It was a busy weekend!
Friday night Ben and I, along with Stefanie, met with the Detweiler's to go over the blue prints and start to get a quote. It was a good meeting and I'd really hate to think about building a house without your own personal best friend/interior designer/blue print maker/architect's daughter/knows way more about this than Ben or I! She will make this process so much easier!!
We were there for about 1.5 hours, now my homework is to figure out flooring, cabinets, front door and other doors, insulation and trim so he can finalize the cost quote. We basically picked out flooring Sunday, I know what cabinet style I want so I'm going to meet with them this week, pretty much about figured out trim, so just a few other minor things, we should be good to go. Thankfully I know what I like and can make a decision fairly quickly. Now to see how much the house I want to live in for the rest of my life is going to cost!
Saturday I spent cleaning up some while Ben went to one of his customer's Pancake Breakfasts and then Bean and I went for a run. I haven't run with her in the jogging stroller in probably almost 3 months, so I wasn't sure how this was going to go. There's a half marathon I really wanted to do on March 23 but with not running more than about 4 miles tops over the past month or two, how it went on Saturday was dependent on if I thought I could be ready for that one. I was hoping for 7 miles.
I did 5. I could tell it had been a while since I'd run with her, I know she hasn't gotten "that" much heavier in a few months, so it's just me not being used to it, where I used to do every run with her when the weather was nicer, and as I will again. So, I'm not sold that I can do the half on the 23rd. There's a 10 mile race that same day, I may do that, jump in and do the Nashville Rock and Roll half on April 27 and then my Paducah one on May 11. Yes, I'm really just that crazy : ) Ben even claims he wants to start running. We've got to get him some proper running shoes first. We will see how that goes…..
We headed over to Aunt Sharon's Saturday night, she was having mom's birthday dinner for the whole family, so we ate well. Aunt Sharon doesn't cook often but when she does, she typically does a good job. Everything was yummy and I didn't have to fix a thing!
Sunday we had Bentley's 2nd birthday party to go to. Bentley is at Tiffany's with Mallory and Lola. Bentley's mom went all out with the farm themed party. The cake was a barn, there were super cute cake pops done to look like farm animals, tractors, hay bales, a pony to ride, baby ducks and chicks to play with, tons of food, it was a great party and the kids had fun. Mallory helped Bentley open his presents and they all ran around and played. I'm pretty sure he got every piece of John Deere equipment out there, except for you know, that one red tractor we gave him ; )
Mallory then promptly fell asleep when we got back from the party around 5:30 and slept until the next morning. She was worn out!
Also of interest on Sunday was the combination effort of Bread Baking between Ben and I. Ben wanted me to try my hand at white bread. I've been making whole wheat, but of course, he will not eat that, so he wanted me to make him white out of one of the bread baking books I'd gotten for Christmas. We settled on the recipe and I mixed up everything and then set it out to rise for 2 hours. That was up right before I was to head to Bentley's party, so I then took the dough and put it in the bread pan so it could then rise another 40 minutes or so with instructions for Ben to call me when he got in so I could tell him the final 2 steps to put it in the oven and bake it. I should have known that was not in the breads best interest.
So he called, said it looked really good, had risen up in the bread pan and looked like a nice loaf. I told him what to preheat the oven to, to take a knife and make several slats across the top of the bread and then just spray it with some olive oil (the recipe actually said melted butter but what's the difference for this purpose.) So Ben followed the recipe, even melted the butter instead of just spraying it with the oil mister and then put it in the oven. Problem being he thought the rack needed to be moved lower. So, instead of taking the pay out of the oven and then moving the rack, he tried to move the rack with the bread pan sitting on the rack. The caused the bread pan to turn over, the dough to plop out, seep through the grates and down onto the burner.
I then get a frantic call that's he's killed my bread. I just told him to flop what he could back in the pan, that I didn't let it sit there for 3 hours for this to happen and we were at least going to see what we got.
It looked pretty, rose again while cooking but it was fairly dense. Maybe from it's little trip thorugh the oven grates, who knows, I'll try again and see if cooking it without that problem will result in a lighter bread. Tasty, just dense.
So, Ben is not allowed to bake bread anymore. Probably. Unless I'm desperate.
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