics of the butter I made! Hopefully we will be having lots more homemade butter! I was really proud of myself... not to brag or anything... ;)

The Kitchn // Homemade Butter in a Mixer!

Before it goes into butter making stage it is whipped topping! ;) 

I hope you try making your own! It tastes SOOOOO GOOD and it's so much better for you! The blog I posted above didn't mention how to add salt... But you ONLY need 1/2 tsp of salt to ONE pound of butter! Mine made about a fourth a pound and so I obviously used 1/8 a tsp.

Mammoth Springs // Fourth of July Weekend

I am so behind in posting the goings on in life! We actually took a summer trip this year! Dad had a 3 day weekend fourth of July weekend and we, actually Dad, planned a trip and picnic to Mammoth springs! I haven't been there since I was at least 10 and I was glad to go and see it again, since things tend to fade in your memory of how they look or what the memories are... ;) Mom made her wonderful recipe of picnic chicken, and for sides we bought fruit, chips, and made some chocolate pudding! We were all so full! Here are some pictures from the trip:

Fathers and Daughters

All the siblings....Well...until Dec. From left to right: Christian (17), Petra (19), Li'ora (2), Emma (4), Malachi (6), Elias (10), Jericho (13)

Mom and Dad...Oh yeah... and Jedidiah is in the picture too. ;) You just can't see him yet. :D

My brother took this picture with his phone... I stole the pictures about from my Mom's facebook page which she took with her really good camera.. :D :D 

On the fourth we went to town and watched the firework display! It was a really pretty display. ;)

Ravihoebies

Ok.. so it's cute, it's adorable and I just can't get over those RAVIHOEBIES! Aka... Raviolis. Sorry about the background noises, but that's kinda hard to avoid when you live in a family of 9. (soon to be 10.) :D

He's a BOY!!

Some of you may not have even known... but there was a reason to keep it a secret so long. After the chaos that went on twice last year for Mom we waited to make it public until we knew that the Baby would be ok. Now that we know the baby is healthy and looking great we announced it publicly - I should say my Mom and Dad announced it, cause they are the ones that are pregnant... not me. Not only did we announce it but we also found that the baby is a BOY!!!! Yeah for Jedidiah Stonewall coming on 12-13-14!!! Mom's at 15 weeks. There will be almost 20 years between me and my new little brother. ;) The same age difference between me and my Dad. ;)

And he is already a thumb sucker!!!!! ;) :D Already takes after his sis. ;) :D 

Total Randomness

Ok... so all these pics are a bit backwards and forwards and if blogger didn't make it so dang difficult to rearrange photos, I would...anyway... that was a pointless statement...

-------------------------------Last Week-----------------------------

 I played with Emma's hair (like I always do) ;P and my own... Creating a tutorial with my hairstyle pictured below. The tutorial ended up not being so grand, but if you want to watch it, you can find it here. I love Emma's and I can't get over how cut it was!

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I think he liked having his picture taken... He just didn't know how close he could get to me without knowing he would be cuddled.... :P Isn't he a cutie! There is so much nature at our new place! Which we have been at for 6 months now!!!!!

--------------------------2 weeks ago, Fathers Day---------------------------

The Saturday before fathers day my Aunt J. and her husband and my Mom's brother came down for the weekend and we celebrated Fathers Day and Grandfathers Day at our house. For some reason I didn't grab pictures of them when they were here... We celebrated by eating, ALOT! and chit chatting and playing Bad mitten. Here are a few pics I did snag while Dad was opening his gifts. ;) Dad made sure to celebrate in his own easy style. ;) Mom had us all fill out a paper saying things about Dad. The littles papers were the best. One of the questions put to Li'ora was: "What does Daddy do at work?" Her answer was that He puts "fresh tires" on. ;) (He's a mechanic for all those who DON'T know that. A might good one at that.)

And that's the total randomness of this post. ;P

Sourdough Bagels - a Success!

Hurrah!! I did it! All those days of studying sourdough bagel recipes and it finally paid off! The only thing I did different in the recipe linked below is that I boiled the bagels for 5 -6 minutes or until it looked like they were done rising. I can't wait to start trying different flavors! The sourdough taste wasn't strong either. Which is nice. To much of the sour flavor can be... well... sour. :P :D

http://www.anoregoncottage.com/how-to-make-sourdough-bagels/