80's what? cheer team

This is 80's night at cheer camp. . . . .





Fortunately, we had clothes still : )

FIVE and still ALIVE !!!

Yes, folks, you read that right !!!!!

I ran 5 miles straight on the treadmill today, and I am still alive to talk about it.

No stopping, walking, etc.

Started off wondering if I could go a whole mile. Felt like crap. Felt tired. Felt fat and heavy (went camping this weekend.)

Today's totals and firsts are:

Burned 500 calories in 42..5 minutes.
Burned 800 calories in one session and in 68 minutes.

Ran 5 miles.
Ran for 65 minutes.
Burned 139 carbs in one session.

HOLLA !

PS  Is anyone else out there thinking Halloween thoughts yet besides me?

Awe, this swimg got broke. . . .

I lost it !

I FINALLY lost it !

The 7 STINKIN' lbs. I gained in 2 weeks when I started running............8 weeks ago. Yeah!

I finally lost THOSE stupid lbs.

Seriously! If you are wanting to lose some baby fat, you MUST do it before you turn 42.
I am here to tell you that "metabolism" is NOT your friend after 42 ! ! ! ! ! !
(and it sure isn't when you have your last baby at age 42..9)



This weeks run down.

Mon. Ran 5k. Really it was 3..25, but I couldn't do it faster than my best, but made it through.

Wed. Ran 5k in my new fastest time of 39:10. Felt like puking at the end. Stopped to walk a lap before I ran 1/2 more mile. Burned 500 calories in 42 minutes.

Thursday's workout provided me with a "Deja Vu Nausea". I only get those when I am working out these days. My temporary memory loss included not being able to remember what Hubby looks like and not being able to remember what it feels like to be married. These are just some of the random thoughts that go through my head after a deja vu incident. (Remember, when I have a deja vu, it is ALWAYS followed by 20 seconds of nausea, then usually memory loss. It is supposedly a form of a mini mall seizure?) I had a deja vu last week as well.


Fri. Ran 5k after only getting 5..5 hours of sleep. I would not normally do that.
I would always use that as an excuse to not to. HA!
But, I did use that as an excuse to not push myself however.
I did burn 500 cals. in 42 minutes and 600 cals in 53 minutes.
Actually ran 3..25 then walked .25 then ran .5

Why does it sound better for me to say I ran 5k instead of me saying I ran 3..25?

So, a first for me this week is that I ran 3   5k's in one week.
I never thought I would hear myself say that in my lifetime.

FOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUUURRRRR! point FiVE!

4.5 miles without stopping, walking, dying, (okay, almost died), puking (okay, almost felt like puking),

A new PR for sure.

Also, 60 minutes non-stop running is a first as well!

Also, 700 calories burned in one treadmill session, and in one HOUR! Both are firsts.

Okay, enough of my ranting that no one cares about but me. I must document so I don't go crazy trying to remember what actually happened, and so that I know why I went crazy. :)

Because I LOOOOOVE me some good lemon cake......

found it, stole it, gotta make it soon!




Best Lemon Sheet Cake ~ MOIST too, serve warm, or cold 

Ingredients
1 duncan hines moist deluxe lemon cake mix 
1 c buttermilk 
1 3oz. lemon instant pudding mix (dry)

ICING~
4 cups confectioner's sugar
1/3 cups bottled lemon juice
3 Tbsp vegetable oil
3 Tbsp water


Directions
1
In large bowl, stir together dry cake mix and pudding mix. In another bowl, combine all wet ingredients and eggs that the cake mix calls for plus the buttermilk.(where your box reads the amount of water (1 1/3 cup usually), put in 1 cup water and 1/3 cup lemon juice to make the cake even more lemon tasting, if you like) Beat with mixer until blended. Add to dry mixture and beat until combined.
Bake in a greased 9x13 baking pan in a preheated 350 degree oven for the time the cake mix box calls for...depending on your oven. It will require a couple minutes longer baking time than cake mix box calls for because of the extra moisture produced by the milk. Stick a toothpick in the center to check for doneness.  


2
ICING: Combine water, oil, powdered sugar and lemon juice with a mixer until smooth. Add one more tablespoon of water if consistency isn't saucy. "Glaze" the cake when just a little cooled. Do not over glaze it because the icing is sweet. Just a THIN layer is required

"Firsts" for today:

today's "rundown" haha:

ran 5k in less than 40 minutes

burned 500 calories in 43 minutes

burned 102 carbs in 52 minutes.

