Cinnamon Rolls (Really Fast)

Cinnamon Roll Sunday

Taggart informed me that I needed help making cinnamon rolls on Sunday and here is what he taught me. First you measure all of your ingredients

Then you add them to make your doughThen you need to check your dough and see if it is ready.Then you clean up and get ready to roll out the dough.

After you have the dough rolled out you put on the toppings that you want.

Roll them up and cut them to size with some help from mom.Then you bake them.And eat them! Enjoy!

Ingredients:

3 1/2 Cups warm water

2 tsp. Salt

1 Cup oil 3 eggs

3/4 Cup Sugar

10 1/2 Cups Flour
6 Tbsp. Yeast

Mix the water, oil, sugar, and yeast together. Let raise for 15 minuets. Add the salt, eggs, and flour to the mixture. Roll out dough. Shape and let raise for 10 minuter. Bake for 12 minutes at 425 degrees.

From the kitchen of Ann Clements

First run outside

Let's face it I am a weeny when it comes to running in the cold. I hate it and my lungs do too. So when it warmed up to a balmy 40 degrees on Tuesday Jason and I went for a run outside. It was pretty fun. I think I run faster outside because it was cold enough that I wanted to warm up quick. That and Jason has a much longer stride then I do. We ran around the neighborhood behind our house. It was fun and after we were done Jason introduced me to www.mapmyrun.com which I have never used before. In all it was fun I just can't wait for warmer weather and more runs outside with my husband.

Spring Break

So I was asked today if I had anything fun planned for Spring break of if it was too far off. Little did he know what he was getting himself into. I said that I was going to Michigan with my husband to see my brother-in-law for the break which is true. I didn't mention that we were going to be looking for a house while we were there. Then I got more then I asked for. The man is a librarian who is from Mount Pleasant. He told me all about lake effect and how rural the northern part of the state is, how cold it gets, how many times he has been to Big Rapids and being a librarian he even printed me off directions to a ski resort that we could spend some time at. Needless to say it made me even more excited to go. It will be nice to know that we actually get to do something for our spring break this year instead of work and sit in our trailer.

The Rest of our lives

I call this one the walrus house because of the 2 pillars on the front. The house is in Michigan but is a little farther from the school. It is also a very tube shaped house because the owners kept building onto the back.

This is the smurf house. Jason loves this house. Online it has finished wood floors and is in the best shape of all of the other houses.

Here is another one, if you can see it behind the cars.

This one has a garage. That is a bonus. Especially in the winter.

I think I like this house because of the windows and aparently it sits on a little more land then the rest? It would need some work though.

As many of you know Jason has applied to Optometry school and been accepted to Michigan (Ferris State) and Tennessee (Southern College of Optometry) we are still waiting on what Ohio has decided. But because of this we have some big life decisions. Where do we want to spend the next 4 years of our life? How are we going to pay for it? Where are we going to live? Where will I get a job? Etc. So while Jason went and did his interviews he did some detective work and searched out some house and some libraries that I could maybe work at if I wanted to. Above are some pictures of houses in Michigan and Apartments in Tennessee. We are keeping our options open and will let you all know our final decision soon.

This summer with the Richens

So like I said I am behind on my posting so I am catching up on previous posts that I have missed. This summer Brian and Rachael Richens invited us to go tube the Bear River. It was one of the funest things that I have done in water and now that I think about it maybe not one of the safest. We went by Preston Idaho up in the mountains. The route was a couple of miles with some calm spots and some Rapids. Just having a tiny tube keeping you a float was a little nerve racking at times but I loved it! The Richens are such fun people to hang out with. Here are some shots after we were all done. Oh and they made us lunch after how could it have been any better then that!

Baby sitting with noodles.

I am sure that everyone thinks this about their own family but I have the most cute nephew in the world. He comes over to my house and we watch nick jr. together and eat noodles. On Saturday the camera was sitting on the couch and Taggart said "take a picture of me mimi" so I did. Here is Taggart hamming it up.

Spring Cleaning

We have started to slowly clean out our house every weekend because it is spring, and we don't have a very big house. We have gone through closets and bookshelves and donated to a lot to D.I. Last Saturday Jason decided to take this pictue of the magazines stacked on top of each other that I had been cleaning out because he thought they were the same magazine. Not quite. I'm sure Rachael Ray is glad her legs arn't that big.

Long Time and No Batteries

So it has been a long time since we have posted anything so I will up date a little at a time. Last week we had some friends over to play games. We played pictonary man which was really fun, but takes tripple A batteries. Jason sacrifices his calculator batteries for the game but we forgot to get them back. So on Sunday he had to do homework with no batteries. Not to worry, we Andrites are thinkers so this is what he rigged up. Don't worry the table didn't catch on fire and he got his homework done. All he needed was some tape, wire, and some double A batteries.