Homemade Corndogs :)

So every time I post a recipe it never seems to be a healthy one and this one isn't going to be any different. Brendan was craving corndogs today so he decided he would try and make his own and they turned out pretty good. We were using every basic ingredients which also makes this a nice recipe because you really don't need much in the way of ingredients. So here you go our version of homemade corndogs.

Ingredients:
4 Hotdogs
1 Cup Flour
1 Tbsp Sugar
1 Tsp Baking powder
1 Egg
Milk
1 1/2 Cup Oil


This recipe will make 4 corndogs
 


Directions:
1- In a large fry pan heat oil over med/high heat. We do the water test to check temp if you put 1 drop of water into oil and it rapidly bubbles the oil is hot enough. (if oil isn't hot enough dough will get soggy)
2- In a medium size bowl mix together flour, sugar, baking powder, and egg. If you have a stand mixer use it with your dough hook attachment
3- While dough mixes cook hotdogs either in the microwave or in water. You want to cook them till they are warm and no longer cold. (in microwave about 45 seconds)
4- once ingredients are mixed together slowly add milk. You want to add enough milk that dough forms without becoming sticky. Should make a nice ball.
5- Divide dough into 4 parts and roll out each section into a rectangle big enough to fit around the hotdog.
6- Once dough is rolled out wrap around hotdog and press together so dough completely covers hotdogs
7- Place corndogs in the heated oil and cook till golden brown. You will need to rotate them so as to cook all of the dough and cook all the way around.
8- Once Golden brown remove from oil and place on some paper towel (to absorb excess oil)
9- Let cool for about 5 minutes before serving
10- Serve with you choice of mustard or ketchup and enjoy!!!

Please let me know if you try this recipe and what you thought :D



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Soccer

We Love Soccer

During the winter months a local parent group puts together a soccer play date at our local indoor soccer field. We started going last winter and Kyler really enjoys it so we have been going almost every time they hold this event. It's at least once a month, if not more, and you grab a ball and go kick it around. There isn't an actual structure even but it's a full soccer field to run around on and get out of the house in the middle of winter. The event is for kids 0-5 years and it's perfect for these ages. We take Deagan with us and him and other babies will group together in one area of the field where the little ones can just sit and play on blankets while the older kids run around on the field. Kyler has enjoyed it so much I can't wait for him to turn three so that we can enroll him in Kick-and-Run which is little kid soccer. Both boys have a great time and Kyler looks forward to it every time.

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Look Back

I have been cleaning up space on my computer today and kept coming across pictures of Brendan and I and us with our boys for the last few years. I thought I would make a post with all the pictures so that they were all in one place and I could see how much life has changed in just a few short years. Let take a little trip down memory lane and I hope you enjoy as much as I do.

Brendan and I first met a year before we actually started dating. We were both working at a local auto parts store when we met. Our first interaction would be one to sure leave its mark.... We were hanging out in the back shipping area when Brendan decided he was going to be a bad @$$ and start wielding around a box knife as if it were a sword. I threw my hands up while asking him what he was doing and just as I was reaching my hand up Brendan cut my with the box cutter.  Completely by accident but he cut open my finger. Yup, isn't that romantic? Love at first blood :) Most girls would have probably run for the hills but I had a thing for him so I did flirt a little but Brendan was to shy to say that he liked me too. I quit working at Lordco and didn't really see much of him but kept him as a friend on Facebook. A year later we had both gotten out of relationships and started talking to each other about how stupid the opposite sex was. Well after venting to each other about how much the opposite sex had been driving us nuts we decided to hang out and after hanging out a couple time we started dating November of 2008.
This picture was taken on a camping trip our first summer together. We had only been dating for 10 months at this point and decided going camping with my sister and her girlfriend would be a good idea. We did have a lot of fun this trip but I also got burnt to a crisp which is why I look so tired in this picture.

A little over our one year anniversary we found out I was pregnant. This was one of the photos my friend took for me when I was 5 months pregnant.

Couple months later, at 39weeks, on June 13, 2010  Kyler Henry John was born and we started our happy little family.

Then we decided that we wanted to get married. We both knew we wanted to get married we just didn't know when. So, we decided that we wanted to do it while Kyler was still young so his memories would always be of his mommy and daddy together. These were some of our engagement photos. February 2011

 I graduated from university with my Bachelors of Education degree in June 2011.

We got married July 30, 2011

February 10, 2012 (6 months pregnant)

We knew after we were married we wanted to start expanding our family. Our very first cycle after we got married we got pregnant with Deagan. However we kept his gender a secret till the day he was born so we waited anxiously for his arrival.

These were some of my pregnancy photos which ended up being the day before Deagan was born.















Then on May 10, 2012 (37.5 weeks) our family of 3 became a family of 4 as Deagan James Levi joined our family.

We are enjoying every minute together and watching our boys grow. We have now been together for four years, married for one, have a 2 year old and a 8 month old, and we love every minute of it.

