Whole Wheat Pancakes

Yesterday for breakfast I made whole wheat pancakes and topped them with blueberry syrup. Yummy! Here is the recipe if you want to give them a try. I added pecans to mine - not in the recipe - but I love the added crunch they give to these pancakes.

Whole Wheat Pancakes:
1 cup whole wheat flour
1/4 cup all purpose flour
1/4 cup corn meal (I use cream of wheat instead)
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp baking soda
1 1/2 cups buttermilk (1 T vinegar with milk to equal 1 1/2 cups)
2 eggs
2 T honey

Mix dry ingredients together. Add remaining ingredients and mix until blended, but not mixed smooth. Cook on hot griddle. Top with syrup. To make fruit syrup, mix 1/2 cup berries or cranberries with 1 1/2 cups maple syrup and heat. Makes about 10 pancakes.

New Vinyl projects

Today I completed 2 vinyl designs I have been wanting to do. The first one is a Live, Laugh, Love sign that I saw online somewhere and thought "I can do that!". So I made my version of it. The other one I FINALLY got done today was our family job chart. I have had this on my craft to do list for about 6 months now. Now that summer is here, I *really* needed it to be done. My kiddos are so bored and restless - now they will have at least a few things that they will HAVE to do each day. Yippee for me! And an added bonus, I get a cleaner house. Both of these vinyl designs can be ordered from We Cut Vinyl.

Summer in full swing

Summer is in full swing at the Hacking household. Swim lessons, playing in the water, swim team practice every morning at the crack of dawn, gardening, road trips, camping, family reunions, etc...

We've done some fairs this summer with our vinyl booth, met David Archuleta, roasted marshmallows and eaten s'mores, and acted crazy (feet picture).

We have only just begun. Many more fun things planned. I can't wait!!

Rainbow over our neighborhood. It was actually a full double rainbow, but you can't see the other half in the picture. I didn't have a wide angle lense on my little pocket camera. If you noticed- the "double" rainbow, the colors are opposite of first one. Weird huh? If anyone can explain this to me of why this occurs, please let me know.
My mom eating a smore at our Memorial Day BBQ at Canyon Glen in Provo Canyon. Yummy!!

Road trip - feet hanging out the window in the middle of the night. Silly kids!

Hunter playing with the ball in Provo Canyon. This ball did not make it home with us. This was a picture of its last moments. It got kicked into the fire and melted away. We'll sure miss you big blue ball.

My girls hanging out in the canyon.

One of our first summer craft projects - Hailey's fish in water. She taped the fish in the inside of the cup with Scotch tape. The fish are made from construction paper. It is still in tact today - she will not let me clean it out yet. So cute and fun!
We were able to attend a book signing for David Archuleta at Deseret Book in Orem. He sang a couple songs, then came inside to sign books. I waited inside for my girls to get thru the long, long line. I found a spot right next to David to wait. Check out that picture! Ok, I must say - not that exciting to me, but my girls loved it. I stood there next to him for at least an hour. I was bored. But - my girls we SO HAPPY to meet him. Although he was chatting with some kid on the side of the table as it was their turn, but you know, I would have snapped my fingers at him and said - Hello! it is my 5 seconds with you. But they just stood there and giggled, handed him their books, and moved on. It was very fun for them!
Our booth at the boutique in Eagle Mountain for their Pony Express Days celebration. If you see something in the picture you want - let me know and I could make that happen. :-)