Flashback Friday!

So I think that Flashback Friday is going to have to change to Must See Monday this week!! :) I have had an extra full week that has included both cars breaking down, getting ready for a week of an audit at work, and lots of other things!! I want to be an avid blogger  and I sure am trying but not doing a very good job!! Once I get past my audit at work hopefully I will be able to jump back in with both feet!! I hope everyone has a GREAT FATHER'S DAY weekend celebrating the men in your life who have loved supported and raised you and those who love and support and raise your babies!! :) Be back on Monday with a post you won't want to miss!

Rock-a-Bye Baby

You won't want to miss this receipe!!!!

(I am definitely not a photographer of food!! )

So a month or two ago my mom snagged me a homemade ice cream maker, brand new, still in the box with the plastic, at a garge sale for 12 dollars!! It was such a fun bargain!! It is electric and works like a champ!! We have tried a couple different things with it but on Sunday we made the BEST peanut butter ice cream EVER!!!  The receipe came from allreciepes.com and was melt in your mouth great! So I just have to share because you are going to want to try this! You will not regret it!!!

Ingredients

• 1/4 cup sugar
• 3 eggs
• 1 cup whole milk
• 3/4 cup peanut butter
• 3/4 cup sweetened condensed milk
• 1/2 cup half-and-half cream
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 12 miniature peanut butter cups, chopped

Directions

1. In a medium bowl, beat the sugar and eggs with an electric mixer until thick, about 3 minutes. Set aside. Pour milk into a small saucepan, and bring to a simmer over low heat. Gradually drizzle the hot milk into the eggs while whisking vigorously. Then pour the whole mixture into the saucepan. Cook over low heat, stirring constantly, until thick enough to coat the back of a metal spoon. Do not boil.
2. Remove from heat, and whisk in peanut butter. Allow to cool slightly, then whisk in the sweetened condensed milk, half-and-half and vanilla. Cover and refrigerate until chilled.
3. Pour the mixture into an ice cream maker, and freeze according to the manufacturer's instructions. Fold in peanut butter cups when mixture is still soft, then transfer to a container, and freeze until solid.

You should really visit allrecipes.com they have TONS of great things to try!!!

FlashBack Friday!!!!!! (a few days late) but well worth the wait!

Put me back!!! 

I am learning how to use blogger and  they have a feature where you can write a post and  predate it which is how my Friday posts will be during the summer!!! But I didn't get that done for this Friday so lets have a Flashback Friday on a Monday, K!!....K~ Here is a five year flashback to one perfect little Ms. Magoo looking Carleigh Lou!!!! Oh my how she stole our heats!!! and look at these two!! PRICELESS!! aren't the just  too stinking cute!!

Oh how time flies!! Come back next Friday!! You may just be surprised at who we flashback to next!! :)

Carnival!!!! Family Reunion!!!!!

Oh wow I have missed blogging!! Summer got here and life kind of exploded on me! But I think that I have gotten things under control and back into a semblance of a routine!! So let's play a little bit of catch up! The girls are both doing great! Caylee is cracking me up at how much she is mimicking Carleigh right now! She wants to do everything she does! It is pretty stinking cute! and Carleigh doesn't seem to mind at all! (Yet!) I am sure it is coming!! A couple of weeks ago the carnival came to town and we had a lot of fun, but it was very eye opening to me that Carleigh is definitely leaving the pre-schooler era and turning into a big girl! She rode most of the big kid rides!! and LOVED THEM!! Caylee is the prefect age for the toddler rides and Carleigh rode some of those with her too "just to be my helper"! This was the first carnival of the summer season and even though Caylee did some rides last year this was time she squealed and laughed and loved them and cried when we left! Carleigh had to get arm art :) Fun stuff! I am pretty sure she didn't wash that shoulder for like 7 days!

Miss Independent did her own hair ( I am so not ready for THAT stage!!)

 The weekend after the carnival was Family Reunion Weekend, Tim's Dad and Step Mom Carla came up from Texas and we camped the weekend at Tim's cousin's house! The rest of his family came on Saturday for a cookout! It was a nice time, it rained :( that was a bummer! It was cold like sweat shirts and long pants on memorial day weekend! UGH!! but we made the best of it and had a blast! I however was busy cooking, cleaning, chasing kids, playing in our new camper, chasing kids, unloading a sandbox and multiple other forms of entertainment. ( I like to feel like Mary Poppins with my magic bag of tricks!) and trying to get some visiting in!!

I enjoy being the butt of the family jokes ;)

Magic show anyone? Carleigh made this leaf disappear and reappear!! She that little speck on the ATV out there, yeah that's Caylee, she was a ATV pro!!! She LOVED it!

Not to be shown up by her sister and cousins!

Tim and all his cousins and brother? I am curious can you tell which one is his brother?

Gigi and Pops!! We like to make Gigi laugh :)

Tim's Aunt, Son, and Uncle :)

Caylee thinks she is going to Stow away to Texas! Her mama thinks NOT! 

Okay that catches me up on major events :) Check back tomorrow for our first ever "Flashback Friday!!!" I can't wait to post it!

Must see!!!

Okay so I promise to be back to regular blogging soon so please please hang in there with me! Life has been a little bit insane but I am hoping to be back to normal in the next day or two!!!! Until then this is the most adorable you tube video I have seen! I am so going to teach my girls this so that we can be bonafide Gleeks!! Carleigh is already pretty good!! and Caylee shakes her booty like no other!!

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Writer's Block, Memorial Day, Busyness and a Receipe Oh My!!!!

So sorry for the delay in blogging!!! I have a million ideas for posts but for some reason I can't get them communicated onto this screen in a way that I like them!! UGH!! I guess they call that some form of writer's block!!! We had a WONDERFUL Memorial Day weekend!! I wasn't on my computer at all over the weekend to do a post but we enjoyed camping at Tim's cousin's property with his Dad and Step mom, cousin's, brother, sister-in -law and nieces and nephews and aunt's and uncles! It was a great time that deserves it's own post just as soon as I get my hands on some pictures! On top of all of this I have been SWAMPED at work! and it isn't looking like the rest of the week is going to be any better! so for now I will leave you with the recipe I promised last week!! and I will be back soon with some new updates, and pictures!!!

This makes an awesome appetizer! Tim brought the receipe home from a coworker and we have made it numerous times since!!!!

Sausage Bread

2 cans crescent rolls
1 pound of sausage (mild or hot depending on your taste buds!)
1 package of cream cheese

Roll out one can of crescent rolls onto a cookie sheet
brown your sausage until fully cooked and then drop in your block of cream cheese and mix into the sausage until it is melted and mixed together.
Take mixture and spread onto rolled out crescent roll
Take second can of crescent rolls roll them out and cover the other crescent roll and mixture. Press sides firmly together to create a seal all the way around and cook at 350 until golden brown. Slice and enjoy while hot!!