Pictures of Anna Birthday!

Forrest baked and decorated
Anna's cake this year! He is amazing when it comes to how he decorates the cakes!
Anna is posing for pictures for GramE.

This is her new bike!

Anna had a grand 4th birthday. We started partying at 6:30 am and didn't stop until 9 pm that night. Thanks to all who stopped in to visit and all the gifts that were brought, You made her day totally!

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday Anna !!!

Today is Anna 4th birthday and we are so thankful she is in our family! Anna is very kind and loving to all she meets. She is shy like I was went I was little. But once she knows you, she is a chatterbox! She brings so much joy to our family and she is the best big sister to miss C. Happy Birthday to you my sweetie! I hope you have a rockin Birthday! We love you!

New recipe....

Today is cloud w/ the chance of rain....It feels like a day to cook. So I am trying a new recipe for Peanut Butter Cookies today!!! It comes from NieNie blog: (It is on the sidebar just under I read NieNie)

Peanut
Butter Cookies


INGREDIENTS
1 cup unsalted butter
1 cup crunchy peanut butter
1 cup white sugar
1 cup packed brown sugar
2 eggs
2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda

DIRECTIONS
1. Cream together butter, peanut butter and sugars. Beat in eggs.
2. In a separate bowl, sift together flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Stir into batter. Put batter in refrigerator for 1 hour.
3. Roll into 1 inch balls and put on baking sheets. Flatten each ball with a fork, making a criss-cross pattern. Bake in a preheated 375 degrees F oven for about 10 minutes or until cookies begin to brown. Do not over-bake.

35th

That is right I am officially 35 years young today! Happy Birthday to me!!!

This was one of the better photos of me w/ my brother and sisters!

EZ Wheat Bread

EZ Wheat Bread recipe

1 1/4 cup warm water

1 Tbsp active dry yeast

1/4 cup honey or 1/3 cup sugar

2 3/4 cups whole wheat flour

1/4 cup wheat gluten

1 tsp salt

2 Tbsp nonfat non instant dry milk

1 Tbsp butter/margarine/oil

1 Tbsp vinegar

1/4 cup potato flakes (NOT potato pearls)

Mix ingredients in order listed in mixing bowl of mixer with dough hook attachment (like kitchen-aid) for 12-15 minutes. Let rise until double, 1- 1 1/2 hours. Punch down, and shape into loaf or rolls. Let rise again until double and bake 375 degrees for 20-30 minutes until golden brown and sounds hollow when lightly tapped.If you are making this recipe in a bread machine, follow your bread machine’s directions for wheat or whole grain selection and add the ingredients in the order listed for their recommendations. (only one loaf will fit in a bread maker)

This lady recipe was made in a kitchen-aid mixer If you are using a Bosch cut the mixing time in half.

This recipe is from the website: Everydayfoodstorage.net

Just want to say I am proud to be an American! Please remember those people who lost their lives on 9/11/01 and never forget we are still fighting today! Thank you to all the servicemen and women who fight to keep me and every other American FREE! May God keep you safe and bring you home soon!

Thank You!

So long....

Sorry it has been so long since I blogged last....I truly didn't realize that it has been so long. So here are the happenings at our house...

Miss C swing from the lamp in the family room. She is walking fairly well but still falls on a regular basis. But is an excellent climber!

My new hobby is making bread.....Thanks to all who have willing tried my experimental loaves before I found the right recipe!

Miss C got her first taste of a chocolate milkshake....I gave her only one sip but I never got it back after that.

AND....THE BIGGEST NEWS!!!!!

ELLA LOST ANOTHER TOOTH!!! She is so cute when she talks and smiles w/ the hole in her mouth.

We have been really busy with all most everyone in school now a days. Even Forrest and I are going back to school online. Forrest is finishing his language for his bachelors and I am barely starting mine. But so far there isn't much we can't handle.