Lily Loves to Swim

Our sweet puppy Lily has discovered swimming. We adopted Lily this past summer. Well because of the aweful drought we have had almost no water in our pond. With the rain we got over the past couple of weeks we now have a full pond again. We decided to see what Lily thought and I think we got our answer!

Homemade Donuts Anyone?

Thanks to my new love of Pinterest I decided to try to make homemade donuts. I found this really easy recipe.
You need canned biscuits (anything BUT the flakey layer kind).
Melted butter in a shallow bowl(4 tbls per 8 biscuits give or take)
Sugar & Cinnamon in a shallow bowl.
Mixed together in your favorite proportions.

Veggie oil to fill your pan up to about 1/2in or so.
Heat up oil for a few minutes on medium heat.
While it is heating up, cut holes in the donuts with a cookie cutter or some other circular object (stars would be cute too!)

When one side is golden brown, flip with tongs. When that side is golden remove from oil and place on a paper towel lined pan or plate.
When the donuts have cooled enough to handle...using your fingers dip one side in the melted butter, let the excess drip off, dip in cinnamon and sugar mixture. Get it nice and coated. Flip over and repeat for the other side.

Sounds and looks YUMMY right?

Well I taught is they turned out great. Here is what the rest of my crew taught...

Well you win some and you lose some back to the drawing board.

Happy New Year!!

I know, I know, I know!! I have said it many times before but, I am going to get back to blogging. I LOVE blogs. I spend lots of my free time in the evenings after the girls are in bed and the house is quiet reading blogs. I have decided to dedicate some of that time to my long neglected blog. I think before there would be things I wanted to blog about but didn't have a cute picture to go with it or I would have a really cute picture and not much to say about it. I have since come to the conclusion that who really cares. This is suppose to be a fun and easy to put my memories and have something fun for our family to look back on. So It will not always be perfect but I am going to give it another go.
I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and a Happy New Year!
WE DID!!!