Three Pounds of Crab Legs

Due to the chaos that has ensued from returning to school, I haven't posted lately!

The first week of July, Bobby and I went to Daytona with my mom and dad and had a fabulous week at the beach. :) We had so much fun.

We had a gorgeous view from our friend's condo on the 27th floor!

We spent a LOT of time eating....

Hey guess what, we're eating again. Surprise!

I LOVE this picture. :) My daddy loves him some corn fritters!!

Acutally, we DID do things other than eat. We spent a lot of time at the pool and on the beach and we had fun playing games with mom and dad at night, but unfortunately my camera is broken so I was dependent on my mom's camera which wasn't with us all the time. Note to self: Buy new camera.


What a fun trip!

We're Painting the Roses Red!

And the big living room wall, too!

We have been in our new house for almost...well, way too long to not have hung curtains or finished the painting. So Bobby and I decided that today was the day!

We went to Home Depot, came home and got busy

Ignore me. I need makeup.

Ow Ow! Look at my hubby's tooshie! :)

This was scary bright red, but it just needed a second coat.

Bobby hanging curtains

Love my new curtains!

The finished product

Moved some things around here...

Love! :)

I've Got a Bun in the Oven...

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Okay, no I don't. 

But today I DID make homemade bread for the first time! I have been nannying for the same family for 4 summers now. Most of the time they just say, "Why don't y'all make some brownies today?" Today I got, "Hey, why don't y'all make some bread today?" 

Uhhh....excuse me, but bread comes out of a bag with a twistie tie from Publix. 

I was very unsure of my bread-making abilities, but I put on my brave baker's hat and got busy anyways. Here's how we spent the first two and a half hours of our morning this morning:

This bread is a replica of Macaroni Grill's rosemary bread. I mixed the yeast, water, sugar, salt, rosemary, flour, and butter in the Kitchen Aid.

Then we oiled a bowl and let it rise until it doubled in size. The recipe says that step takes an hour, but their Dad told me it normally doubles in about 20 minutes. I didn't take a picture of this step because I was cleaning up the flour that I spilled ALL.OVER.THE.KITCHEN. Sigh...

After it doubled in size, I punched it back down to its original size and we split it into 7 equal balls of dough. We then let those balls of dough rise on oiled cookie sheets another 40 minutes under towels held up by drinking glasses. (Again, the techniques of their Dad.) He had another method of wrapping Saran Wrap around the glasses and THEN laying the towels over it, but....I thought it'd be okay with just the towels. :)

After about 40 minutes, they had doubled in size

Then we put them in the oven. The directions said 375 for 15-20 minutes until golden brown, but the first batch took way longer than that, so I bumped the temp up to 390 for the rest. 

After they were done, I buttered the top and added a little bit of cracked salt. And then, of course, I tasted it because I have no confidence in myself. But lo and behold! It was AMAZING! 

There are 5 people in their family, and they had plans to cut the loaves in half length-wise and make them into pizzas. I had it in my mind to eat mine with olive oil and cracked salt and pepper and Parmesan cheese. And then THAT made me think of Carabbas, which made me think of Sirloin Bryan, which made me think....yum. Add a Caesar salad, sauteed spinach, and creamed corn for the non-spinach eater and you've got yourself a meal.

We skipped out on the sundried tomatoes and basil, but we had the lemon butter reduction sauce and goat cheese...oh my. Delicious!

Gracie and Dakota thought it smelled pretty great too. Not bad for a Monday!

Farmer Bobby

Bobby has been growing a little garden. And by little I mean, corn, okra, squash, cilantro, tons of cherry tomatoes and regular tomatoes, cucumber, green beans, and snow peas. The green beans, peas, corn, and cucumbers he grew all the way from seeds, and he made the garden box himself too. He is Mister Green Thumb.

Here's the progression:

Babies!

Little

Bigger

Humongo!

Cherry Tomatoes

Cilantro

Corn

Peas

Squash

 The irony? Bobby doesn't eat vegetables...wahmp wahmp. :(

Let's Recap...

What a crazy, amazing past several months this has been! I really stopped and thought about it today, and I can't believe how many fun, monumental occasions have happened just in the past 10 months!

In September Bobby and I got engaged!

Later in September, we had a surprise engagement party hosted by my best friend, Ashlea

In January I had a great bridal shower in Lakeland, Florida

In February my matron of honor, Ashlea, thew a fabulous shower for us in Nashville

Later in February, my sweet friend, Liz, threw a shower for me at work. Do I have some great friends, or what?

Kindergarteners can take a toll on your appearance by the end of the day!

March 30, my in-laws put on a beautiful rehearsal dinner for Bobby and I!

March 31st, 2012 WE GOT MARRIED!

Oh What a Perfect Day!

The next day we went on our awesome honeymoon!

In May, school ended and we moved out of our apartment and into our new house! :)

In June, Jonathan and Eilene got married!

In July I will be moving into my new classroom at my new school for my new position!

This is a picture of the classroom when the old teacher had it. I've got a lot of work to do later this month!

Oh, my. My life is so blessed!