The Town of Fredricksburg...

The town of Fredricksburg is a quaint old Greman town that has lots of cute little shops down main street and fun places to eat!  It also has some historical sites and museums.  Michael and I had a fun time strolling down the main street window shopping and trying restraunts.  :)

 



1st Anniversary...

 This last weekend My Wonderful Husband and I celebrated our 1st Anniversary!  :D  And I can honestly say it was a celebration of a perfectly wonderful year!  I just love being married!  Especially when it is to such an AMAZING Man!  ;)

 

 

 

 

We went to a Bed & Breakfast about 5 hours from us in a cute little town called Fredericksburg.  The town had lots of cute shops and restraunts but I'll share that in another post...

Neither one of us had been to a Bed & Breakfast before so it was a fun experience!

 

The room was so elegant and the bed was amazingly soft and had a TON of pillows!!!!

 

It also had a huge tub that was so fun to soak in after a long day of walking through town!  :)

 

This was the dinning room.  The food was really good!

 

And they had this enormous tree in the backyard that reminded me of MO.

 

 



Pretzel Recipe

A couple weeks ago I found this AMAZING soft pretzel recipe that my husband raved about on Facebook.  I had a lot of people ask for he recipe so here it is!  :)  The rolls are AWESOME as bund for hamburgers!  

 

Soft Pretzels

 

Makes 8 Pretzels

 

Ingredients:

 

1 1/2 c. 110 - 120 degree water

1 package active dry yeast

2 T. butter, melted

2 T. sugar

1 1/2 t. salt

4 to 4 1/2 c. flour

10 c. water

2/3 c. baking soda

 

Topping:

1 egg yolk

1 T. water

Coarse Salt

 

Dissolve yeast in hot water.  In a large bowl mix butter, sugar, salt, yeast mixture, and 3 c. of flour.  Beat til smooth.  Stir in enough remaining flour to form a soft dough.  (Dough will be sticky.) 

Turn dough onto a floured surface an knead 6-8min. til smooth and elastic.  Place in greased bowl turning once to grease top.  Cover with plastic wrap and let rise in a warm place til doubled, about an hour.

Heat oven to 425.  Punch dough down and turn onto lightly flored surface.  Divide an shape into 8 balls.  Roll each into 24 in. rope.  Form into pretzel shape. 

In a big pot bring water ad baking soda to a boil.  Drop pretzels 2 at a time into boiling water and boil for 30 seconds.  Remove with slotted spoon, drain well on paper towel.

Place 2 in. apart on greased baking sheets. 

Mix egg yolk and water.  Brush over pretzels, sprinkle with salt.  Bake for 10-12 min. til golden brown. 

 

You can freeze pretzels when cool n plastic bags.  To reheat, throw them in the microwave or oven.

For Rolls:  Roll the 8 balls of dough into 14 in. ropes.  Then loosely wrap dough around itself to form a coil.  Boil, top, and bake as directed.

For Bites:  Roll the 8 balls of dough into 12 in. rope.  Cut ropes into 1 in. pieces. Boil and top as directed.  Bake at 400 for 6-8 min.

 

Enjoy!  We sure did!!! :D



Snow!!!

Hello all!  Sorry it has been such a LONG time since I last posted but I do have a pretty good excuse!  ;)  As most of you probably know I'm pregnant!!!!!  :D   Due the middle of June!  I am doing pretty good now, but for the first 3 months I had really bad morning sickness, or more like ALL the time sickness, so I didn't get much done.  I am having pretty normal days now for the most part, except for this growing belly, and am going to try to keep up with this blog better!

 

Today we woke up to snow falling!!!!!  For the first time this year! :)  Texas winters are soooo different from the IL ones I am used to!  We have had 70 degree weather the last couple weeks and then all the sudden this week we got freezing rain and snow for the first time this year!  Crazy but I'll take it over the solid freezing weather my family has had back home!  ;)

 

 

So we are spending the day inside playing games and sipping hot chocolate!  ;)

Michael couldn't work today so I am enjoying having him home.  :)

 

But the birds are enjoying the weather especially when we put some bird seed out for them! 

 

They are so cute and fluffy!!!

 

We did end up going out and taking a walk in it though.

 

Stay warm!  ;)



Spaghetti Soup

It's finally starting to cool off here so I am getting into the soup mood!

Over the weekend I made this Spaghetti soup and it was AMAZING!!!!

I made enough that we had it 2 days in a row and we still wanted more!  This is definitely a keeper recipe!

 

 

Spaghetti Soup

 

Meatballs (you can use store bought or make your own! They are not hard to make.)

1 24oz jar of spaghetti sauce

5 c. water

2 beef bullion cubes

Dash of Italian seasoning

Salt & Pepper to taste

Spaghetti noodles

Parmesan Cheese

 

Combine the water, bullion, and spaghetti sauce in a pot.  Stir in seasonings and salt and pepper.  Bring to a boil then reduce heat to low and simmer while you make or heat up your meatballs.

Next, take your noodles and break into small bite size pieces and drop in the soup.  Heat until noodles are tender.  Then add meatballs.  (Taste your broth as you go you may want to add more water depending on your families tastes and evaporation.)

Then serve!  You can garnish with parmesan cheese.

 

Let me know if you try it and what you think!  Or if you added anything!  :)







Truck Rally

Last weekend we went to a truck rally with some of Michael's friends that were up visiting from LA!

It was a lot of fun!  We both had never been to one before and we really enjoyed it!

The first night they had a truck pull and then on Sat. they had drag racing which was pretty cool...

 

 

 

 

They had a specialty one there called the Batmobile!

 

These two were the funest to watch!  they were sooooo fast!  The one on the right hit 240 mph!!!!

 

They even raced some semis!  It was fun to see but they were a lot slower than the trucks!  ;) 

 

 



I'm Back!

Hi!  Sorry it's been awhile since I posted!  My computer met with an accident and a cracked screen so it's been in the computer shop.  But it's good as new now so come back later this week for new posts!  :)

 

 

Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;

Romans 12:10





Rock Climbing...

This weekend we went rock climbing with some friends for Michael's Birthday.

He had never gone and has been wanting to for awhile so I decided to surprise him and he LOVED it and of course was awesome at it! ;)

 

 

The lighting in there was weird so the pictures are a little blurry...

But my husband's so fast the camera can't catch him anyway!  ;)

 

There was a 100 ft. wall there that Michael climbed as well that he went up so fast I could barely keep up with keeping his rope tight!

 

Michael's limbs are so long that he could easily reach the next 'rock'.  But mine are so short that I had to almost do the splits and REALLY stretch to reach next knob.

 

It was a really fun day.  :)



My Man's Birthday...

Monday was My Man's 24th Birthday!  :D

I am soooooo blessed in the Man God has given me to!  He is the most AMAZING husband EVER!!!  I love him soooo MUCH!

 

 

I made some cupcakes to bring to class during coffee break.

This is how you spell 'Happy Birthday Michael' phonetically by the way.  (He is a phonetics teacher for those of you that don't know.)

 

Then that night we had some friends over for dinner.  I forgot to take pictures when it was light out but we enjoyed lighting our mason jar lamps.  :)

 

We had chicken fajitas (his favorite) and tacos.