: )

I amaze myself sometimes!

We were given a bag of clothes from a cousin, 

and found a super cute skirt in the bag, and it fit Kinzie perfectly. 

Only one problem: the zipper was broken.

and it was an "INVISIBLE" zipper!

and 

I have never put in an "invisible" zipper before.  . . . . .

and

it was lined.

I have never put in this kind of lining before.

Okay, so that was 4 problems. . . .

Dang it, well, 

I guess I will have to try to fix it somehow.

 It's too cute

of a skirt to not to.

I could have taken shortcuts and made it easier on myself,

 but I was experimenting with my patience.

 I wanted to know if I could actually do it the way the skirt maker did it.

The hardest part of the process was getting my butt to the store and finding a zipper to replace it with. I don't usually go to craft stores or fabric stores, so it was a bit out of my way. 

and I was able to fix it back the way it was. : )

Except . . . that it is a SIDE ZIPPER. . . . . .

hahaha

oops

Tired legs almost got the best of me.

I had to get Kort off to gymnastics class this morning, so I was in a hurry.

You know what that means.  . . . .

I ran the whole 48 minutes.

I lifted weights with squats yesterday, so my legs were dying/oober tired from the very first step.

Funny side note: one time I did squats with weights, then later went and reffed some YW basketball games. I guess I wouldn't quite lift my feet high enough to clear the floor a couple of times, cause I would stumble. When I would stumble, my legs were too tired from the workout to catch me, so I still have scars on my knee from BOTH times I fell that day.

If I do too many squats, it makes it hard for me to go through the act of sitting down. Not a huge problem until you remember how many times you pee in one day. . . . .

So, my legs were tired today. I decided that I would just run a mile, then change the laundry. But a good song came on, so I kept rewinding it and kept going.

Then, I was dying, trying to make it to two miles, so I could go change the laundry. But, I decided to go another "lap". Then a good song came on. I cranked up the speed (turtle speed for any of my cousins) and ran another lap, rewinded/rewound the song two more times and made it to my goal of 3 miles.

I hadn't burned off 500 calories according to my treadmill, so I kept running till 3.25 so I could feel good about conquering that goal.

Shower, change the laundry, and late to gymnastics by 1 minute!

Last game of all-stars for Washington

We played Hurricane.

The regular coach was out of town, so there were two subs for coaches: an assistant Ace Whole coach and the coach of the LAST PLACE team.

Yeah, I guess I can't be trusted to win games. . . . . . . no one asked me to do it.

Kinzie batted 8, who knows why. She played right field. I don't know why the coach put her there, but I know why I would have put her there had I been coaching.

The fastest pitcher on the team was pitching, so if anyone hit the ball, it would more than likely go to right field, and Kinzie is one of the two best outfielders on the team.

She hit the ball all 3 times up to bat. One of them got caught by the center fielder. One of them was a hard shot down 3rd base line and got a double and stretched it to 3rd base on a bad throw. The coach told her to stop at 2nd, but she kept going when he wasn't paying attention to the bad throw.

Someone hit a high fly ball to right field, and Kinzie ran up on it before she looked it over. She ended up doing a hard back stretch to reach the ball as it was now landing behind her. She caught that ball, and it was an awesome catch.

Our team ended up winning in the 4th inning by the ten run mercy rule.

We rewarded Kinzie with Costa Vida. : )

Pre A-Days 5k run.

(. . . . Activity Days)
"Pre A-Day 5k run" cause I am always in a hurry when I gotta be somewhere in the morning.

I ran on the treadmill and made it to 500 cals burned in 43:40. That's a personal best by over a minute. I did end up running 3.25 miles without stopping, walking, dying, puking, or swearing. Haha. yay for that.

Too bad I don't have A-Days every day.

I have spent a LOT of time the last 2 years trying to prevent Washington Softball from looking like FOOLS.

Tonight, I know that all that time was

W A S T E D !   W A S T E D !  W A S T E D !

I teach my team how to play aggressive ball like any 12 year old should play. Like every player at the all star tournament. And our coaches are not even having them steal the bases, cause they might get thrown out. Not even trying. Pathetic !


The coach, who I used to respect, threw our team under the big fat LOSER BUS ! ! !

