Chocolate Factory ;)

 

Oh hey everyone! It's just Emma! Thought you would all like to see these! (I made collages since there were so many!) Sorry about the wait! Love you people. Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas! :)

               

 

 

Merry Christmas from the Polischuk Family

Merry Christmas

 

Sending lots of love to our family near and far! Yeah to the excitement and celebrations today, we are having a blast at our place and hope that you are too.

 

 Kids bring such a joy and thrill to the holidays.  Graham and I are LOVING IT!!!!!!  Obviously the girls are loving it too.   Last night we left our note for Santa and also got to watch videos he sent for each of the girls (portablenorthpole), it was pretty awesome to see their faces.  Santa knew so much about them and even had pictures.  Amelia watched her video twice - such fun!

 

 

Christmas morning started early, because our mornings always do.  We've moved slow and steady through our toys and now are camped out in our king bed watching one of our new movies before we get ready to head off to Grandpa Ed's place this afternoon. Stella is sleeping, I am blogging and the big guy and Mia are laying heads together watching 'The Little Mermaid'.  We've done some colouring, some bow n arrow shooting, dressed Minnie Mouse for every occasion and each girl is sporting her new plastic bling...oh the joy!  Stella has also been wearing her apron all morning (she needed one for baking because Mia had one).

 



 

 

Be near me Lord Jesus, I ask thee to stay

Close by me for ever, and love thee I pray.

Bless all the dear children in your tender care,

And fit us for heaven to live with thee there.

~ Lyrics from Away in a Manger

The reason we celebrate the season, Jesus Christ. We want to have our thoughts turn to Him amidst the presents and yummy good, hopefully you do too. Hugs and much love!!!! 

We are all so richly blessed.

Love the Polischuks  Graham, Jenny, Amelia & Stella



Brush up on your math: 1+1=3

Attention family members,
Suzie and Calorado would like to share some pictures with you...
Can you guess our news?

On May 19th 2014, a permanent guest will be joining us in our new home. 

The ring on the left did not come in time for the proposal in Mexico. Calorado, with the help of his mother and father and family to be, was looking for a replacement ring in the Calgary airport. The one on the right is the ring that Calorado and his mother and father stumbled upon. The next day, Suzie passed by the store the ring was displayed in. She pointed at the exact ring that had already been purchased as a replacement, and said (jokingly!) "If you want to marry me, you're going to have to buy me a diamond that big!" This brought a smile to Calorado's face.  And on November 4, in Mexico on the beach under the night sky, Suzie said yes.

At this time, Calorado has started a new job apprenticing as an electrician for Tarpon Energy Services while continuing to pursue a career as a Fire Fighter. He works in his free time at the County of Grande Prairie as a paid on-call Fire Fighter. 

Suzie is still working in the Intensive Care Unit in Grande Prairie.  Luckily, she has had no morning sickness, just an abundance of fatigue and narcolepsy on her night shifts. She will continue working as long as possible until the time comes for Baby to arrive.

Growing by Two Feet

Just a quick note to officially let all of the family know that our little family is growing by TWO FEET coming June 2014. We are totally thrilled and feel very blessed to add a fourth to our crazy crew. I have spent lots of mornings cozied up on the playroom floor while the kids play around me and I try to catch a few winks of sleep and fight off morning sickness. But we are finally getting past that stage and my energy is starting to pick up. My house almost looks normal again and the littles are eating more than just sandwiches for lunch. Ha. We have also been blessed with many tender mercies such as Joe suddenly learning to sleep through the night so that mamma can get extra sleep and a big four year old who loves to help and watch her little brothers. She has been so ambitious to even fold a basket of laundry, and even though it's not perfect, it usually gets put away that way anyways. She also unloaded our dishwasher this morning. Seriously, best four year old or what? Anyways, though we update our family blog quite often, it's nice to post on here and keep things going! We would love to hear from the rest of the family and love keeping up to date with everyone on here!

Lots of love,

The Stannix Fam

CHOCOLATE SUCCESS

Chocolate making was such fun and a great success.  We had 19 people here.  We could have had more fondant because the dipping went so quickly.  Garth went to the store and got some fruit jellies, pretzels etc.   They are really good dipped! 

Janene showed us how to make chocolate from scratch and we tried making maraschino chocolates.  Thanks Janene, so fun and interesting. 

My thanks to everyone who came and especially to those who helped clean up afterwards.  I especially thank Jenny for once again getting us organized.  Without her being the catalyst, this would not have happened. 

Thanks Emma for taking pictures.  We look forward to them being posted!  Without Emma we wouldn't have much of a pictorial record of our gatherings. 

Love to all,
Gramma & Grampa

Chocolate Making UPDATE

Just a few updates for our CHOCOLATE MAKING:

Monday November 11th @ Gramma & Grandpa's

* Location is now Gramma and Grandpa's, more central!
* Start time 9 am...obviously this will not be possible for everyone but if you are up for it some of us will be at Gramma's for then.
* Bring aprons if you have.
* Be prepared to wear hair nets (we have bought a ton) no one wants a hair in their chocolate ew!
* Bring boxes for chocolates if you can!!!  I went through our stash and we do have some but not enough for all of the chocolates we'll likely be making. Dollar stores are the best places to hit, think mini pot of gold size, sandwich container size....they are supper decadent chocolates so about 10 or 12 is the amount I like to give away in each box. Bring Tupperware/Ziploc containers if you can't find any boxes.
* No kiddos, littles, miniatures (nursing babes only) - while we do adore them it really is an adult activity. Hands will be covered in expensive chocolate or rolling fondant and most surfaces will have chocolates drying on cardboard trays...it is just not contusive to having little children around.
* There will be a cost; the Bernard Callebaut chocolate is from an industrial supplier that other chocolate making friends use.  To make sure we have enough for the crowd coming I am planning to get 3 bags which will be about $350...we will divide it up based on how many people end up coming.  Right now 18 people have said they will be there at some point in the day!!!



Doesn't this picture just scream yummy?!

This should be a blast guys, I for one CAN NOT WAIT!!!  This is something that Gramma and Grandpa use to do in the 60s, 70s and it really is an art.  We are lucky to have them with us and that they are willing to share their skills!  Looking forward to seeing everyone.

Hugs ~ Jenny

SUPER COOL : Jackson Soufflé / Ocean Pancakes / German Pancakes

SUPER COOL & EASY Breakfast



 



Turn on oven to 400 degrees.  Cut up a 1/2 cube of butter into pieces and put it in a 9x13 casserole dish.  (The recipe I have calls for 3/4 cube but seriously, I want to slow down artery clogging as much as possible and it still tastes great.
Put butter in the oven to melt while the oven heats up and you mix the ingredients.  Be sure to check on it so it doesn’t burn.

In a bowl, beat six eggs.
Add 1 c. flour gradually and mix ‘til smooth.
Add 1 c. milk and beat together ‘til kind of frothy.
Add 1/2 tsp. salt.

Take out melted butter from oven and pour mixture into the butter. 
Return to oven quickly and set the timer for 20 minutes.
It will puff up like nobody’s business.
After 15-20 minutes, take it out and serve with syrup, powdered sugar, strawberries, whatever.

I keep the oven light turned on so the girls can watch the batter puff up. Such fun!!! Enjoy

~ Jenny