Peanut butter honey play dough

I found this great recipe for peanut butter honey play dough! Here is what you need...

1cup smooth peanut butter
3cups powdered sugar
1\3 cup honey
1 1\2 tsp vanilla extract
Food coloring, optional

Combine all ingredients in a large bowl; mix thoroughly until "dough" begins to come together. Do not over mix. If you like add a few drops of food coloring to the dough and mix. Store dough in an airtight container at room temperature for up to one week. I do not recommend this dough for kids under the age of two. Enjoy creating with your little ones or for yourself.

Here is a recipe for homemade peanut butter also....

HOMEMADE PEANUT BUTTER

Use  3 or 4 cups of roasted, unsalted peanuts (we buy ours in the bulk food section).  Put the peanuts in a food processor (unfortunately, this is the one essential gadget to making your own nut butter.  I don't think anything else would have the power to make the nuts into butter).  I usually fill ours with peanuts until it is level with the top of the blade attachment.   Add a couple of pinches of salt.  Turn the food processor on and process until the peanuts are ground into little bits.   Next, while the processor is still going, open up the chute on the top processor and start streaming a little bit of cooking oil (we use canola) into the mix.  Stream the oil in slowly until you reach the desired consistency of your peanut butter.  I've never measured, but I would guess I use just a tablespoon or two of oil total.  Put it in a container with a lid and store it in the refrigerator.

Just want to share a precious moment. Tonight I was finishing up my curriculum for my class this week and Krystopher was playing with Fin. Krystopher decided to play guitar to Fin, which is one of her favorite things because she loves to strum the cords while daddy plays. Well Krystopher started playing and singing and then Fin started to sing too. It was so cute. He stopped playing to see if she would sing without the guitar, but she wouldn't so he started back up on the guitar and she started singing again. She was actually in tune, maybe we have a little musician. I am so thankful for moments like that and for such a wonderful husband and daughter.

i am posting

hey everyone,

this is krystopher and my wife has requested that i blog so i am writing this to appease her, i mean appeasement worked so well for chamberlain, why not me? so sweetie, i have blogged about how you want me to blog. does that count?

The Birth Announcements

So I made Fin's birth announcements a while ago, I just have not been able to order them to be printed yet. I am hoping to send them out in the next month, I know that is pretty bad since she is going to be 4 months old soon, but I figure it is better late than never right? Well, this is what the front of the announcement will look like, the back you will get to see when I mail them to you. Enjoy!

So it has been a while since we posted anything, man we are really bad at keeping up with this site. Hopefully, we will get better, I think I keep saying that every time I am writing on here. Anyway, big news for Finney, on the day she turned 3 months old is also the day she just up and decided to start rolling over. This video is the day after she turned 3 months, I think. She knew I was trying to film her so she doesn't roll completely over in the video. Sorry for the quality of the video, I shot it on my phone.

This is something Krystopher wrote the other day about Finegan...

i miss the sun, newbie

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June 6, 2009 at 1:18am

so in the past week, i have been paid two of the best compliments that i think i have ever been paid. Both of them were from co-workers and good friends and i don't think they realize what an impact their words have had, or how much it meant to me that they said it. The first guy said, "you make me feel like i have peace and that i need to know God" and the second guy said, "how do you always have a smile on your face, i mean you are always happy." For those of you that have been around me long enough to know me well, its easy to see why this is amazing for me. there are two things in this christian life that have evaded me or i have lacked and those are peace and joy. I have often wondered how anyone could say that i was a christian since i had such a poor attitude and thank god eli stewart has kicked my butt repeatedly about it. I have been contemplating the reason for the comments and i think it is two fold. First, i have friends that care more about my future and character than they care about my feelings. I would be toast without them and their constant pressure on me to change. I would be of no use to my savior if it weren't for these brothers. And second, i have a daughter. I cannot look at her without having hope for the future. I knew a guy that when describing parenting, used the phrase "full of sin" in reference to his kid, and that broke my heart. When i look at Finegan, i see a bundle of unbridled potential and possibility and in essence, that is what the cross does for mankind. It gave us new potential and possibilities. Before, we were stuck in sin's fatalistic grip. We were dead and on our way to the grave, but in steps the resurrection and all things were made new. Again, we have the freedom to really become something in Christ. hope. Also, my little girl has taught me about my relationship with my father. right now, parenting has got to be the easiest thing in the world. When she cries, i hold her and all her world is fine. No matter what is going on, she just needs to feel my arms around her and that is enough for her to have peace. I wish that i were there with Jesus. What if just having his arms around us were enough and that were all we needed? I am not there yet, but i pray that i am on my way. If anything those two little comments is the Lord encouraging me and telling me that i am at the least making progress. thank you jesus. 

scroggins

Finegan had her 2 week check up and the doctor said she is doing great! she is now weighing 7lbs 4oz

Fin is trying to figure out what mommy is doing

Finegan at 2 weeks old!

Aunt Kelly and Finney, this is right before she started to get fussy with Kelly

Daddy and Finney

1 week old