football party recipe.. taken from cooking tip of the day

I found this recipe and it is so yummy.. The bread part can be tiem consuming but you can just use regular pizza dough. anyway here's the recipe.

Recipe: Stromboli Made With Italian Herb and Garlic DoughAll you need:Pizza dough (homemade or store bought)5-6 slices Genoa Salami, very thinly sliced5-6 slices Provolone cheese, thinly sliced5-6 slices ham, thinly sliced¼ cup sliced black olives1 large roasted pepper (jarred in oil), chopped¾ cup mozzarella, shredded (fine or regular)1 egg, beaten with 1 teaspoon water for egg wash2 tablespoons grated Parmesan cheese

For the Italian Herb and Garlic Dough you will need:2 cups of flour1 packet Fleishmans Rapid Rise yeast¾ cup warm tap water½ teaspoon sugar½ teaspoon salt1 tablespoon dried Italian Seasoning1 tablespoon garlic flavored olive oil1 tablespoon olive oilAll you need to do to make the Italian Herb and Garlic Dough:In a measuring cup… combine the water, yeast and sugar. Allow the yeast to form a “head” like a beer… about 10 minutes…this way you are sure the yeast will work to make the dough rise. In a mixer bowl for a mixer fitted with dough hook, combine the flour, salt, Italian Seasoning, garlic olive oil and yeast in water.On medium speed, let the dough hook mix the dough. Stop the mixer periodically and knead the dough by hand by rolling the dough a bit to incorporate the ingredients.Continue to allow the mixer to knead the dough until it feels like “chewed bubble gum”…. If it feels sticky … add a little more flour… a ½ tablespoon at a time… if it’s dry and crumbly… add a little water… a ½ tablespoon at a time. Hand knead it a bit to make sure you have all the ingredients incorporated and form a ball.Pour the 1 tablespoon of olive oil in a medium bowl, using a paper towel…quickly coat the inside of the bowl.Roll the dough ball in the bowl to coat with the olive oil.Cover with plastic wrap or a damp cotton towel and place in a warm place that doesn’t have a draft. I usually heat my oven to warm then turn it off when I start the dough. When the dough is ready I put it into the oven …. Make sure the oven isn’t too warm… it should be around 100 degrees F.Let the dough rise until doubled in size (about an hour if you use the Rapid Rise yeast).

To assemble the Stromboli:Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F.Line a large baking sheet with parchment paper or lightly grease the pan.Flour a pastry board and place the dough on it… punch down the dough (deflate it) ….it will be very sticky… knead the dough into a ball using the flour from the board.Roll out the dough to a rectangle about 14 inches by 10 inches.Layer the ingredients on the dough leaving a 1 inch border.Brush the 1 inch border with the egg wash using a pastry brush.Carefully roll the dough and ingredients like a jelly roll starting on the long side.Tuck the ends in and pinch the dough.Pinch the dough where the dough ends to secure.Transfer the Stromboli to the prepared baking sheet.Brush the Stromboli with egg wash.Bake at 375 degrees F. for about 30 minutes or until light golden brown.Remove the pan from the oven and sprinkle the Stromboli with the grated Parmesan cheese.Return the pan to the oven and continue baking for another 5 minutes until golden brown and the cheese melts slightly.Remove from the oven and let it sit for about 15 minutes… Use a pizza cutter to cut thick slices and serve.

HAPPY GRANDPARENTS DAY!

GRANDPARENTS
Grandparents bestow upon their grandchildrenThe strength and wisdom that timeAnd experience have given them.
Grandchildren bless their GrandparentsWith a youthful vitality and innocenceThat help them stay young at heart forever.
Together they create a chain of loveLinking the past with the future.The chain may lengthen,But it will never part...
~Author Unknown~

We feel really blessed to have so many loving grandparents and great grandparents in our lives. From allan and my grandparents to lilly and emma's.. we love each and every one of you that make our life special and blessed just to have you in it.!!

another medical tip ..

Okay i know that some of you know this but alot of you may not so i'm going to start adding tid bits that i have picked up from nursing school. I try to also put something that i found on the internet about what i'm talking about to reference.. anyway below is something that i learned in nursing school that i had no idea about really till then. I took the following paragraphs from another posting site. Our instructors had told us the same thing and i was thinking about this last night when i was cleaning a cut and had no alcohol in the whole house.. hope it helps someone.