The worst player on the team, can't hit 1 practice pitch out of 45, (I was there. I saw it.) came to 3 practices out of 16, is only an 11 yr old player, not only got to play the WHOLE GAME, but also got to pitch the first two innings !!!!!!!! !!!!! !!! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

She walked the first 5 batters. I don't mean that she almost struck them out ! she didn't even pitch them 1 strike. She literally ROLLED THE BALL across the plate for each batter at least once. Two pitches to each girl had the catcher literally jumping as high as she could to catch the pitch.

She has no wind up. She doesn't know how to wind up. The catcher throws the ball back to her, and she can't even catch the throw backs.

She only made the team because her dad was a coach. All those men coaches were buddy buddy with each other.

We have two good pitchers, and both were eligible to pitch the whole game.

I have no idea why this coach refuses to try to win OR even do well !

This is All stars after all. This is NOT the time to let everyone try to figure out how to pitch.

I would tell my players that wanted to pitch during the regular season that if they walked 4, then I would give someone else a turn. I had a lot of girls that wanted to pitch and had only 4 innings per game. So, I had to make it fair for the ones who actually practiced at home.

What this coach, Russ, did tonight was so unfair to the whole team. Some of them have put in a lot of time at practice the past two weeks. Some of us have cancelled plans to go out of town to make sure we could have our girl at practice. (So the team would not suffer by our daughter doing poorly.)

Kinzie, for instance, missed 1 practice out of 16 ish. she is one of the better players, she is 13 not 11. Her only time to play 12 yr old all stars and SHE GOT BENCHED FOR HALF THE GAME.

All the 11 yr olds got to play the whole game. All of them have a "daddy coach". All of them missed at least 8 practices. All of them are really poor players.

The first inning ended with bases nearly loaded and 5-2.

The second inning, Russ put that same girl in to pitch AGAIN !

She walked in 8 runs before the coach took her out and put in his own daughter who is one of our only good pitchers. She has not had a turn to pitch yet . . . . . ? I don't know why, either.

She pitches super fast, but a few inches off every time, so she walked several.

The short stop could not catch a ball, so when the girls would steal bases, they would get another base for the missed throw. Kinz was always backing her up, but the ball would tip off the short stop's glove and spin past Kinzie. It made Kinzie feel like the error was her own fault.

After 2. Score was 14-2.

Our 3 best hitters struck out for no reason. Kinz was one of them.

Then Kinz got taken out of the game.

Several of the girls on the other team were leaving the bases early which means an automatic out. It took like 5 times of me telling the ump before he did anything about it. Then when he did, HE made the call instead of the base ump AND he missed the play at home plate because he was making the call. The girl at home was out, but got to score cause the ump was doing the other guy's job.

I told the guy in charge and he didn't seem interested in doing anything about it right then. Ugh.

They finally got called out for leaving early a second time, and they were 12 runs ahead of us by then. Dumb runners.

They didn't even score on us the last time up to bat.

I was so mad at Russ by the end of the game. I will never respect him as a coach again. I used to think I would pick him for the job. Never again. He's a stupid coach when it comes to game time.

Why waste all our time and money in gas getting to practices and to games if we are not trying to do our BEST????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????


Hubby said to me on the way home that he might make me coach next year ! ! ! ! ! ! !
(This coach is a good friend of Hubby's as well as mine.)

Ha haha hahahahahahahaha hahahaha !

But seriously, WE LOOKED LIKE FREAKING FOOLS!

Update: Now that it's morning, I can tell you that I couldn't sleep, because I was so mad and disturbed about the game.

When I did fall asleep, I had nightmares about it.

The Ace whole coach will be in charge on Friday's game. I don't even know who will help him.
But, it won't end well. I already feel it.

No reason. . .

. . . ran 3.25 no stopping, walking, puking, dying.

Worked on arms and legs yesterday, so no reason to NOT to run another 5K.
Burned 500 cals. in 46 minutes.

I must document it, so that I will remember why I need mental therapy later.

First all-star game

Kinzie's team got C R E A M E D !

25-0

Kinzie is one of the best hitters and he batted her 8th. so, she only got up to bat once.

She doesn't miss fly balls in the outfield, so she played center field the first two innings.

But, there were critical plays at !st base that were missed because she wasn't there.

She played 1st base 3rd and 4th innings which allowed our catcher to try to pick off some of the runners. (Kinzie will catch her throws and the other girl who plays 1st base won't.)

Most of our girls struck out. There was no reason for it, they just did.

