Tonight is burger night at a friends house and I am feeling brave enough to try out the mass cinnamon roll recipe found at The Pioneer Woman Cooks blog. The recipe makes 7 pans of cinnamon rolls and is keyed towards holiday giving but I think it sounds good and I don’t want to wait till December to try it out so I am making it today! I will keep one or two pans and give the rest away..
I like the concept of this recipe. It’s a lot like the Amish friendship bread idea.. Its sort of a chain letter but with dough. 😉 You can read more about Amish friendship bread at Wikipedea.com. Anyway, this cinnamon roll recipe and the Amish friendship bread recipe are simply a bakers way to share with the ones they love.
This cinnamon roll recipe is my one kind act for today! I hope I can pull it off and that everyone loves it! You should try it too and let us know how yours turns out!
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Update @ 5:24pm
I pulled it off and am on my way to burger night with two of the seven pans of baked deliciousness!!
I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas! Our holiday went well, it was celebrated at odd times as usual but we had a blast anyway! All you really need is to be together right?
So, N came home from work late X-mas eve (11pm) and we proceeded to bake cookies and frost them. I wasn’t particularly thrilled with the sugar cookie frosting recipe we used. It was crazy runny and kind of pissed me off. I yelled “If I wanted runny crap I would have just mixed my powdered sugar with some milk until it was runny!” N just laughed at me and said it wasn’t that big of a deal. I felt like the world was ending.
We frosted cookies and stuffed stockings until about 2am X-mas eve and then fell in to bed exhausted. We slept until about 10am X-mas day which didn’t leave us much time to celebrate before N had to go back to work. We opened presents, ate cinnamon rolls and tried to make the most of our time together.
We left a soccer ball under the tree for Dixie and she was immediately playing with it and having a blast. We also hid a huge bone under the tree for her. The cats got a ton of jingle balls and cat nip filled mousies. We were really pleased that they were having fun with new toys.
N loves his new Wii that I scored for him on back Friday. He hasn’t hooked up or played with the Wii Fit yet, he’s only had about 3 hours of “play time” since opening the gifts thanks to work. I also grabbed him some pastel ties, a dress shirt, pants, ear warmers and leather gloves to keep his hands warm while reporting.
I was especially exited about the sweet lunch box (see it here) I found for him to take lunch/ dinner to work. I also got him a bouncy squirrel feeder (called a Squngee Deluxe Squirrel Feeder), a new wallet, some daddy to be books and a movie.
He got me an external hard drive for my Mac and also got me a new spiffy digital camera that is tons better than the one we currently have.
He also got me tons of stuff from Victoria’s Secret, a new bigger bra, low rise undies for my new preggo body, a fun house dress and some stretchy, low rise yoga pants. From Bed Bath and Body he got be some floofy, fun, no slip socks, nifty microwavable neck and foot warmers and a slew of bath goodies.
Last night, X-mas night, N and I planned on having a nice ham dinner when he got off work. Unfortunately at about 9:30 pm some drunk crazy decided it was a good idea to run from cops, going the wrong way down the road at about 100 miles an hour and he hit a car full of innocent people (including an infant) who were probably just heading home from holiday celebrations (you can read more about it here).
N was sent to the scene to cover the story and was late coming home as a result. That is the nature of the beast though, breaking news happens and covering it is what he does. So I made sure to adjust cooking temperatures so dinner would be hot and ready for him when he came home late.
I managed to make a ham, green bean casserole, sweet potatoes, stuffing and a maple cheese cake from scratch without getting all tired and loosing energy, and I did it in only 2 hours. Dinner was great, then we played the Wii for about an hour before heading off to bed at 2am again.
N is back at work again today, then we’ll have 4 days together starting Saturday and we plan to play the Wii like crazy, spend some quality time together finally and to get in touch with the family back in Arizona. All in all we had a great holiday together. If you didn’t see our holiday carol that was posted in Christmas day you should stop by and read it now. I thought it was funny.
We have quite the car repair bill to work in to our budget now which is sucky but that is life. We are also optimistic about The Farm birthing options and are trying to see if our insurance does indeed cover their services like we suspect it does. What is new with you? How did the holiday go and what is on your mind now?
Okay, now sing it with me just to ring in the holiday spirit:
On the first day of Christmas, my true love sent to me
A garage cat with some fleas.
On the second day of Christmas, my true love sent to me Two broken cars (poor Nissan and Amigo!)
And a garage cat with some fleas.
On the third day of Christmas, my true love sent to me Three months-of-pregnancy (almost 4!),
Two broken cars,
And a garage cat with some fleas.
On the fourth day of Christmas, my true love sent to me Four petri dishes of growing mold,
Three months-of-pregnancy,
Two broken cars,
And a garage cat with some fleas.
On the fifth day of Christmas, my true love sent to me Five feet of soaking, nasty basement,
Four dishes of mold,
Three months-of-pregnancy,
Two broken cars,
And a garage cat with some fleas.
