Spring has arrived...

Look what I found in my front yard this last weekend. Does this mean spring is here? I sure hope so.

Color my world .... White

Since April's birth stone is a diamond we thought that we should focus on the color white. I turned the camera over to Alexis (with help from Sierra) and sent her on her way to find things that are white. Here is what she came up with:

Happy Birthday Sierra

Fifteen years ago today we welcomed Sierra into this world. I can't believe how the time has flown. It seemed like just yesterday we were bringing her home from the hospital.

Happy Birthday!!

Makeover - Part 2

Do you remember this picture? This is what our kitchen was looking like after we painted it right before Christmas.

Well, I'm happy to say that the kitchen is finally done. After living here for almost 3 years, we finally got it to where we want it. This is what it looks like now.

It sure is nice to able to scratch one more thing off the "to do" list. Problem is... for every one we scratch off, we seem to add two more to the bottom. Does it ever end????

Our favorite bread recipe

Just wanted to share our favorite yeast bread recipe with you. I got this from Carl's uncle (who is a great cook). This works up real quick and really does only take 90 minutes from start to finish. If you want a good multi-grain bread- go check out Pam's place.

Ninety Minute Bread (sorry no picture)

(By Jessie Evans Smith – This recipe was Joseph Fielding Smith’s
favorite bread)

4 cups warm water
7 – 8 Cups flour – (I use as much more flour as needed)
4 yeast cakes (4 Tbsp Dry yeast)
4 tsp. Salt
8 Tbsp sugar
4 Tbsp melted shortening - I like to use butter flavored Crisco

Dissolve yeast in one cup of the warm water with 1 of the Tablespoons of sugar. Mix rest of ingredients. Mix into a soft but not sticky dough. Cut into four pieces and let stand 15 min. Using rolling pin, pound each piece of dough for 1 minute. Form into 4 loaves and put each loaf into a greased bread pan. Let stand 30 minutes. Bake at 400◦ F for 30 minutes.

PS - my pans are the bigger ones so I usually end up with only three loaves. I've also tried it with 1/2 wheat and 1/2 white flour and it turns out pretty good.

ENJOY!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY STACY !!!!

OK - so I'm a day late - but better late than never. The day just went by way too fast.

We hope you had a great day.