Project 52: Week 5

The pack­ing continues…good thing boxes make fun toys too.   New pics of the house com­ing soon!  We were over there yes­ter­day and I took some of the main level.  Stay tuned!!

In 23 days…

all the pack­ing will have to be done and we’ll no longer be in our awe­some first house that we’ve called home for the last 7 years!  Tonight we signed the papers on an awe­some new house in Rose­mount!  It’s brand new and just our absolute dream house.  I seri­ously could not as for any­thing more. This entire adven­ture has been a whirl­wind over the last 6 weeks, but it’s been a won­der­ful one.

Some­how, we sold our house with­out it ever going on the mar­ket, thanks to our awe­some real­tor, Shirley Lar­son.  If you need a fab­u­lous real­tor, you def­i­nitely want to check her out!  We found out last night that our buyer had sold her house, so we signed the papers on our new one tonight and will be clos­ing on the 26th.  No, not the 26th of March, but the 26th of FEBRUARY!!  As in, 23 days from now!!!!!!!!!  Yeah, that’s me you’re hear­ing freak­ing out about get­ting our house packed up in that amount of time!!

Stay tuned for our crazy mov­ing adven­ture.  It wasn’t so bad the first time around when we moved into our cur­rent house, but with 2 kids, I can guar­an­tee there be some highs and lows along the way.

And now, here are some pic­tures!  The inside pics are of a dif­fer­ent house, but the same model, our floor plan is just flip flopped of these pho­tos, but the out­side ones are of our actual house.  The out­side will be painted come the spring, so the final color will be a light yellow-ish with green accents.  I can’t wait!!

If only this fur­ni­ture came with too!  LOL

This might be my favorite room in the house

Project 52: Week 4

Whew, I almost didn’t get one in this week!  We started doing some pretty hefty pack­ing this week­end.  Hope­fully I can share more details about all of that VERY soon!  It’s GOOD NEWS *we think*.

Here’s week 4, I thought it was very fit­ting and prob­a­bly will be for the next lit­tle while.

Best Buds!

Here’s Ty and his best buddy on their first day of preschool this year.  I’m SO behind on shar­ing lay­outs, so stay tuned for a bunch more!

Cred­its:

J’adore les Crepes

I’ve loved them since the first day I had a crêpe in French class that melted in my mouth and I fell in love with them even more after my trip to Paris in high school.  Every once in a while I like to make a batch and rem­i­nisce as I savor them.  For­tu­nately, the fam likes them now too!  So, I thought it would be fun to do a lit­tle post about how I make them.  They’re not nearly as hard as you would think.

I like to make them in my blender, but you can also make them with a mixer too.  Start by tak­ing 4 eggs and putting them into the blender.

Then add 2 1/4 cups of milk

fol­lowed by 1/2 tea­spoon salt and 1/4 cup of melted butter

and finally 2 cups of flour

Now, we’re ready to blend!  Blend for about 1 minute.  Then stop and scrape the sides to make sure you get any lumps of flour mixed in.  Ok, let’s blend for about 15 more sec­onds.  This will make it nice and smooth.

Now, we need to put it in the refrig­er­a­tor to chill for at least an hour.

***** T I M E   L A P S E ********  (you know, like they do on the cook­ing shows?)

Now, it’s time to cook, yay!  Turn on your stove to about medium heat.  You don’t want it too hot oth­er­wise you’ll burn them!

When I first start my batch, I like to melt a lit­tle bit of but­ter, for some rea­son, this helps the first ones turn out bet­ter.  But once it’s gone, I don’t do it after every one.  This crepe pan is awe­some for mak­ing them as it’s non­stick and just the right size, but any small fry­ing pan will work too.

Next, pour in about 1/4–1/2 cup of your bat­ter (depends on how thick you like them).  This is when it’s really nice to have used the blender as you can just pour it directly into the pan!   Then, pick up the pan and swirl it around, mak­ing sure to cover the entire bot­tom of the pan.

It will take about 2–3 min­utes to cook the first side.  The edges will begin to curl up and when they seem to be turn­ing golden brown, gen­tly peek under­neath to see how it’s look­ing.  You want a nice golden brown color.  If it looks good, then flip it!

The 2nd side only takes about another minute to cook.  And that’s it!  Just use wax or parch­ment paper to sep­a­rate each of the crepes and store in an air­tight con­tainer (we just use a ziplock).

Now, for the best part, enjoy­ing them!  You can add any top­pings that you want to your crepes.  Some of my favorites are fruit, choco­late syrup, but­ter, pow­dered sugar or whipped cream.  But my absolute favorite is Nutella!  Mmmmm.…SO good!

Just roll it up, or fold it up, do what­ever you’d like…and enjoy!

Here’s the recipe.  Thanks for reading!

Project 52: Week 3/52

It’s rare that I take a photo of Zeus these days.  But I couldn’t resist this as he was patiently wait­ing for his best girl to fin­ish her muf­fin (or to share some with him).  He’s get­ting pretty up there and we know he’s prob­a­bly on bor­rowed time (you can see all the gray in his muz­zle).  He’s so good with the kids and espe­cially loves Bailey.