Christmas Wreaths: Razzle Dazzle, Blue Christmas & Bring on the Lights

The Christmas spirit has entered the Kwille household!  This year I have decided to take my stab at creating Christmas wreaths. As usual I entered Hobby Lobby (my love Michael's craft store is equal), with no idea what-so-ever of what I was going to do. I decided to let the various isles of Christmas goodies inspire me!

My many trips around the store and the 2 hours I spent there led me to create three different wreaths:

Razzle Dazzle:

 Blue Christmas:

Bring on the Lights:



Hanging above my fireplace.



Lit up at night with a fire.

Boone's Berry Bread

This is a great "anytime" bread recipe.  I came up with this recipe last year while trying to make blueberry bread. During this time, Boone was in his "hop up on the counter and eat EVERYTHING phase". By this time, he had already eaten an entire loaf of beer bread, some crescent rolls filled with bbq roast beef, baked beans, and the occasional piece of cheese. 

Unfortunately for me I had just finished the batter when Boone decided to jump up and try it. After throwing away the Booney licked batter, I had to improvise with what ingredients I had left.

You'll Need:

• 1.5 sticks butter (melted)
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 2 eggs
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 1 cup frozen or fresh blackberries (you can use any type of berry)
• 1/2 cup blueberry pie filling
• 2 cups + 1 tbs flour
• 1/2 cup milk

Steps:

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
2. Mix the melted butter, sugar, milk and eggs together in a large bowl.
3. Add the dry ingredients to your mixture (2 cups flour, baking powder, and salt) and mix thoroughly.
4. In a ziploc baggie (either quart or gallon size) add 1 tbs flour and the blackberries. Shake baggie until all berries are coated with flour.
5. In the mixture, fold in the blueberry pie filling and fold until batter turns purple.

6. Fold the blackberries into the batter.
7. Place batter in a bread pan and bake for 60-70 minutes depending on the size of your bread pan (the small foil pans take about 60 mins while the larger bread pan takes 70 mins)

Warm You Up Cheesy Broccoli Soup

This is a quick recipe I came up with to get me through the day here at home. We are refusing to turn up the heat so this was a great recipe to warm us up!!

You'll Need:

• 1 can of Evaporated Milk
• 1 bag of frozen broccoli
• 1 can of Cheddar Cheese soup
• 1 can of Cream of Broccoli soup
• 2 cloves of garlic
• 1.5 tsp minced onion
• 1-2 tbs of butter (to taste)
• Salt and Pepper to taste

Steps:

1. Combine all ingredients except salt and pepper into a pot. Heat to a boil not a roaring boiling, but a quiet boil for about five minutes.

2. Turn down the heat to medium/low and stir occasionally. Add salt and pepper to taste.
3. Cook until broccoli is tender.

Detective Boone Warren: Sniffing out the criminals or finding your Halloween candy

As promised, I found a fabulous halloween costume for Boone! This also marks the one year anniversary that Boone has been a member of our family.

As usual, I'm laughing hysterically while taking pictures of Boone... Kwille as always chimes in with "He knows your laughing at him". Here, Boone and Kwille refuse to look directly at the camera because of my hysterical laughing.