Sunday, June 16, 2013

Home-made Bread--yummy!

Hey everyone!  Ever since we have all been little and everybody still lived at home, we have made our own wheat bread.  It is so yummy!  Especially right when it comes out of the oven and you put butter and honey on it.....mmm......!  :) Here's the recipe!





 Put 2 cups luke warm water in a big bowl....
 Then mix 1/3 oil and 1/3 honey together so 
that the honey doesn't stick as much to the measuring cup....
 It should look like this.
 Then put in 1 tablespoon of sea salt,
 and 1 tablespoon yeast.

 Then put in around 7 cups of flour.
We grind our own wheat and so I'm not sure
exactly how many cups there are, so just keep
putting it in until you are comfortable with how wet/dry
it is :)  

 It has to be dry enough to work with, but not too dry
otherwise it doesn't turn out very well.
split it into to 2 chunks like this........
 Then knead each one separately for about 2 min. each 
make them nice and smooth.
 Spray 2 normal sized bread pans
with non-stick spray.
pop 'em in the oven at 200 degrees (Fahrenheit) for half an hour,
then 350 for another half an hour.  It is so yummmmy!  Just store it in the refrigerator when you're not using it :D
Thanks for reading!

 



Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Anniversary!

Yesterday was my parents' 30th wedding anniversary!!!  That's a long time!  They are  wonderful and I am so thankful for them <3 <3 <3 
I love you two!!!!!

--
1st Thessalonians 5:18
 
Give thanks in all circumstances for this is
 God's will for you in Christ Jesus.

Monday, May 27, 2013

Kelly's wedding! ♥♥

My sister, Kelly.......is........MARRIED!!!!!!!  I can't believe it!  I cried.........a ton......  But it was such a BEAUTIFUL wedding!  The Best Man was Andy's brother Eric, and then the other two are his brother-in-law, Dan and a friend of his, Chris.  The Maid-of-Honor was my sister Anna, and then Kelly had my sister-in-law Amanda and Andy's sister, Deanna.  These pictures that I'm posting were taken by my sister-in-law's photography business (PhotagraphybyJdesigns) so if you ever need some pictures taken, just ask me and I'll tell her :).  Anyway, I hope you like the pictures!  It was such a fun day :).




Andy and his Groomsmen..........

Andy's family :)

Kelly and Andy :)

Coming back down the isle :)

I love them SO much!

Andy is a wonderful first brother-in-law <3 <3 <3 <3

Kelly and her Bridesmaids :)

Kelly and Dad doing the Father/Daughter dance <3

Our big family!!!! ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

All 9 of the kids in our family!!!♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

Again, it was a WONDERFUL day!!!!  I had SO much fun, even tho I cried a lot :)

I LOVE YOU, KELLY AND ANDY!!!!!

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

more Spring!! (mostly flowers) :)

Hi!  Today is SO beautiful!  And there are flowers blooming all over the place, so I decided to take some more pictures!  I absolutely LOVE flowers, and taking pictures of flowers :).  Hope you have as much fun looking at them as I had taking them!


 My brother and his wife got these 
beautiful plants for Mom on Mother's Day
...they are so pretty :)











These little blue flowers are called Scillas.
They come up all around our house every spring :). 

 I think they are so pretty! :)

 little leaves coming up on the trees!








 Hope you liked them!





Friday, May 3, 2013

SPRING!!!!!!

Hey!  Spring is finally here!!!!!!!!!  I can't even explain how happy I am!!! :D :D Usually I love winter, but this year it seemed to ddrraagg!!!  Even though it is pretty cold here today, at least it's raining instead of snowing! :) It is supposed to be warmer next week, which is good.  So, I took some pictures today and about a week ago, when it was warmer.  Enjoy!! :)






I love Spring!!  And we have almost NO snow left!!!!!!!  :D See ya! :)

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Another giveaway

Hey!  Emmy is having another giveaway!!!  Click here to enter :).
Best friend necklace

Hurry and enter!!!