Its raining, Its pouring,
the old man is snoring
This shirt pretty much sums it up.
Friday, April 15, 2011
Rain Rain Go AWAY
Sunday, April 10, 2011
Bread!
Today, I was absolutely bored out of my mind. There was nothing to do! My parents were glued to the couch watching the masters...congrats Charl Schwartzel...and my sisters were at birthday parties. So I decided to bake some bread. Yep, you heard right. I made BREAD from SCRATCH. I feel like a baking expert:)!!! So now I am going to share my fabulous bread recipe with all of you! Enjoy!
Ingredients:
2 Tsp. yeast
1 1/2 cups lukewarm water
2 Tsp. sugar
4 cups flour
1 Tsp. salt
First, combine your lukewarm water.....NOT HOT.....yeast, and sugar in a mixing cup. Let rise for about 15 minuets. This is what a website said to do, however mine did not rise or change one bit, but I was still able to make bread, so do not fear if it fails to rise!
(what the Yeast is supposed to look like!)
Next, in a separate bowl combine the flour and salt. After the liquid mixture is done rising, combine it with the dry mixture. If you stir these two together you should get dough!!
(My Dough!)
Now you kneed the dough until it's soft and round, like the picture above. Note, it should be one solid piece. Once your dough is in a round ball, place it in a pan for cooking. Leave it in this pan with a towel over it for two to three hours. I know this seems like FOREVER, but it will allow the dough to rise even more and it's well worth it!
Finally put your dough in the oven (300 degrees) for however long you think it takes...honestly the times will vary! Your bread should begin to brown slightly at the top. After that, Bon Appetite!
My Bread!!!
I even made a turtle! (he is kinda deformed!)
Oh, and the most important step of all...just have fun with it! If your preoccupied with it being perfect, it will fail! So just let yourself go with it, and be ok with deformities, like my turtle!!! ;)
Sunday, April 3, 2011
Volleyball!
As many of you know, I Love Volleyball!!! It's a game of complete control, and you set the tempo. I play for the OJVA Red team, and this weekend we had our final Power League Tournament. Every team in CEVA volleyball has a rank, or seed. At Power League tournaments, how you play and finish determines your rank and the division you will compete in at regionals. This week we were ranked 83, just one spot away from moving up and entire division. With this being the last qualifier before regionals, it was crucial that we preformed well. When playing in one of these qualifying tournaments, you start the day off in pool play, where you play against three other teams. Then depending on how you finish, you get put into brackets. The top two in the highest bracket, (first and second in that division) move up to the next division. The bottom two move down a division. In our pool, we were ranked second, and easily beat our first opponent, the number four ranked Pirates. The other two teams were more difficult, and both matches went to third games. But we continued to win and finished first in our pool, securing us a place to play for first, second, third, or fourth. By that point in the day, we were tired...waking up at FOUR in the morning and playing volleyball is no fun...so our only way to stay energized were these little jello things called shot blocks.
They literally give you this little adrenalin shot, and after downing about four of them each, we were bouncing off the walls! The first round of bracket play was intense. Whoever won was guaranteed to move up a division! In a nail biting third game, we were able to pull out the win! You could hear our screams for miles! Our team continued on to win the tournament(and the little goodie bags that went with it!). It was amazing and I loved every moment of it! No matter how we do at regionals, I need to thank every one of these girls who made the season so fantastic!
You Girls are Amazing!
Sunday, March 27, 2011
March MADNESS
They call it MARCH MADNESS for a reason. And I'm beginning to understand why. First of all, like many of you, I swore that Ohio would go all the way! I had checked stats, watched pre-tournie games, and consulted all the expert's picks. Everything pointed to a great showing by Ohio. But apperently Kentucky had other ideas....thanks a lot Kentucky. I truly hope North Carolina crushes you. So after my #1 team was out, I resorted to the next best thing...Kansas. Their big, their bold, and they can handle a basketball pretty darn well! Kansas was the only team that could save my bracket, the one team I had left for the final four! But once again I must have jinxed them,because they were defeated by VCU....thats right VCU!!! An 11 seed! How is that even remotely possible?!? Lets just take a look at our current Final Four...
From the Southwest, the number 11 seed VCU.
From the Southeast, number 8 seed Butler.
From the West, number 3 seed Connecticut.
And from the East, either number 2 seed North carolina or number 4 seed Kentucky(boo!).
Obviously, this tournament is messed up! Just for laughs, lets take a look at my bracket... oh, and this is my better one of the two...please don make fun!!!
Oh well! Thats basketball for you! Have a fantastic March Madness!
From the Southwest, the number 11 seed VCU.
From the Southeast, number 8 seed Butler.
From the West, number 3 seed Connecticut.
And from the East, either number 2 seed North carolina or number 4 seed Kentucky(boo!).
Obviously, this tournament is messed up! Just for laughs, lets take a look at my bracket... oh, and this is my better one of the two...please don make fun!!!
Oh well! Thats basketball for you! Have a fantastic March Madness!
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