Elbow up!

We played a bit of baseball in the back yard tonight. It was quite fun with our baseball team size family. With only the Hansens playing, we had enough people for a batter, a catcher, a pitcher and out fielder with a few runners! The pink bat and ball were a super awesome gift from Uncle Neel! THANK YOU! The girls had a great time learning how to play baseball from their Dad and brother. Check em out!

Giggles and Geography

The kids received a trinket from our soldier friend in Afghanistan. Here's what Miranda had to say about it :
(I apologise for the neck cramp in advance)



And Celie:


And giggly Alyssa:


And Jonathan:

"Pie- Pie" Baking Adventure

Dinner time is always an adventure around the Hansen house. We do our best to eat a variety of foods at a budget friendly price. I'll have to admit, it is a hobby of mine to find different inventive meals that use our basic pantry staples that the whole family will eat. We have found a new favorite in semi home made pot pie! (miranda is convinced it is pronounced "Pie- Pie") It's beyond simple and the kids love to help make it.

Easy Hansen Semi Home Made Pot Pie:

Bisquick mix made to the biscuit directions (Single Family Batch)

Precooked: leftover chicken, turkey,ham - cubed

Frozen, Canned or Fresh Veggies (Corn, Carrots, Peas, Green beans etc)

1 family sz can of cream of chicken

Directions:

Preheat oven to 400 degrees.

Follow Bisquick directions for biscuits

Separate dough into 2 parts

Roll Base Crust and place in Pie tin

Mix Cream of chicken, veggies, and meat

Pour into pan

Roll Crust for top- place on top. Crease edges and add vents to the top

Place on cookie sheet on middle rack of oven for 15- 20 mins.

Enjoy.

Tah Dah..... We are very pleased with ourselves!

Very serious mixing and pouring....

Alyssa adds the cream of chicken

Celie & the can opener

Believe it or not- she can do this herself... and she insists. Lol.

Doughy Love




Miranda and Jonny roll the dough
Can you identify all the hands in this picture?

I would have the final product here.... but the kids ate it all before I could take a picture. It's that mmmm-good.