little chefs

On the Friday before last I hit a wall.  It was the last Friday of Christmas Break and apparently the exhaustion of the past weeks had finally caught up with me.  By 3 o'clock that afternoon I looked like a zombie.  Well for those of you who actually watch walking dead, I didn't look or act that freaky, but I was struggling big time.

We were planning on going to our friends concert in Decatur that night and I was pretty sure I wasn't going to make it through the ride there without crashing so my dear husband, told me to go take a nap and get ready for the evening while he and my little chefs took care of dinner.  They made chili and it was delicious.  It tasted even better because I got to eat it showered and rested :)

I had no clue Zach took pictures with my phone until I was going through them all today to delete some.  It was just too sweet and cute not to share.

homemade pizza

They were delish and both boys have asked when we can do it again :)

'homemade' doughnuts

Warning:  The food I'm about to show you has absolutely ZERO nutritional value.  However,  they are super fun to make with you boys and taste pretty darn good.  I mean they taste good if you like fried dough with sugar but seriously who doesn't!?

A girl/woman from a blog I follow shared that she makes doughnuts with her kids a lot.  I thought oh cool I wonder how you make doughnut dough?  Yeah, it's only a thing of biscuits.  SUPER EASY!  We flattened are biscuits with our hands and then punched holes in the middle with bottle tops.  Then fried them up and shook them in a bag with cinnamon and sugar.

The boys LOVED the whole experience and even put making them again on their summer fun list.  Bella and William will be at our house today so we're going to make them again.  This time we're going to do a few in powdered sugar to see which we like better :)

flatten

hole punching

fry em' up

shake it shake shake

smile pretty with the finished product

and devour

sugar hair

sugar lips

christmas cookies

Micah and I have made Christmas cut outs the last 3 years, which we will continue to do until forever, but this year Connor got to help. By help, I mean eat all the dough he could fit in his mouth while occasionally plopping a cookie cutter anywhere on the table.