Birdseed Pie

Today I made bird suet for the first time.  It was very easy and since the birds didn't like my plain sunflower feeder I thought I'd try this out.

Here are the ingredients:

1 cup of crisco
1/2 cup of sugar
1 cup of peanut butter
1 1/2 cups of quick oats
1 cup of flour
1 cup of birdseed
1 sunflower

Melt the crisco, peanut butter, and sugar in a pan. Chunky peanut butter would have probably been better but creamy is all I had and it worked just fine.

There's a bit of residue from first batch in the pan still, but I was too lazy to wash it out. Melt it til all the ingredients are dissolved then remove from heat. Stir in flour, bird seed, and quick oats.... And like magic, you're all done!

Should be kinda thick... Though my second batch turned out a bit runny since I didn't have enough quick oats. From here I just spooned it onto the sunflower and covered the whole thing. Gave it one last sprinkle of bird seed and headed for the feeder.

Now we just wait to see if the little birdies find their way there.  :) This is also super cute on a pinecone and makes fun projects for the little ones, and cheap but very cool gifts.

Hope you enjoy! :)

Proud Mama!

A few weeks back (yes, I know it's been a while since I've posted so sorry for that) we had a very awesome thing happen in our family. My boys both were student of the month! It was very exciting and they have bot been working so hard in school. Needless to say, I am a very proud mama.

Ahh look they're so excited... Well Parks is excited, Jared is definitely giving me that "Come on mom my friends are watching" look.



Parker's teacher had a lot of wonderful things to say about him... My favorite "Participates in 'circle time activities' with great class discussion and SUPER SINGING" Hahaha, yes I actually laughed aloud when the lady read that.

Jared's teacher was very brief and to the point with his descriptions. My favorite "Excellent debater." Which also caused a burst of laughter... I'm not sure but I think that's the polite way of saying my son likes to argue.

My very favorite part of this whole day was that their Daddy got to watch the whole thing via FaceTime. Sometimes I really hate technology, but at that instant I loved it.