Cookie Baking Night (08/23/2021)

Tonight was Cookie Baking Night. In attendance this evening: Carissa, Allison, Rylar, and Enzo. 

Tonight was Allison's Birthday choice. 
She just turned 11 years old.  For supper, she chose spaghetti, French bread, and strawberries. For her "cookie" she chose Chocolate Covered Strawberries. 

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Papa-Larry (my dad) and Allison are working together to butter the bread and cut the strawberries. 

They were able to chose chocolate or white chocolate to dip the strawberries in. Allison is a chocolate lover, so it is was regular chocolate all the way for her. She and I are kindred spirits in this way. I have a word for white chocolate. I like to call it vanilla. 

The rest of the gang are not as chocolate-inclined as Allison and I, so they chose the white chocolate.

Not sure what was going on here. Looks more like a chocolate covered strawberry conglomeration

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After treat making, we walked to the local gas station for a treat and sat outside enjoying the beautiful summer evening. 

We tried a new game tonight called "Scrambled States of America". If you learn geography by playing it that might just happen by accident, but it was definitely a fun game. Allison really liked it. 

As usual a fun time was had by all. 

 

Cookie Baking Night 08/09/2021

Tonight was Cookie Baking Night. In attendance this evening: Carissa, Allison, Rylar, and Enzo. 

Tonight was Enzo's birthday choice. He turns 8 years old in a few days. For his "cookie" he chose: Fruit Parfaits. I must say, to my recollection, that is first. Oh, I should clarify. That is fruit parfaits with bananas, blueberries, and strawberries. 

For our parfait base we used vanilla pudding, which the kids had a fun time making. 

Now, it's time to build those parfaits, which they all enjoyed doing. 

Afterward, we took a neighborhood walk to the local gas station for a treat.

We finished the evening with Enzo's (current) favorite game, Pictureka. I think part of the joy of this game for him is that he comes out as the winner most of the time. If you saw the way that we played it, you'd be surprised that anyone came out as a winner on a consistent basis. Our version is very random. 

Other Cookie Baking Night, another birthday choice (they do grow up fast) has come and gone and, as usual, a fun time was had by all.