Day 47 and more about BYOB

For our family home evening treat tonight, I made doughnuts. They were delicious! We had some with apple pie filling inside, some with lemon pudding inside, some plain and some rolled in a little sugar. Today's picture is the plate of what was left after we had eaten a bunch. Next time I think I'm going to do chocolate glazed. I wanted to do that tonight, but ran out of time.

I mentioned a few weeks ago(briefly) something called Bake Your Own Bread(BYOB). Basically, I am trying to bake all of our baked goods at home from scratch. I've made whole wheat bread for a few years now, although not always exclusively. I would grab some bread at the store if we ran out at home and I didn't have time/energy to bake more. This year I am trying to plan better and stay motivated so that doesn't happen. I've also pretty much always made our birthday cakes, but I also want to make all of the other baked goods. Cookies, cupcakes, doughnuts, bagels, croissants, english muffins, hot dog and hamburger buns... I want to make it all!

I am really enjoying it so far and my family couldn't be more supportive. ;c) This is one project where they all want to see me succeed!

More P365: Days 44-46

Friday: A very happy anniversary


Saturday: Happy Valentine's Day - My beautiful, new trashcan. Haha!

The trashcan was necessary because a certain young crawler was pulling up on the old, open one and removing things from it!

Sunday: Yummy, homemade granola

P365 days 31-43

I have 13 days of catch-up photos to post. If I count the one I will take for today, that makes 14. Instead of making a huge post with all of those 13 photos, I'm going to post a couple favorites here and the rest can be seen in the P365 gallery of our SmugMug.

So, on with some of my favorites from the last two weeks!


New glasses!







The rest are here!

I'll post today's later on. It's our 12th Anniversary today, so there will be lots of photo opportunities. We're going to a movie and then dinner at a nice restaurant. Yay!!

Delayed

I'm still here! :c) I do have pictures from every day to post, although I have to admit at least one is really lame. LOL! My camera battery needs to be recharged and I seem to have misplaced the charger. Eep! I've been using the camera in my phone.

I've been busy working on getting things organized. I spent Monday getting all the kids clothes washed and folded(thanks for your help, Mom!) so that we could sort through them for family home evening. The girls weeded out so many clothes and things are fitting into their dressers nicely. What's even better is that now there will be a lot less in the laundry room. There is only so much that they can get dirty now before they are out of clothes. ;c) We have some large and full bags to take to the Goodwill later.

We also had some excitement in the vehicle department Monday and Tuesday. The mini-van wouldn't start while I was waiting in the car rider line at Katelee's school. The principal and gym teacher had to push me out of the way and then the gym teacher gave it a jump(with his truck LOL). Kirk and I ran around to a couple places having things checked out. It ended up that it needed a new alternator, so we got that taken care of yesterday. Of course, that had its drama as well as I fell on the ice and skinned my knee. Never a dull moment around here!

The kids are home from school today. I'm hoping to finally get the girls to clean their room. Spencer was sick yesterday evening and had a temperature, so he gets a pass. His room isn't too bad, anyway. At least he is feeling better this morning!