What a great day…

Jul 3, 2009

Yes­ter­day my niece Amanda arrived. I picked her up from the air­port at 10 a.m and we did not stop until 10 p.m. She will be going to col­lege in the fall so the  first stop was IKEA… lots of great fun there. Then she wanted to hit Mar­shalls as this girl can never have too many shoes. Then we ate lunch and headed over to Tar­get. Once we fin­ished there we came home and made this.… well it was more like Amanda not me… I just grabbed stuff for her to use. I think she cre­ated the cutest doll. Now to find a lit­tle glass plate for her to sit on. I have been want­ing to make one of these dolls since I saw them online here… actu­ally, I still want to make one since I just sat and watched Amanda make hers…

After this, Alan cooked out on the grill and we hit the Mall… 2 hours later we were home. Amanda and Alan then made fried Oreos and bananas. Not only is Amanda crafty she is also a great cook and a prob­lem solver as you will see below. If you want to try fry­ing Oreos and bananas all you do is dip them in pre­pared pan­cake mix, drop them in a deep fryer then once they start float­ing take them out and sprin­kle pow­dered sugar on top… so yummy. And since I could not find my sifter for the pow­dered sugar (here is her prob­lem solv­ing moment) Amanda sug­gested I use my tea infuser! I would have never thought to use this… never, never, never!!!

FYI… this thing worked like a charm.

Today she is headed to Fort Worth to stay with Terri. Looks like it will be another grand day for everone.