yummy with a side of updates...

Ok so my mom came over this weekend for dinner an to watch the game with us. Well i made some awsome yummy food...

dessert, apple crisp

Ingredients

Filling:

• 6 Granny Smith apples, peeled, cored, chopped (about 3 1/2 pounds)
• 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 1 tablespoon lemon juice
• 1/4 cup maple syrup

Topping:

• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 3/4 cup brown sugar
• 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 8 tablespoons (1 stick) chilled butter, cut into pieces
• 1/4 cup coarsely chopped pecans

Bourbon Cream:

• 1 cup heavy cream
• 1/4 cup confectioners' sugar
• 1 tablespoon bourbon

• Directions

  Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

  For the Filling:

  Butter a 9 by 13-inch casserole dish. In a large bowl mix all the filling ingredients together and toss to coat all the apples. Pour in the prepared baking dish

  For topping:

  In a food processor combine the flour, brown sugar, cinnamon and salt in large bowl. Pulse to blend. Pulse in the butter until mixture forms pea size lumps. Add the pecans and pulse 1 or 2 more times. Sprinkle over filling. Bake crisp for 45 to 50 minutes. Cool 10 minutes before serving.

  For Bourbon cream:

  In a medium sized bowl, beat the cream until it begins to thicken. While beating, add the sugar and bourbon and beat until soft peaks form. Dollop over servings of apple crisp.

  
  

  and so this is what it came out like but you have to try it yourself!!!!

  

  
  

  Oh and Riley is getting better at being mobile... lol its more like a inch worm kinda thing then crawling tho =0) But she likes being upright more then on the belly.

  

  
  
  

  

  
  
  

  

  
  
  

  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

   And..... Daves work might be holding off on shutting down! yay yay! kinda... just means we wont have to worry bout that for a few more months hopefully longer, but the 330 pm to 330 am really sucks since i dont see him till sunday due to him not getting home till 4am an sleeping most of the day.  ugh life isnt life without some drama and rough roads, right?

  
  

  peace an love

  
  

family crazieness

Ok so i know its been a while, im not online that often lol. But anywhoo, the holiday season wasn't the greatest this year. Daves work layed him off for the holidays, Machells getting in trouble what seems like daily,Rliey was  well the best baby ever lol. But dave an i argued over everything ( still kinda doing it) =0/ i think its from him being layed off lack of money our cars falling apart not making rent, yadda yadda. lol So our xmas kinda whent like this. I was ina funk on the eve of xmas eve so dave let me open a gift early... lol it was a new nikon'!!!!! yay i was soooo excited to start using it.

this would be the first pic i took with it....

Then shell opened one of hers so did Dave an Riley. It cheered me up. My brother came home on leave for his break from AIT (he's a military man now) he came over for a visit for a couple of nights. We played MW3 and COD most of the time lol. I sooo missed my lil brother... Anyway chistmas eve we spent with Daves family opening gifts and visiting. 

Our first family pic of the holidays.... lol wow i need to lose that baby weight bad! 

After that, christmas day was NUTS! We had our xmas,

 then off to my moms

a lil snack befor we left...

then off to my dads

an then shells dads. We didnt get home untill 9 or 10. (ugh i was sooo sleepy) 

We had lots of fun tho seeing family an eating yummy food. Then the new years well we fell asleep well befor the ball droped due to a cranky baby the night befor. Oh an almost forgot thanksgiving!! We spent that at my moms also, she made some realy good food.

                                                       All of us minus my brother =0/

                                                                            yummy!

Our first thanksgiving as a married couple! awww lol

And that was our holiday.