Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Field Trip and then some

Yesterday I went on a field trip with Cal. I had no idea but there is a local ABC station in Harrisonburg!  We got to see the "filming room" (not sure what it is really called) and find out a little bit about broadcasting the weather and the news. We then went to the children's museum where the kids listened to a story/presentation about animals and weather. After that they got to play in the museum, followed by lunch at Cici's. The children's museum has free admission the first Friday of the month.  I want to take my kids there next week.

The tv station:
Jan 22 2013 Cal field trip TV station and children's museum (5)

Jan 22 2013 Cal field trip TV station and children's museum (9)

The children's museum:
Jan 22 2013 Cal field trip TV station and children's museum (7)

Jan 22 2013 Cal field trip TV station and children's museum (6)

Jan 22 2013 Cal field trip TV station and children's museum (8)

Jan 22 2013 Cal field trip TV station and children's museum (3)

Jan 22 2013 Cal field trip TV station and children's museum (4)

Jan 22 2013 Cal field trip TV station and children's museum

This past weekend Lois and Jeff and co spent the weekend with us.  They haven't been down for awhile so it was great having them here! I thought it was cute seeing these boys looking over the Lego book together.
Jan 13 2013 Elden Reed Blake

Our weekly watch-a-General-Conference-talk-and-have-a-treat.
Jan 20 2013 Haley Blake Shanna

Monday afternoon we made "puffy" snowmen.  We were going to do this over Christmas break, but that didn't happen.  You mix shaving cream and glue together.  I took a big yogurt container and filled it up about an inch from the top with shaving cream.  Then I dumped in about 3/4 bottle Elmer's glue.  I stirred it up with a paintbrush.  After decorating the snowmen you can let them dry.  They stay pretty "puffy" and have this weird soft, foam like texture. If you do want it "puffy" make sure the shaving cream mixture has some height to it. Dollop it on. If you just swipe the stuff onto the paper, it will dry flat.
Jan 21 2013 Cal Reed Shanna

You have a long tongue Shanna.  And yes, she can touch her nose with it.
Jan 21 2013 Shanna Haley

Cal's friend played here on Monday too.  They all had a great time.  They spent quite a bit of time outside and I thought it was cold.  I looked at the weather though and it was 45.
Jan 13 2013 Reed Cal Shanna Sawyer Wilson

Lee gave me an ice cream maker for my birthday.  Sunday night we were going to have ice cream sundaes with homemade hot fudge, but the cream wouldn't ice up.  I thought there might be a defect or something with the machine, but no, we didn't have the bowl frozen enough. (Glad there is nothing wrong with it!) It's a pretty cool machine actually.  You freeze this bowl that has some sort of special liquid in the "shell" of the bowl--probably the same kind of liquid found in those reusable ice pack thingys.  You pour your mixture into the bowl, turn on the machine, and about 1/2 hour later you have soft-serve ice cream!  It will be fun to use this machine and try out recipes. We went ahead and had the sundaes Monday night after FHE. YUM.

Thanks to my friend Lori Jacobson, I have a great hot fudge recipe. Here it is:



Lori’s Hot Fudge

1 ½ T. flour
3 T. cocoa
¾ C. sugar
½ C. milk
2 T. butter
½ tsp. vanilla

In a saucepan, mix dry ingredients, add milk.  Stir constantly over medium-high heat. Boil hard for 2 minutes.  Remove from heat and add butter and vanilla.

So easy and delicious! Happy half-way week day!

5 comments:

Lena said...

I really need to do that snowman activity with my kids. They would love it. Awesome happenings with you guys!

Lois said...

Thanks for letting us visit - it was a lot of fun!!

Melissa S. said...

How fun! Cici's is the BEST place to take families like ours!!! We love it. Our's here has a take-out special for 3 medium pizzas for $10. (Which is cheaper and my kids like the pizzas better then Little Cesar's......infact, we're having it tonight) :)
How far off of 1-81 do you live? I was driving past (rushing to my brother's baptism up in Leesburg, VA) and saw Elkton and thought of you. We really should be living by each other.

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Mari said...

Mateo made that snowman at school. Looks like fun and it looks easy to make the mixture.