Friday, April 16, 2010

missing babies






Lately it seems that there are babies everwhere. Squadron friends, church friends...it makes me miss my own babies. I think part of it is becuase my Liam is such a big boy he can't be called a baby any more. I sure miss those baby toes, and tummies, and sweet smells.

Sunday, April 11, 2010

Cascarones-A Texas Easter Tradition











I bought these for Easter and forgot to use them....so we instead used them for our family home evening activity the next day. These are easy to buy here in South Texas at Easter time, and I thought that we couldn't leave without doing them at least once. Roxie stole one, Cooper and Travis hit them with the bat, and Liam loved to watch them crumble in this hands. I just loved watching my boys...a week later and we still have confetti all over the back yard.

Friday, March 26, 2010

Herb Paints


On Etsy I ordered this painting for Herbs Paintings. It just came today, I have to say i love it.

http://www.etsy.com/shop/herbpaints

Thursday, March 25, 2010

The best Pizza dough

Every time I want to make homemade pizza, I have to look on my sisters blog for her dough recipe and so I am stealing it from her blog, so now I have to just search my own blog instead of hers. Thanks Lindsey and Scott!

Carol's Pizza Dough
Mix together:
2 T. dry yeast
½ c. warm water
2 t. sugar
Set aside until foamy

Mix:
2 ½ c. powdered milk, mixed (2/3 c. powdered milk with 2-2 ½ c. water)
1 T. salt
2 T. oil
2-3 c. flour

Add yeast.
Add flour to sift dough (3-4 c. more flour) until pulls away from bowl.
Raise until double – about 1 hour.
Divide into 3 – rest so it can be elastic, 5-10 minutes.
Floured surface.
Preheat oven 450ยบ.
Cook 9 minutes (we usually go 10-12).

Potato Pizza
Slice a Yukon Gold Potato super thin
Soak it in 3 washes of an ice bath to remove starch
Drain potatoes
dice half an onion
brush olive oil on prepared dough
layer with potatoes, onions and a generous (really, really generous)
handful of freshly grated parmesean
Follow cooking instructions on pizza
Ta da!

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Happy St. Patty's Day




May the luck of Irish be with us all:)

Sunday, March 14, 2010

Hopefully this will be what we call home:




We put an offer on this house, it has been aceppted by the sellers. It is a short sale so pray for us that it will all work out, or I really may just loose my mind.

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Our First Fip



We got a new Flip, here is our first video using our new flash memory camcorder. This is going to be really fun to use.