our first BBA

The younger girls and I just started our first BBA bread!! It's a cold water pizza dough! It's setting in the fridge right now. heheh. Now I know it's not going to be perfect because I didn't know it needed to set in there overnight, but regardless. :) The girls are excited to eat their very first compleatly homemade (by them) pizza. It's will never be as good as pookieboo's but i'm sure it will be mah-va-less dah-ling. I took some pictures of the girls playing with the dough and will post them and more as the process continues through the day but now it's time for our STAR WARS marathon to start!! Is it so bad the my daughter loves Darth Varder as much as she does? This year look like we are having a fairy birthday for baby girl and a STAR WARS one for middlest. How do you make a cake for that??? NO WAY can I replicate the Millennium Falcon in cake. I might be imaginative but not that good enough. hahah. Ya'll have a great morning!! Will add more on the pizza this evening.

UPDATE: We are on the first of the original STARWARS movies 4-6 are the best but that's just my humble opinion. Middlest's as well.. gotta love Darth Vader! Our pizza turned out good.. we had to contiune to inprovise. We tried to make a bread slider thingy but we failed so we had to use a cold pizza stone. It worked for the cheesy bread but not the pizza though I think it had nore to do with the amount of toppings the girls put on thier pizza's. They said they were the best pizza's ever!! I think i would have to agree my little girls did a great job on the very first BBA bread! Good job pookieboo's!!! Now I just have to figgure out how Big Daddy and I will stay awake to see the New Year come in.

What to do?

My middlest is having her first overnight alone with her gramma, Eldest is over at her mothers house and once again it's just me and babygirl. What did we do to celebrate? We bought a cheap meal at the mall and played then we went to go see the new disney princess Tiana. We liked the frog princess, the music was amazing but.. I didn't really LOVE it. Sorry. To be honest it kinda scared me hahah babygirl spent half the movie in my lap hiding from the shadowmen. If you haven't seen it think GHOST (the movie). I did how ever like the message that the movie had in it. In terms of role model Tiana is right up there with Mulan (in the Disney world). I just thought it was a bit nightmare inducing. I also got to meet an internet/ fellow Geocacher for the first time IRL. Today has been a nice relaxing day. The kind of days that are fun and enjoyable not hurried and stressed out. It reminded me that sometimes I forget I need to SLOW DOWN and not rush everywhere. Tomorrow is New Years Eve. WOOHOO another year will soon be passing us by. I have not decided if that is good or bad hahaha. We have no plans thus far and to be honest I'm fine with that. I borrowed the girls favorite movies from my friend and I think we will have home made pizza and a Star Wars marathon!! WOOHOO! I hope you guys have a GREAT New Years Eve. I am heading off to bed to watch one of my favorite movies GiGi. I LOVE how in the end she turns a "playboy" into a man to marry!

Christmas and other foilbles

I hope that everyone had an amazing Christmas filled with lots of family and lots of love. Ours certinally was, we had the opertuntiy to spend Chrstmas with my Grandfather who came down from Missori. He's gone home now but we had a great time.
 Christmas eve we had a horriable wind storm. We had the funniest Christmas eve we've probably ever had.. we did some caching on the way to my parents house, and went to church with my parents and Grandfather and then ate my dads amazing pizza.. we hurried up and left when the girls realized that at 10pm Christmas eve with Santa on the way mommy had not made cookies for Santa!!!!!!!!! So 11 at night we are hurring to get cookies made, advent done, and stocking set out. When i realise we also didn't help the girls wrap thier presents for everyone!! We decided we would just pass them out and not wrap them. It was CRAZY!! I did get my Nikon and it is one the most amazing camera's i've played with so far!! I also got the Breadbakers apprentice!! My favortie gift though is a tie between the cast iron flying pig and the shelf my husband built for me just for all my records!! Is that not the sweetest thing? He built me a shelf just for my precious records! Even if while building it in front of the Christmas tree it toppled over and maimed several ornaments. We had a great time! My family decided to take Grandpa out to a local steak house  the night before he left. It was one of those times where everyone is laughing so hard to keep from crying! The kids were excited about going out to eat with Grampa and had not had a nap... they were climbing everywhere and could not sit still. The restraunt staff had taken a crabby pill before we got there. It was just sooo bad, but we survived. Eldest got a geomate jr. for Christmas so we had several cache-ing adventures. The girls all got thier very own micro's and are trying to decide where to hide them. The girls also got thier own computer!! However. In the quest to secure the network I crashed the whole dang thing. Hopefully it's been fixed. I'm almost afraid to try Big Daddy's computer to see. Which is what started the whole thing. IT person I am not!! We finally got wireless again on the girls computer and I am just fine with that for now!! So how crazy has your Holiday been so far??? tell me tell me I could use a good laugh right now :)
glad to be back on line and posting!

Christmas Vacation

Sorry everyone this is just to let you know that was will be back with your regularly scheduled posts on Monday.. or Sunday due to Christmas family stuff. I hope you had a great weekend!
Rachael

Almost Christmas

Well folks it's almost Christmas Eve!!! Santa is almost here!! I am soo excited I can't wait to see what Santa brings to the family. Not that Santa is everything but still.. just the waiting all day then going to bed knowing something magical is going to happen. I LOVE IT!! Today was the girls first day off school so to celebrate the girls and I spent the day Geocaching. If you haven't heard about it click on Geocaching i've linked it. Anyways we had a BLAST!! We ran all around town looking in the oddest places. We actually did better today than we have before. WOOHOO!! Especially since they were almost all micro's. UGH. Think bullet sized thing in a big park. Big Daddy worked on my Christmas present .. I can't wait to find out what he made me or for him to see what I made him. Which will not be finished because I can't install the printer on his computer. I have it about half finished so it's at least something. He's sooo gonna cry. Oh wait I forgot he's a man I can't say that out loud can I? Anyways We just finished getting ALMOST all of our baking for tomorrow done. I am coming down with the girls cold so I wanted to finish as much as humanly possible in case I'm worse tomorrow. We made Bakalava, Egg Nog Cheesecake, and Pecan Pie. YUMMM. I figgure I can knock out the Sweet Potato's tommorrow with Big Daddy and Eldest help. Then all we have left is the cookies but since we had so much going on this year we opted (I WAS FORCED) to go with all ready made cookies. I figgure even babygirl can make those without my help. So I am not worried.. well I am a little my dad is making his special Christmas Eve Homemade Pizza and I can't miss that!!!!!! So don't panic or freak out.. don't stress.. your family loves you no matter what. This is CHRISTmas. It's not about what gifts you give and how many it's about the LOVE behind them.

Bless his heart...

As you read earlier Babygirl has a cold. Tonight as she was getting ready for bed she told Big Daddy she needed her meh-sin. He looked over at me and said well which one do I give her? She looked at him and said the red kind. He looked back at her and said well I guess I should give her this one it has an antidepressent in it. Wait. What? Huh? He and I both started laughing and he said I really did mean antihistimen. hhehe. She is three years old for crying out loud she is supposed to be moody and cranky. Bless his heart. Actually this is another day I am SOO glad I married him. He's been at work all day slaving away to bring home the bacon so I can fry it up. Now he's doing the dishes for me. I tell ya nothing sexier. We did however get really creative with dinner. I tried to make Hamburgers.. they fell apart so Tim made a kinda hash with Rice. It was YUMMY. Super Duper yummy. I know it sounds odd but it really was good! Now I must go because it is time for the angels to go to bed and for Big Daddy and I to go snuggle and watch a Christmas Movie. He'll probably make me watch Mirical on 34th street but he did the dishes so I guess I'll let him.

We now have a fan page!

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