:Kyle Emily Gus Oliver Jack & Walt:: January 2010

Joyeux Anniversaire Vingt-Six

Celebrated the down hill spiral to thirty Birthday in the following way:

Cute little fat-boy Montana cut me some bangs for the b-day

The next three are some of my presents I am super excited about all three. In fact I used my pressure cooker tonight for dinner!

The above is a wheat grinder not the exact one I got but you get the point. Below are Do-Terra essential oils, can't wait to use these babies:)

eating here for d inner with goo d fr iend s
and last but not least eating this with family at our home:)

Thank You

Thank you to the wonderful women in my life.

Thank you Ree Drummond (THE Pioneer Woman) for this delicious dinner la st night

and for this yummy homemade noodle recipe.
Also, thank you to Martha Stewart for these very delicious rolls

Yummy

I have been attending cooking classes at the new Bosch Cooking Center in STG. Let me just say these little devils are amazing!

Red Velvet Cupcakes
2 1/4 cup flour
3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
Sift all dry ingredients together and add last to batter

1 cup unsalted butter, softened
2 cups sugar
cream together till fluffy about five minutes, scrape side often

4 eggs room temp (mix in one at a time)
1 cup sour cream
1/2 cup milk room temp
1 oz bottle red food coloring
2 teaspoons mexican vanilla

Bake at 330-350 for 20 or so minutes

i'm only happy when it rains

hooray for rain. thats all

Sundiata Gaines

Finally

After almost three years of washing dishes in the bathroom sink, we have a kitchen! It was a ton of work, but I am in love with our finished product. There are still a couple more things to do, like hang the hood over the oven, so just imagine there is a stainless steel modern hood above the oven in this first pic!

During the Construction

Yes that is 1970's green carpet in the kitchen, we couldn't decide whether to keep the carpet or remove it, the same goes for the fake wood paneling:)

Yikes

The owner before us was a chain smoker, when I wiped down all the cupboards my rag was stained yellow from the smoke. We still have one bathroom that we need to remodel that has the same wood in it, and every time I clean I get the same stained yellow rag. I would say she smoked too much but that would be an understatement. We spent a lot of extra money getting the smoke smell to leave this blessed home!