I know when we were all children and you cut yourself of you scraped you knee, your mom would reach of one of two things. Alcohol, which we all hated because it burned so much, or she would get Hydrogen Peroxide, which didn't hurt all that much and it bubbled, which it the coolest thing in the world when you are 6 years old. Well parents, no longer reach for the Hydrogen Peroxide. And here is why i say this.... I am in nursing school and 4 weeks ago i did a rotation with a Wound Care nurse. If a patient has a big sore or a big wound she is a specialized nurse who does wound care. I noticed throughout the week that she never used any Hydrogen peroxide on any wounds. She said not only does it bubble and eat away and the bad bacteria in the wound, it is also eating away and bubbling away good tissue! This means you are actually doing more harm that good. Because the more of the good tissue that is eaten away, the longer the sore or cut takes to heal. Because it takes longer to heal, there is an increased risk for infection because it is open for a longer amount of time. She told me she never uses it because the patients in the hospital are already at risk for infection and she does'nt want anything to slow down wound healing. It is more beneficial to clean cut or scrape with Normal saline(you can get it any any drug store). Normal saline is almost the same as diluted salt water, but normal saline is sterile and salt water is not. As soon as the cut or scrape occurs, clean it with normal saline. Get two 4x4 gauze and apply a triple antibiotic ointment to the gauze side that will be touching the skin. Spread it around evenly. Apply both 4x4's to the wound and secure with tape by taping all edges like a window pane and the securing with look horizontal strips of tape. You don't want use the first little bit of the ointment that comes out of the tube, because it might be contaminated. You also don't want to squeeze the ointment directly from the tube onto the skin, because the tube could touch the wound making it more dirty. The dressing should be changed once a day and it is probably best to change it during bath time because your going to have to take the old bandage off anyway. Never use the same only gauze two days in a row. The wound care nurse also said, if you don't have any Normal Saline and all you have is hydrogen peroxide, dilute the peroxide. It should be about 3/4 water and may 1/4 peroxide. I will still eat away at the good and bad stuff, but it will not eat away as much and it would take alot longer than if you just poured it straight from the bottle.

a little add in

I forgot why i was telling a lilly story.. so the other part of her story is that she is cracking me up because she has a new habit. It's funny and yet annoying all in one. I'll ask her to do something like put a diaper in the trash and she will say " sorry" except she says it funny. It doesn't matter what it is that you ask her if she doesn't want to do it she just says " sorry" like your outta luck. lol she has gotten a few spankings over this now but it's a bit funny and me and her dad have been making fun of her behind her back. allan will ask me to take my car somewhere or something and i'll say " sooriee" that's more of how she says it. SHe is a great little helper and usually she wants to help with everything but if she doesn't want to help she now thinks she can just say sorry and that takes care of that. lol..

Oh and potty training is still as it has been. When she is naked in the house she will go no problem in the toilet everytime but as soon as i put the pull ups on her she pees. I'm tempted to just use the training pants and make her wear them if she gets them wet but i guess that's a little mean. ?? She is fine if she is naked but she doesn't get the concept of keeping any panties or diapers or pull ups dry. If she has bottoms on then they are meant to be peed in..


How about this game tonight. ALlan and i are really excited for football season to be starting back up. WE are switching teams and he is going to start rooting for the vikings. I haven't yet picked one but i'm keeping an eye on arizona and an eye on the saints. If the saints hadn't won the superbowl last year i probably would be picking them but that looks a little suspicous. lol.. i do like them cause drew brees went there from san diego and he was the quarterback when i was in san diego.. i'm glad he won. ! anyway the saints play the vikings tonight.. woot woot!!

lilly story

So it's business as usual around here. Allan is working a bunch but has friday off then does nights on saturday night. He has been ticking away at his schooling too. Only about three or 4 more classes i think till he has his degree in electronics. I started my first two classes for my 4 year degree. I don't even wanna talk about how many more to go.. lol. They aren't to bad just time consuming. However i did find time to go to bingo today and yes i WON!!! i won 700 bucks. Of course this is going towards our house closing costs and furniture and stuff. well just moving expenses really. But a win is a win and it was fun!

