Crafts....

 So Abigail started school at the CDC here on base. We put her in so she could learn more and interact with other children. Also it will help me a lot  when the baby gets here. Well the baby is not here yet so I am trying to find stuff to do and keep my self busy besides clean. Well Thanks to Pinterest I have become more crafty then I ever thought I could be. So over the last week and half i have done odd and end crafts that i have been wanting to do. I still have a whole list i want to finish. Which is good cause this baby doesn't come for another month. I eventually want to make these pom poms for Abigail's room and do couple more wreaths, also couple projects i saw on pinterest. Here is couple pictures of shown what I have done. I am trying to make my laundry room cute and decorative and not white walls so I'm organizing the shelfs labeling them and doing some cute decoration, so I made that L to put in there.  

My two Wreaths i made with yarn. and the L word is with yarn to. Then the Green shelf is outside which
I found and spray painted it. Still working on decorating it. 

My Spray painted bottles.. cover cardboard box with fabric... and Abigails sign for her bedroom door

My No Sew pillows.. this uses a lot of fabric but they came out really cute. 

Really disappointed

         So I started thinking that i originally put this blog up to share my recipes with my friends and family, but the sad part is i haven't posted a flipping recipe on here since like april. So disappointing!!!  
I know i will not be posting them as much any more either cuz its just me and Abigail here and its hard to cook for two or even bake. And when Thomas is home i bake more and cook more and he cooks too. Which also makes me sad that i didn't post anything he cooked on here cause he is damn good cook. Well i was thinking about changing the name of my blog since I'm not so much betty crocker any more. But i can't decide if i want to yet... Cuz there is always hope just maybe when he gets home ill start back up again. 
     Also Abigail starts school monday (so sad) i am putting her here on base in the 4year old class room, so she can learn and make friends. Well that leaves me at home by my self till 2:30 until i pick her up. So I have all these crafts lined up to do, like a lot. Also finish getting some stuff for the Baby, and then soon the Baby will be here. So maybe till then ill post about my crafts, since i am no betty crocker right now. 

Abigail's 4th birthday

 So Abigail turned 4 on sunday... I know everyone always says they can't believe where time went and she is so big well its true. She has developed into this fun, laid back, Talkative, helpful girl. I love her personality and what it has become. She is so much fun to be around and i hope she continues to be this way for awhile. WE asked Abigail want she wanted for her birthday and she didn't know what she wanted. So i thought a bike would be good for her to have at this age. Thomas was not able to make it to her actual birthday he left couple days before, so we celebrated with him and gave her her bike then. On her actual birthday it was just me n her so I wanted to make the best of it. I blew up balloons and shoved them in her room and hung them up in the dinning room. She was excited about it! I made her shirt to wear that day, and me and her just hung out. When I laid her down that night she said that that was the best birthday ever. So that right there made my day, so glad she had a good day!

July 2012

So July has been a busy month for us, which in a way is good for me. (gives me something to do). First  We went back home to Arizona for 4th of july and my sister n laws threw me a baby shower. It was a nice trip, plane rides were a little rough for me since i get motion sickness. 4th of july was good I walked in our home towns parade to help My grandpa who is running for congressional us congress. Walking this parade I thought was totally crazy for me, since I was 5 months pregnant. I did it though I walked and felt good afterwards. We were able to celebrate my birthday and thomas's birthday with our families. Which Thomas hasn't done that in 2 years with him always being gone. We did leave on my birthday which was a bumper but Thomas's little sister Nyomie was able to come back with us she stayed with us for 3 weeks. She definitely kept me busy while she was here. I feel like we were always doing something. In those 3 weeks we went to the beach, splash pad, the mall, Florida, the zoo, the aquarium, and the inecturim.  After the 3 weeks she said she was ready to go home. Now I am preparing my self for when Thomas leaves again. This is something I am not looking forward to. Since once again I am pregnant and have to do these next month by my self. Lucky I have family coming out to help me. I am going to try to keep up with this blog more since I have will have more time too.


         Us at the shower                                                                                          Baby shower Cake          

                                                                 the girls at the splash pad

     At the Aquarium                                                                                                  At the zoo.

                                             


                                                               

May And June

Well So much has gone on in the last couple months.  Thomas had training in the woods up north from here for 2 weeks in may, so it was just Abigail and me at the house. So I got a idea of what it was going to be like when he deploys again. It wasn't as bad as i thought. I did get bored from not talking to someone and the end of the day. But It should be fine when he leaves in August some time.  Then My Mom and brothers came out here to see us for a week that was such a blast. 

                                                We went to the NASA station  here in MS 

then went to pensacola fl. to the aviation museum and the beautiful beach they had. 






