Rose Dough

Since several of our beautiful roses that Daddy sent us for Valentine's Day were starting to die, we decided to use them to make some Rose Dough to play with this afternoon.

To make Rose Dough you put 3 cups of rose petals in a food processor and chop them up finely.

Then add 1 3/4 cups flour and 1/4 cup salt.

Slowly add in some water as you mix it.

The girls loved getting to press the button on the food processor.

Jocelyn couldn't wait to play with the Rose Dough.

Madison wanted me to add some red food coloring to her Rose Dough.

Madison made a Mommy and Baby Shark with her (red) Rose Dough.

Our finished Rose Dough projects with our roses from Daddy.

I surprised the girls with new pajamas for next winter. They immediately tried some of them on and modeled them in the picture with the others.

I bought 10 pairs of winter pajamas, 3 pairs of mittens and a brown winter coat for next year at Kohl's for 90% off. My total was right around $30.00, with a savings of $298.00!

This afternoon the girls and I were playing hide and go seek and Jocelyn decided to roll herself up in the rug for her hiding spot. ;)

Root Beer Float Cake

For "R Week," we tried a new recipe for Root Beer Float Cake!

1 box white cake mix
1 1/4 cups root beer
1/4 cup vegetable oil
2 eggs

Glaze
1/2 cup powdered sugar
3 Tbsp. root beer

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Grease a baking pan. Combine cake mix, 1 1/4 cups root beer, oil, and eggs in a large bowl. Beat on low speed until blended. Pour batter into prepared pan. Bake 30 to 35 minutes and then allow it to cool. Use a toothpick to poke holes two inches apart along the entire cake. To make the glaze, combine powdered sugar and 3 tablespoons root beer in a bowl. Beat until the mixture is smooth and then pour over the cooled cake.

Rainbow Rice

It is "R Week," so we decided to write Rr's in Rainbow Rice.

It is very easy to color rice. Just take 2 cups of rice, 1 tsp. of rubbing alcohol and a few drops of food coloring. Put all of the ingredients in a Ziploc bag and mix it together until the color is even on all the rice. The rice will need to dry before you use it or mix it with other colored rice.

We made several different colors of rice and mixed them together once they were dry to make our rainbow rice.

We had tons of fun writing and playing in our rainbow rice!