This Just In: Liam is crawling!

Yep, you heard right, crawling!

 One day he's rolling around the floor playing with his toys... 

the next day he's halfway across the room chasing them! 

Bubba has taken off and hasn't slowed down since. He doesn't let anything get in his way, he is one determined little guy. 

The same day he started scooting around the floor he sits himself up from laying flat on his back.

 Liam tackled two huge milestones in one day, you can only imagine what proud parents we are! As far as we know this is unheard of and he's gotta be the smartest baby on the planet. (Yup, we're those parents.) Anyways, this has been the fastest 7 months of my life. Where is all the time going?!

  

As Liam reaches new milestones I can't help but reflect on these past months and how much our lives have changed for the better. I could have never imagined I would enjoy being a mommy this much! I could care less if my shirt is soaked with slobber, I don't gag at a blowout here and there, and I quite enjoy the challenge of using the aspirator. I know, I know. I guess that's what they refer to as "motherly love".  It's bitter sweet watching him take off so fast. I know there will come a day when he'll be too cool to hug and kiss on his mommy, but with every new thing he learns I couldn't be more proud. 

So maybe I'm having a bit of a hard time letting him grow but there's nothing I can do to stop him! (We've looked into it) For now I guess there's only one thing to do...baby proof.

Homemade Pie Crust 101

I can officially report our first attempt at making pie crust was a success! I found a foolproof recipe compliments of a fellow Okie whom I pay homage to almost daily in my kitchen, thanks Pioneer Woman!
So here it goes, one of the best pie crusts I've ever tasted.


Recipe makes 2 9-inch pie crusts

Ingredients: 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour

                     1 tsp. salt

                     1 Tbs. Sugar

                     1 cup (2 sticks) cold butter, cut into chunks

                     1/4 cup cold water

Directions: 

Mix the two cups of flour with salt and sugar. Cut butter into the flour with a pastry cutter (or in a food processor). Add the other 1/2 cup of flour and work in. The mixture should look like large crumbs. DON'T OVER MIX! Sprinkle the cold water over dough and with your hands or wooden spoon mix until the dough holds together.

Now shape the dough into two discs.

 From this point you can wrap the dough and store it for later use or you can go ahead and roll the dough out for your pie. (Or in this case, for your quiche!) 

I gave Mikey the honors. He loves stuff like this.

 If your dough starts sticking sprinkle a little more flour over top and that should do the trick. 

I mean is there anything more awesome than a husband who loves to cook with you? Nope. 

 And look who else loves hangin' around the kitchen....

Mommy's little buddy! I'm a lucky girl!! 

So here's our dough almost ready to fill. (If you look really close you can see the chunks of butter in the dough, ahhhh)

 We decided to use our crust to make a breakfast quiche. We roasted mushrooms, sauteed green onions in some butter, yummm, added swiss cheese, prosciutto, and combined all the ingredients with eggs and heavy cream. The quiche baked for 45 minutes at 400 degrees. 

                      

Voila!

This crust is perfect, and flaky and just delicious. 

And the mushrooms, I die! 

Back With A Brand New Addition

While taking a year off from blogging a lot has happened!!

1. We got pregnant.

2. We moved to Oklahoma.

3. We had a beautiful baby boy! 

& baby made 3!  

After 7 months I think I'm finally getting the knack of this "mama" thing, and I've decided it's the best job I've ever had! Now that we've established somewhat of a schedule with our little cowboy mama has time to pick up blogging where she left off, well, sort of where she left off, you get me.  

Happy to be back with a brand new addition!