Why does our house smell like a carnival?

…because Josh made FUNNEL CAKE!!!

We’ve tried making funnel cake before by just leaving out the eggs..no such luck. I think we must have just completely forgotten/given up on trying to recreate those wonderful funnel cake moments, but something inspired Josh to give them another shot. They turned out amaaaaaaaazing. No seriously, amazing. They were just like I remembered them from those warm summer nights at the carnival, minus the creepy carnies and screaming ill-behaved children running around with candy apple stickiness on their faces.

We had some chocolate syrup on hand from so Josh heated it up for a minute and drizzled it on top. Now normally I’m the type of person who just wants the powdered sugar. Don’t try loading my funnel cake up with fruit or chocolate syrup or caramel or whatever it is IHOP is serving these days..I just want the sugar. But there was something about the idea of chocolate combined with fried dough that tempted me. Needless to say it was delicious (duh.)

Here’s Josh in the midst of enjoying his funnel cake lunch. The recipe is super simple and oh so satisfying, although I’d suggest opening a window or two while you’re frying them to try to avoid having your house smell like what ours smells like right now, 5 hours later, but it was well worth it.

In crochet news, I’ve realized that I can make some pretty snazzy looking hats, but in order to do so I must first mess up and have to pull out hours worth of stitches at least 3 times. I don’t know why but I seem to be cursed. Either way, I made my dad a nice beanie using green organic cotton yarn, and I made my sister this gorgeous slouch hat using the same organic cotton yarn only in a cream color. I started making it while she was here visiting this weekend, and I think I said something along the lines of “Oh this will be done in a few hours..”…yeah, right. It would have been done in a few hours had I not messed it up 4 times. I ended up not being able to finish it until a few hours after she left, but this way I get to wear it around for a few weeks until I see her next ::devilish grin:: I also made a beanie for her boyfriend William, but thats a whole story in itself. In a nutshell, I started out using a bigger sized hook and then 1/4 of the way through switched to a smaller sized hook without realizing it.

It’s times like these where Josh would usually say something along the lines of, “Brilliant..”