31 October 2006

Gollum's cookies (recipe)

I've had some requests for our "Gollum's Cookies" recipe, so here it is. We entered these cookies in a contest once (thus the "Gollum's Cookies" title; we were trying to set our cookies apart from the rest) but we didn't win. :( I don't think the judges even saw the recipe, as it turned out. Nevertheless, we think they deserved to win, because they're our favorite cookies, and they always seem to turn out great. Enjoy!



Gollum’s Precioussss Golden Chocolate Chip Cookies
(Do not feed to nasty hobbitses!)

2 C. sssugar
2 C. brown sugar
1 ⅓ C. sweeet cream butter, softened
1 ⅓ C. butter-flavored shortening, sssoftened
4 medium eggses
1 T. + 1 tsp. vanilla
2 T. sssour cream, yess
2 tsp. salt
2 tsp. baking ssoda
7 ¼ C. flour
1 C. tasty semi-ssweet chocolate morselsss
1 C. milk chocolate toffee bitsses

We creams shortening and sugar until light and fluffy. Then we adds eggs, vanilla, and sour cream; we mixess well, we does. In small bowl, we sifts together salt, baking soda, and flour, then combines it with rest of dough. Is it tasty? Stir in chocolate chips and toffee bits, my preciousss. Form dough into juicy 1 ½-inch balls; place on ungreased cookie sheetses. That’s what we wants now; yes, we wants it! Cooks at 350° for 10 minutes, it does. Is it nice, my precious? Is it juicy? Is it scrumptiously crunchable? Then we takes it out of oven and letss it sit on pan for a few minutes. Then we eats it, my precious, we eats it, yesss.

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(Note: I've found that the best way to tell the amount of flour needed is just to add it little by little until the dough kind of pulls away and falls off the beaters or spoon. You pick up the beaters, and the dough sort of peels off in a hunk, with maybe a few moist crumbs left on. It shouldn't be sticky enough to stick to your fingers, but it should easily stick together into balls without having to be squeezed together.)

(And another note: This makes a VERY LARGE batch. We usually half the recipe unless we're taking them to neighbors or something.)


24 October 2006

Abraham's talk

I think I finally figured out a way to post audio files here. Here's Abe's talk, which he gave in sacrament meeting for the primary program several weeks ago. Enjoy!

obedience talk.mp3

20 October 2006

Sleepy

Time for nap!

18 October 2006

Two walking guys


Here's another comparison of Seb and Abe wearing the same outfit. I think they do look alike, especially the way they walk. (Maybe all babies walk that way?) The other similarity that strikes me is that they are both exceptionally cute! :) Abe's hair sure was floppy back then! They are both about 14 months old in this picture.

Nice Fall Days


When you look at this picture of Abe, imagine him going "Vvvvvvv" as he drives his trike.

Fish lips


Sebastian walks around with his lips like this all the time these days. Maybe he's teething?

Nothing gold can stay


We've had some spectacular sunsets lately. It seems like they always get even more beautiful during the Fall, as the weather starts to turn colder. I love to look out my kitchen windows while I'm making dinner and see the sky turning pink and orange and gold.

Go Cougars!



Here are the boys, ready for some BYU Football! (Actually, ready to go take their naps at Grandma's house while Mommy and Daddy go watch some football.) :)

4 years old!

Abraham had a fun birthday. He got a volcano lava lamp for his room, and a lego Street Sweeper truck to build. I saw that you can buy a real street sweeper truck on eBay for about $5000, so if anyone wants to get Abe a great Christmas present . . .

03 October 2006

Botany Pond 2














Botany Pond















Preschool



Here are Abraham, Alina, and Adam at preschool. We had a lot of fun talking about animals!