Trey's Profile

Trey is eight years-old and just finished the third grade. He loves monkeys and has quite a collection of stuffed animal monkeys. Trey loves anything to do with science. Lots of times you will find him experimenting with things like baking soda and vinegar. He also enjoys another type of science, cooking! Trey likes to not only follow recipes but creating his own. One recipe he created is chocolate chip banana cookies, which he brought to a Sunday school activity.

Trey is faithful to reading the Bible, even at this young age. He is also very knowledgeable when it come to creation and can tell you when someone is undermining the Word of God.

Driver's ED

This week and next Tyler and I are taking driver's ED. The teacher, Mr. Williams, goes to our church and is very nice. We have both finished a couple of tests and so far everything is going well.

I have had my learner's permit for about a year now and hope to have my licence by the end of the summer. Tyler can get his learner's permit in the middle of August.

I don't have quite enough money for a car yet but I'm getting there. I'd like to get one maybe by the end of next year.



Here are a few trivia questions you may have learned in driver's ED but forgotten about:



How many miles over the speed limit is considered reckless driving?



Can you ever turn left on red?



How close can you park to an operating emergency vehicle?



Do you have to immediately stop for an unmarked police car?





1.) 20 mph 2.) yes, if you are turning off of a one way street 3.) 500 feet 4.)No, for unmarked cars you may dial 77 on your cell phone to confirm that the unmarked car in actually a police car or pull into a safe place with people around, before responding.

Cinnamon Rolls Recipe

Well, here is the recipe for the cinnamon rolls, just liked I promised.

Ingredients:
1 package dry yest

4 1/2 cups white flour

1 cup lukewarm milk

3/4 cup granulated sugar

1 teaspoon salt

1 tablespoon cinnamon

2 eggs

2 tablespoons butter

1/2 cup raisins

Milk

3/4 cup powdered sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla

Directions:
Stir the yeast into 1/4 cup warm water and let stand for 5 minutes to dissolve. Add the dissolved yeast and 3 cups of the flour to the milk and blend well. Cover and let rise in a warm place until light. Add the granulated sugar
, salt, cinnamon, eggs, butter, and 3/4 cup of the flour and blend. Turn out onto lightly floured board and knead gently, slowly adding the remaining 3/4 cup flour until the dough can be easily handled. Knead in the raisins. Pull off pieces of dough the size of medium lemons, roll each about 8 inches long, and wind it into a coil. Arrange on two buttered 9-inch cake pans, cover, let rise until double in bulk, then brush tops with milk. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F(190 C). Bake rolls for 25 minutes. Mix the confectioners' sugar and vanilla with 4 teaspoons warm water to make a glaze, and spread a thin layer on rolls immediately after removing from the oven.

*Note: if you like you cinnamon rolls on the doughy side you may want to use less flour.

Yesterday Mommy and Trent spend the afternoon making cinnamon rolls. It looked like they had a fun time and the cinnamon rolls tasted great! Everyone liked them!

The Last of Our Branson Vacation

One of the last things we did on our Branson vacation was go horse riding. This was Amber's favorite thing about the trip, I think. She has, had a fascination with horses for quite a while but this was her first time to really get to ride one. A guide took us all on a 45 min. horse ride on a nice trail. We were able to see some pretty flowers and some great views of the mountains. I think Amber thoroughly enjoyed herself and everyone else had a good time too.

Well, that about sums up our vacation. We had a great trip! Thank you to all the faithful followers of "Whatever is True". I won't bore you with any more vacation pictures :)

The Antistas

Mr. & Mrs. Antista

One night while we were in Branson we had the chance to meet some of Daddy's friends that lived in the aria. Their names were Mr. and Mrs. Jim and Phyllis Antista. We had a great time with them! We all went out to dinner at a restaurant called McFarland's. I've never seen a restaurant like it before. Out side there were all kinds of stores you cold buy souvenirs from and inside they had great food with a fun atmosphere. Some of the tables they had were trick tables that slowly got higher as you ate. It was funny to see people eating and the next thing they knew the table was up to their chins!

After we ate dinner the Antista's came to our time share for coffee. We were able to show them our instruments and give them a mini "concert". After that we got to hear Daddy and the Mr. Antista tell funny stories about going to the church together, years ago.

Silver Dollar City

Well, we arived home late Monday nigh, from our trip to Branson. Things have been kind of crazy so I'll try to catch you up over the next few days about all that we did there.

On Friday and Saturday we visited Silver dollar City. Silver Dollar City is an old west theme park. The park has many rides but it also has lots of shows that you can go see. That was great for me because I am not a roller coaster person. Daddy, Mommy, Amber and Trent rode a huge roller coaster. Trey was able to ride his first roller coaster as well and he loved it!
The park had great food! We happened to go at Bar B-Q and Blue Grass month. I loved the special sauces they used on the meat and almost everyone in our family rated the restaurant at a 10!
We really had fun listening to the music too. They brought in about 15 groups that played blue grass and southern Gospel music. I think the other kids enjoyed seeing other people play the same instruments as they do.
We would recommend Silver Dollar City to both young and old. They have something for everyone!