baked

Hottest day of the summer yesterday. Hottest day in the past three years, actually. 102°. Ick.
We stayed put indoors. Didn't even go to the pool, because as much as I love taking the kids, I don't love to be in the water the whole time, I'd rather take a break every once in awhile, lay out and get a little sun, and if it's a hundred degrees outside? I think you gotta be in the water. And I'm thinking even the water isn't even going to feel all that cool anymore with the high temperatures we've been having.

Anyway.
So we stayed put. We made beaded necklaces and we did dishes and we built forts and we unpacked from last week (yes, it's about time) and we didn't clean the playroom and we waited for the call that never came and we watched movies and we baked cookies.
In the car.

The kids have been asking on these super hot days if we can "turn the car into an oven again".
(you can read about our original experimentation from last year here.)
What better time to do it than the hottest day of the year?
Well, I got the recipe right this time and they turned out perfectly:

over three hours baking in the driveway...





















ta-da...





















car cookies!...















a taste test...














and the verdict is...














just kidding!...



























anyone else taking advantage of the oven that is our neighborhoods this summer??