OPAH!!!!

For over a year, I have been pestering my friend Jennifer for her recipe for Halva, or "Greek pastry".  She finally gave it to me a couple of weeks ago.  Today I made it for the first time, unsupervised all by myself.  I was thrilled when it came out just the way it was supposed to.  It is has a rich creamy yummy flavor and is addictive!  So here we go...

You'll need:

1c sugar                            1 1/2 sticks butter

2c hot water                      1c cream of wheat

On one burner mix one cup of sugar with 2 cups of hot water, bringing to a boil.  Simmer until ready to use.

Then, Melt butter in large pot, then add cream of wheat.  Stir over medium heat; making sure it doesn't burn.  Stir in syrup.  When pleasant aroma is emitted, and it starts to thicken, pour into a form and wait until cool to serve!*

When it has cooled a bit and is set, turn out of form and sprinkle with some cinnamon.  Then ENJOY!!!

sorry, all my pretty serving dishes are in storage, so you get a sheet pan :)

*now, if you don't have a form of some kind, use what you have.  an 8X8 pan, cupcake pan, even just a ceramic bowl.  However, if you are looking for one, Target has some way cute ones in different sizes and designs.  That is where I got mine.

Saying goodbye (for now)

Recently Grandma and Grandpa Pressgrove decided to move.  While they were in Utah this summer, they up and bought a house.  Here is a photo of the boys with their grnadparents a couple of days before they moved to Utah. 

Dressing the part.

Some of our best activites are watching Ethan play at dress up.  This is something he has started doing the last 8-10mos or so.  Here are some of his creative outfits I have been able to capture

Day at the Zoo.

One morning I went outside and it was kinda cool. I thought it would be a great morning to go to the Zoo.  So I loaded up the boys and we got there just as it was opening.  By the time we got there the cool breeze that I had felt less than two hours prior was all but gone and the temperature had soared and it was HOT!  Needless today we did not last too long, but here is some of the fun we had.  As you can tell from the pictures, one of our favorite things when going to the Zoo is refilling our bucket of popcorn and drink cups.   I just noticed my Zoo pass expired today, so sad.

More Summer Fun

While downloading some pictures I came across a few more pictures of some the fun that went on while we were in Utah.

Gracie got her wisdon teeth pulled.  This is her fresh from the Dr. Jared's, still a little happy from the drugs:

Fred got a pedicure from the Gregson girls:

Pressgrove cousins:

McKay Seth Sutton Blayne Ethan

The triplets.  Seth and Sutton were born on the same day as Blayne

approx 20hrs appart and 2500 miles away