Homemade Wheat Flour Tortillas

I have been making these wheat flour tortillas since 1998.  It was the missionaries in Hamar who made it for us first (at Knut and Åse's home) and after that I fell head over heals and so I asked them for the recipe.  They not only gave me the recipe, but the recipe book the recipe was in.  It came from the "DEN NORSKE MISJONS KOKEBOK" which translates to "THE NORWEGIAN MISSION'S COOKBOOK".    I cannot remember the names of those Elders... was it Webster and North or was it Webster and Andersen or maybe it was North and Andersen?   Anywho... I always think of them and that evening everytime I make these.

Below is the recipe and it is so easy that a 5 year old can make these!

ELDER LUNDGREN'S FLOUR TORTILLAS

4 cups all purpose flour (or 2 cups all purpose flour + 2 cups wheat flour)
1/3 cup vegetable oil
1 1/3 cups boiling water
1 teaspoon salt (optional)

Mix the ingredients, roll into 2 inch balls, roll out into thin round patties.  Cook in greased skillet turning to cook both sides.  Makes around 24 tortillas.

Camilla's Easter Birthday Party!

This year Camilla's 8th birthday landed around Easter so I decided to use that as the theme for her party.  I had lots of activities planned out including an Easter egg hunt that the children really enjoyed.  

Each child received one of these cute bunny invitations.

We said good bye to Mister Snowman on our door that has been up since December.   And now we have Little Bunny Foo Foo there to make our door beautiful.   We used a white vinyl table cloth and cut out the eyes and the feet and laminated them before we glued each piece on.  Children had fun decorating the door with paper eggs. 

Hung some of these plastic Easter eggs in our window for some decoration.

And on the ceiling.

Made some of these tissue paper flowers for table decorations.

 Easter Deviled Eggs!  
Use food coloring in water to color the whites.

I made some rainbow cupcakes....  

And turned them into baskets.  Had trouble finding a candy to make the handle with and they kept falling.  Tried doing a 3 way braid with those sour ropes but they still slouched.  

Here is the main birthday cake.  Again, I had trouble finding a good candy to use as the handle.  I thought that the marshmallow would eventually harden but it never did so we had to hold it up.  Some of the children even took turns holding the handle up.  Made me smile!  :-)
PS - Thank you Linda E. for finding the marshmallow ropes in Sweden for us!  :-)

When it was time to open presents I had each name inside the egg and everyone got a chance to choose whose present was next to open. 

 I hid the Norwegian kind of Easter eggs (not the US small plastic kind) in our basement and filled the game room with a ton of balloons.  They had to sort through all the balloons to find their egg.  Each child had one egg to find.  

I was surprised that they didn't find this egg until the last. 

Then it was clean up time and that is always the best part... right?  

When taking down the plastic eggs from our ceiling we accidentally discovered we could build things with the eggs by using that green tacky stuff we hung them with.  Fun never ends in our household!  ;-)

Just before bedtime I discovered these jello beans in our fridge... oops, I forgot to serve them!  Just as well... since I think they had more than enough to satisfy them!  

Last but not least... 

Thank you everyone for joining us and for making Camilla's 8th birthday a special one!  

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Wishing everyone a HA PPY  EASTER!! 

Vi ønsker alle sammen en GOD PÅSKE!!  

행복한 부활절이 되시길!

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