7 years and counting......

So today we have officially been hitched for 7 crazy years! Wow, who would have thought we would have made it this long, 22 years old and as green as you can possibly be fresh out of college (almost!) and with all of the ambition we could muster. I should say something romantic like it's been the most amazing time of my life, and although it has been amazing, it certainly hasn't been a typical scene out of your favorite romantic comedy. We've had our fair share of divorce threats (although none of those have reared their ugly head in at least 5 years), tears, laughter, humility, and even death. But we have made it to the other side, 7 years and 3 kids later, and are still in love, still best friends, and yes, dear bloggers, still happily married. Thank God!

And in honor of my husband I decided to indulge in a little chocolate goodness and make homemade brownies my fellow chocoholic, Jules, posted earlier today. Oh dear God were they delicious! If you love brownies, you must try the recipe, they are divine!

I did promise yesterday that I would post the Citrus Mini-muffin recipe that I made yesterday, so here it is and I assure you won't be disappointed.

Ingredients:
1 C flour
1/2 t baking powder
1/4 t baking soda
1/4 C butter, softened
2/3 C sugar
1 egg
1/2 C sour cream
1/2 t vanilla
2 t orange, lemon, or lime peel (I used orange)

Instructions:

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Lightly spray cups of a mini muffin pan (I used Pampered Chef) with nonstick cooking spray.
2. In a medium sized bowl combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Mix well.
3. In a larger sized bowl whisk butter and sugar until well blended. Add egg; whisk until smooth. Mix in sour cream, vanilla and citrus peel of your choice. Add flour mixture; mix until dry ingredients are moistened (don't overmix).
4. Using a spoon, drop a rounded scoop of batter into each muffin cup. Bake 12-13 minutes or until light golden brown. Cool in pan for 3 minutes. Remove from pan and serve warm.

Yield: 2 dozen

Enjoy!

Lazy Sundays.....

Aren't lazy days the best? Today J let me sleep in until 9am, which was so needed after Colin decided that he was hungry at 3:30am and it took me awhile to convince him that he needed to go back to sleep for several more hours. It never seems to work trying to convince a 7 month old to sleep (insert loud sigh here). But we're working on it.

This morning I made some great citrus mini muffins. It made two dozen muffins and I think Logan and I polished off at least 18 by ourselves......whoops. It was from a recipe I got out of my Pampered Chef mini muffin pan and I had to try it. I'll come back and post it later tonight, right now I'm too lazy to get my rear off the couch. Both boys are napping and I'm thinking that might be a good idea for me, too.......

The past few days I have been finding myself going back and getting hooked on Matt's blog and not being able to tear myself away, even though the tears always come. My heart and tears go out to him and sweet Madeline, even though I've never met this tiny family and they have no clue who I am. Right when find myself thinking I've been through some pretty major crap I stumble upon something like this blog and I remember just how small I am and how the world doesn't revolve around my grief. Thank you God for the wakeup call, sometimes it hits you right in the face like a friggin' truck, and apparently that's what I needed this weekend.

Wordless Wednesday

Has it really come down to this?

......a vacuum cleaner??? I honestly never thought I would be so excited about a stupid vacuum cleaner, but there I was, pacing the floors, waiting for this little piece of heaven to arrive straight from God Himself, or, in more realistic terms, the UPS truck. My beautiful yellow Dyson is here and after several papercuts from ripping open the boxes, my floors are a beautiful shade of clean! Logan helped me clean the floors with the popcorn popper, aka his vacuum cleaner, and I am so amazed and slightly disgusted and the amount of crap picked up from my floors! I can sleep well tonight knowing that my floors will never be the same again and my children won't roll around on the carpet and swallow an obscene amount of dog hair at the same time (which, by the way, rolling on the carpet happens to be Colin's favorite passtime).

It's my first time....

As I'm sure you will all notice very quickly, I have never, ever, in all of my 29 years, blogged before.  I know, I know, I must be living in the dark ages, but in all of the chaos that I've come to appreciate as my life I never have been able to find a couple of free minutes to actually get started. However, several weeks ago a very wise friend (thank you Megan) suggested I start, and so that brings me here.........so please bear with me as I learn this strange new world called blogging and I appreciate any feedback you may have for me.