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ngantuk nyer...well tak lah ngantuk but mata cam layu sikit pagi nih :) ingatkan nak hantar sarina gi sekolah...sebab it is snowing pretty hard..masih gelap kat luar..we are all bundled up, but sean tepon kata he will come and pick up sarina...ahhhh..best. baik sean ni eh..hehe. dia tak nak kasi susah2 kat i dengan sarah. sarah bila dengar bapak dia nak amik kakak dia gi sekolah..wah dia pun happy sekali. very homebody lah sisarah ni..but time nak gi sekolah..wahhh..tak menyempat2..

taken just now...the snow flakes very big ones...then now..i think the weather is warming up a bit..so it is macam snow rain but not quite...which makes for bad roads...

mmmm..edamame..my fav..

ni lah edamame..i am sure all of you know what it is kan. ni semangat nak kurus kan badan lah so kena eat healthier..but bak kata kak za..nak makan healthier tapi buat cupcakes...hahahahha. i buat the cupcakes because of my love for baking and experimenting with food lah. i sebenarnyer tak suka makan kek2 ni seme..cuma tapak kuda jer i suka..itu pun i dah muak dah dengan kek tu...hahahaha. so with this edamame aside from eating macam makan kacang kuda rebus gitu, i also made it into a dip with garlic and olive oil..sedap tau..lemak..but niari i nak try taruk tomatoes and chillies and cilantro...nak try buat macam guacamole...i bet it will taste good also :)

as were driving out of the area..aleh2 jer sean slowed down..sib baik i leh keluarkan camera cepat2...saw this fawn kat tepi..dia tunggu kiter sampai dekat then dia pun cabut..very graceful dia lompat pagar..kalau i lah kena lompat itu pagar..dengan pagar2 sekali roboh i rempuh...hahahahha

last saturday, we went up to hays and then went to cedar bluffs lake...eh maybe not cedar bluff, ..alah..i pun dah lupa nama tempat tu but ada bluff kat belakang dia. ..ni kira nak pergi exercise kan..he said let's hike at this place. . mmg pernah pergi hike kat sini sekali..very desolate macam kat desert dalam citer koboi gitu..the vegetation lah..so anyway, i mmg takder mood nak gi jauh2 kan..but tak kisahlah....by this time, all the snow is melting..so roads can be quite wet and any gravel road would be muddy...that was what happened at this place. dia punyer boring kan..wahhh...tak sanggup i...i pun apa lagi..duduk kat sebelah..makan kuaci..hehe. the girls kat belakang dah start their giggling sessions...dah kena marah..lahhh...cakap tak boleh..ketawa tak boleh..agaknyer the girls kena jadi patung kat belakang baru okay eh..hahhaa...but ni bukan sean ajer lah..sometimes i also like that. sebab kan their noise level makin tinggi makin tinggi gitu..so keluar lah tarzan betina kat dalam kereta...hahahahahahha...so what happened that day...exercise ker mana apa ke mana...kite duduk kat dalam kereta gi balik..haiiii...so moral of the story jangan pergi exercise...hahahahahahhaha..* ni ketawa kat joke sendiri lah*...heheheh

best gitu nengok mr. b tido kat atas katil...sungguh nyenyak sekali...

sunday pulak..kiter cuma pergi salina grocery shopping. sean beli this walkie talkie set..dia cakap kalau gi hiking , jalan kat depan..i can just contact him, bila i dah nak turn back. maklun lah..makcik slow poke i ni kan..mmg lah lembab..nak nak time dia takder mood nak jalan..memacam excuse dia kasi..but kalau time snow2 gini..most times she just wanted to play in it ..jalan sikit lepak..jalan sikit lepak..but kalau weather bagus kan..she is okay jugak lah. semalam sarina said to me that she has to go to school today...and i said she better..semalam dah tak gi sekolah dah...also dapat her report card..report card dia..tak macam buku report card kat singapore..it is a piece of printed paper with her grades to ajer..hehe. alhamdullillah..she got good grades..cuma 2 Bs jer for aper tau..handwriting and keyboarding..apa tu keyboarding..i pun tak tau..but she told me that the school music period kasi diorang keyboard lessons..bagus lah. i have also signed up for her to have piano lessons every wednesday afternoon. conducted by the asst. music teacher..$10 per lesson..about half hour each..boleh lah.

italian cream cupcakes with toasted coconut and hazelnuts topped with cream cheese frosting

anyway, after sarina tanyer her question..my slow poke cakap..that we ( she and I ) needed to go to the exercise class down town. i asked apa pulak exercise class...she said the one that i have been talking about with daddy..oh my yoga classes...(ni class pun i belum sign up ..tengah pikir when i am doing it and what kind of classes it will be. kalau advance nyer..no lah..i ni masih beginner..hahaha...also it is held in the evening, so sean said he can look after the girls ) anyway, i asked her why does she need to to go the exercise classes..she said, because she doesn't want to get fat....lerrrrrr.....ni musti si kakak nyer influence ni tau...si kakak dah lah...satu hari tu..was running around the hosue..i said stop it lah..memeningkan kepala i jer..she said cannot..she has to exercise to get rid of the fats in her body..alamak...i told her to stop it and go somewhere else to exercise. i also said to her that she needed to stop calling sarah fat..to which she replied that sarah called her fat first...aisehhhh...

the girls helping decided that they wanted to frost their own cake. like me they like to do it jer..but makan not so..unless if it is the red velvets..that is their favourite

anyway, semalam i buat two desserts...macam mana lah sean nak kurus macam ni eh..but i cuma complete only one jer..i made these italian cream cupcakes..apa yang membuat nyer ke-italian-an pun i am not sure...but i figured that it was the hazelnuts and the hazelnut syrup used that made it more italian. the cake has toasted sweetened coconuts in it plus chopped toasted hazelnuts too. kalau makan after it is just freshly baked without frosting, emmmm..it tasted so so lah..but after taruk frosting topped with more crunchy toasted coconut..wahhhh..sedap jugak lah. sean ate like i dunno how many..he finished the ones where the girls tak habis makan...i had half of it..and well..one that sarah didn't finish in the afternoon.

posing habis sehhh...you know what happened after this shot...i heard sarah terpekik..then sarina adalah cakap something...i went to investigate.ruper2nyer si kakak dah taruk itu coconut kat atas her cake..she pulak tak suka the coconut...lahh..dah memekak..apa lagi sarina kena marah lah..dunno why she buat stuff like that..sajer nak menyakitkan hati adik dia...adik ni pun dua kali lima jugak lah..hehehehe

i think niari i nak freeze those cupcakes for later use...and i nak complete this other one..fresh berries nyer tart and tartlets..so we'll see. yang leceh nyer nak blind bake the pastry tu ajer..i dah buat dah the pastry cream..so nengok lah eh kalau rajin..i also have to finish the paper work for the accountant..ingat niari die die must do lah. we have a meeting with the trsutee next week, but how can go sebab it is like 2 hours away and the meeting is at 9.00 am...mana nak letak bebudak..so bilang kat sean..if we have to we just drag sarah along lah..hopefully attorney can wiggle us out of this..tak tau lah apa yang dia nak lagi...

my retro kitchen..this house was built in the 40s or 60s gitulah..look at the funky carpet...tak sabao nak take it out and put in hardwood flooring...and look at my berkecah nyer kitchen after my cooking session...hehehhehe