Bread beautiful bread

Some may think this is the lamest post ever but I was so excited yesterday I had to share. I have been researching bread pans and found a great deal on a Le Creuset stoneware bread pan and tried it out yesterday for the first time. The loaf came out so beautifully, I only bought the one so did the other loaf in my regular pan, I'm going to try the pan a few more times to make sure yesterday wasn't a fluke but I'm thinking these may be the bread pans that last the rest ofmy life! Woohoo!

The one on the right is the one with my new pan isn't it a beauty?

Randomness

I finally broke down this past week and took Cale to a real barber, I must say barbers are quite talented people, I think from now on if Cale keeps his hair longer we will continue going to this guy. He is looking like such a young man, Ty on the other hand is begging us to buzz his hair off again, we are putting that off in case he changes his mind AGAIN!

Brock has really been in to standing on a chair at the island while Don and I cook and naming all the ingredients, this past weekend Don let him stir up the pancake batter, he was so proud of himself. Don reminded me that while Brock was stirring the batter he kept calling Morgan, Cale, and Ty asking them to come watch. He at one point was yelling "Hurry up, look me doing" Another good husband in training I hope!

We purchased a new to us entertainment center on craigslist, it turned out to be much larger than we thought when we got it home so we in turn had to rearrange our entire living room, it has made the toy area much bigger which is great for the daycare. The entertainment center has so much storage we can fit all our dvd's, xbox games and I'm hoping our vhs movies, we however don't have a vhs player anymore so we are looking for one of those on our beloved craigslist, too. The whole purpose behind the center was our tv of 16 or 17 years bit the dust and some dear friends of ours gave us, I repeat gave us a tv. It still amazes Don and I that someone would bless us this way and we want to say to that couple thank you so much again, we so appreciate you guys and your friendship!

My vacuum cleaner boys

Seems we must have the cleanest carpet in the neighborhood, we've now vacuumed three times today, I did once this morning and Cale did this afternoon and now he and Brock are going at it again. I think we all get grossed out every time we empty the canister to see how much dog hair, etc. is in our carpets. Hey at least I have kids that like to help do it I guess, one interesting little thing Don pointed out was that our furnace filter doesn't have to be changed as often lately because of the new vacuum, the idea of that kind of grosses me out and excites me at the same time. Who doesn't love a little cleaner air to breath? Let me add our carpets aren't in need of vacuuming this often but we've grown so used to having them freshly done that it's almost an obsession now!

Beads, bead everywhere

A while ago at our local Goodwill I found a vase full of beads for the kids to play with. I've been holding off on letting the kids play with them because of the mess they would produce. Last night my worst nightmare was realized, they were EVERYWHERE! The kids had fun which was the goal of the beads but those little booger hurt to step on in your bare feet!

Finding a quiet spot to do her schoolwork!

Fancy manicure.

Curly sue!

Channeling her inner Nellie Olson

I have been doing quite a few Morgan posts lately guess she is the one that wants the most attention right now huh?

Look at Cale's new toy

Cale has been saving away and was finally able to afford the electric guitar he's been pining over! I love the picture of pure joy on his face as he strummed it the first time. Now we are on the look out for someone who can do lessons. I envision him playing in church in no time!

Kitchen update

In my last kitchen post I had my microwave moved onto my counter and let me tell you it drove me crazy, I am used to having that bit of counter so I used our old microwave stand, moved the cabinet over and voila. Don thinks it looks weird but I enjoy my countertop space too much to give it up. I was able to put my main baking ingredients in the bottom part of the cabinet so I don't have to go into the hall to get them every time the baking bug bites!