Snow/Birthday Fun

We braved the snowy roads and had a birthday lunch escape to Chili's.  I learned that they took my favorite item "lettuce wraps" off the menu over a year ago - where have I been?  I had to come for their delicious Chocolate Molten Cake (free on your Bday) because it is absolutely to die for!  Everyone, thank you for making my day special.

I experimented with the dinner roll recipe that I added a few days ago.  Because at that particular class on rolls, the teacher told us that she uses that same dough to make baked maple bars.  She usually adds a bit more sugar and some cinnamon to the dough and then frosts them with maple flavored icing.  All my kids liked them, except Vivian.  They were a yummy afternoon treat accompanied with hot chocolate as the kids came in from playing in the snow.  Click here for dinner roll link and then scroll to the bottom for bar instructions.

My gift to myself was to make my chicken noodle soup (minus the noodles) with added Danish Dumplings (recipe here).  The dumplings are a recipe of my Grandma Anderson, a favorite dish of mine when I was a child.  They turned out fabulous - just as I remembered!  This dish brought back a lot of sweet memories of cooking with my grandma.

Olivia enjoyed the snow, too.  The kids would come in with wet clothes so we would pop them in the dryer and then send them out again!

 

 Viv's found great joy in sledding with the Zipfy down the bank of snow along the side of our driveway!

Porter and Vivian had a blast  - he pulled her all around, up and down the banks of snow!

 

 Vivian's snowman!

Olivia's snowman - it was dark when she finished!

First Snow Day

This morning I walked upstairs (at my Mom's in Burley) and looked out the window in amazement - holy cow, there is snow! We ended up with probably 3 inches of wet, heavy snow. After lunch the kids put on whatever snow gear they could find in grandma's closets and went out to play. They had a lot of fun trying to roll snowballs and make a fort, even the dogs had fun! What is going on? Snow this early in the year...it must be global warming.

Snow Much Fun!

Saturday afternoon we decided to have some fun in the snow. Since we don't have any snow down in the valley - we drove up Bogus Basin Rd. to find some snow! There was a lot of snow up there. We had lots of fun and a good workout hiking up the hill after a fast ride down.
Corbin was a little daredevil!
Olivia had a lot of fun and was so tired when we went home.
Meet part of the Richael family - Craig is holding Amanda (Vivian's little friend) along with Ally. They live just down the road from us. Craig is Paul's running buddy and friend. We have a lot of fun with their family.
Porter had a great time sledding - gosh it seems that the boys never got tired!

Last week's snow fun

That is me doing snow angels. Paul thought I was crazy!

Last Sunday we woke up to lots of snow! Wow this is sort of new for Boise - we haven't had snow like this in years. Now that we don't have church until 10:45 am (use to be at 8:30 am) - we had time to play in the snow before getting all dressed up. It was so much fun! Now that most of the snow has melted, we are hoping for more.