Friday, November 8, 2013

Best Bread Hands Down

My mom makes the BEST bread ever!  I've never been much of a baker, but this bread is pretty much fail proof.  My kind of recipe.  Easy and delicious.  

Ingredients: 
1 1/4 cup warm milk (microwave for 1 minute)
2 T sugar
2 tsp yeast
2 T softened butter
1 tsp salt
1 egg
3 cups flour


Microwave the milk for one minute.


Dump all the ingredients into the bread machine. 
Set your bread machine to dough and let it do all the work. 
After an hour and a half...sprinkle out some flour and dump dough on top. 

Roll dough into a rectangle, about an inch thick. 

Use your handy dandy pizza cutter and cut into three equal pieces.  Mine aren't very equal, but it still works.  
Braid!  Fold ends under. 
Place on greased cookie sheet.  Set oven to 350 degrees F - let dough rise while oven is preheating.  Bake for 20-22 minutes, until golden brown. 

SOOOOOOO YUMMY!
This bread is great for about 2-3 days (in my opinion).  Fresh is best.  After that it is good as toast or french toast.  Seriously - so good!  Mmmmm....

Wednesday, November 6, 2013

6 Month Photos

I'm in love with our babies 6 month pictures (even though they'll be 7 months in 3 days).  So dang cute.
::CRUZ::



::KASH::


::JULIE::





::TRIPLETS::


::MOMMY DAUGHTER::
Julie was getting kind of fussy during our family portraits so I just picked her up and was walking around.  I'm SO glad our photographer captured this moment.  Priceless.  What a little stink. 





::MY FAMILY::

I am sooooo absolutely in love with my family. 

Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Kevin & Kelsey's Wedding

One of Curtis' best friends from high school got married last weekend and we couldn't miss it.  Kevin was one of Curtis' groomsmen in our wedding - so we had to be there for his.  San Diego is 6 hours away from Clovis.  SIX HOURS.  That doesn't sound very long, but when you have three babies who don't really love their carseats - six hours is an eternity.  We broke the drive up and stopped in Palmdale.  Traveling with triplets is a lot of work, but the worst part by far is the drive.  On the way home from the wedding they slept the first hour and then were crying for the next two hours to Lancaster.  It was heart breaking.  You are stuck in the car listening to your babies cry and you're helpless.  You can't take them out and hold them.  Ugh.  By the time we got to my brothers house I was almost in tears (and I am not a crier).  It was horrible.  The only saving grace was when I got them out of the car they were all smiling and happy.  They just hate the car.  But other than that they did really good.
 Took the babies to their first high school football game.  Paraclete dominated.  
Uncle Kenny came to town to see the babies.  We sure love him! 
Julie looks like the marshmallow man here haha...


 We got to our hotel in San Diego and were starving...so we ordered take out from Chili's. 
 First hotel stay wasn't too bad.  Babies were exhausted from the drive so they ended up sleeping well. 


 Changing my assembly line of diapers.  :)  
 Kelsey & Kevin.  Such a gorgeous wedding.
 Baby girl knocked out.
 Kash Money

SO glad we could be there on their special day.  It was a lot of work, but totally worth it.  

Monday, November 4, 2013

Halloween and the Three Little Bears

We went to a church activity the day before Halloween and had to dress these babies up (of course).  They were the cutest three little bears around. 
 Julie, Kash & Cruz

 Cruz
 Kash
 Kash
 Cruz
 Julie

 Julie - She always has to have a blanket (or Kash's carseat cover) and her thumb. 
 Kash
 Amanda can't get enough of our babies (and we love her).  She always awaits us at church with open arms.  She is a lifesaver when we are outnumbered.  :)
 On Halloween we went to our friends Halloween party.  Everyone brings their favorite soups, salads, and breads for dinner (YUM!) and then we all take the kids trick-or-treating afterwards.  The Parkers always have such fun parties with the best people :)  


 Cruz
 Kash
 Kash
 Cruz
 Julie and her mouth full of spit-up. (I thought the whole spit-up thing was supposed to be resolved by 6 months??)
Cruz
 Janessa and Tyson were representing Russia with their Matryoshka doll (Penelope).  Cutest costumes ever.  We love them!