Revamped

Do you like it? I certainly do!! I had a lot of help from my friend Dani, who has her own blog. Please click here to check her out.

So right now i'm trying to upload pics and tell stories and make my blog feel complete. I'm breezing through it pretty easily so far (luckily!) but need to get in the habit of actually posting on my blog as much as I can instead of just using facebook.

Just a few things we have done recently that was very fun!

 This month is Native American month! The RPL put on several fun activities and we went to the kid friendly ones. One of the activities was  Native American storytelling. The boys were fascinated, Keely was while I took the picture but ended up reading to the therapy dogs :)  The boys were bragging about what they knew and that they had moccasins and ribbon shirts for Sundance. Victor was too embarrassed to sing the Native American song he knew. The story teller was so nice and had awesome props and promised Keely he would find a pony story for her!

Another fun thing we did was learn how to make dream catchers from an awesome lady named Alice. She is from a local tribe. It took us forever to make just one but Victor, Rory and myself each completed one dream catcher each. This is the one I made. I love it! I was actually going to put this on my tree as a tree topper but decided to put it in my car. Funnily enough my nephew just asked me tonight why I had one in my car... anyways, I made another one for my tree topper, it's even more beautiful and bigger than the first one I made. I've gotten a few requests to make some for friends and will happily oblige. They are fun to make.

Also in the same week I made color burst  cupcakes. I've been saying that I was gonna make them for quite a while and I finally did it! Someone sent me the link to a blog where they were posted (which is here)and I knew I had to make them! Unfortunately for me it was not a gluten free recipe,  she used a regular cake mix, so I had to adapt, and ended up using a basic gluten free yellow cake recipe from 1000 gluten free recipes. (I love that cookbook!) The base is garbanzo bean flour, potato starch, and tapioca flour/starch. You can use whatever combo you prefer, I just use those cuz sorghum is impossible to find in large quantities and my daughter is allergic to rice. You can pick any colors and in any order. They turn out so pretty but spooning in the batter is time consuming!!  I decided to use green, pink, blue, and purple for the colors with bright yellow frosting. I'll have to change up the color scheme when I make these again for my brother-in-law's birthday.


I hear it is snowing right now... I hope so, it makes it feel more like the holidays. Already listening to Christmas music.

Coming soon: On Tuesday, we are butchering our Thanksgiving turkey!! If it's not too gross I'll post a video!