Cookie Baking Night 03/22/21

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

Cookie Baking Night 03/08/21

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

Tonight we made raspberry muffins. 

We ended the evening with a lively game of Headbanz. It's as fun and funny as it looks. 

As usual, a fun time was had by all. 

Cookie Baking Night 02/22/21

 Tonight was Cookie Baking Night. In attendance this evening: Carissa, Allison, Rylar, and Enzo. Tonight we made a twist on the classic chocolate chip cookie. Everyone got to choose what kind of chips they wanted: chocolate, butterscotch, white chocolate. Everyone had a different combination.

With this particular chocolate chip cookie recipe, you mix the sugar and butter for 3 minutes and then add eggs and let it mix for another 2 minutes. Rylar was on mixer duty. He stopped the mixer every minute and scraped the sides. He was the right man for the job. 

As usual, a fun time was had by all. 

Cookie Baking Night 02/08/2021

Tonight was Cookie Baking Night. In attendance this evening: Allison, Rylar, and Enzo. It was our first Cookie Baking Night of the year. As the year 2020 and COVID 19 brought many changes to the whole world, Cookie Baking Nights had to make some adjustments too. We took a few long breaks when the MN Governor requested that we refrain from social gatherings for a time. Our last Cookie Baking Night was in November of 2020. We didn't have a Niece and Nephew Christmas party last year because of that, so we we decided to make our first gathering of the year a Valentine party.  

We decorated heart shaped cookies

Made and distributed Valentine cards and treats

Had a little fun with stickers

Played the dice game for prizes

Had a little fun assembling our prizes

And had our Bible lesson.

No Valentine Day Party is complete without talking about love. And the greatest love we've ever known is the love of God for us. We love because He first loved us (1 John 4:19). We know love because of the greatest gift ever given to us by God, his Son, Jesus Christ. Jesus gave his life for us to pay a debt that we could not pay. He gave his sinless life as a sacrifice for our sins. 

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. John 3:16

We thank God for His love. May we never take it for granted. 

Cookie Baking Night 08/24/2020

Tonight was Cookie Baking Night. In attendance this evening: Carissa, Allison, Rylar, and Enzo. Tonight was Allison's Birthday choice (she turned 10 a few days ago). For supper she chose Pancakes, Strawberries & Blueberries, and Whipped Cream. 

Uncle Greg made the pancakes tonight. When he was young, his Aunt Monica would make pancakes for him in the shape of a G. Greg thought that was a very special thing, so he made a special pancake for Allison in the shape of an A. 

For her "cookie", Allison chose Chex Bars (a carmalized Chex cereal, M&Ms, cashew mixture). 

And "Cheerios Bars" (think Special K bars with Honey Nut Cheerios and no chocolate). 

This year we haven't been doing our regular family gatherings for birthdays (due to COVID19), so we gave Allison her present at Cookie Baking Night (a Shopkins car and a missionary biography of Elisabeth Elliot). 

We finished off our evening with Allison's favorite game, Pictureka. Uncle Greg even joined in on the merriment. And I can definitely say "a fun time was had by all". 

 

Cookie Baking Night (08/10/20)

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

Tonight was Enzo's birthday choice. For supper, he chose cheese pizza and apples. For his cookie he chose "gingerbread houses". 

Because gingerbread house supplies are a bit scarce in August, we did a summer version using sugar cookie houses. 

I think, for Enzo, it was all about the frosting and the sprinkles.

We spent a little time outside playing a game of lawn darts 

And rolling down the hill

Since family birthday gatherings are a bit unpredictable this year (due to COVID-19), we decided to give Enzo his birthday gift at Cookie Baking Night. 

A Batomobile and a Batman action figure

As usual, a fun time was had by all (especially Enzo).