Lunar Eclipse and Chocolate. (Lovely title, Eh?)

Two of my loverly friends have posted about the Lunar Eclipse. You can read their post's here and here. I might as well blog about it also. I had a friend sleep over last night. (We had a blast by the way, we're writing a play <3 We watched a movie and had some eggnog, then went to bed. Mom asked us before we went to bed, if we wanted her to wake us up for the Lunar eclipse. Of course! ( We went to bed around 11:00pm) Abi and Rachel ( My younger sister's) were going to sleep on their beds, and their beds are close to the floor, so they could still talk with K (The friend) But my bed is the top bunk, so I couldn't talk and have fun! So we decided to pull out the queen blow up mattress. Now, the funny thing about the blow up mattress is, we didn't get to blow it up all the way, because the pump decided to run out of battery in the middle of blowing it up! So I laid on the half blown up bed, and immediately sank to the floor, ( I could feel the floor on my back) Then K got on, and I was lifted up off the ground, but K was laying on the ground. So after much pushing, rolling and shoving, we lay perfectly still on our backs, and we were both lifted off the floor. The trick was to distribute our weight evenly. That was lots of fun. The idea of staying up all night popped into someone's head ( As it usually does at a sleep over) but I kindly disagreed with that idea. Then the idea popped up to stay up until the eclipse. But at 11:30pm we all were half asleep, and could hardly keep our eyes open. At 1:00 am mom came and got us up. Abi had a hard time getting out of bed, she walked outside, looked at the moon, mumble something and then went back to bed. **laughs** K and I grabbed a blanket just in case it was freezing. It wasn't THAT bad outside, but it was still pretty cold, so we lay on the cold ground freezing and watching the moon. It was fascinating. We watched all of it. After staying out in the backyard for almost an hour, we were freezing and we couldn't feel our toes. ( Being the smart kids we are, we didn't bring shoes or socks out) The last December 21st total Lunar eclipse was in 1638. The next winter solstice eclipse is due in 2094. I shall be gone by then. Now all I want to see is Halley's Comet. That would be awesome seeing it... It arrive in the mid 2061. :-/

Now for the chocolate part of the post. You know, I really am NOT trying to be mean or rude to my readers, but I just can't help sharing yummy mouth watering pictures for the month of December. We do a ton of yummy baking! Hm! Tonight we have a cookie exchange, we were suppose to bring 6 dozen cookies/candies. Ehhh. I said to mom "Please, not mint twists!" Usually when we go to a cookie exchange, we bring mint twist's, but I've made so much this year, I wanted to make something different. So we came up with something else :) We made Lemon cookies dipped in dark chocolate. They are SO very good! We've never made them before, but I will definitely be making them again! And they're pretty easy to make.. Anyway. Here is a picture of them! They turned out super good!

Candy making day.

In one of my recent posts, I told a little about candy making day, well here is the "continuing post" Now, I'm not trying to make your mouth water or make you hungry, so please forgive me if I do succeed in doing that. Every year around this time my family has a annual "Candy making day" We go over to my Nana's house ( She lives right across the street from us) and make candy all day long. For the past few years we've started making up some of our candy, and just bringing it with us, as the kitchen isn't big enough for everything we bake! (Though my Nana's kitchen is pretty big!) We had candy making day today, we made candy all day long. We stopped around noon to have a sandwich and then continued baking cookies! Towards the end of the afternoon the baking slows, and we all take time to box up the candy we want, and taste test. (Everyone's favourite part!) Below are a few pictures I took. Sorry they aren't very good, I wasn't trying to make them good, I was just flashing them quickly, as I was in everyone's way with my camera!

Zee vonderful Chocolate Peanut Clusters

Spiced pecans. (I could eat a million of those!)
Hello Dollies. (I wonder why they are called that...)
Toffee! My second favourite! *diez*
Peppermint bark. Yummy!
Chocolate pretzel thingys...
More chocolate pretzel thingys..
Chocolate caramel pecan pretzel thingy's.
White chocolate pretzels! <3

Annnnd My all time favourite! Pecan chew! <3

This is pretty hard to make, usually it turns out too hard!

Deeeeeeluuuucious!

Well! Is your mouth watering yet? Looking over the pictures, I realized I forgot fudge! Oh well. You'll just have to imagine what it looks like. I hope this isn't torture reading this post... I sure had my full share of candy today :)

Gott segne und frohe Weihnachten!