"One a upone a time" as Avie says.....

All bathed and eating bedtime snacks, ready to read some books and go to bed.

Great Grandma

Great Grandma, Rowan, Avie and Hayley

Lazy Daisy Cake

Lazy Daisy Cake

Cake

4 eggs

2 cups of sugar

2 teaspoons vanilla extract

2 cups flour

2 teaspoons baking powder

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 cup milk

1/4 cup butter melted

Frosting

1-1/2 cup packed brown sugar

3/4 cup butter melted

1/2 cup half and half cream

2 cups coconut

In mixing bowel beat eggs sugar and vanilla until thick. Combine flour baking powder and salt add to egg mixture and beat just until combined. In saucepan bring milk and butter to a boil stirring constantly. Add to batter and beat until combined. Pour into a greased 13 x 9 inch pan. Bake 350 for 35-40 min or until cake tests done. Combine frosting ingredients and spread over warm cake. Broil until lightly browned - about 3-4 min.

Great eaten warm or cold and good cake to use as a shortcake with strawberries without the icing. You can also half the receipe very easily.

Burwell and Back

Burwell - Wheatley - Burwell

Went home for the weekend didn't see any naked bums on the way back so was an uneventful drive home. I think that Rowan ate her way through the weekend and even woke in the middle of the night to eat!!! Must be growing !!!! We were glad to see everyone but glad to be home now and in our cold house brrrrrrr :)

Shadow smelled the car up on the way home so much for the bath I gave him days before we left :) And I think the cat missed us while we were gone or more he missed his buddy Shadow they licked each other all over.

I found a great website all about our area thought I'd add it on here has all the area events and info interesting to check out:

http://www.portstanleynews.com/default.aspx?menu=1024_News

Turning 9

FLU

We have all just got over having the flu in our house all but Hayley it was so much fun!!! So we never got to go to the children's museum in london yet but another weekend.

Hayley's 9th birthday -

Right now we are planning our weekend home for Hayley's birthday, when she found out she was going to JJ and Papa's for her birthday you'd think we told her she was getting a new bike or something!! She is looking forward to it. And we found out that Aunt Jessie and Gam are coming also which she was then even more excited about. Me and Ed haven't got a gift for her yet and we're not sure what to get her she's a hard kid to shop for, so I'm still puzzled as to what I'm going to get her. I know that I'm going to make a tye dye cake with a horse on it so I have that covered, and it will probably look like all my other cakes but I'll try :). I'll have to put a pic of the cake on when I'm done.

Green -

I've also started thinking about the vegetable garden that I want to try this spring in the yard, part of going more green. Would also like to plant more trees and some bushes, there is a gardening group in Port Burwell starting in March that I"m going to try going to. Hayley said that she would like to plant clover so that she can eat the juice (don't think she knows its a weed).

Avie and Rowan

Nonsense

This my attempt at doing something artistic with photography didn't really turn out how I wanted but I like it anyways. Avie and Rowan are finally over being sick with the stomach bug that they had, it was a crappy day (quite literally).

We are making plans to go to the London Children's museaum with the girls on Saturday decided we need to get out of the house because this winter has been too LONG!!

Papa and J.J. are in Florida this week and for once I'm jealous of someone going to warm weather.

Ed and I are planning our date and Hayley's birthday party which is probably going to be on the same weekend. Hayley turns 9 so not sure what we are doing with her yet but should be fun. And me and Ed haven't gone on a date for quite a while so looking forward to that also, thinking of attempting bowling???

Ed is still sick and trying to get rid of his cold nobody really got as sick as Ed did Avie and Rowan got a bit of a cold but not as bad as Ed and me and Hayley stayed safe.

And our pets have decided to act up this morning Erie took a poop outside the litterbox (again I may add), not sure what is going on there and Shadow decided to chew a library book. He's never chewed anything so I think he is trying to tell us he wants more attention or something!!!!! No wonder Jess has nicknamed him special

Books I have read this week and what I thought of them

1. Welcome Home Travels in smalltown canada - Stuart McLean

Loved it so good and I'm an instant fan of Stuart McLean he is from CBC Vinyl Cafe. I can't wait to get his other books to read.

2. Beauty Tips From Moose Jaw Travels in search of canada - Will Ferguson

Great book!!! I loved this one also same sort of book as the other one but different comedy relief in it. So interesting to learn more about our beautiful country.

If you didn't notice that there is a pattern I try to read something about canada every week. So far I've learned that we are a much for violent and interesting country then what you would like to believe. And believe it or not we have a TON of history in this country if you go looking for it.