9 eggs
2 cups of flour
2 cups of milk (this is more to eye, the mix should mix easily while on the second to lowest setting inside a blender)
1 cup of sugar
1 tablespoon of vanilla
2 tablespoons of melted butter
Cinnamon to taste
A pinch of salt

The most important part of the recipe is to get the consistency of the batter correct. It should not be too thin or too thick. You know you have made them correctly if you can eat them by themselves without anything on them. They are just sweet enough, not flaky and not too thick. We fill them berries, nutella, vanilla yogurt, bananas or any combination thereof. We top them with powdered sugar, syrup, or simply lemon and powdered sugar.

You can also make bacon and eggs and use the crepes to wrap it up like a burrito.

You can also fill it with bananas, ice cream, and put caramel sauce inside them for banana’s fosters for a desert.

INSTRUCTIONS:
Put the eggs in a blender, and mix in the flour while the eggs blend (making sure not to whip the eggs). Add the milk followed by the rest of the ingredients.

Cook on a griddle on medium heat. I have a “wooden T” tool used specifically for making crepes which help even out the batter in a circle. You dip the T in water so it glides over the top of the crepe. You want to thin it out a bit so that the crepes are the right thickness. If you don’t have a T, then you can tilt and swirl the batter on the griddle to thin it out. I have also done them in a large non-stick pan. If you don’t have a T, then a pan is easier to thin the batter in.

A few highlights:
Trip to India, to the Taj Mahal, and Germany
Performed again at the Poway Center of the Performing Arts MET2
Found a wonderful program for the piano called Synthesiagame.com
My parents 50th anniversary
Countless family accomplishments to (Trombone solos, to saving tackles in football, singing lessons, the list goes on).

Some quotes which impressed me:
I have found out there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.
-Tom Sawyer Abroad (Mark Twain)

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.
– Innocents Abroad (Mark Twain)

The first follower is what tranforms a lone nut into a leader…
Derek Sivers – Ted event

http://www.ted.com/talks/derek_sivers_how_to_start_a_movement.html

-Chad Cloes

Thanks to everyone who came and made the day so special for them. They really appreciated it and so does the rest of the family.

The video is uploaded in high definition, so you can change the resolution (360p to 1080p) on the bottom right of the youtube video player.

APPLE USERS CLICK HERE:

Years ago, I posted a thank you note to a music teacher I had in school and just recently her daughter found it and forwarded it to her. It was a very special experience which I wanted to share… You should follow the link below to the post and read the comments. It was great!

http://chad.cloes.net/2008/09/28/the-best-teacher-of-my-life-laurie-taetle/

GO THANK YOUR TEACHERS!!!! If you post it on a blog or public facing site, Google will find it.

THANKS TO:
Mr. Roselli (The only teacher who I got an ‘F’ from and I actually thanked him for it)
Mr. Hayes (He proved math and school in general could still be fun)
Mrs. Meyers (Out of all my English teachers, she was the best)

Slideshow – My role as father

A logical question.

There are 5 houses each with a different color. Their owners, each with a unique heritage, drinks a certain type of beverage, smokes a certain brand of cigarette, and keeps a certain variety of pet. None of the owners have the same variety of pet, smoke the same brand of cigarette or drink the same beverage.

Clues:

•The Brit lives in the red house.
•The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
•The Dane drinks tea.
•Looking from infront, the green house is just to the left of the white house.
•The green house’s owner drinks coffee.
•The person who smokes Pall Malls raises birds.
•The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill.
•The man living in the center house drinks milk.
•The Norwegian lives in the leftmost house.
•The man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats.
•The man who keeps a horse lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill.
•The owner who smokes Bluemasters also drinks beer.
•The German smokes Prince.
•The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
•The man who smokes Blends has a neighbor who drinks water.
Who owns the pet fish?

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/80700677/