Our 2nd pitcher walked nearly their whole team. It was embarrassing. She has no form for pitching, and it's frustrating to watch her struggle to get the balls all the way to home plate.

Our first two innings of the game were played on the wrong field ! The girls were pitching from the Juniors( 13 yr olds) pitch plate which is 3 feet further than the 12 yr old pitch plate. When they realized their mistake, they moved our game to another field.

My green team's short stop caught a fly ball while she was playing left field today. Then she hucked it to 2nd base to get a double play ! Most of the good plays were by the girls that played for me. ! ! !

Kinz doesn't play until Wed. again. Hunter plays tomorrow  (Tuesday) against the other 10 yr old washington team.

Ran out of time

to get done exercising before one of my kids had to be to the dentist, so I ran for the whole time.

ANOTHER 5K !

HOLLA ! ! !

FFFFOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUURRRRRRR ! ! ! !

So, I had to go and prove myself wrong.

I got on the treadmill hoping to run a mile without stopping,

and . . . . . .

I ran FOUR miles without stopping, walking, drinking, dying OR passing out !

A NEW PR without waiting 10 months.

I couldv'e gone further, but my brain was already so confused with this new accomplishment that I thought it best to stop and let my brain recover.

Tuesday was the longest I have run: 48 ish minutes in a row.

Today was 55 minutes in a row. I never thought I'd see the day ! ! ! ! !

AND I burned 100 carbs in one hour. First time for that as well.

It's a Yearly Thing !

 to set a PR, that is.

I was in a hurry this morning, so in order to get a treadmill workout in before I had to go to activity days, I needed to run most of it.

So I did.

Not only did I run a 5 K (on a stinking treadmill), but also

I ran 3..52 miles without stopping, walking, drinking, or DYING.

The first 250 yards were killers. My legs were so tired that I knew running wasn't gonna happen this morning. Then, they loosened up and I kept going ! : )

PS. If you recall, a year ago I said I was going to invent a treadmill that has a wrap around screen so I could run on a beach or in the mountains.

Well, someone beat me to it, dang it ! I might have to get that new Nordic Track. It's not a wrap around, but sorta close to my idea. And it has an incline of 40 instead of just 10. That could come in handy for a tight fanny ! ; )

Bucket list check off sheet: 1 done!

Kanarraville Falls:

We parked at the church on Main street and walked the 5 blocks to the base of the hill where the hike started, so we didn't have to pay the $10 parking fee at the base of the hill.

 (There is a "no parking on the sides of the streets" ordinance in KVille. 

That's why we didn't park closer.)

The parking lot is at the base of a 200+ yard hill. Kams tired quickly, 

so I hauled her most of the way up that first hill.

This is overlooking K ville, and into New Harmony.

It was harder than people had explained to me. It was longer than people had described.

It was 1..2 miles from the church to the fence where the "trail" starts.

Behind me is the fence and the trail to the falls.

The trail was kind of annoying. 

Up, then down, then up, then around, then take your choice of three paths, which one? 

Then more up, then down, then over a tree, then under a tree, then up, then down.                                                                      

Once I figured out that it was so much easier to hike up the 

stream than up the path, it was a much better hike.

Kamarie got to spend a lot of time on my shoulders on the three miles up the canyon. She spent a lot of time on Hubby's shoulders, too. She gets cold very easily, and we were trying to spare her of having wet feet for as long as possible. Besides, her wet muddy feet would have wiped all over our shirts, so we carried her. It was all good. She had a blast, smiling the whole way!

The water was pretty cold. 

Five seconds in the stream had us looking for a trail again so our feet could thaw out.

Koby spent a lot of time rock hopping. 

He was trying to stay dry as long as possible. . .

Kinzie showing some of the ups and downs

 and ups and downs.

Another picture of Kams having a great time. . . .

1..2 miles on the road and 1..5 ish miles on this trail and

Koby managed to keep his feet dry to this point. . .

The end of Koby's dry shoes as the canyon walls force him to hike in the water.

Here we are at the falls #1. 

Hubby wanted to turn around here,

cause that ladder is pretty sketchy, and he was afraid for the kids' safety.

There were so many people on this hike on this Saturday,
that there was never a shortage of people to ask to take photos for you.

The kids had no trouble at all climbing this rickety ladder.

Up the canyon on our way to falls #2.

Scrambling. . . .

This girl was leading the pack so much that if I wanted a picture of her face,

 I had to have her turn around. 

Falls #2

Kauri is a mountain goat. 

