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Mindy- here is a picture of the rolls - well one of them 2 days later - it was the one I ate today for lunch..... ( ok well it will be up once my puter stops freaking out)








Michelle - nope I told her " shut up stop laughing at me. I can make them how I want"

Katie - here is the recipe:

Berry Cinnamon Rolls with Lemon Cream Cheese Icing

INGREDIENTS:

For berry cinnamon rolls: 1/2 c warm water 2 rounded tsp of yeast 1/2 c butter 2 c THRIVE Powdered Milk - ( I just used regular milk) 3/4 c THRIVE White Sugar (with just a dash extra) 2 THRIVE Whole Eggs, reconstituted 1 tsp THRIVE Iodized Salt 6 1/2 c THRIVE Flour (White Flour, Whole Wheat Flour, or half of each) 2-3 c THRIVE Freeze Dried berries - any combination of blueberries, blackberries, strawberries, and raspberries 1/2 c THRIVE Brown Sugar 1-2 tsp cinnamon For lemon cream cheese icing: 1/4 c softened butter 1/4 c softened cream cheese 2-3 tsp THRIVE Powdered Milk, reconstituted 1 tsp vanilla zest of one lemon 2-4 cups powdered sugar

PREPARATION:

*Combine water, yeast, and a dash of sugar in a small bowl.
*In a small saucepan, melt butter. Add milk and heat through.
*In a large bowl, mix sugar, eggs, and salt. Add milk mixture to sugar mixture. Mix together with a large spoon. Make sure this mixture is not too hot so it won't kill the yeast, then add in the risen yeast mixture.
*Add 4 c flour to this mixture and gently stir. Beat with a hand mixer for one minute. Add remaining 2 1/2 c flour and stir until remaining flour is just moistened; do not over mix.
*Let rise once and gently pull away from the sides. Don't punch the dough down. Let rise again until doubled in size. At this point, punch the dough down.
*Roll dough out to 24" x 10-12". Spread with melted butter and sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon. Top with dried berries.
*Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Roll dough up as with jellyrolls and cut into 24 1" discs, placing each on a large cookie sheet that has been greased.
*Let rise again, then bake at 350 degrees for 17-20 minutes or until just starting to turn golden brown.
Top with any desired icing, or use with the following instructions for Lemon Cream Cheese Icing:
*Blend butter and cream cheese together, then add milk, vanilla, and lemon zest.
*Whip in the powdered sugar, adding more for thicker icing and less for a drizzly consistency. More milk may be added if icing becomes too thick.

I got it from the shelf reliance website - they have a whole bunch of good Betty homemaker recipes here

And nope there were none left over for another round on Monday morning.

Cinnamon Rolls

Today we made Cinnamon Rolls from scratch - yes you read that right - scratch I was thinking if we made the rolls tonight then the kids could warm them just a little and frost them in the morning for Eddie for fathers day. ( That is nice of me to think of him huh)

So I made one batch of half white -half wheat cinnamon rolls. I had quite a bit of dough left over so I figured I would just make rolls with them rather than have sugar treats sitting around for all of us to eat. So I am shaping the rolls into balls and Claira comes in the kitchen and starts laughing at me, cause I was not doing it like her dad. Yes Eddie makes good rolls and they actually look good too. Mine are very good and they look OK but who cares they taste good and they are not going to be shared with anyone but us. She just kept laughing and laughing cause I was not shaping them right. WHATEVER

Once the cinnamon rolls came out of the oven we let them cool just a bit and then I let the kids have the end pieces - we had to taste them before we give them to Eddie in the morning what if they are gross? Dallen said they were D-lish and Claira said they were pretty good. I liked them. Now tomorrow will be the test. The rolls are now out of the oven too I had one and I think they are dang good you can not even tell they are half wheat!

My Very First Cinnamon Rolls



Dallen












Claira- not wanting to look at the camera playing like she has no idea what I want from her.

Contest!!!!

One of my favorite stores is having a contest. Well many contests, one every other friday. This time the are giving away one of those food storage rotation systems that I want.

Check out the blog post about it here Now go check it out and sign up!

What have we done with our summer?

Since school has been out What have we done with our summer? Nothing exciting really...

We went to wrestling camp for a week in Alturas. Alturas is 1 1/2 hours away but not like towards a big city it is another town in the middle of nowhere just like us. A cute little town though. So we drove there M W T and the Prayter family drove on T and F. So at least I did not have to go everyday. It was good Dallen liked it and he learned a little there. It kinda refocuses him into wrestling again since we are not doing any sports right now and he is just sitting around the house eating... his little face is filling out LOL

Dallen and Eddie got the swine flu. Well not really the swine flu but it was not pretty. Dallen just had it for about 24 hours and Eddie was down for 3 days. He slept the entire 3 days. So of course germ-a-phobic- me was washing everything in site. Claira and I stayed outside a lot on Sat so we would not get it.

