Showing posts with label chocolate. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chocolate. Show all posts

Monday, December 12, 2016

No More Chocolate

I did my exercises early this morning.  Leg day.  After the kids went to school I went to Becky's for a Christmas yoga party.  I had never done yoga before if you don't count Wii Fit.  Oh boy were my legs hurting the rest of the day.  I'm not sure if it was from yoga or from leg day.

Preston came home from scouts with the cutest creation.  He was so proud of it. 
Maysen called me on the way back from diving.  I was driving, so Stockton had her on speaker.  She is now finished with her chocolate class.  Hooray!  She did okay on her final, but not as well as she hoped. This was a seriously hard class.  For example, this is a question from one of Maysen's quizzes.  She was annoyed because the teacher told them they only had to know oleic acid.  This was the question that came up.
Maysen studied hard for her final.  She had easily over one hundred slides with things like this she had to memorize.  That's nuts.
Maysen survived this class with a B-.  She was .23% away from a B.  I was a bit nervous that this might take away her scholarship.  She needs to keep a 3.5.  She is confident that she will get As in both of her psychology classes and she already got an A in her connections class. Her horticulture class is iffy.  I'm hoping she is able to pull a B+ in that class.  Maysen ended up being emailed by her chocolate teacher later. She said that because Maysen was consistently in class she was raising her grade to a B.  In this class we'll take it!  Maysen has been frustrated because this was supposed to be an easy class if you go by 'rate my professors'.  They said that all the quizzes were open notes and you can take the quizzes more than once.  Also, her deadlines were flexible. This semester was a total personality flip.  Nothing was open notes.  If you were ten seconds late you couldn't submit anything.  Anyways, Maysen is thrilled to wave goodbye to this class.  So glad she escaped it with a B!  This will cover her chemistry or physics requirement.  I bet those classes would have been easier!

Friday, November 23, 2012

Chocolate Factory Take 2

Mike's sister, Lisa, was incredibly awesome today.  She got up early and made the centers for the chocolates.  Then she spent four hours with us teaching the kids how to make them.  They loved it!  Especially Lincoln! Jorja was very happy about this as well.  The first thing Lisa had us do is stir the centers.  Everyone got a turn.  She had two different batches. One we made into orange and the other into mint.
Ella, Lincoln and Jorja stirring
 Lincoln and Jorja
 Lincoln
 Jorja
 Ella, Lincoln
 Ella
 Jorja - the marshmallow has now been added
 Preston
 Lincoln, Melissa, Stockton
 Maysen
 Preston
 Stockton
Next we had to roll the centers into a big long snake, cut them and then roll them into balls.
Lincoln, Stockton, Jorja
 Ella
 Once the centers were rolled, the kids got to put bums on them
Lincoln, Jorja
 Ella
 Stockton, Preston, Melissa, Ella
 I love this picture of Melissa with her pregnant belly!
Melissa, (Jorja), Preston, Ella
 Preston, Ella, Lincoln
 Jorja, Preston, Ella, Lincoln
 Lisa and Melissa were AMAZING with these kids!!!
Lincoln, Lisa, Melissa, Ella, Preston, Jorja
 Jorja
 Preston
Now the fun part!  Time to dip the chocolates!  I never guessed this is how it was done.  It was fun to have all that chocolate in my hand. Most of the kids liked it.  Stockton does not like to get his hands messy. He didn't enjoy the sensation . . . even with dark chocolate.  Too bad I didn't get a picture of him.  My hands were covered in chocolate!
Melissa and Lisa  
 Lisa and Lincoln
While waiting for their turn, the kids jumped on the trampoline.  When they came in we had them wash their hands and then we went over their clothes with a lint roller.
Stockton doing a backflip
 Lincoln
 Lisa and Lincoln
 Lincoln
 Lisa and Maysen
 Preston
 Preston and Lisa
 Preston licked the chocolate off his entire hand.
 Taylor
 Jorja
 Taylor
 Stephanie
 So much harder than it looks!
This activity was so much fun!  Plus we got to take home so many chocolates!  They were delicious!  Thank you Lisa for spending one of your precious days off with us!  We felt very important and loved. Thank you!  Thank you!  Thank you!