Finally, a snow day!

We did not have one single snow day last year. We had not had a snow day this year. But a storm came through last night and school was canceled for the day. We were all so excited!

To start our day, the girls got to choose whatever they wanted for breakfast. Tahlia chose French Toast and Jazzie chose ice cream (I know, but it's a snow day!!!)...

After that the girls wanted to make a Snow Day Cake. They both knew they wanted to make a tie dye cake, so we got to work...

While the cake baked, the girls went out to play in the snow...

Our own sledding hill in the backyard:

Making snow cones with Garorade ;-)

And then after all the fun in the snow, it was time to eat some cake!

Jazzie did some painting...

And while Tahlia went back outside to play with a friend...

...Jazzie and I did some more baking.

We made my famous pumpkin bread, but instead of making two big loaves we made 6 mini ones. I'll freeze them and just have one out at a time. Hopefully since they are small, we won't feel tempted to eat the entire loaf for fear of it going bad, like the larger loaf.

Yes, we've been known to eat an entire loaf in a matter of a day, It's just that good ;-)

The recipe (in case you're interested):

Ingredients:

3 cups sugar

4 eggs

1 cup vegetable oil

1/2 tsp ground cloves

2 tsp cinnamon

1 tsp ginger

1 tsp nutmeg

2 tsp baking soda

1 1/2 tsp salt

3 1/3 cup flour

2/3 cup water

1 small can (15 oz) of pumpkin

Cream sugar, eggs and oil. Add pumpkin. Mix all dry ingredients and add alternately with water to the pumpkin mixture. Bake in two greased loaf pans at 350 for 1 hour and 15 minutes or in 6 mini pans for about 45 minutes.

Comments

[Agnes Weber]

Wat een mooie tie dye cake zeg ... gaaf met die kleurtjes!

[Catherine]

What a great way to spend a snow day!! Love that you have a built in toboggan hill in your back yard!

Baking, fun and snow - the perfect way to spend a day together.

[Tammie]

We make your pumpkin bread all the time! Erin is a big fan, & she's introduced her friends to it. I need stock in Libby's Pumpkin!

The tye dye cake looks cool too. I may have to try that with Erin also.

[dawn]

You get, Mummy of the year for that fun day. How fun.

[Christina]

Ice cream for breakfast - that's my kind of girl! We had ice cream for dinner :)
And tie die cake is AWESOME

[Button]

Love the tie-dye cake! How do you make it?