Lilly has been great. Her teachers at school think she is so funny.They tell me everyday what kind of things she was doing that cracked them up. Yesterday i picked her up and all the kids were covered in shaving cream. The teachers had let them play with it on their craft table. All the kids had it all over them. NOT LILLY.. nope they said she put a finger in it once or twice and said no way. lol.. i asked her why shse didn't want to play in it and she said " a mess" she was right it was a mess. Today i picked her up and they told me that she played hard outside and hada good day but when they came in from playing she was crying so the teacher asked her what was wrong and well she was crying because her shoes were dirty.. i think i may have a prissy little thing on my hands. lol. NOt really but she is pecurliar about messy things. she doesn't like her clothes to be wet at all and if something is dirty on her she tells me she needs a " bebe wipe" and that means she wants to scrub it with a baby wipe. Generally she is just a very happy little girl full of love and hugs and kisses. She has been carrying a babydoll just about everywhere she goes right now. She has 3 dolls. two i think are cabbage patch kids and they get no attention but the one that cries and moves it's eyes.. well that baby goes everywhere with her. Only one eyeball moves now and i think it is the grossest weird doll almost scary but she loves that doll and wont let me replace it with any other. ANyway, the little girl will not go to bed tonight and her dad is almost home from the gym so i better sign off of here and get her down before he comes home and catches her up again.lol.

topic for tonight.. ANGER..

Okay i don't usually go down this road to much but i wanted to share my thinking on a subject that i well.. was thinking about today. It's so hard not to get angry with stuff. I mean the drivers out here are crazy and i find myself gripping my steering wheel sometimes so i don't swear. lol.. Lilly is constantly doidn what the soon to be three year old does best and that's terrorize her mama.. and while i love being married to my darling husband i can only remind him to shut drawers or clean up after he eats a snack in bed soooo many times before my head might just explode!! So i was listening to k love today and they had a segment about anger on there and i began to do some thinking on it. Seriously who doesn't get angry.. Then i thought well i know anger isn't the bad thing. ITs when you keep the anger and it become bitterness that it's bad. Everyone has heard the saying don't go to bed angry.. well that's from the bible. Ephesians 4:26
"BE ANGRY, AND yet DO NOT SIN; do not let the sun go down on your anger," I try in my marriage to not go to bed angry but it doesn't always happen and then a new day comes and i have to ask forgiveness and make up with allan.
Also i think that i'm not alone in the fact that i do hold on to some things a little longer than i should probably but really anger from the past should be acknowledged. Amends need to be made or you will keep holding on to that same anger. Apologies even for silent anger ( like when you are ticked and cussing out in your head that person in the other lane) should be made. We also need to apologize for not loving people as we should have. There is a scripture about this too.. James 1:19-20[This] you know, my beloved brethren. But let everyone be quick to hear, slow to speak [and] slow to anger for the anger of man does not achieve the righteousness of God.
The bible does NOT say NOT TO BE ANGRY. This is an emotion that god put inside us. Jesus himself chased people with a whip when he got mad. I"m pretty sure if i chased someone off with a whip you would know i was pissed and you would probably think i was insane.. lol. So I'm going to try to work on any past anger that i have and i would encourage everyone else to take a look too.
So that was the bible part.. here comes the medical part. lol ive known for a long time that angry people are generally not healthy. Also people that stress too much. STress can do some weird and amazing things in a body but we will save that for another time..

Okay here are some blurbs that i have taken from the web..

There are several types of headaches that can occur arise from anger. Tension headaches generally aren't very well understood, but the common description is that you feel like there is a tight band around your head, or that your head is in a vice grip. Migraine headaches can arise from anger and have very serious symptoms that can debilitate individuals who experience them. Hormone headaches arise from imbalances in hormones that occur, usually in females going through a menstrual cycle and usually accompany fluctuating feelings such as anger and sadness.Read more: http://www.livestrong.com/article/179941-headaches-from-anger/#ixzz0ytqG2InU

A high risk of a heart attack is one of the main health issues caused by anger
It is estimated that there is a 65% higher chance of being a cigarette smoker if you normally experience intense anger such as rage than if you usually experience mild anger, that is irritation. This is due to the fact that smoking cigarettes may somehow help alleviate the stress and anger that one may feel

Researchers from Yale School of Medicine carried out a study that found a link between changes caused by anger or other powerful emotions and potential arrhythmias and sudden cardiac arrests that each year lead to 400,000 deaths.


So lets all live long healthy lives and not be angry anymore.. lol. easier said than done but i'm totally working on it. ;-)

