Banana Nut Bread

Believe it or not, I made Banana Bread for the first time this week! I don't remember eating this a lot growing up, but its a regular at Sheila's house. I tried out the recipe she uses and it was easy. I used my mixer and used the wisk for all the ingredients, and then switched to the dough triangle when I added the flour. Here's the recipe:

3/4 cup margarine

2 1/4 cup sugar

3 eggs

3 bananas (ripe or bruised)

1/3 cup sour cream

1 1/2 teaspoon baking powder

1 1/8 teaspoon baking soda

3/4 teaspoon salt

dash cinnamon

1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla

3 cups Flour

Mix ingredients and pour into bundt pan or 2 loaf pans that have been greased (pam) and sprinkled with sugar. Bake at 350 for 50 minutes or until done. Top will by medium brown and toothpick will come out clean. You can use small loaf pans as well, adjust the cooking time in half. Give it a try and tell me how yours turned out! Enjoy!

Tag of 8

8 things tag rules are: post rules on your blog, answer the 6 '8' items, let each person know they are tagged by leaving them a 'comment' here goes

8 favorite TV Shows
1. Biggest Loser
2. Friends
3. Gilmore Girls
4. The Bachelor
5. Today Show (dumb i know)
6. Everybody Loves Raymond
7. Jon and Kate plus 8
8. The Office


8 things I did today
1. Watched little Keaton
2. Texted Jessica
3. Made Banana bread
4. Sat through a Primerica presentation
5. Vaccuumed the living room rug
6. Changed out some Scentsy scents
7. Finished the laundry from yesterday
8. Finished up my Jr. Miss errands


8 things i am looking forward to
1. Finishing "spring cleaning" my house and garage
2. A trip to Al and Amber's in April
3. Refinishing the floors in my living room (and trim and texture)
4. My 21st birthday
5. Doug's graduation in May 2010
6. Blake being potty trained
7. Girls Camp (i'm the camp director wahoo!)
8. Becki and Pablo's wedding


8 favorite restaurants
1. Roadhouse
2. Melinas
3. Hong Kong
4. Rupes
5. Chilis
6. Carinos
7. Red Robin
8. Quiznos Subs


8 things on my wish list
1. A beautiful yard
2. Another kiddo
3. Baskets for my entry table
4. A roomba vaccuum ( it think it would be great)
5. A walk in closet
6. A smaller waistline
7. A storage room
8. A Maid to clean my house!

I won't tag anyone this time, if you want to participate, consider yourself tagged!

Just a few pics of our NEW CAR!

So obviously, our car isn't brand new, just new to us! Thought i'd post a few pics for you all to see my new "baby." I am loving driving it! This week is crazy with jr miss practices/dress rehearsals, tuesday, wednesday and thursday night and then the program is on saturday. Wish all my girls good luck!

We're getting a new CAR!

So we sold our car on craigslist in less than a week, resulting in a new car that we can pick up tomorrow! Here's the dish on our new SWEEEEET ride! haha!

2004 Honda Accord EX
Graphite Pearl Exterior (a pretty name for gray)
Gray Leather Interior with heated seats
6 Disc CD Player
Tinted Windows
Sun/Moon Roof (tilts and opens)
Dual Heat (his and hers, as i like to call it)
Auto lock, windows, and seat
Keyless entry (the feature i wanted the most)

It's beautiful and so fun to drive! The dealer offered us (not us offered to him) $1400 less than he was asking, simply because we said we were looking at another similar car and he wanted our business. We ended up getting the car for $2600 less than Kelly Blue Book price (its like our online bible when car shopping)! We're so excited! We'll post a picture sometime!

Quick! Limited Offer!

Another fun blog game!The first five people to respond to this post will get something made by me! My choice. For you. This offer does have some restrictions and limitations:

1. I make no guarantees that you will like what I make! (Though I hope you will!)
2. What I create will be just for you.
3. It'll be done this year. {might be a little while}
4. You have no clue what it's going to be. I don't even have a clue what it's going to be.
5. I reserve the right to do something extremely strange.

The catch? Oh, the catch is that you must repost this on your blog and offer the same to the first 5 people who do the same on your blog. The first 5 people to do so and leave a comment telling me they did, win a homemade gift! It may not be great, but it will be fun!!* * *Oh, and be sure to post a picture of what you win when you get it!* * *