Cuteness: Dogs :D

This post is all about dogs :D

We got a NEW dog!!!!!
His name is Mao Mao (means hairy in Chinese :D) He is 2 years 9 months. He is a Golden Retriever and SUPER cute!! We have had him for about 3 days now :D He is NOT a chewer and he is house trained. He is an enemy to basically all of the dogs in our complex, we don't know what it is that makes them so mad at him, even though some of the dogs that are mean to Mao Mao are actually pretty nice (cute :D) Here are some pictures that we took of the dogs and also of Mao Mao:

We'll start with pics of Mao Mao: (we seriously took Too many pictures of him!:D)

This is Mao Mao and Ema.

Our stone floor feels good to Mao Mao with all of his fur.

I really don't know how to explain this pic :D

Mao Mao is too cute, right??

This is a close-up of Mao Mao's face, he has a sort of mask on his face

                                         And now we do the pics of the other dogs:

One of the dogs had puppies a while back  and this is one of them.

This is one of the pups :D they are SO cute!

This is the friendliest dog, we can't tell if it's a girl or a boy. :D

This is the mom (in the bottom corner) her pup is on the other side of the fence who I think is trying to get out

Hope you liked all the pics of the dogs :D
                                                                  Yours Truly,
                                                                                      Anne B.

Eggs.

Eggs, that's all I'm going to say about it. 

This was a science experiment, so prepare to be amazed! And please watch the top one THEN the bottom one, you will be less confused than if you had watched bottom-top. So please watch top-bottom.

Those eggs were first soaked in vinegar for 24 hours then they were soaked in water for 24 hours, just so you know :D And girls, if you wanted to do a Mean prank, use water balloons and eggs. But for peoples sake Please do NOT do a prank like that :D

Hope you liked it :D

Yours Truly,

           Anne B.

Forgive me!!!!!!

Please forgive me for the last Halloween Posts, the one that has the pics of the costumes, I know that you have to crane your neck to see them, so I am SO sorry about that, I will do another post with the pics standing up the right way :D
                            Yours Truly,
                                               Anne B.

Halloween Pics.

See I told you that I would post the rest of the pics :D

This is Beca getting her face painted by a YW

This is Merisa and Ema at the "Bat Craft" station. Decorating bats :D

This is Mathew and Nathan at the "Cake Walk" station :)

That is me in the center of the pic with Ema in the top left corner with my friend Sophie dressed up as the zebra in bottom right corner.

This is Nathan, about to be wrapped up like a mummy :D

This is all of us on Halloween night with our candy necklaces on :D We have had those for a year then they were eaten up in less then an hour :D

Well that is the end of the pics :D Hope you liked them :D



                                                Yours Truly,
                                                                     Anne B :D

Happy Halloween :D

 Happy Halloween as the title says :D
Now this is a post of what we in Shanghai China did for Halloween. We had a branch Primary-Nursery costume party. Where YW (like myself :D) were welcome Only for helping (and enjoying the food :D) The activity was held on Friday a couple of Days before halloween, not exactly On halloween. Now here are the pics that were took with our camera before, during, and after the party:

This is Me in my costume. The piece of Paper says: Don't Ask!!! I am a Girly Warrior :D

This is the Front of Ema's Costume, She is a Pink Paintbrush.

And this is the Back of Ema's Costume, And if you want to know what that little piece of paper says, well have fun persuading Ema to tell you. :D

This is Nathan's Costume, He is an Archer.

This is Beca's Costume, she is a Pioneer.

This is Mathew's costume, He is a train engineer.

This is Merisa's Costume, she is a Ballerina.

That is all of the pics that I can post in the order that I would like to so I will do another post that will have the pics from the party and after that on it ok????

                   Yours Truly,
                                      Anne B :D

Chicken Noodle Salad

Now, some people might look at the title and have an image of noodles, lettuce, and chicken in their mind. (maybe not, but that is what some people might think :D) But look at the recipe and you will see that it does NOT have ANY lettuce in it that might make it a regular salad, or else, I wouldn't be posting this on MY blog! I am one of the people who dislike lettuce (shudders) so sorry green-salad-likers I don't. Well anyway it is made up of Noodles, Chicken and a sauce with spices and seasonings in it. Now we weren't able to add any chicken, so it was just noodle salad, we didn't have any chicken just then. So here it is:


Chicken Noodle Salad.


1 lb skinny noodles, (it can be whatever kind of noodles that you want :D)
6 Tbs rice vinegar,
2 Tbs chili sauce (or chili powder whatever you have)
1/4cup oil,
5 Tbs soy sauce (now if you have gotten soy sauce from China, do about 3tbs of it)
2 Tbs sesame seed oil,
2 cups cooked diced chicken,
some basil. (as much as you want or need :D)


Cook noodles as directed. Mix with above and mix in the basil so that it is all over the noodles. Serve warm or cold. and here are some pics that we took of it:

Guess what this is?? :D here's a hint, it's not wine. post in a comment with what you think it is :D

Here's another guessing game :D guess what this is and the one above, and you Can't cheat by using Google Translate, it must simply be a guess :D And it isn't wine.