On the sixth day of Christmas, my true love sent to me
Six days of rain (and no freaking snow!),
Five feet of soaking basement,
Four dishes of mold,
Three months-of-pregnancy,
Two broken cars,
And a garage cat with some fleas.
On the seventh day of Christmas, my true love sent to me Seven pans of cinnamon rolls,
Six days of rain,
Five feet of soaking basement,
Four dishes of mold,
Three months-of-pregnancy,
Two broken cars,
And a garage cat with some fleas.
On the eighth day of Christmas, my true love sent to me Eight pounds of baby weight,
Seven pans of rolls,
Six days of rain,
Five feet of soaking basement,
Four dishes of mold,
Three months-of-pregnancy,
Two broken cars,
And a garage cat with some fleas.
On the ninth day of Christmas, my true love sent to me
Only nine checkers checking (at Walmart yesterday, what a joke!),
Eight pounds of weight,
Seven pans of rolls,
Six days of rain,
Five feet of soaking basement,
Four dishes of mold,
Three months-of-pregnancy,
Two broken cars,
And a garage cat with some fleas.
On the tenth day of Christmas, my true love sent to me Ten packages shipped to loved ones,
Nine checkers checking,
Eight pounds of weight,
Seven pans of rolls,
Six days of rain,
Five feet of soaking basement,
Four dishes of mold,
Three months-of-pregnancy,
Two broken cars,
And a garage cat with some fleas.
On the eleventh day of Christmas, my true love sent to me Eleven poo smears in the toilet,
Ten packages shipped,
Nine checkers checking,
Eight pounds of weight,
Seven pans of rolls,
Six days of rain,
Five feet of soaking basement -Yuck!,
Four dishes of mold,
Three months-of-pregnancy,
Two broken cars,
And a garage cat with some fleas.
On the twelfth day of Christmas, my true love sent to me
Twelve-hundred-dollars-of-car-repair-work for the amigo. Ouch,
Eleven poo smears,
Ten packages shipped,
Nine checkers checking,
Eight pounds of weight,
Seven pans of cinnamon rolls,
Six days of rain,
Five feet of soaked basement,
Four dishes of mold,
Three months-of-pregnancy,
Two broken cars,
And a garage cat with some fleas.
Whew! That was amusing for me. By the way, after I wrote it all out I also did sing it just for good measure. You know to make sure it all went well together. Hope you tried to sing it too, brought a smile to my face just trying it! Happy holidays all, I hope you are having the best time today!
I know mine isn’t as good as this but it was entertaining!
Now, I am not the only blogger who has reworked a holiday song just for their blog, many others have also done so! If this includes you please enter the link to your holiday song post below. We would love to see what others have come up with!
Since we’ll be grocery shopping and baking like mad on Christmas Eve I am pre-writing this blog post.
Thankfully I am over the car drama stressing thanks to my therapeutic cinnamon roll baking and my ever fluctuating hormone levels. Once again I am making about 7 pans of Oowey, gooey, heaven in a pan, cinnamon rolls with this online recipe.
If you love cinnamon rolls you have got to try the recipe, trust me! It is easy and pretty basic as far as ingredients go. Go forth and bake rolls, you will not be sorry.
Oh and don’t worry I wont be eating all 7 pans of rolls myself, that would be insane. I would slip in to a diabetic coma and Tater Tot would be bouncing off my uterus walls!
N is taking some pans to work and we are giving some to our neighbors to spread holiday cheer and all that jazz. Plus, I am keeping some for us to throw in to the oven on Christmas morning. Mmmm!
On Christmas Eve (today) we are going to be baking all sorts of cookies. Sugar cookies, gingerbread cookies and a few other fun ones are the goal. N is also working both today and on Christmas Day, he has to be in @ 2pm all week.
He does however have a 4 day weekend as a result, he’ll be enjoying his big present all 4 day I am sure!
I am pleased that I have zero wrapping to do tonight (got it all done in advance, yay!) but I still have N’s stocking to stuff and put out. When he gets off work @ 11pm we’ll have hot coco and cookies, you know try to spend some quality time together. I also want to get to bed at a reasonable time so we can wake up and enjoy Christmas Morning before he has to push off to work that afternoon.
What is your Christmas Eve looking like? Are you like my mom with a closet full of shopping bags that all need to be wrapped on Christmas Eve? What is your Christmas Eve tradition?
Today is our going away party/ potluck. N is making a pasta salad from scratch and I am making pioneer woman’s cinnamon rolls from scratch, mmmm. We are going to eat, drink and hang out with people, this is our last chance to before we leave Arizona.
Choreographing routines and working band camps has ended for me. If you are interested to see what I have been putting together here is a video:
After the party today N has 1 more day of work left then we focus on last minute packing and cleaning. We move in 8 days it is pretty surreal for us but also exciting! Here we go!
I found for him to take lunch/ dinner to work. I also got him a bouncy squirrel feeder (called a 
), a new wallet, some daddy to be books and a movie.