Blintz Pancakes

I found this recipe in a cook book of mine and it is seriously SOOOO GOOD!!! It was really easy to make and we all devoured them! We even made our own strawberry syrup and topped the whole thing off with whipped cream. I wish I had a picture to show you so you could start salivating! Enjoy:)

Blintz Pancakes
Prep:10 min.~Cook:20 min.

"Blending sour cream and cottage cheese-ingredients traditionally associated with blintzes-into the batter of these pancakes provides them with their old-fashioned flavor. Top the family favorites with berry syrup."

1 cup all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup sour cream
1 cup 4% cottage cheese
4 eggs, lightly beaten
Strawberry or Blueberry syrup
Sliced fresh strawberries, optional

In a large bowl, combine the flour, sugar and salt. Stir in the sour cream, cottage cheese and eggs until blended.
Pour batter by 1/4 cupful onto a greased hot griddle in batches; turn when bubbles form on top. Cook until the second side is golden brown. Serve with syrup and strawberries if desired.
Yield: 12 pancakes

Fall Break

This time last year I packed up the kids and we drove to Utah for Fall Break. When I was there it was so perfect and I said that I wanted to do this every time. This year there was no way we could go up there again so we made the best of staying here. We went bowling with Shauna and the kids. We went to the Zoo with my sisters one day. Then we went to this awesome park and played for a bit. Believe it or not it was too HOT so we didn't stay very long. The weather teased us a bit the week before and we had amazing cool weather. Then it warmed up again. It was a fun week though!

Slumber Party

A few weeks ago we had my little cousins stay with us for the weekend while my Aunt was out of town. Noah and Jonah really feel more like my nephews because my Aunt Lexi is only 4 years older than me. We set up a tent in the living room and the boys just slept in there all weekend. It was great and they had a lot of fun! I took them to the park and the kids had one last swim in the pool. It was already pretty cold but they still wanted to go in...for a few minutes:) Now the pool is officially closed until next summer. The pool has been good to us! Now it's that time of year where we can go on walks in the afternoon...go to the park...just enjoy being outside since it's cooled off. I love this time of year!

Ding Dong the Bees are Gone!

So this is a continuation of my previous story about the thousands of new little friends we have staying with us. The bee guy came back this morning and started right to work. You know that show on the Discovery Channel..."Dirty Jobs"? We love that show! We came to find out that our bee guy Jerry was on that show a year ago. He totally reminded me of the guy on Dirty Jobs too! They came out and filmed with him and helped out with all the mess of cleaning up after bees! Let me tell you it was definitely a mess! They first cut a small square from the wall and then he realized this was much bigger than he thought.

He kept cutting squares out until there was no more hive. Can you believe that?! That whole thing is filled with honey combs.

He had to keep cutting over for about 5 feet. It was such a mess! We just sat in our kids room looking out the window in total amazement that this was all in the wall. He was pulling all the combs out and scraping/scooping all the bees and honey onto this tarp. When all was said and done the hive/honey combs weighed about 125 pounds. The hive had been in there for almost a year! I asked him how many bees he thought were up in there and get this...15,000!!!!

He was cool enough to take pictures for me while he was back there. Here he is holding up some honey combs. When they were done they carried all the stuff in a tarp and put it in a big garbage bag. Dave picked up the bag to see how heavy it really was...he was surprised...it was HEAVY! We asked them if the honey was any good and they said no. Now I won't feel guilty about all the honey going to waste because it was poison anyway. Apparently you don't ever want to eat honey that is made from bees in the city. You want country bees. I'm just glad they are all out. Just another day in the life of a BeeKeeper.

Busy little Bees

I get a knock on our door last night from a neighbor. She began to ask me if I knew we had a bee problem? I told her that we have been seeing bees but had no idea where they were coming from. Little did we know they were coming from our house! Dave looked around this morning and saw a bunch of bees flying around the A/C unit on the side of the house. We had a guy come out and look at it with his fun white bee suit. I staid in the house but could look through the window as he was searching around. All of a sudden I see HUNDREDS of BEES swarming around this man. I was freaking out but this man was just fine. What ever he was doing these bees were pretty dang mad. He finds that the bees aren't in the A/C unit but that they are inside the wall on the side of the house by the bathroom. He then says that he thinks they might be all the way underneath the bathtub and up the side wall. I went into the bathroom and heard a BUZZING like no other! He drills a little hole in the wall and his drill bit come out with honey all over it. After he was done trying to exterminate these crazy bees he tells me what the next step is. This was not a little old bee hive...this was a huge hive that has been there for 3-6 months and has close to 75-100lbs. of HONEY in the walls! CRAZY I tell you! He is coming back in the morning to finish the job which in tales cutting open the wall, killing the rest of the bees, taking out the honey combs and all that honey...etc. What a mess! I guess once the bees are in there they can produce a pound of honey a day. I am still itching just thinking about it. I can still hear them in the walls next to the bathroom...they aren't happy little creatures right now. I'm wondering what they are going to do with all that honey? We will see tomorrow. To "bee" continued...(i know that was lame!)