Good morning world! My thought for the day is this:

Let someone bless you today. Many women (and men) have people that love them and would do anything for them. But we take care of ourselves too much sometime. When the moment comes along, let your sweet significant other give up something for you. Let them do something to show their love for you. Don't always take care of it. Give your better half an opportunity to bless you. You won't be sorry. When we get married, our loves are intertwined. Sometimes we separate them unintentionally.

On a side note: I have the most fabulous husband in the whole world. I feel that the blessing he is to me is a concrete thing that shows me how much my God loves me. I am the luckiest girl in the whole world!

Yay!! It's Wednesday! While these days can be a little stressful getting life ready for Revo (which is the name of our Wednesday night Youth Ministry), I really do love 'em! We have no children so I get to be a large part of my husband's ministry. This is a ginormous blessing to me. It's crazy to see how much time goes into the one hour of Revo each week. Seriously, Wednesdays are completely blocked off. We don't plan for anything but being up at the church. Our students get out of school around 3:40 and many of them walk up to the Church and hang out until 7pm when we start. We go until about 8pm them we usually get home around 9:30pm.

One of my favorite Wednesday night traditions is pizza!!!!!!!!!! When we we get home, we put on our PJ's and eat pizza together. This usually involves one of our favorite TV shows too, which ALL come on on Wednesday's. Seriously, it's absolutley impossible for us to watch one of our shows on time. DVR, how I love you!! This little traditon has been going every week pretty much since we got married.

This brings me to one the reasons why I love this cute little thing we do. Apart from the obvious (my fabulously charming, sweet, hilarious husband), I think the pizza is it. I love pizza!! Pepperoni to be exact, it's really one my favorite things in the world, haha. I could eat it everyday of my life. I like it many ways: thin crust, thick crust, wholewheat crust, with turkey pepperoni as well as normal pepperoni, lots of cheese, no cheese, and with varying amounts of sauce. Really, you can't EVER go wrong with pepperoni pizza.

But you can "never go wrong" with other combinations too. One of which is bananas and chocolate. They were born to be together. Like Wes and I. Seriously.

Just to prove that I'm right. You should make this as soon as you possibly can. Your life depends on it. Ok, maybe not. But you will definately thank me.

INTRODUCING......

Chocolate Chocolate Chip Banana Bread (It'll change your life)


Recipe from Joythebaker.com. I used a muffin pan (yeilds about 2 dozen) instead of a loaf pan. Baking time was about 15 minutes for me, but I would check it for doneness around 12 minutes and go from there. It's not very "bready" at all. I would say more "cakey, silky, and brownie-like." Enjoy!!!!

Here's the recipe:

2 cups all-purpose flour

1 cup unsweetened cocoa powder

1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/4 teaspoon baking soda

1 stick (8 Tablespoons) unsalted butter, at room temperature

3/4 cup sugar

1/2 cup (packed) light brown sugar

2 large eggs

2 ripe bananas, mashed

3/4 cup buttermilk

3 ounces bittersweet chocolate, coarsely chopped

Center a rack in the oven and preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Butter a 9×5 inch loaf pan and place it on an insulated baking sheet or on two regular baking sheets one on top of the other. This extra insulation will keep the bottom of the bread from overbaking.

Sift together the flour, cocoa, baking powder, salt ad baking soda.

Working with a stand mixer with a paddle attachment, or with a hand mixer in a large bowl, beat the butter at medium speed for about a minute until soft. Add the sugars and beat for 2 minutes more. Add the egs one at a time, beating for a minute after each addition. At this point , the batter may look a little curdled- it’s ok. Reduce the mixer speed to low and mix in the mashed bananas. Add the dry ingredients in three additions, mixing only until they disappear into the batter. Still on low sweep, add the buttermilk, mixing until it is incorporated. Stir in the chopped chocolate. Scrape batter into prepared pan.

Bake for 3o minutes. Cover the bread loosely with a foil tend to keep the top from getting too dark, and continue to bake for another 40-45 minutes (total baking time is between 70 and 75 minutes), or until a thin knife inserted into the center comes out clean. Transfer the pan to a rack and cool for at least 20 minutes before running a knife around the edges of the bread and unmolding it. Invert and cool to room temperature right side up.

Hope everyone has a fabulous Wednesday!!

Lets continue with the intro...


Here's us:




Here are our children:

Cassie

Lucy


Meet The Briscoes

Welcome to our world!

Today is one of the rare days in my life when I feel everything is done. (Ok, I don't have kids, so I use the term "rare" fairly loosely.) Floors are clean, not enough laundry for a load, etc. Days like this are a blessing to me. Even though I don't have a job per se, my life is fairly colorful. Days like this force my mind to relax and enjoy the day more.

Dinner last night was amazing. One my websites that I check daily (ok, three of four times daily, but whatever) is thepioneerwoman.com. She writes about her life as a ranch wife that spent most of her life before that in the suburbs and and big cities. My favorite thing about PW is the food!! It's kind of my favorite thing about everything, I guess :) When I make her recipes in my own kitchen, I pretty much get the "best dinner ever" kind of reaction. And I'm not gonna lie...I really really like that!

Last night I made my own pepperjack burger recipe. It has Monterey Jack cheese and chopped jalapenos right in the meat, it really flavors every bite. My husband has a secret sauce that he adds to it which makes them TO DIE FOR!

I think the sides were the definately the main attraction last night, we had Creamed Spinach...


and onion strings...They've now been dubbed "Onion Dudes." Since we hardly ever eat "creamed" or "fried" anything, we had a guest over. We love hanging out with Hack Attack aka. Andrew. I think he at an entire plate of onion dudes by himself.

I think my next culinary adventure will be these little guys:



Cake in the bottom. Ice-cream in the middle. Chocolate ganache on top. My kitchen heart is pounding from all the cutesy junk I could do with these little treasures!

Hello. I love you. Won't you tell me your name?

I've done it! I finally started my blog. I've been pondering and sitting on the fence for months. But here we are!

First things first. I'll do a little intro.

My name is Kirsty. I live in a charming little town in Northeast Texas. I'm a substitute teacher and Youth Minister wife extraordinaire. My daily activities include cooking most every meal from scratch, baking and frosting things at least once a week (I suspect I may die if I don't do this), and the usual cleaning and laundry.

I have a passion for keeping things organized and knowing where everything is in our house at all times. (Maybe healthy, maybe not so much)

My heart beats for Jesus. He is my treasure and even good things in my life are lost to me when He is not involved.

My heart beats for another too. I call him Clark. He is unbelievably sexy, incredibly sweet and we play hide and seek together. He reminds me to love life. He takes care of me in every way I could ask for..then so so much more.

I love to be healthy. I love that we don't eat high fructose corn syrup and minimal amounts of preservatives. I love walking 12 miles in a day looking for tupperware in the woods with Clark. (I promise to explain later)

I love our Church. I love our Youth. They're ridiculous but seeing the Lord work through their group reminds me how privileged I am to have a built in role in this kind of Kingdom work.

This blog will be about everything that my life entails. I believe that only the craziest women get set apart by Lord to be the wives of Youth Pastors because it truly is a wild ride. Hang on, it's gonna be fun!!