Diet soda makes you fat?
This idea has been in my thoughts for years as I saw the more people drank diet pop the less weight they lost and actually seemed to gain weight! Now, it may be that they would just get fat anyway, but there is no doubt that diet soda does nothing to help you loose weight and I am convinced it just does the opposite, makes your body pack on more pounds. I found the following article in a magazine at a doctors office just today:
First Days of Ryan’s Homeschool Co-op
The journey has begun! Ryan embarked a few days ago on his new adventure of “real school.” He has been homeschooling, as most homeschoolers do, soon after God brought him into this world and already at his ripe old age of 5 1/2, he is fairly proficient at reading simple words. This is thanks in part to some hard work over the past year  having recently completed the “Hooked on Phonics” Kindergarten levels 1 and 2 (along with his 4 year old sister Kaitlyn).
The big change came as Ryan started a Homeschooling Co-Op where he goes twice a week with eight other kids at “Gloria Deo Academy.” The co-op uses the “classical method” of learning with lots of early memorization, making it a pretty rigorous work load.  The rest of the week he is still homeschooling away with his brothers and sister. Getting a head start on his memory work, Ryan has already mastered Psalm 1:1-6 over the past few weeks
Below are a few pictures and a video of the last few days for you to enjoy:
Ryan’s new found interest is math as he loves numbers. Of course, treasure map drawing is still number one in his book! :p
Read MoreHomemade Wheat Bread
Do you want to make some great homemade bread? Here is a great recipe.
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This is the beginning to the computer/electrical class held at South Creek Church’s Homeschool Co-Op on Feb 24th, 2011
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The Winner is Announced for the 44th Pillsbury Bake-Off Contest on Oprah
Sarah Fuchs did a great job and her recipe was fantastic, however there were also 28 other great “Sweet Treat” desserts that the judges thought out did hers. Her category did end up winning the entire contest, but not Sarah’s “Fudgy Chocolate Chip-Toffee Bars.” The winning recipe was: “Mini Ice Cream Cookie Cups.” The announcement was made today on the Oprah Winfrey show and won the grand prize of ONE MILLION DOLLARS!
We had a great time and Sarah is already cooking up more ideas in her head for the next Pillsbury contest and maybe even entering others!
Going back in time just a bit, on Monday afternoon, the Pillsbury film crew selected Sarah, along with 9 other finalists, to interview for a website “spotlight” about the whole bake off experience. They supplied make up, a film room and all and put her under the spotlight, literally! Later on that same night, Pillsbury announced the four category winners. I have a sampling of what went on below; it was quite the event!
Cooking Finished
After cooking for 4 hours with 3 different batches, Sarah turned in her finished product to the judges. Now we just have to wait! During the course of the event, we were both interviewed by Alexandra Wentworth, who is the wife of George Stephanopoulos. Maybe we will see that interview at a later date!
Now, we can relax for a few hours in the pool of the resort before the awards ceremony tonight. The category winners will be immediately flown to Chicago via Pillsbury’s private jet to prepare for the Grand Prize announcement on the Oprah Winfrey show on Wednesday. Quite an exciting time!
The Pillsbury Bake-Off Begins!
Sarah Fuchs started making her recipe as the 44th Bake-Off began this morning.
Pillsbury Bake Off Dinner
The night before the competition, we gathered with the 99 other finalists and all the guests and enjoyed a gourmet meal.
We learned quite a bit about the process of how recipes are selected. Well over 10,000 recipes are submitted and now they are down to 100. First, they weed out obviously not original recipes, ones that don’t meet the requirements, etc. From those thousands left, they send them to the main Pillsbury selection panel to weed them down to what think will make easy to make, yet unique and good tasting items. Then, all those remaining are cooked and taste tested by a panel at a rate of 4 dozen a day for weeks. Then from those hundreds cooked, they put the team to work looking though every known recipe book, online, etc to make sure they are original recipes. When cleared, the final 100 are chosen. Quite a process.
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First Day at the Bake Off
We arrived in Orlando Florida last night and kicked off the first day of the Pillsbury Bake-Off contest.
Bake Off Demonstration on TV!
Sarah demonstrated her winning recipe on KSPR TV today…
The Bake-Off is this coming Monday in Orlando, Fl!
Also, you can hear today’s radio interview here…
Original Link
http://www.kspr.com/news/local/90294297.html
Sarah’s Pillsbury Bake off Radio Interview
Listen to Sarah’s interview yesterday on KTTS.
Click here to listen…KTTS – 7 April 2010 – 0840 – Pillsbury Bake-Off – Sarah Fuchs
Creation Museum is a wonderful Experience!
Just last week we visited the Creation Museum in Kentucky. Wow, were we blown away by the solid Biblical basis for the exhibits and the quality in which they were presented. To see a small sample of the exhibits in the Creation Museum, just click on the images below:
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Sarah’s Pillsbury Bake-Off Finalist Recipe
We are all very proud of Sarah as her entry into the Pillsbury Bake-Off Contest was selected as one of a hundred finalists! She will travel to Orlando to make a case for her recipe as the winner next spring.
Coming up later this month, she will be featured on Channel 10 in Springfield on January 21, 2010 on the 6AM morning show. She will make the recipe on TV for everyone to enjoy!
Be sure to visit the official page and vote for her recipe!
Click Here to view official Pillsbury Page
Sarah started baking long ago as a young girl and always enjoys baking a good treat!
Read MoreAvatar Review: 3D is great, but it is so anti-military, pro-environmentalism, and really new-age
Avatar the movie is quite a sight to behold in spectacular 3-D. I would have to say the computer graphics are really top notch and you can really enjoy the beautiful scenery created as a backdrop for the movie. Some great battle scenes and really high tech gizmos add to the fun and adventure. However I have to give the movie a really big thumbs down for it’s heavy left-wing slant and satanic/new-age ideology. The entire movie is about how bad and evil the military is, how greedy corporations are, and how great and good is all the “earth” (or their planet) is. It is so overtly new-age and that it is hard to watch. Not only do the Na’vi people “connect with all living things,” they seem to posses light or power within them, shared by everything around them. Sound like Hinduism? That’s what I thought. A very big, yet subtle attack on Christianity and God’s true Word.
There are many direct hits on the American military as they are portrayed as power hungry force with no thought about life, which of course is absurd. References to Vietnam with napalm, helicopter attacks, to the names on the ships also degrade the Vietnam war. Then Camron brings attack on the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as they say the “out of control” military is going to use “shock and awe” tactics.
To top it off, they something similar to this quote (can’t remember it word for word) “You go as a soldier trying to bring peace though force, but eventually you have to wake up.”
Environmentalism is rampant. If you love all “mother nature” and believe we should be “one with the trees” and never drill for whatever valuable ore they were trying to mine from the native people, (e.g. we shouldn’t drill for oil in the USA) then this movie is for you.
Basically you get a big adrenalin rush with the graphics, 3-D scenery and battle scenes, but the anti-American, anti-Christian theme is more than I could take.
Avoid this movie at all costs.
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Update: Added 9/27/2010