S'mores... well sort of.

Today Leah, Jase, Morgs and I embarked into unknown territory... the making of a foreign delicacy.
I can't remember why... I think it was mostly because I have a fireplace..but we decided today was the day to make s'mores.


With the advice from Mindy & this helpful educational video... 
 

How To Make S’Mores on Howcast







 We were ready! 
Well... sort of. The thing is we don't have graham crackers or Hershey's chocolate in this part of the world. so we had to improvise a little...
Cadbury Dairy Milk & Digestives.

And a super cute purple fire place.

  So here is our photographic essay of our s'mores making. Keep your eye out for a small cookie monster who keeps swiping the biscuits. 

Cute Morgan & I

 Leah got the biscuits ready...

 Then applied the chocolate.

 We sat them on this handy table.

 While Jason skewered the marshmallows.

 And cooked them on the super fire he built.

 Morgan stole the biscuits we had set out.

 Leah toasted some too...

 ...while holding her leg like this hahaha (this is an important step in the process)

 Then we delicately placed the marshmallow on the biscuits & smooshed.

Morgan swiped a biscuit.

 Ta da!

 Morgan swiped a biscuit.

 

 Morgan tried to swipe my biscuit.

 mmm... only one problem. the chocolate didn't go all melty like it was supposed to...

 so we tried this...

 still not melty... so we tried this...(there is fire under the shovel)

 success!

 Hmm still not quite melty enough...

oh morgan you are fun!

 maybe if I cook it a bit like this it will melt a bit more? um nope, it just adds some shovel dust flavour.

 Jase and Leah having a romantic moment on the couch thinking about the fun s'mores time we had had.

 And cute Morgan.

The End.

Painting Bellies.

I think one of my favourite things to do is paint my pregnant friends. Just thought I would show you the masterpieces I've done so far (ok so I'm not a pro at it... but it is fun :))


The Milkshake Baby - um earlier this year (maybe January?)

Beautiful Cass!

 Lovely Leah...my first belly painting victim... mwahahaha. Last March or April.

 That's Leah, Mel & I in the basket :)

 Gorgeous Karen & her Herbie belly (we called her baby Herbie when we found out his name was going to start with H). Last June.

 Little Herbie up close! Do you like the cheer squad welcoming him to the world? I'm in pink on the right.

 The belly I painted this morning. It's a butterfly to go with her butterfly themed room and she's eating ice-cream because my friend and her husband own ice-creameries.

 Little Mel and her butterfly belly! Only 2 weeks(ish) till we meet her cute baby girl! oooh I can't wait!

Stay tuned... only a few more weeks till Ann-Marie's belly is ready for painting :)

CAAAAAAAAAAAAANADA!

eeeeeeek! I just booked my tickets to Vancouver via Auckland & LA!
I am going to live and work in Canada for a whole year!

Ok, so the original plan was to do a Teacher Exchange. but that fell through. So now I am going to Nanny for a year. well hopefully. I don't actually have a family yet... but that's the plan. I do have plane tickets though! eeeek!

Do you know what this means! WHITE CHRISTMAS! My first one ever! Woooohoooooo! I think I will probably even make it two White Christmases. I have a lot of non-white Christmases to make up for!

Things I want to see:
The Aurora Borealis (how amazing is it!)
The Celebration of Light (a fireworks competition!)
Whistler (snow snow snow snow snow!)
Banff (such a cool word) National Park
Lake Louise
Niagara Falls
Quebec
The Fundys
West Edmonton Mall
The Rocky Mountains
Maybe a glacier...
A bear, some whales, a squirrel (does Canada have squirrels?), a polar bear (hmm apparently this is a little expensive), a moose. Canada has those animals that we grew up with in storybooks... they don't actually exist in our real world of Australia, ok so they do in zoos. They seem almost fictional. (I guess to other people our crazy animals might seem fictional haha).

What else do I need to add to my list?

Arrrgh! So excited but also nervous! I am not brave. There are so many things to think about...

Anyway, to celebrate the excitement of booking my tickets I am off to get 4 fillings at the dentist! hmm.