diet dealings

Okay so my friend anna tried the diet before i did. She lasted two days and said no way.. it wasn't for her. She is going to do weight watchers instead. It lets her have about 1100 calories a day which she thinks is a lot more reasonable. So i started my diet today. I have to say after today i might agree with her. This is crazy!!! The morning wasn't so bad. I had more than i was suppose to all day though and still thought it was hard and crazy. I think just knowing you aren't suppose to eat things makes you want them. I had an orange and a bagel and a tiny bite or two of soup but that even put me at like 300 something calories. So i took the vitamin b12 and held it under my tongue this am and it tasted okay but burned for some reason. The bottle has a warning about niacin making you flush so maybe that is it. lol.. Then this afternoon i tried the hcg stuff. It really didn't taste like anything. i had a handful of popcorn with lilly and then tonight i made a meal that i had bought from an hcg diet kitchen.. thought that it was going to be a good idea.. nope. That thing didn't even look like something i wanted anywhere near my mouth. i tried one bite and almost gagged. i think they used alot of ginger in it. I hate ginger. So anyway i have been counting calories today but am no where near 500 probably more close to 1000. The good news is that i have not had a soda all day. there are something like 170-190 calories in each mt dew and i have been an avd mt dew drinker. I did gget a bad headache but took some tylenol and it is gone now. The bad news.. allan is bringing me something to eat. I told him to get the smallest sandwich from wherever he went. Then i looked up the calories for that to see where i'm at. I'm guesing i'm close to 1000 today. So did i stick with the HCG diet.. sadly NO. But am i still way under for calories and watching what i'm eating .. YES!! so i still consider day 1 a victory. I'm not going to weigh myself for a while but when i do i'll start posting if i lose any lbs!

We tried a church this morning

We tried out a church this morning. We decided it was time to go try out a church and to start the process of actually picking one out. We need a home church here to call our own so we had been talking about going to our friends church and we never made it there yet. We had seen a billboard that was a weird ad for a church. The ad was a couple pointing their fingers at each other and it said our lame sex.. who's to blame. It didn't say anything about church. I had seen the billboard before driving down the freeway and anyway they did a bit about it on the news and it was surprisingly a churches billboard. I guess they are doing a whole segment on intimacy and sex and all that and what the bible says about it all. Anyway it was also thae church that i keep seing a ton of bumperstickers for. It's called cornerstone. So this morning allan was suppose to work but he took a sick day because he was running late and wasn't really needed and emma is here to. So we made today our church experimenting day. We tried it out. I really have no complaints except that it was huge. ( probably doesn't help that it's a holiday weekend and we wen't to the busiest service) They have 5 services on sunday which i like cause you can always make it to one no mattter what you got going on. They even have one at 5 pm at night. They do have tons of small groups so i guess if we like the church enough we could get involved in one of those to not feel too swallowed up. The kids area was amazing.. Emma went to her 2nd grade classroom. All kids her own age. I liked that. I don't like when they are mixed in with older kids. I don't care if it's church or not things can happen with big and small kids being together and it wigs me out a bit. Anyway she liked it a lot i think. Lilly went to her only 2 year old class. i asked emma what she did whiel we went to church and she listed about 6 things none of which were "churchy" at all.. so i asked her did they even talk about god or have a lesson at all? she told me they did talk about respecting one another and treating people like you want to be treated. So that was okay. I was worried that they had just kept the kids busy and that isn't what i want them to do. I want them to hear about god when they go to church. Anyway lilly had colored a bible picture but she didn't tell me what else she did. lol.. Allan and i are not sure abou tthis one just yet. We may go a time or two more and see. They were in the middle of the sex lectures.. lol that is what we have named them lol. It was interesting. They had a girl come in and talk shen had been in a prostitution ring and had gotten saved from it. I guess their church is also doing some big ministry with that because the sex slave rings are very much a real thing in phoenix. They say that everyone thinks it is an immigrant thing and all that but it's like 85 percent white american girls. So it was interesting to listen to everything but i want to see how one of their actual sermons go. I think they said they have a total of 6000 people now. it doubled in the last two years. of course we didn't see 6000 we were only at one service but i guess i could believe it. phoenix is pretty huge.

second try at a home movie

This video is made for sandy. We hope you feel better. Lilly gave this video her stamp of approval( she shouts at every picture she sees.. yells people's names out) She enjoyed making it with me and i hope you enjoy watching it. I know you miss the kido's and they miss you but we will take plenty more pictures and make a lot more videos like this one soon.

prayer requests

I want everyone to keep Sandy, allan's mom, in your prayers if you can. She has came down with the shingles. From what i've learned in school it's a grown up version of the chicken pox but it travels down nerve pathways and can be severely painful because of this. We were taught that during the worst of it some patients actually have to be sedated. She is still at home recovering and we wish her well soon.

Also please keep allan's sister liz in prayer tomorrow. She has a doctor apt for some laproscopic surgery. They are going to take a look around and see what needs to be done so pray for knowledge for the doctor to do what is best and that his hands are guided by the lord.

WE wish you both speedy recoveries! Sorry i can't come nurse you both back to health, but you guys are on my heart.