Caroling

So yesterday night we went caroling to family's with some friends. Me and my bother and are friends played a game which went like this. So me and my teammate had a ball and we tried to keep it and throw it to one another while the other guys try to get it from you and if they do get it from you then we try to get it from them. We also sang songs named Hark the Herald Angels Sing, Joy to the World, We Wish You a Merry Christmas, O Come all Ye Faithful, Silent Night, and maybe some other songs that I don't remember :). It was really fun, we weren't the best group but we did pretty well. We also brought some people some treats. We first made some homemade chocolate chip cookies but them are neighbors brought us some sweets so we used those to give to the other people and we could keep the delicious cookies. Are friends brought some treats and they gave them out too. I think we did something good. I think we made them happy. We also went to a restaurant called Leo's. We gave them flowers and they gave us some drinks. I picked water but my friends picked some Soda and Sprite. They went crazy after, but in the end it all worked out well and we went to our homes and went to sleep.

My Christmas gift

Jesus is my Christmas gift. He if the gift of love and kindness. He wants us to be kind to others and help them with what they need. I am going to give my friend Christian a present which is tongue dispensers, he wants to make stick bombs out of them. This Christmas there is no snow yet which is kind of crazy. I think it is because of global warming because last year we had 7 ft of snow. We didn't have to use a ladder to get on top of the roof we could just jump on top of it. I hope we can think of Jesus this year.

Chocolate chip cookies

So I needed to make chocolate chip cookies for the caroling we are doing tonight with some friends. The first batch I made turned out pretty good but I forgot to put baking powder and salt. So I did the next batch and they turned out a lot better. I hope to make another batch of them because I only have ten cookies. But I don't have butter so I have to get some at the store. The batch tastes really good, it is amazing what a little salt can do to cookies. Way back when they bought stuff with salt. I hope that the people who try the cookies like them because I didn't use sugar. I used honey and 100% whole wheat flour which I grinded my self in the blend-tec. That is why I don't have to use brown sugar. I also use 86% cocoa bar of chocolate instead of milk chocolate bar, which is very sweet. I hope to make twenty more cookies so there will be some left over so I can eat them ;). For Christmas I want to make my brother and sister a giant cookie for each of them. I hope they will like it. I am going to make them in the cake pans that I have. But I still need to get butter for them.

Birthday party

So my brother had a birthday party today. We invited some friends but some of them had to leave really early and some didn't even come. But luckily we had a lot of people. We first played some gubs which is a game of wit and luck. Then we went and ate and then we played capture the flag outside. We hid the flag in the umbrella but they found it and beat us. Then we put it by the tree and they found it again but it was still really fun. Then we went in and we ate cake that I made (you can see the cake in my other blog). It tasted good. Christmas is coming up it is in 6 days. YAY!! There were 14 kids in all and 8 adults. Are yard is very big so we can play capture really good. I decorated the cake so it said heart Ian 13 I also decorated the sides of it. But once my dad cut the cake up then it didn't look that good but it tasted good.

Birthday cake

So I made my brother a pineapple upside down cake. It is perfect not to sweet and not to not sweet :). It looks amazing and I am going to cover it with whipped cream. It has four pineapple slices on the top. My brother had a great birthday and I made croissants and bagels, we also watched the hobbit The Desolation of Smaug. We are going to watch the new Star Wars today. This is the first time I have ever made a Pineapple upside down cake. So I hope everyone at his party will like it. Christmas is in a week, so close. I put some melted blueberries and pineapple in the cream. I made it myself.

Crossiants

So my brothers birthday is tomorrow so I need to make him croissants because he asked for them. They are not hard to make but they take a lot of time to make them. And to get them really flaky then you have to do what I am doing. So you first make the dough then you knead it then you put it in the fridge over night so it can rise. Then you have to roll it out the put a whole butter layer on it. Then you wrap it around then you roll it out to 48". That is pretty far but then to make it flaky you fold it then put it in the fridge for a minimum of half an hour. Then you repeat this process over and over and over again. I have done it about ten or eleven times now. On a video on how to make crossiants they only do it four times but I am making them for my brothers birthday. So I want them to be extra special. Every time I cut them precise then I have some left over so I make a croissant out of that. I hope he likes the crossiant I make for his Birthday.

Mary did you know and the First Noel

So I played Mary Did You Know in church today. I have been practicing the song for a long time. I used to play it pretty good but it didn't sound that good because it was the same arpeggio over and over and over again. So I wanted to change it up a little. I started it with one key then octave then arpeggio. I really like the Mary did you know by Pentatonix and Peter Hollens. I played it good and everybody said good job. Someone made me play it again. They felt the spirit when I played the song. I also learned how to play the First Noel. It is the same background arpeggio as Pachebal which makes it easier because I already know the left hand to Pachabel so all I had to learn is the right hand. It sounds really good. We just got a new piano which is a baby grand so it is amazing. It makes it sound so much better. I also play Pachabel and it is a very hard song.