I just took my kitchen aid mixer out for a spin in it's new home aka on the counter of my new kitchen. I decided to pop my oven's cherry with a Bisquick Chocolate Chip Cooki recipe from the Pinterest website. With now flour in the house, I took to scouring the internet for a cookie recipe that didn't require just flour. Luckily a few days before I came across a Bisquick recipe on Pinterest so I returned to the Pinterest site and reviewed the recipe. The Bisquick recipe only requires 5 items! how easy is that? I just through Bisquick, vanilla, an egg, brown sugar and one cup of toll house chocolate chips into the mixer and in 10 minutes I was putting a few pans of cookies into the new oven. It only took another 8 minutes and all the sudden I had a few dozen cookies to satisfy my sweet tooth. Baby Girl has never had a homemade cookie before so I gave her one and she quickly reached for another. Now that she nows they are sitting on the counter top she will go over to that area and reach her hands up. I had to tell her this morning, "No cookies for breakfast little girl!" I think she was mad at me. Mom and Dad may eat terrible but Baby Girl is starting out right.
Have you ever watched those TV Game shows where they have a couple of doors and behind one is a grand prize? Well, this weekend the hub and I found out what was behind our Door #1. The hubby and I are starting the beginning phases of landscaping our backyard. Our first step, was to clean out the area behind our garage. When we moved in, there was about 2 feet of walking space behind our garage the rest of the area was covered in vines. Vines were growing on the roof and generally it was a mess. Not wanting the vines to take over the roof, we I started to clear out the vines last fall. But after we cut a million vines with only a pair of clippers we gave up and decided to clean out the rest in the spring. Spring came around and we didn't do much until one day when I was sick a few weeks ago, I ran into our gardener. I showed him the mess and asked if he knew of anyone who could come clean it out. I could tell he was actually, quite happy for me to broach the subject of