Monday, December 28, 2009

Sledding by the Fremont Indian State Park (Christmas post is below)

This video is of my niece Meghan and nephew Jaxon who decided their tubes were "too heavy" to carry up the hill. It's absurd, but it makes for a funny video.

Logan decided to try to film while tubing. This is the result.

Merry Christmas!

Christmas morning!
I think someone's pile is bigger than someone else's...


Logan's favorite present...a hitch for his car. Now if only we had something to pull with said hitch...


A camp stove for Logan.


A very nice salon blowdryer that dries my hair in just around 4 minutes. I'm in heaven.



I got some adorable Carhartt thermals too. You can see them in the lower right of the photo. Their Carhartt Pink:)

And our big present was A 10' x 10' KELTY TENT!!!! WAHOO!!!


Did you notice a theme? That's because my mom got us a one year pass to all state and national parks. We're gonna be camping hard core in the next year!

Monday, December 21, 2009

There's American Tim Tams

Sydney saw some Tim Tams made by Pepperidge Farm (PF) here at Smith's. She was very angry because she had just purchased 7 packages during her Trip to Hawaii. I was skeptical that the PF Tim Tams would not be as good as the Arnott's (Ar) Tim Tams, or that they would even work for Tim Tam Slaming. I set up a nearly blind taste test for Sydney with some Amretto Hot Chocolate to see if she could tell the difference, I also wanted to indulge in the tasty morsels side by side to see how they compared. The results were that Sydney who didn't know which were which found the Ar Tim Tams to taste better dry, She said, "The PF ones are more sugary." However, she found them to be equaly as tasty during the slamming process. I on the other hand, thought that when eaten dry they tasted very similar, but the creamy filling was a little better tasting in the Ar Tim Tams. I also came to the same conculsion that during a good slam you can't tell the difference. In another note the PF type seemed to have a tiny bit less of a chocolate coating and I'm saying a minute amout here. Over all that the PF tim tams are a good subsitute for the real thing, but here in America we will be just fine Slaming our own.

Saturday, December 12, 2009

Twiddle Thumbs This!

After the Grand Canyon rafting trip, I started to look at some Outfitter's websites to see what they had and what we could have used. One thing I saw was a way to air dry dishes by hanging them under the table other than laying them all over the table. On the websites they had mesh dish bags for 60 plus dollars and utensil holder for the same. I thought why not make them I think Sydney can do it. So we did and here is what we ended up with.
This is the dish drying bag

This is the utensil holder drying the dishes

And this is it rolled up for storage.

They're not perfect but that's my fault and mesh is a pain to sew by the way.