This Week

For some reason whenever I attempt to make bread bowls they "spread out" instead of "rising up". The first time I made them, in a long time, I put 4 of them on a cooking sheet to rise and when I checked on them them were completely flat and spread out to cover the whole pan. I decided to cook them anyway and cut them into breadsticks, which worked ok, but would have risen even a little bit. I thought maybe the yeast that I used in them was old so I threw it out and bought brand new fresh yeast. A few weeks later I tried to make them again, with the new yeast, and the same thing happened. So again, I baked them and cut them into bread sticks. Instead of throwing the rest that we could not choke down, I decided that it would be fun to go feed the ducks at Beus Park, so thats what we did this week.

P.S.

I gave up making homemade bread bowls :)

When the geese and ducks saw us with "food"

they all came hurding toward us.

My brother has been bitten, pecked, honked

(or whatever you want to call it) by a goose,

so when they came running toward us I threw the bag

of bread to Brett and grabbed Brooklyn and ran. I'm a scardy cat I know!

But look at these suckers...they're massive!

Look at my brave husband feeding these giants!

Brooklyn had a blast watching them and walking/running on the trail. She would have loved for them to chase her all day. Now I know that when my bread making skills don't come through its not a complete waste of all that flour ;)

Something else Brooklyn and I did this week was visit our friends who were in town from Connecticut. Lauren and I have been friends since I can remember and I always love seeing her and her family. She has a daughter that is about 9 months older than Brooklyn and this time they were old enough to actually play together. It was so fun to watch them play and catch up!

Besties