Mocha had her puppies on Friday. 9 of them. But then tradgady set in. Mocha had the pups and stayed around the house for the first day or 2 and got over giving birth. Then she did a quick trip down to the neighbors and back to say HI and that she was still around ( she likes all the neighbor dogs and sometimes goes and plays with them). Then Tuesday I noticed Mocha was not acting like herself. So I had Eddie look at her. I thought maybe she was depressed maybe had postpartum cause I think she did with her last litter too. She did not want to eat even corned beef (so not normal for her she loved people food). She looked really tired and did not move much. We do not think she was making much milk for the puppies either because 2 of them had already died. It was already 7 and so the option of even calling the vet was out. In this town no vets are around after 5. So we decided to let Mocha be and decide what to do it the morning. Well Eddie got up early to go cut wood and he checked on Mocha and she was dead. He noticed that she had a 22 bullet hole in her butt area. We totally did not see it the night before. So that is why she died, cause someone had shot her. She must have gone to someones house that day that she went to the neighbors for a quick stroll and they did not want her there and so they shot her. Obviously she was running away when she was shot to be shot in the butt. So cowardly of someone to shoot her as she was running away. We knew that she visited all the neighbor dogs but they all come over here too ( every one of them at one point or another). We live in the country in the middle of nowhere so it is a part of life. So Eddie berried Mocha, and then we had to put the puppies down too. There was no way that we could have taken care of 7 puppies that were only 5 days old. We had tried that with the last litter when Mocha did not make enough milk for everyone but it did not end up saving them.

Last night Claira and Eddie went to a Father Daughter dinner at Janesville Park. They had fun playing games and they even got to eat Hot Dogs ( yuck - I hate them - Yuck)

I have worked a little a day here and a day there since summer started just picking up shifts when I can. No work today, so Dallen and I went to town to get a fathers day gift. Claira came down with the swine flu today so it looks like I will be cleaning everything in site once again.

That is all for our summer so far. Who knows what we will do next week. Lets just hope I do not get sick.

Fashion Revue....Cub Scouts.... Sacramento... Mars

Fashion Revue:
May 9th we had a Fashion Revue here in town for 4-H. It consisted of girls from all over the county who had created something to wear. Some of the outfits were sewn and some of them were "recycled" meaning take something old and make something fresh and new out of it, and then some were "purchased" meaning they had to purchase an outfit and create it into something new. Since I teach sewing for our 4-H group I had all of my girls make an apron to enter into the apron challenge. The apron pattern was the chosen pattern for the fashion revue you could make anything you wanted but the apron is the chosen pattern for this year. Claira ended up winning second place for her apron. The judges were not very nice they were very very picky but it helped me to understand what to teach the girls for next year so that they could score even higher. It was still fun and a great learning experience for Claira.








Cub Scouts:
May 19th was Dallen's first court of Honor for Scouts. He absolutely loves Scouts. He gets so excited to go every other Wednesday night that he can not eat before Scouts. It is quite funny. So tonight he was awarded his Bobcat. He got to pin a pin on me upside down and once he did a good deed for me he could turn it right side up. As soon as we got home he emptied the dishwasher and filled it back up for me so that he could turn it the right way. Here is a pic of Dallen pinning the award on me.








Sacramento Trip:
FRIDAY: We left school early and took off for Sac. We got there around 3 and met Gran at Home Goods. Of course Gran wanted to do some shopping with us. She always wants to shop. So we hit Home Goods, Old Navy, Barns and Nobles, Church Book Store, Beverly's, and Costco. Then went home to unload. Soon after we headed out to Islands to meet D T and Abby for dinner. It was good. Endless fries is nice but we all did pretty good and did not get much extra. Then we went to a park to play. It was late so we could not go in the sprinkler ( they have sprinkler toys on during the daylight hours) and it was getting pretty dark so taking pictures became a challenge. But here are a few good ones.












SAT: Since Claira won 2nd place at Fashion Revue, she was eligible to compete in the state finals. We honestly did not go expecting to win. Especially since this was our first State experience with 4-H. It was fun though. Or at least I thought it was. Claira was not too into it. She took home a Blue Ribbon ( everyone who participates does except the winner). Towards the end we were so excited to get to go home. The afternoon was warm and we were tired. That night we went and did a little shopping - Gran bought Claira a bathing suit cause the one she had on had some funky problem and the front of the bottoms would not stay up ...it was weird. And then we went and visited Grandma Schwab.












SUN: We got up and went to church. AND WHITNEY WARD / MISSION OAK WARD is SO NOT the same. What happened? Some INTERESTING people have moved into that ward. The speakers were good, one of the guys that spoke, I wonder if he has a brother for my sister to date... he seems like a decent guy .... maybe he has a brother.... I got to talk to Marilyn and Kirham. Oh and of course no trip to Whitney Ward/ Mission Oak Ward is complete without seeing Chris Silliman. After church we came home and ate some lunch and showed Gran how to use her new camera. Then back on the road we went. Sorry no pics for Sunday.

Mars:
Today Claira was in a play at school called Mars. Claira was the planet Venus. She actually had to sing all alone for this part. I was really shocked that she even wanted to try out for this part because of the solo. But she even wanted to try out for a larger part in the play and did but did not make the cut. I took pictures through out the play and then while Claira was on stage I took video so no pictures for that part. She did really good. I will try and see if blogger will let me upload the video of her in the play.