The Red Hat Society

Salt Lake City, Pee Wee Chapter
President: Katie Day
Vice president: Gracie Day
Secretary and Treasurer: Jill Day

I'll Never Buy Crackers Again! I Can Make My Own

Fact 1: I really like crackers
Fact 2: I do not like paying for crackers

As some of you may have noticed, I really like allrecipes.com. I found this wonderful little recipe last night:
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Wheat-Crackers/Detail.aspx
It is soooooooo easy and doesn't take too long if you use big cookie sheets. Also, we rolled ours out as thin as we could. Almost paper thin.

Wheat Crackers
1 3/4 cups whole wheat flour
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 teaspoon salt
1/3 cup vegetable oil
1 cup water
salt for sprinkling

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
2. In a medium bowl, stir together the whole wheat flour, all-purpose flour, and 3/4 teaspoon salt. Pour in the vegetable oil and water; mix until just blended.
3. On a lightly floured surface, roll out the dough as thin as possible - no thicker than 1/8 inch. Place dough on an ungreased baking sheet, and mark squares out with a knife, but don't cut through. Prick each cracker with a fork a few times, and sprinkle with salt.
4. Bake for 15 to 20 minutes in the preheated oven, or until crisp and light brown. Baking time may be different depending on how thin your crackers are. When cool, remove from baking sheet, and separate into individual crackers.

Okay, lots of the comments posted about this recipe said they added spices and such, and we tried garlic and italian seasoning. That tasted great. Justin also mixed in some parmesan for part of the batch, and those were really good. But this recipe is also great AS IS. So give it a try and make crackers.

ps a couple people also added a little brown sugar or honey to make the crackers a tad bit sweet and they said it tasted just like wheat thins.

Scripture Power

These Are a Few of My Favorite Things

My little sweetie pie and ginger snap

I just can't get enough of this girl

(Homemade Pizza + Mint Fudge Brownies + Games) x Family = One Very Happy Birthday

Going Private/Relief Society Birthday

I am the counselor over Relief Society meetings. I need some ideas especially for the birthday celebration in March. If anyone has any ideas, please, please, please leave a comment. Any suggestions would be very, very appreciated.

Also, we've decided to make our blog private so if you want to be able to view it, send me an email or a message through facebook so I can add you.

The Most Wonderful Time of the Year

I headed to the post office this morning to mail off a few Christmas packages, dreading the long line of crabby people.
I walked in and sure enough the lines were long, but to my surprise, I saw happy people. They were helping each other and guiding one another and smiling. Even the postal worker was cheerful. I saw service instead of selfishness, kindness instead of coarseness, and gratitude instead of grumpiness. It was so refreshing in this busy, bustling city to have people displaying the real meaning of Christmas through their kindness to one another even though strangers.

Merry Christmas everyone!

Sugar and Spice

I hear the toilet seat clatter. "Katie, what are you doing? Do you need help?"
No answer.
I start to get up to go check on her, but stop because I hear her talking.
"You went poo poo. Good Job."
She comes walking out with Elmo, patting him on the back.
"I'm so proud of you. You stayed clean and dry...next time you go pee pee too."

These Are the Days

Tonight, I took Katie with me grocery shopping. She wanted to ride in the cart that had the truck attached to it, so I pop her in and buckle her up. Little did I know that she is skinny enough to slide out of the buckles. So I'm picking out some pork chops and I hear, " You better tell your mommy. Is that your mommy?" I glance over to see Katie down the aisle telling some random lady that she needs to go pee pee. I go claim my daughter, and we head off to the restroom. Katie turns to the lady and waves very cheerily to her new friend and says "Good-bye, I have to go the bathroom now," as if this woman is her best friend.

Last night, I'm putting Katie to bed which means she keeps getting out of her bed so I'm staking out on her floor so she will finally go to sleep. I glance up to her bed and I see naked buns creeping down toward the foot of the bed. "Katie what happened to your pants and your underwear?"
"They're up there."
"Why are they up there?"
"I took them off. My bum hurts right here, here...and here. I need some cream."

Yesterday, Katie walks up to the garbage and says "Oh dear. Oh dear. This garbage is smelly, smelly, smelly." I guess that's a hint to take out the garbage.