She loved every second of this hike. 

We got to as far as we could go as a family, 

but she wanted to keep going up the canyon!

Kash is in red hat in center, Kort is off to the right scrambling up a rock. 

This is the "slide".

Kauri tried it out several times,

and so did Kort. 

Then, I supposed that I had to try it.

Two things happened to convince us to turn back at the second waterfall 

instead of hiking up to the third:

Kinzie had twisted her ankle as her foot slipped off a rock in the creek just before waterfall #2.

Kortlen's boat shoes were old, and we didn't realize the tread was so fragile. By the time we reached the falls # 2, he didn't have any bottoms left to his shoes, and we had the whole 2..7ish miles still to hike back.

So, we decided not to go any further.

{I am running out of lives with my curiosity. (Curiosity killed the cat. . .  ) I wanted to go to the end of the trail with Kauri. I wanted to know what was up there!}

Handing Kamarie off to Kash.

The line to use the ladder was pretty long the whole time we were there, both ways.

Kash, Kinz, Kauri, Koby, and Kams.

Since Hubby and I are old enough to remember a tv show called MacGyver,

 we took my headband and Kinzie's headband and wrapped them 

around Kort's shoes bungy cord style to hold his shoes together 

for as long as we could. 

(He weighs a LOT more than Kams,

so we did not want to carry him the whole way down.)

Koby walks fast. 

He hikes even faster. 

He gets annoyed at slow people. 

I am a slow hiker. 

I feel like I am going fast, but I get further behind with every step.

I blame it on my short Alldredge legs.

Think about it:

my legs are so much shorter than Hubby's and Koby's

 that I have to take more steps

than they do! 

They take 3 steps to my 5 steps.

 So, therefore, I am technically walking faster than they are to cover the same ground. : )

Hubby ended up having to carry Kort about a quarter of a mile 

as soon as the path separated from the water. 

Hiking in the water was fine with broken shoes, 

but in the dirt, little rocks would get in under his feet.

Then, I suggested Kort wear Kauri's shoes and Hubby haul Kauri instead,

 since she is 10 lbs lighter than Kort.

So, Kort put on Kauri's shoes. 

The blisters were starting to form, 

and there was still a mile of dirt road to go, 

so we stopped to chill our feet for one last time.

Koby and Kash took turns hauling Kamarie down the hill. 

Like I said, he gets annoyed with slow hikers, 

so he and Kash carried Kams so we could go faster. 

HA, then Hubbs ends up carrying someone bigger and staying as slowish.

I was practically running to stay up with Koby walking once we hit the dirt road.

Like I said, short legs!

We ate pbj sandwiches, Doritos, and a soda at the park.

Hubby was too sleepy to drive us home, so Koby offered and I let him.

Bucket list remaining: hike Havasupai
                               hike the Narrows in Zion
                               hike the Subway in Zion
                               hike across Pine Valley Mtn,

Who is coming with me?

Am I Irish?

IF YOU MARRY AN IRISH GIRL

The first man married a woman from Italy. He told her that she was to do the dishes and house cleaning. It took a couple of days, but on the third day, he came home to see a clean house and dishes washed and put away.

The second man married a woman from Poland. He gave his wife orders that she was to do all the cleaning, dishes and the cooking. The first day he didn't see any results, but the next day he saw it was better. By the third day, he saw his house was clean, the dishes were done and there was a huge dinner on the table.
...
The third man married a girl from Ireland. He ordered her to keep the house clean, dishes washed, lawn mowed, laundry washed, and hot meals on the table for every meal. He said the first day he didn't see anything, the second day he didn't see anything but by the third day, some of the swelling had gone down and he could see a little out of his left eye, and his arm was healed enough that he could fix himself a sandwich and load the dishwasher. He still has some difficulty when he pees......

Ahhhh, . . . Allstars!

My best player chose not to play all-stars based on her experience last year.

There is a rule that each person has to play at least 6 defensive outs (2 innings), and during the first game, she was sent out for her second inning then brought back in to sit on the bench. She only got to play 1 inning.

Her mom was upset, as any mom should be, and made some phone calls. The coaches were about to get in some serious trouble. They had to prove that she did play 2 innings.

The manager of the team cornered this girl, age 11, and chewed her out for making such a claim and demanded several times that she recount her story while she cowered in the corner crying.

Since they had recorded her playing the second inning, (the one where she was brought back to the bench before the inning started) the coaches got away with their error.