                                    

                                  

   We went to Hard rock Casino here in MS. to the beach and hung out at the house. Abigail had such a blast with her Uncles. Thomas cooked a lot for my mom, made her fancy drinks. She was pretty catered when she was here. My mom did make lasagna while she was here and oh man it was so good.I have been waiting for her cooking for months. It was a nice vacation for them and it was sad they had to leave. Just so glad we will see them in july again. 

                                                           

After they left i had a doctors app to finally find out what we were having. And as you can tell I'm in a pink mood. So its another girl, which is really funny because this whole time everyone thought it was going to be a boy. A couple days ago i had just told Thomas and my mom that i had a feeling it was a girl. And sure enough she was. So we are Naming her Julieta Ann Gonzales, Or julie for short, because we are saying it the spanish way. We are naming her after Thomas grandma Maria Julieta. And my middle name is Ann. We thought Julie we be nice for short and works out good because that is also my grandmas name. So keeping it traditional. Which I love! Thomas did want a boy pretty bad, but he said we will just have to keep trying for more kids of course way after this one. 

I have baked also I made Betty Crocker Banana Bread couple weeks ago and it came out so good. I did not take any pictures. If you want try it out here is the recipe, i love this one so much that i don't change anything in it.                                                                            http://www.bettycrocker.com/recipes/banana-bread/51427396-6764-4b0a-a73a-78c683c703d2


Well Happy Cooking to you guys. 

These last Weeks.

OH Man... These last couple of weeks have been not fun. I have been so sick with this pregnancy, and both Abigail and Thomas have been such troopers. Abigail who kind of understands whats going on is very helpful to me. She just keeps telling me to eat so my stomach can get big. Funny girl. Thomas has been my life saver, I don't know what i would do if i didn't have him. He has made us breakfast lunches, and dinners. helped clean the house and still work during the day. All while i lay on the couch or bed and moan cause I don't feel good. But finally Thomas felt so bad Friday when he came home i couldn't eat anything so he took me to the ER to see about getting a prescription for nausea. After being there for 3 hours giving blood, getting hooked up to a IV, they finally gave a Prescription for Zofran. This stuff has been helping, i was feeling so good sunday that I helped Thomas finish our front yard. 

Then something hit me today and i was back to how i felt and it felt terrible worst day so far. I am finally feeling ok now thats It 7 o'clock. I am hoping tomorrow goes ok. I really don't like this part of pregnancy. You feel so blah!!! I envy women who don't get morning sickness. Also I have not baked or even really cooked a dinner in weeks to post. SO hopefully thats changes soon. 

ON my death bed!!

So as I am writing this I am trying to make it threw this with out getting to sick. I feel like I have been sick for months but really it only has been couple weeks. But I know what is making this happen to me and I am so excited about it, i just wish I didn't have to get sick with it. SO I am Happy, over joyed, excited to spend the word that Thomas and I are expecting are first child. Yes we have Abigail. But this one will be Thomas's first. I am so excited... The down fall of all this though is Thomas leaves us once again for another deployment in August and my due Date is Nov. 3rd. He will be gone for the birth of his child. I do have to thank god though cause I am so thankful for His family and mine. They will be here with me for the birth. I am so excited for this child to come into our world. I just dislike that I have to get morning sickness (which is all day). Hoping it passes soon and I can get off my death bed! Please pray for us and a healthy baby. Also they way we told are family was cute so i need to share it. Here's a picture we sent parents and siblings and grandparents this in the mail. 

Nice Weather!!!

After a Couple rain storms and thunder storms, tornado warnings. WE finally got nice weather like 70 degree weather.. Its been so wonderful to go outside and enjoy it. So Thomas had all these plans for the weekend to go do stuff, truth was he was more excited about His new Jeep then the weather. Thomas bought this Jeep Wrangler couple weeks ago. Finally got it started running, so he wanted to go take it 4 wheeling (which is why he bought it) But 1. I get car sick so don't do good off roading and 2. I don't like getting muddy. But I went along for the ride. And it was fun! Abigail had the most fun. Our jeep got covered in mud. 

So on Sunday we decided to plant flowers and fix up are front yard. (should i say thomas fixed up our yard) He did a wonderful job we just need to finish one side then we are done. And of course 

Miss Abigail helped tell us where we needed to put things.

We also enjoyed going to the beach, I can't wait for warmer weather so we can go there like everyday. It was Definitely  a nice weekend but of course this weekend is rain. So I am thankful that we did go out while we could. 

