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Homemade Chocolate Chip Recipe – Wordless Wednesday

Posted by html404 on January 30, 2013
in Food and Treats, Recipes, Wordless Wednesday

Recently my almost 14 year old daughter was thinking if you can make homemade chocolate baking squares why couldn’t you make a homemade chocolate chip recipe. So she did a web search and found a Healthy Chocolate Chip Recipe at Culinary Adventures in the Kitchen. Ours aren’t as pretty, we need a new cake/icing decorator to do what she did, but we don’t care. We just wanted to share what she did. I never would have thought of making my own baking chocolate, let alone chocolate chips.

They tasted good too. Bittersweet rather than semi-sweet but good. B said she’d add more honey or sugar next time for semi-sweet. If you want the recipe check out the website I mentioned above.

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Christmas Tree Hunting – Wordless Wednesday

Posted by html404 on December 12, 2012
in Family Stuff, Holidays, Seasonal Stuff, Wordless Wednesday

We went Christmas tree hunting at a friend’s farm. They had a beautiful white birch grove as well as a grove of silver trees that this photo does not do justice. It was beautiful.

In our search we had to be careful for holes left from where trees were dug up. Blondie is standing in on in this photo. Our friends’ farm use to be a tree nursery.

We eventually found a tree very similar to this one. It was huge and a monstrosity to get into the van!

We each took turns cutting down the Christmas tree. We actually had to go back out and buy a new saw because ours was too dull to do anything significant in the way of cutting. Makes for an interesting story to pass down through the years.

When we finally got the Christmas tree shoved into the van it was a tight squeeze for everyone to get back into their seats.

This is what the tree looked like for a few days. It took a few extra cuts to get it just right and I haven’t yet taken an updated photo of it cut down to size or completely decorated.

When do you put up your tree?

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Wordless Wednesday – Science in a Jar?

Posted by html404 on November 21, 2012
in All Natural Products, Food and Treats, Health, Health and Nutrition, Wordless Wednesday

Hee…hee…what is that? Science in a Jar? I don’t know (well I do but you know what I mean, right?), but can anyone guess what it is? Happy Wordless Wednesday!

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Sneak Peek of the KIA Optima Hybrid Car #Brandcation #PigeonForge

Posted by html404 on October 3, 2012
in Reviews, Travel, Wordless Wednesday

This week’s Wordless Wednesday post is a sneak peek of the 2012 KIA Optima Hybrid car. It arrived late yesterday afternoon. The Driver STI specialist drove here and a colleague drove another car so he could have a way home. I thought it was awesome that they actually delivered the car right to my house! They will pick it up in a week’s time. What a great service!

The specialist walked me through a brief demonstration of how the car worked and showed me how to use certain features. The KIA Optima Hybrid car is sleek and still smells so new! We haven’t had a new car to drive in a l-o-n-g time, unless you count driving my mother-in-law’s car whose car really isn’t new anymore since it’s a 2006. I’ve also never driven a KIA, so this is a whole ‘nother new experience, besides driving a hybrid car for the first time.

I think it’s so cool that the KIA Optima Hybrid car starts with the press of a button! That will take some getting use to. I am really looking forward to driving it to Paula’s tomorrow to head to Kim’s and then on to Brandcation Blog Cabin in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee.

My husband and I took it for a quick spin down our country road. It drives really smooth!

I don’t want to give everything away since I’ll be giving a full report after I get back from Brandcation. Just wanted to tease you a little bit and well….brag a bit too. (blush!) So far my first impression of the KIA Optima Hybrid car is very positive….a 12-hour drive will give me a better idea of it’s overall performance on a road trip. Plus I’ll have two fellow bloggers input too.

While we were loaned the KIA Optima Hybrid car with the agreement to feature of it on our blogs after Brandcation, this post is done of my own volition.

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My Little Guys – Wordless Wednesday

Posted by html404 on September 19, 2012
in Animals, Family Stuff, Farm Stuff, Wordless Wednesday

What can I say? I love my little guys, like I do all my children. All of them are growing up way too fast. These are photos of my little guys and some of their animal pals from the past couple of weeks

I’m about as proud of my boys/children as these puffed up turkeys!

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Ranch Dude & Dudette Wordless Wednesday

Posted by html404 on September 12, 2012
in Wordless Wednesday

The weather has been great here and we have gone to the barn for the past three days. The children have been horse back riding bare back and all of them save the two little boys have trotted on Blaze! Jumpy had got on and off of Blaze by himself and even led Blaze around. A year or even six months ago Jumpy wasn’t doing these things. He’s growing up. It’s been so fun to watch them with the animals. Just call this Animal Week…

Here are our Ranch Dude and Dudette for this week:

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Look What We Found…a Snake! – Wordless Wednesday

Posted by html404 on September 5, 2012
in Animals, Wordless Wednesday

My husband came home from work to discover a snake (he says it’s a garden snake) on the road in front of our house. Initially we thought it was dead, but it was still alive. We think it’s injured though from a close look at certain stuff coming out of it. Our children all ran outside to see the snake and being the blogging mom that I am, I yelled, “Take the phone and get a picture! That will make a great blog post!” lol! I’ve seen snakes before and am not overly fond of them.

Ok, be honest who’s afraid of snakes?

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Cool Playground Photo – Wordless Wednesday

Posted by html404 on August 22, 2012
in Family Stuff, Wordless Wednesday

On Sunday we went to the Day Out With Thomas (blog post coming soon!) in our area and the children played at the playground. Our oldest, RJ, took this cool shot of our four year old, “Nookie”.

What do you think of RJ’s cool playground photo?

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Wordless Wednesday- Little Princess

Posted by html404 on August 15, 2012
in Wordless Wednesday

This weeks Wordless Wednesday is a photo of my youngest daughter playing outside.

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Little Farm Helpers – Wordless Wednesday

Posted by html404 on August 8, 2012
in Family Stuff, Farm Stuff, Wordless Wednesday

We don’t agree with child labor or slave labor, but we do desire to teach our children to work according to there age and abilities. Our little guys are not required to do many chores other than pick up their toys, help put their clothes in their cubbies and help a sibling or parent feed the animals. Yet they are often found doing more because when the older children are told to do something they trail along behind. Little farm helpers. That’s one advantage to having many children – the older ones do tend to teach the younger ones by example (and not the example they set is not always positive! ) Below is our 4 year old “Nookie” who loves helping take care of the chickens. He’s very kind and gentle and actually very good at catching them.

Our Little Farm Helpers