She was my best batter and best pitcher and best all around player last year, and we took 1st. So that is saying something about her ability.

The second coach in charge of the line up admitted to me that she was used as an "extra" and was subbed in and out with the other "younger girls". She was in the top 3 in the league and was used as an EXTRA!! Her and her sister WoN the league for our team with their pitching, and since I was not voted to be the all-star coach, the guy who was voted in, used his daughter and mostly only his daughter to pitch.

She was never treated well after that incident. So, this year, she chose not to play.

The punishment for not fulfilling the "mandatory play" rule is the Coach is suspended from the next 2 games. He wouldn't even be able to be there, nor be on the phone with anyone who is there. Pretty serious mistake to pull at a Little League Tournament.

This year's team:

There were 4 girls nominated for all-stars that never should have been. Three of them were the coaches own daughters. . . .the other one can't even throw a ball. (The one that can't throw didn't make the team.)

All the coach's daughters made the team. Go figure.

Kinzie made the team. (She should have made it last year!)

The first practice, the coach was pitching to one of these girls, and she could not hit the ball! Not once!

Kinzie is having fun so far. She was nervous since the asst coach is the 350 lb. coach who YELLED at me for protesting him using 2 girls from the 2nd place team to beat us and take us out of 1st place.

Four girls off my team made the all-star team. Six of them should have considering who did make the team.

Flycatchers

Kamarie yelled for someone to kill that fly in our house...
Carl did his usual swat at the fly to catch it in his hand thing.
Kamarie grunted at him  "UHHH!" then "tsk tsk tsk"
then she came running around the corner to hand him a flyswatter,
"You gotta use the fly catcher."

a photo i stole from my cousin's page :)

Fried Dough Recipes (that I found online)

Fried Dough

8 eggs
1 cup sugar
1 tsp. salt
1 pint milk, warm
1 stick butter soft
4 cups flour
2 pkg. yeast
Pour yeast in 1 cup warm milk and 1 Tablespoon of sugar, stir.
Sift together flour, salt, and sugar and make a well in mixture.
Add eggs and milk a little at a time. Add butter. Stir well.
When thoroughly mixed, grease a large bowl and place dough in bowl. Cover and let rise for about 11/2 to 2 hours.
When dough rises and appears light in texture, cut off some of the dough and stretch it with your hands.
Drop into hot fat and fry until golden brown.
Tip: Add anything you would like to the fried dough, such as powdered sugar, cinnamon and sugar.

Indian Fry Bread Recipes!

How to Make Indian Fry Bread

4 cups flour
1 Tablespoon salt
1 teaspoon baking powder
Add water till mixture forms as a stiff dough.
Knead till dough is thick and elastic.
Form into very thin round patties.
Fry in 1/2 inch oil until light brown on both sides.

Fry Bread

4 cups sifted flour
6 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. salt
4 tsp. sugar
1 3/4 cup water
Mix dry ingredients well. Add water all at once. Dough should be somewhat sticky.
Flatten into disklike shape.
Deep fry at 350°F until golden brown or each side or heat about 1” of oil until a small amount of dough rises to top of oil as soon as you put it in. Makes 16 pieces.

Indian Fry Bread

3 cups flour, either all white or 1/2 whole wheat
1 1/3 cups warm water
1 1/4 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
Mix flour, baking powder and salt.
Add warm water and knead until dough is soft, but not sticky.
Stretch and pat dough until thin.
Tear off one piece at a time, poke a hole through the middle and drop onto a kettle of sizzling hot lard or cooking oil. Brown both sides. Serve hot.
Recipe from 1978 cooking magazine
Tip: Sliced in two, fry bread makes delicious hamburger buns, or later toasted, very good with honey or jam. A lot of people also put refried beans or powdered sugar on fry bread.

Funnel Cake Batter Recipe

1 egg
2/3 cup milk
1 1/3 cup flour
2 Tablespoons sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt
3/4 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
Beat the egg in a bowl, add the milk, Mix all the dry ingredients, then add to egg and milk. Mix till lump free.
Fill an iron skillet with 2 inches of corn oil. Hold your finger over the small end of a 3/8 inch funnel. Pour batter into the large end.
Now remove your finger from the small end while holding the funnel 2 inches above the hot oil. Let batter drop in a swirling motion.
Start in the center and work your way out to an 8 inch diameter.
Fry on each side about 1 1/2 minutes using tongs to flip.
Drain on paper towels and sprinkle with powdered sugar. Eat warm
Recipe from my own file box
Tip: What if you don't have a funnel? Try pouring the batter in a steady stream from a measuring cup with a spout.

