Chicken Enchiladas and Pancakes

Last night we had homemade chicken enchiladas for dinner! Yum! Lauren also spent the night and Jake and Ashley came over and ate dinner with us. And afterwards, we all played spoons the card game.

 

The chicken got shredded

                                            

Lauren and Kaitlin and I making the enchiladas

Mom pouring the sauce and cheese...

All done! (they were good)

This morning mom made pancakes!

(They were good!)

Ingredients......

In the pan!

Muffins and Pottery

Muffin Making

Yesterday we had a B.R.I.G.H.T. Lights (for more info you can ask in the comments) meeting so mom made some banana muffins!

The ingredients

Mixin' it up

Stickin' 'em in the oven

Mom arranged them with the Chocolate- Chocolate chip muffins!

Today we had a field trip to a pottery class!! We used a wheel and everything!

Paying attention!

Forming our clay...

My hands and arms are covered in clay!

Kaitlin's finished product! See how messy her hands are?

Pottery is not clean!

We both did two!

Here's my second one! Can you see my jeans? They are soo messy!

Last night's dinner

There is a restaurant called Chipotle and they have GIANT burritos. So my dad asked if my mom would make these huge burritos! (they were really good!!)

The meat (chicken) cooking

The black beans

The pico de gallo

And the rice

Here is most of our ingredients, chicken, rice, corn,

 pico de gallo, beans, cheese, sour cream and the

Giant tortillas!

                                           

All put together!

Roll it all up and...It's huge!!

(moms burrito)

  

Me (trying) to eat my giant burrito

Dad eating his burrito

Kaitlin modeling her burrito

Last Nights Muffins To Today's Lunch

Last night my mom and Kaitlin made muffins.....Chocolate-Chocolate Chip Muffins, to be exact!

Three girls living in the house we got hungry for chocolate!

                       Chocolate-Chocolate Chip Muffins

  Makes 12 muffins.

1 1/2--2 cups all purpose flour (we used about 2 1/4 cups, because we mill our own flour)

1 cup sugar

1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder

2 teaspoons baking powder

1/4 teaspoon baking powder 

1/4 teaspoon salt

2 large eggs 

1 cup milk

2 sticks of butter melted

1/2 cup chocolate chips (we used mini)

Bake at 375F  for 18-20 minutes

ENJOY!!

 All of our ingredients! (you actually don't need oil, we got that out and took the picture and then realized the recipe didn't call for it!)

So moving on to the actual making of the muffins! 

                             

                     

Kaitlin and Mom pouring and measuring the ingredients

Mixing it up! Yum!

Here they are! All done and made!

Today's Lunch:

My mom spoils us and we made panini's with the sliced meat. And cut up some fruit.

Kaitlin and I helping make lunch

The making of the panini's!

Cooking......

The finished product. We added tomatoes and avocado's

Birthday Celebration!

Saturday, February 21st was my brothers 26th birthday!

So on Sunday we went and had lunch and the family all joined him for this celebration.

His fiance, Ashley made cupcakes, (they were good!) and we had a good time talking and enjoying one anothers company.

My brother, Jake and my niece Isabella Grace

My niece EmilyMae Ruth. She really wants those

cupcakes or the sprinkles!

Ashley, EmilyMae and my sister Jessica

My nephew, Liam James. He loves his food!

My other nephew Tristen, eating ice cream.

Pose for a picture!! Mom and dad

Liam and my brother-in-law Leith

Passing the time......

My niece Brieanna, Me and Kaitlin

Afterwards Brieanna and Isabella Grace came back home with us. Later Jake and Ashley came over so mom could help with the wedding program. We played cards, chess and just hung out.

Canning Chicken Broth And Slicing Meat

Today we canned chicken broth. Mom started it Thursday morning and we canned it today.

This is how it looked Thursday morning.

This is how it looked today. Saturday afternoon.

This is me (Skylar) scooping out the big pieces.

Mom ladling the broth.

Me and my sister Kaitlin helping.

Canning jars are in the oven to keep hot!

            

Mom putting the jars of broth into the pressure cooker.

       

Pints in pot ready to put the lid on!

Pints all done!

The quarts are done too!

Slicing meats

Mom and dad went to the store today and while grocery shopping, bought a whole slicing turkey and honey ham. They had to buy a plain turkey, as the others had mesquite and hickory flavor. (Kaitlin is allergic to mesquite and I am allergic to hickory.) Slicing some to eat and slicing some to freeze.

Dad slicing turkey for sandwiches.

All the turkey sliced.

Kaitlin writing labels.

Mom sealing the bags.

Slicing ham! Yum!

Me: Weighing and packaging. Dad: Slicing

All the turkey packaged

All the ham packaged