These are the noodles in a bowl, they were Very good, but  a little salty.

Ema Had to take a picture of Someone eating it, and it Had to be me :D Please just ignore Nathan in the background :D (I am thinking *Hurry up!!! it is HOT!!* :D)

Chinese Crepes

Now, I know what you people must think, Chinese Crepes? There isn't such thing! But there is, This morning we were able to make a French dish, in China. And I was able to make them. I was taught (By Arizona's Chef Tess) that ANYONE can make crepes. They are one of the simplest dishes that the French could EVER make!!!  Well, maybe not, but they are for me :D When we were taught how to make crepes, there was a line of kids (yes I said KIDS) at the stove waiting to make their own crepe, all they had to do was put the batter on the pan, then watch the magic happen :D It was cool. They got to cook their own crepe :D Crepes are SO good!!! And SO simple!! Well, here is the Awesome recipe, That was given to us by the one and only Chef Tess (as she is known on TV) It is her recipe. Thank You Miss Stephanie :D


Basic Crepes. By Chef Tess :D

4 eggs,
1 cup water,
2 tsp vanilla,


1c flour,



1/3c powdered milk (if you don't have any then just substitute with regular milk, and no water)
1/2tsp salt.


In a container mix the flour, powdered milk and salt together. And in a separate container, combine the wet ingredients very well. Add the wet to the dry until all the lumps are gone(if you can't get all of lumps out at the last second then that is all right:D) The batter should be just thick enough to coat the back of a spoon. Use a very small amount of oil in a non-stick skillet, and on Medium-low heat. Though, you should start with it on about medium, so that the pan can get hot enough to cook the crepes. Then as soon as the pan is hot is enough then turn it down to medium low. Then put about 1/4-1/2cup of batter, it depends on how big of a pan you have and most importantly how big you want the crepes. Cook 2-3 minutes on one side then gently turn over, once you have flipped the crepe, it probably only takes about 60 seconds before it is done. and here are the pictures that I took of our crepes this morning:

This is my dad, cooking crepes.

This is the table before we sit down to eat.

And this is the "Aftermath" of a successful  crepe breakfast

this is the crepe in the pan, look at all the goodness:)

this is what the batter should look like.

Homemade Maple Syrup.

All right Peoples, I will sometimes be posting Recipes, so that you can do yourself :) This one is Homemade Syrup, and it is REALLY good!!! Here is the recipe:

Homemade Maple Syrup.
1cup Water,
1cup White Sugar,
1cup Brown Sugar,
as much maple extract as you need(or want :D)

Then you just let the sugars and water come to a simmer then you add the maple extract, or whatever extract you want, My family just likes some good Maple syrup :D Then you either let it cool to a thick syrup or use it hot.

This is our Syrup in it's bottle

And here it is in the pot.

So there you have it, nice Maple Syrup :) and it doesn't cost as much as regular Maple Syrup :D 

My Crazy Saturday :D

Hi!!!!!!!!!
Now I know that I promised that I would blog every Saturday, but these last 2 Saturdays have been Really crazy for me and my family. So yesterday, I had a sleep-over with one of my friends from church (I know what you are thinking, Wow a sleep-over that is on a Saturday night and blah blah blah) but it worked out so that she came with us to church then afterwords she went home with her family, because we had a Branch activity yesterday so she came home with us and so yeah. and here is a picture of her lovely face :)

My Friend Sophie and her pretty face :D

Even though she did want me to delete it, but I couldn't ;D She was just too cute :D So we had a sleep-over and while she was over we basically did very little things :D

These are Beca's hands

 All right I should back up some that morning we got to go to the Shanghai Zoo, and we didn't have to pay a single thing for it, which was nice :) and we really didn't go anywhere well I didn't go really anywhere, but I did  get my face painted :D and here is some pics of the face painting: 

This is my face :D

And this is Beca's face :)

 Then we walked the mile to Green Valley which is where we have all of our branch activities. There we were able to have a good american barbecue :) and it was good :) Then after we got home Me and Sophie turned the computer on and were able to watch "House of Anubis" on "YouTube" And I am NOT going to say which episodes we watched :D then we would have to give Everything away!

And that is why I was unable to blog yesterday. 

SEE YOU!!!!!!

Anne B.

Hi!!!

Hi Peoples!!!

Well this blog is going to follow me and all of my just stuff in the Crazy city of Shanghai!!! I will try to blog at least every saturday, (hopefully) Because that is one of my only TWO days that try Not to be crazy (but they usually are, we haven't had a Single weekend that Hasn't been crazy!!)!!!!
Anne B.