Happy Halloween From the Johnsons!

Always....

So last night Brody kept saying mom I want to read this book to you...I looked down and saw that it was a book that I had bought him a long time ago. It is about a mother and a son. The son is bit crazy and the son keeps asking his mother if she will love him and she says always. Brody read the whole book to me!!  I was touched!! He is such a good little reader!! I Love you Brody...Always!!

Who is this guy who was in the newspaper????

All my boys!!!! Clever Ey!!

Last Cross Country meet!!!!! Yeah!!! Now on to Wrestling!!!

My Favorite Chocolate Chip Cookies!!!

3/4 cup brown sugar

3/4 cup white sugar

1 stick of butter crisco

2 eggs

1 t. baking soda

1T hot water

1 t vanilla

1 t salt

2 1/4 flour

1 bag milk chocolate chips or what ever you want.

Place sugars and crisco in mixer. Mix.... add eggs. Combine hot water and baking soda and stir. Pour that into butter with the eggs. Mix. Add the rest except chocolate chips. When well combined add chocolate chip. Preheat oven to 375. Use spoon to scoop dough onto cookie sheet. Cook for 9 min. Do not over cook!!!!  I love this recipe...Alot of the times I will use a cup white chocolate chips with a cup of milk chocolate... Yumo!! Enjoy!

Pizza dough!!!

We make home made pizza alot!! I usually make the dough in my bread maker. I found this recipe and love it!! So far the best!!!! Enjoy!!

1 cup warm water

2 1/4 t yeast

1 T honey (or sugar)

2 t salt

2 T oil

3 cup flour

Pour water in mixer sprinkle yeast on water and let stand for a few minutes. Add honey, salt, oil and flour and mix. Transfer to oiled bowl and get it rise till it is doubled. Roll out and enjoy!!!

Best Ever Coffee Cake

INGREDIENTS:

- 1 cup oil

- 2 eggs, beaten- 1 tsp. vanilla- 1 c. milk- 1 c. sugar- 3 cups flour- 3 tsp. baking powder- 1/2 tsp. salt- 1 1/2 c. brown sugar- 2 tsp. cinnamon- 1 stick margarine, melted
DIRECTIONS:In a large mixing bowl. combine oil, eggs, vanilla and milk together. In a medium bowl, blend together sugar, flour, baking powder and salt. Combine egg mixture with flour mixture. Pour half the batter into a 9x13 pan. In a medium bowl, prepare streusel by combining brown sugar and cinnamon. Sprinkle half of streusel on top of the batter. Top with remaining batter and then sprinkle the remaining streusel on top. Drizzle with melted margarine. Bake, uncovered at 350 for 25-30 minutes. Makes 18-24 servings.
This coffee cake is so cinnamon-y and butter-y!It's the BOMB!!

Cross Country!!!!!

Focused Porter!!

Brody and Trevor....  What a happy boy!!!! A big field to run with his buddies!!! 

Yellowstone Day 1

 My sister Cosette and her daughter Cassidy

 Old Faithful Inn

 Old Faithful

 There is a Bison on the road!!!

Cosette invited me to spend some time with her and Cassidy in West Yellowstone! We explored Yellostone 2 days!! We had fun!!!

Colors of Yellowstone

Yellowstone Day #2

Brody has no teeth!!!

In the mountians with Papa and Nana J

Pictures taken with my phone...2nd day of school

I got to walk Brody and Preston to school today because they had a parent meeting. Preston I think was a little less enthused...  This is Brody's buddy Anthonie. They luckily got into the same class this year!!! I love my boy!!!

First Day of School 2011

The newest 5th grader and 1st grader

The 8th grader!!!

And off they go!!! There were excited! They all had haircuts last night. They got everything ready and ACTUALLY got to sleep early!!! Brody told me he was excited about this school year. I said "oh why?" and he said, "I am going to be nice to everyone and make lots of new friends and I am going to be really smart." So thank goodness for his great attitude!!!  Porter is doing Cross County at his middle school so I won't see him till 5 everyday!!!