Duh, of course I'm brownies!

If all of the eight desserts listed below were sitting in front of you, which would you choose? You can only pick one...Pick your dessert, and then look to see what psychiatrists think about you. After taking this dessert personality test, post it on your blog!
Here are your choices:

1. Angel Food Cake
2. Brownies
3. Lemon Meringue Pie
4. Vanilla Cake With Chocolate Icing
5. Strawberry Short Cake
6. Chocolate Cake With Chocolate Icing
7. Ice Cream
8. Carrot CakeNo cheating!

1. ANGEL FOOD CAKE -- Sweet, loving, cuddly. You love all warm and fuzzy items. A little nutty at times. Sometimes you need an ice cream cone at the end of the day. Others perceive you as being child like and immature at times.
2. BROWNIES -- You are adventurous, love new ideas, and are a champion of underdogs and a slayer of dragons. When tempers flare up you whip out your saber. You are always the oddball with a unique sense of humor and direction. You tend to be very loyal.
3. LEMON MERINGUE PIE-- Smooth, sexy, & articulate with your hands, you are an excellent care giver and a good teacher. But don't try to walk and chew gum at the same time. A bit of a diva at times, you set your own style because you do your own thing. You shine when it comes to helping others and have many friends.
4. VANILLA CAKE WITH CHOCOLATE ICING -- Fun-loving, sassy, humorous, not very grounded in life; very indecisive and lacking motivation. Everyone enjoys being around you, but you are a practical joker. Others should be cautious in making you mad. However, you are a friend for life.
5. STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE -- Romantic, warm, loving. You care about other people, can be counted on in a pinch and expect the same in return. Intuitively keen. You can be very emotional at times but a true person in every way. You like to do things for your-self and help others learn about themselves.
6. CHOCOLATE CAKE WITH CHOCOLATE ICING --Sexy; always ready to give and receive. Very creative, adventurous, ambitious,and passionate. You can appear to have a cold exterior but are warm on the inside. Not afraid to take chances. Will not settle for anything average in life. Love to laugh.
7. ICE CREAM -- You like sports, whether it be baseball ,football , basketball , or soccer. If you could, you would like to participate, but you enjoy watching sports. You don't like to give up the remote control . You tend to be self-centered and high maintenance.
8. CARROT CAKE -- You are a very fun loving person, who likes to laugh. You are fun to be with. People like to hang out with you. You are a very warm hearted person and a little quirky at times. You have many loyal friends. You were meant to lead and teach others. A wonderful role model.

Peanut Butter & Chocolate Cheesecake

The IT guy at Comcast is always baking yummy things and bringing them into work. Well he made this cheesecake yesterday and it was so good I thought I'd share. And I know, it's probably the least healthy thing you could eat but just ignore that minor detail.

3 cups cream cheese
¼ cup butter
2/3 cup sour cream
1 small jar creamy peanut butter
6 oz Dark Chocolate (60-72%)
¾ cup fine sugar
2 tsp vanilla extract
3 eggs
3 egg yolks

Topping:
6 oz Dark chocolate (60-72%)
1 cup heavy whipping cream
2 tbs dark corn syrup.

Two-Large Gram Cracker crust shells.

Pre-heat the oven to 350 degrees

In a mixing bowl mix beat the cream cheese to soften (helps if you let sit at room temp for a bit too)
Add in the sugar and vanilla
Then the eggs 1 at a time
Then the egg yolks 1 at a time.
Then the sour cream
Add in the peanut butter.
Beat until fluffy
Put the stick of butter and the 6 oz of chocolate in a bowl and melt in the microwave. 1:15-1:30 on 50% power usually does the trick.
While the chocolate is still pourable add it in to the batter a little bit at a time!!!
The chocolate will be hot so you need to temper the mixture. If you throw it all in at once you risk curdling the eggs (chunky egg pieces in the cheese cake… yuck)
Pour evenly to the lip of the crusts.

Bake at 350 for 45min to an hour or until firm. A toothpick should come out clean.
Set aside to cool.
When cool to the touch, cover and refrigerate for at least a couple of hours (over night works best)

In the morning mix the chocolate, cream and syrup into a measuring cup and melt (as you did before)
Stir until fully mixed and rich brown!
Top both cakes with a layer and let sit to firm. You can put it back in the fridge or serve w/ warm chocolate sause.

Here are some random pix from the past month

We told her not to...

Bailey just doesn't listen. She was running on the couch, like she knows she's not supposed to do, and tripped somehow and smacked her face into a lamp and then the end table it was sitting on. She tried to put her bottom teeth through her lip! thank goodness she didn't. She just put some giant holes in her bottom lip and chipped a tooth. Of course I was at work so Stephen called me frantic becuase it wouldn't stop bleeding. I got home and an hour later it still was bleeding. So I took her to the ER and the doctor said he could stitch her up but it probably wouldn't heal much quicker and would just piss Bailey off so we left it alone and it's looking much better now. And you'd think that would teach her the lesson....oh no, she got right back on the couch and started running as soon as we got home.

It looks much better in these because this is later that afternoon.
But doesn't she have pretty eyes?

4th of July

We had a good 4th of July. It would have been great if we'd seen fireworks. Every place in Tucson started their fireworks either an hour early or an hour late because it was raining off and on that night. DUMB. So of course we didn't know what was going on and the fireworks were already over by the time we got out to Marana to see them. But during the day we had fun. We got a funky little sprinkler thing that Bailey and Makayla had fun running around in the water with. We had a bbq with some yummy chicken-apple brats-they're so good. That was about it.

Chickity check out the progress on our house

Happy Birthday to Me!

I turned an elderly 24 years old on the 13th. Ugh. I start to feel old and then I remember how much younger than Stephen I am and I feel much better. I had a great birthday. Stephen, the girls and I went out to Crapplebee's the night before on Saturday and I got some yummy slider burgers. YUM! Stephen got me a new 12" skillet to cook with that I love. It's a Rachel Ray one and it's way bett.....well let's just say it works a little better than my mom's pans. And, I got some yummy Good & Plenty and mint chocolate candies. YES!! My mom got me some sweet new sunglasses and Shelley got me a new laptop case. I have the best family. My mom made some steak stroganoff and we had some cookies n cream ice cream cake. So good. Now I'm hungry so I gotta go.
This is a picture of me when I was maybe 6 or 7-ish. I stole it off my lovely sister, Jana's, blog. She has all our old family pix so this is the only thing I could find to show off how cute I really am. I know you're jealous