Martha's 11th birthday

Her cake. We did sing and blow out candles but I let Steve be in charge of the camera and so he didn't get the picture. He claims that something want wrong with the camera. Oh well. Here is the pic after the fact.



Best friends :)

Her earings. So cute :P Steve said that he thought that 11 was an ok age to get earings so she was sooooo excited and loves them.



Steve was excited to climb the wall. He was waving to Karissa I am sure who was on the frog ride. LOL

He picked a really hard area and so he didn't get as far up as he would have liked.


Shenna with Dippin Dots. :P

Cutest smile ever!!!! She LOVED the Dots. She ate hers plus whatever Karissa left which was like half. Plus a bite of the other kids.



Daniel climbing the wall.





So we didn't do our usual birthday for Martha. We decided to go and play at Trafalga fun center. It is in Lehi and it was a good time. Karissa LOVED the frog ride. She went on that ride probably 30+ times. LOL So cute. In fact we told the kids two more rides so they chose to go on the rock wall so we told them just that one activity because it takes so long for them to go through the line and Karissa got to go on the frog ride like 10 times or so. I think she got the better deal of all. Anyways, It was a lot of fun then we came home and had cheese cake which she wanted to have instead of a cake. : ) It was nice that I didn't have to worry about a cake for her. Well, we were all really tired and ready to go by the time we left. In the summer we will probably go again when the outside rides are open as well. Cute part of the day for Shenna was she got to eat Dippin Dots for the first time that was so cute to watch her reaction. Wish I could have gotten a better picture but I got what I got. Enjoy the pictures. : )

Homemade chocolate chips

Still in the hardening process. But doesn't it look good!?!


Steve's words "Those are really good."

So I needed a chocolate fix tonight. Sometimes we just need those and I had no chocolate chips in the house and felt like chocolate covered nuts so I got on the net and found this recipe.

Homemade Chocolate chips

1/2 c cocoa powder
1/2 c sucanat or rapadura
1 c coconut oil or butter
1T vanilla

Place all but the vanilla in a glass jar. Place a pan with water on the stove and turn it on to high till it starts to get the little bubbles on the bottom of the pan turn down to medium heat and place your jar of goodness in the pan. This acts as a double broiler. Let sit for about 5 min stir and let sit again for another few minutes stir do this till your butter is melted. Place the vanilla in the mixture and place in a wax lined pan and smooth out evenly. There will be sucanant crystals but it doesn't make a difference cool in fridge for a few hours or until hard then break up and bake your cookies with them or just eat.