This is our new fishtank that we bought for Ruby and Moxy. Greg and I actually really like it especially because the black fish had baby fish.

sunny day

Ruby loves to "push" Moxy around the back porch. Moxy just started to scoot himself around on his own.

Welcome to Bethel Andrew

Andrew is already helping with unfinished projects. This one is to keep the mud swallows off of our house. They are nice little birds when they aren't dive bombing us and pooping on our cars. We have been nice to them the last couple of years letting them build their nests but it seems like every year more come to build nests. Now there is just too many.

Future Cake Makers

Wow, we got a nice little package today in the mail. The Mitchell family sent Ruby and Moxy little aprons and chef hats to go with their oven. THANK YOU! I think that Ruby is super excited about it, Moxy doesn't seem to know what to think! Cute little cookie monsters.

End of Spring Brings the Sun

Little chubby babies looking outside as it pours down in rain. We have been mostly getting cold rainy weather. This keeps the mosquitos away. The first wave of swallows have come, which means the mosquitos are close.

The clouds parted and dried the muddy roads up for a spring time walk in some sun. It is very windy and feels like ocean weather.

I love this stroller. It really does have good shocks and has not been a problem where ever we take it.

Rainbow over Bethel.

Happy Birthday Ruby...Two and Tons of Fun!

Our Best Pizza so Far

We eat homemade Pizza about 3 times per week. We really like pizza. However, we still have not found a perfect recipe. Some dough have come close and are fine to use, but nothing really grabs us. I am looking for pizza bubbles and cracker crust just like Pietro's pizza in Oregon. I am also look for a major response from Greg, I need to hear him say "this is the best so far."

Well we figured it out. We took our favorite dough recipe, form it in the food processor. Eat one pizza and put the other dough in the refridgerator. There is something about keeping the second dough in the fridge that makes it more yeasty and yummy for later. Also, we coat the bottom of the pizza in semonila flour, which is a smaller grain than corn meal, and slide the pizza onto a hot pizza stone at 550 degrees. I'd go higher, but this is as hot as the oven gets! We used to put the pizza on the middle rack, but we changed it to the bottom rack, this has created a cracker bottom crust. These simple things have created a delicious pizza, just like the fancy resturants. Greg finally said without prompting "this is the best so far!"

We added 1 tablespoon of gluten to each cup of flour last week. This made a really chewy pizza, also good. We also have tried using bread flour...works good. cooking pizza has been a good science experiment.