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:




The 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.


Our weekly watch-a-General-Conference-talk-and-have-a-treat.


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.


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


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.


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!