Author: mrsbarnes

Cake Pops take 2

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During the Christmas season I tried to make some snowman cake pops. They were a total fail! haha They were ugly and way too sweet (I used funfetti cake mix plus a whole can of frosting). This time around I followed Bakerella’s directions. The cakes, still super sweet, were much better than the first time. They taste like having a super moist and condensed cupcake.  Also decorating them went much better this time around. I was able to get the chocolate semi-smooth.

Here they are 🙂 

Water Leak in the Playhouse

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After the heavy rains Adrian and I noticed that there was water in the playhouse. This is currently our storage unit. Since this week was my spring break from my master’s program I decided to move our possessions from cardboard boxes into plastic tubs. Once my mom and I started removing  boxes we noticed that the floor was not right. At one point we stepped down only to create a large hole in the floor. This is when we realized that something was really wrong. After all of the boxes were out of the playhouse we realized that there was a lot of mold around the baseboards. My dad and Adrian had to gut the floor to clean and fix it.

The one nice thing about this is I went through all of our boxes and purged quite a bit. I managed to get all of our storage possessions down to about 12 bins.

Once the floor is repaired my mom and I plan to organize the bins so that the girls can actually play in the house. They’ve been in heaven playing in there this week.

Here are some pictures of our progress 🙂

Day 1 Girls playing Day 2 The yard is clean goodbye boxes bins

Homemade Play Dough

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Rainy days are the best to work on crafty projects. Today I decided Jillian was ready to play with some play dough.  A friend of mine gave me this recipe and it works fantastic! Most play dough recipes are really grainy and do not feel like real play dough. This one however comes out almost like the real thing!

Homemade Play Dough

2 cup flour
1 cup salt
2 teaspoons cream of tartar
mix dry ingredients together

2 cups water
2 tablespoons oil
food coloring (typically whole bottle full if it’s the small ones from the store)
mix wet ingredients together in separate bowl

Mix all ingredients into one bowl.

Cook over medium heat until dough looks like mashed potatoes.

Knead until cool. Play and enjoy!

Store in airtight container

It get's thick like mashed potatoes

 

 

Making Sushi

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On of the items on my 30 before Thirty is to try my hand at making my own sushi. When groupon had a coupon for a sushi making class I just couldn’t resist! Adrian and I had an amazing time! The other people who were registered for the class never showed up so Adrian and I had a private lesson with the chef! We made 1 hand roll, 1 cut roll, and 5 pieces of sushi. If you live near us and are interested here is the website http://www.rollingsushiworkshops.com/ . The Chef was talking about adding some advanced courses. Adrian and I are considering it since we had so much fun with the class.

Sarah's Sushi

 

Adrian's Sushi

 

 

 

 

 

Thank You Natalia

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Our good friend Natalia is taking a screen printing class. She chose to do a Andy Warhol inspired print using a picture of the girls. Here is the end result, they are so fun!!

Discovery Science Center

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The Discovery Science Center currently has a Sesame Street exhibit. Jillian and Olivia had fun exploring the different activities. They loved dancing with Grover and playing in Hooper’s Store.

After exploring the Sesame Street exhibit we played with the main exhibits. The girls really enjoyed the toddler area because there were blocks and a slide, go figure haha.

 

The Discovery Science Center currently has a Sesame Street exhibit. Jillian and Olivia had fun exploring the different activities. They loved dancing with Grover and playing in Hooper’s Store.

After exploring the Sesame Street exhibit we played with the main exhibits. The girls really enjoyed the toddler area because there were blocks and a slide, go figure haha.

 

Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

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This year was a pretty uneventful St. Patrick’s Day. I worked in the morning and then did homework when I got home. I did get to play with the girls for a little, here are some hipster pictures from my phone haha. My camera is missing and I’m concerned it may have been stolen. 🙁 We can’t seem to find it anywhere!!! Have you seen it? Found it!

I’m opening it up

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So up until now I’ve made my posts comment free. I think that with my new design(Adrian recently finished)  I’m going to open up my comments to everyone. Since this is a personal blog I will be monitoring the first posts (I hate spam). This is why your comment may not show up immediately. This should be fun, not everyone is on Facebook so this is a way for other’s to comment on things going on in the Barnes’ household. Ahh the world of blogging has sucked me in. I have so many subscriptions in my Google Reader it’s ridiculous. Thank goodness for my Evo and a Reader app. I get to fuel my addiction on the go!