  

Cooking

I swear I am cooking. I just haven't been cooking that great of food, or just not one that I thing is good enough to share. I also have been really tired lately so I have been taking naps with Abigail almost everyday and usually thats when i start blogging. If I am lucky i can squeeze it in with her around. She usually is pretty chatty and wants my attention. Which I just love about her. She is always talking about some crazy idea she has. Or some game she made up.
I will post some food soon though. I am going to try to become a Mexican lady for a day and TRY key word "try" to make homemade tortillas. I have been wanting some for weeks now and here in the South (so they say) you can not find good mexican food or tortillas. So today I am going to try to do it. Wish me luck... hahaha. Lucky I have my mexican husband to help me. haha. I'll post it later or tomorrow.

Oh pinterest

So I know you guys all follow pinterest or well most of you. I am in love with the ideas and recipes and crafts I have gotten from there. I decorated my house and got so many ideas from there. I also have tried many recipes too, but one that Thomas and Abigail love is Mozzarella Sticks. They are easy to make and I thing a little healthier then what you get at restaurants. I made them about a month ago and they came out good so yesterday morning I went grocery shopping and thought i would make them for lunch. (now thats because i went grocery shopping hungry) So I am going to tell you the recipe

Mozzarella Sticks 
A package of egg roll wraps (picture below)
package of string cheese (12 pack or 18pack will do)
a little bowl of water
frying pan with veg. oil or olive oil

Steps:
1. Get the package of string cheese and pre open every single cheese and set them on a plate or paper towel. Next get you bowl and set in next to the cheese.

2. Get the egg roll wraps out of the package and set them on a paper towel. Set the piece of cheese in the middle of the wrap. Wet each corner with just a tad of water.

3. Grab the corner at the bottom and fold it over the cheese then tuck in both sides. Then roll.

4. Keeping doing that with each roll till all the string cheese is gone.

5. Heat up your frying pan till is it hot and ready to fry. Start putting in the sticks with some tongs. Fry till the are golden brown. Be carful the cheese will ooze out on some of them.

                                   sorry picture not that great but some what the should look like

                                                           egg roll wraps I used

V - DAY

I was trying to figure out what to get Thomas for Valentines day but he keep telling me nothing I am fine. So then we decided not to exchange gifts anyways. I did ask him to make me some dinner, so if he is doing that I had to bake him something. Well last week Abi was eating chocolate covered pretzels and I'm pretty sure Thomas ate most of them. So thats when I was like oh I'll make that for him. Which i thought was going to be a lot more time consuming but it wasn't that bad.

All the stuff I needed was rod pretzels, chocolate chips semi sweet and white morsels, sprinkles

                          I melted the chocolates in bowls and started dipping and covering the pretzels.

                                                                   My little Helper

                              I laid them all on a cookie sheet that was cover with parchment paper

                      I took some of the white chocolate and dyed it pink and drizzled that on top.

The finish project

You know what I really like how nice the came out and so fast. I am going to do this more often. HA : ) Hope you guys enjoy and Happy cooking to you!

Grilling in 50 degree weather

So Thomas loves to grill, any kind of weather he is up for it. Yesterdays weather was cold like bone chilling cold with wind blowing. I kept telling Thomas have been wanting a good hamburger for about a week now. So ours friends had this really good recipe for a burger. It include bacon now calm on who doesn't like bacon with there burger. Well I am calling this burger the double bacon burger on sweet sourdough bread. I watched our friend and Thomas make this burger and I am going to share with you all because it by far was the best I have had. 


What you will need. 
2 pounds of ground meat. (this made 8 patties)
1 package of normal bacon (will need to be split in half)
1 egg
Lipton Onion mix (picture below)
salt and pepper to taste
Now we added other seasoning but you season to your liking.
toothpicks

Directions
1. Get a nice good medium sized bowl, Mix the ground meat, 1 egg, onion mix, and seasoning together. Get the bacon make sure you leave out enough slices for how many burgers you are making. I left 8 slices to the side. Take the rest of the bacon and chop it up into 1inch piece and mix that into your bowl of meat.
2. Start forming your patties good size. Get all your patties and put them on a cookie sheet spaced apart. Now take the extra bacon you set aside and start wrapping one piece of bacon around a patty and secure it with some toothpicks. Continue  doing that to each patty until all are wrapped in bacon.
3. Go ahead and put the on the grill. Grill them to your taste.
4. Now we used a sweet sourdough bread but any hamburger bread would work. We top it off with a little BBQ sauce. Enjoy!

                                                                 This is the secret to it

                                                             All of them on the grill 
                              (sorry about Thomas drink in the picture I swear we weren't grilling it)

                                                                        close up of it
I meant to take a picture of it all put together but i was so excited about them that I just ate it so fast. But promise you these are good. Enjoy and Happy Grilling to you.