Funnel Cakes

1 1/4 cup allpurpose flour
2 tbsp. sugar
1 tsp. soda
3/4 tsp. baking powder
1/4 tsp. salt
1 egg
3/4 cup milk
Combine dry ingredients in large bowl. Add eggs and milk. Beat mixture until smooth.
Heat 1/4 inch vegetable oil to 375°F in a skillet.
Cover bottom opening of a funnel with your finger. A funnel with at least a 3/8 inch opening works best.
Pour 1/4 cup batter into funnel. Hold the funnel over the center of the skillet.
Remove finger from funnel end to release the batter into the hot oil.
Move funnel in a slow circular motion to form a spiral or other design.
Fry two minutes or until golden brown, turning once. Drain on paper towels.
Sprinkle with powdered sugar. Serve hot with syrup or fruit.
Recipe from 1983 church cookbook

Homemade Banana Funnelcake

2 bananas
1 1/3 cups milk
2 eggs
1/4 cup granulated sugar
2 1/2 cups selfrising flour
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
Purée the bananas in blender or food processor or mash them real good with a fork, add sugar, eggs, then milk.
Mix together flour and spices and add to banana mixture.

Dutch Funnel Cakes

3 eggs
2 cups milk
½ cup sugar
3 cups flour
1/8 tsp. salt
2 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. vanilla
Beat eggs. Add milk and vanilla. Blend in rest of ingredients.
Fry in ½ inch of oil in large metal pan.
To drizzle, take a funnel full of dough, and pour in dough in zigzag motions.
I recommend one or fewer funnels full, but do what looks right.
Flip when a crispy brown on bottom side. Take out with tongs when other side is done.
Put on plate with paper towels and sprinkle with powdered sugar. Eat and enjoy! Makes about 5 funnel cakes or more. 
Tip: only put in enough batter to just cover up grease or less.

Corn Dog Batter Recipe (that I found online)

Corn Dog Batter Recipe

Dry off the hot dogs with a paper towel.
Stick popsicle sticks in the hot dogs
1 1/4 cup flour
1 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup cornmeal
4 Tablespoons sugar
1 teaspoon baking powder
2 eggs
3/4 cup milk
Mix all the dry ingredients, then add eggs and milk. Mix till lump free. Dip dogs into the batter to coat.
Deep fry in hot fat When light brown, remove
I cut the hot dogs in half to make little dogs for when the kids were little. If you don't have popsicle sticks don't worry about it, make them without them.I use to save popsicle sticks just to make corn dogs.

Corn Dogs

1 c. corn meal
1 c. flour
2 Tbsp. sugar
2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp.salt
1 egg, slightly beaten
1 c. milk
2 Tbsp. melted shortening
1 lb. wieners
Mix cornmeal with flour, sugar, baking powder and salt.
Add egg and milk; blend in shortening. Mix well. Dip hot dogs in batter.
Fry in deep fat. (1981 Church Cookbook)

Coating For Deep Fried Vegetables

1 1/4 cup flour
1 teaspoon salt
2 eggs
3/4 cup cornmeal
2 Tablespoons sugar
1 cup milk
2 Tablespoons melted shortening
Mix altogether. Dip vegetable in mixture and deep fry in hot oil till golden brown.

French Fried Onion Rings

1 1/2 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
2 eggs, beaten
1 cup milk
1 teaspoon shortening, melted
Bermuda Onions, thinly sliced
Sift dry ingredients together. Stir eggs, milk, and shortening into flour mixture; beat till smooth. Separate onion into rings; dip into batter. Deep fry in hot oil about 2 minutes or until golden brown. Do not crowd. (Recipe from 1974)

Batter Fried Onion Rings

2 to 3 lg. onions
1 c. sifted flour
1/2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
1 tsp. sugar
3/4 cup milk
1 egg
2 Tbsp. melted fat
Peel onions and slice into 1/4 inch slices; separate into rings. Sift flour with baking powder, salt and sugar. Combine egg, milk and fat. Add to dry ingredients all at once and beat until smooth. Dip onion rings in batter and fry until golden brown in deep fat at 375 degrees. Drain on absorbant paper. Sprinkle with salt. 4 servings. (recipe from 1968 cookbook)