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New Snowfall, New Diapers

Last night we had a heavy snowfall warning in our area and got quite a bit of snow. We ended up getting about 6" of wet heavy snow which caused Kyler to be itching to go out and play in it as soon as he woke up. While Deagan and I played inside Brendan got Kyler all dressed to play outside while Brendan shoveled our walk and driveway. Kyler was soo excited to play in snow, he would get up on our front porch and jump off into the snow, grab some snow, and then run over and throw it at Brendan.

While Kyler and Brendan were outside, Deagan and I were inside playing. We just received some of our new diapers from Luv Earth Diapers so I decided to give Deagan some shirt and diaper time. Deagan was happy without pants while he sat deciding whether his mod of transportation would be butt scooting or crawling. He would sit playing with toys and then try and shuffle on his butt to move towards other toys, but then if a toy was really far away he would lunge forward into the crawling position and try the rock back and forth motion. We are all betting on which way will be Deagan's chosen mod of transportation. 

Today was just one of those relaxing days with family. It was so nice to just enjoy time with our boys considering how busy our schedule has been for the last month.  I'm looking forward to more of these days as our schedule has completely clear until about April (or so it stands right now)

Hope you all had a wonderful day with your family as well and we will see you pack here tomorrow. 

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Baby Fever?

Deagan is only 8 months old and I constantly am thinking about having another baby. I probably would too if Brendan were on board but he wants to wait a bit. Which I totally understand, but the baby fever is driving me crazy. Thankfully today I got to go visit my girlfriend and her little one who is 7 weeks old. It was so wonderful to sit there and snuggle in with a little baby, one that just falls asleep in your arms and wants nothing more the love and snuggles. Dayton, my girlfriends little one, is a rollie pollie little man with adorable round little cheeks, wrist rolls, and when sad gets the cutest pouty lip I have ever seen. He is 13+ lbs, which about what Deagan was at his age, but Deagan was a very loooong baby so never got the cute rolls. Dayton also has the cutest hair which is so long and a little on the crazy side. It is a little on the wavy side and likes to stand on end which make for some excellent hair-dos. While having our visit we came to realize Kyler is madly in love with babies. Now Kyler has been an excellent big brother to Deagan since the moment he came home but he really hasn't had much interaction with other babies. Anytime Dayton would cry today Kyler would walk over and gentle rub Dayton's head while saying "it's alright Dayton don't cry" and if Dayton got really upset he would say "uuuumm, Dayton is hunger he needs some boobie" (Anytime Deagan would start to get hungry I would ask him "are you hungry do you need some boobie") which hearing a 2 year old say that a baby needs boobie was hilarious. While this baby visit did curb my baby fix for a little bit I still wish we would be jumping on the baby bandwagon and trying for another. Am I crazy for wanting another one so soon? Probably :)

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Wish I May, Wish I Might, Wish the Wish of Date Night

Brendan and I got to go out for a movie date night for the first time since our anniversary in July. We were given a gift certificate to a local movie theater so we decided we would go see "The Hobbit" as it was the only movie at that theater that we both wanted to go see. After a day of very whinny boys who would cry at the slightest thing it was nice escape. However after about 15 minutes of the movie I realized it had been soo long since I had seen the "Lord of the Rings" series that I was a little lost. I had forgotten who some of the characters were and how they were connected. I still quite enjoyed the movie but it meant that when we got home I had to pull out the first "Lord of the Rings" and watch it so I was more up to date. Especially since the "The Hobbit" is not a one part movie, if it had been just one I probably wouldn't have bothered and would have just enjoyed the story line but seeing as how there will be more parts I wanted to be up to speed. Anyways Brendan and I enjoyed our night out, we are hoping to make the next date night not soo long from now.

PS on a side note if you didn't know Boromir in the Lord of the Rings is also Eddard Stark in Game of Thrones...totally didn't know this till I went back and watched the Lord of the Rings again :)

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Blog every day in 2013

Deagan 34 weeks

Kyler 2.5 years old

Okay so I have been on the fence as to weather or not I would blog ever day in 2013 and doing so I think has won. I am a few days late but I think this is a great goal to make for myself and one I'm pretty sure I can accomplish seeing as how I am usually on the computer at some point during the day already. With the boys growing so quickly it will also give me a chance to make notes as to where there at. For instance Deagan is almost crawling/butt scooting (not sure which one he's going to choose), he is saying mama and dada, sit without assistance, does a "happy dance" when he's excited, and has gone from 2 teeth to 6 teeth all in the course of 2 weeks. In this same period of time I have had 6 different people ask me how old Kyler was and when I told them two and a half their jaws hit the floor. Every one of them thought he was 4 or older which I really didn't see until I saw him interacting with his four year old cousin and he looked and acted the same way. Kyler has also decided for the last week that nap time is irrelevant. For the last week every time I have tried to put him down for a nap I get told "NO Momma, the sun is up so it's not sleep time" and if I ask him to just have a lay down he come out of his room 5 minutes later saying "Good morning Momma, I'm awake now." The boys are now starting to play together, Kyler brings out his cars and bring out a couple of Deagan's cars and ask him to play with him. Granted just sits and chews on his cars while Kyler plays but Kyler is eager to show Deagan how you "properly" play cars. I am enjoying watching my boys grow up but I wish it didn't happen soo fast.

Brotherly Love

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