Gluten free Apple cake with Cranberries

This was a very yummy recipe courtesy of Gluten free goddess at glutenfreegoddess.blogspot.com. I modified the recipe just a little because I only keep White rice flour and bobs red mill all purpose gluten free flour in my house. The ingredients I used are as follows: dry ingredients
1 and 3/4 cup of bobs red mill all purpose gluten free flour
1tsp Xanthum gum
1tsp baking soda
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp of salt
1 tsp of Cinnamon
1/4 tsp nutmeg
1/4 tsp ground cloves
1 cup of brown sugar
wet ingredients
1 egg
1/2 cup olive oil
1/2 cup of applesauce
1/2 almond milk
1/4 tsp of lemon juice
2 table spoons of honey
2tsp of vanilla
add ins
2 rounded cups of chopped apples
1/2 cup dried cranberries

Pre heat oven to 350degrees.
grease 9inch round pan

In a large bowl combine your dry ingredients with a whisk.
In a smaller bowl combine your wet ingredients.
Add the wet into the dry ingredients and stir till smooth batter forms.
Add half of the apples and cranberries and stir into the batter.
scoop the batter into the greased cake pan and smooth out.
Add the remaining apples and cranberries on top and kinda press them into the batter.
optional to sprinkle raw sugar on top.
Bake 40 to 50 min
use a metal fork, knife or cake tester to see if done
let cool but be sure to enjoy some of it slightly warm!!!

Me and my family loved this cake, it was very harvesty so I am sure it would also be wonderful for a fall desert!!!

Rileys horse lessons

If you are having trouble viewing this video, click on the link that says Rileys horse lesson and then hit the play button and then the actual video to play, I dont know why I have a hard time with videos on here and help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Happy St. Patricks Day!

So I will completely admit, I am a total DORK during St. Patricks day, but I cant help it, I absolutely love this holiday!!!! We made the traditional corn beef and cabbage, and the kids did what they thought was Irish dancing! It was totally corny but I loved every minute of it!!! Also seeing the kids faces when they found something that the "leprechauns" turned green and what they did to their rooms was sooo funny!!!!

Tricky little leprechauns

Wow, those leprechauns really got us this time, they completely trashed the kids rooms, peed in our toilets turning them green and turned our milk and apple juice green!!

Daddy's Birthday

We had a very simple but fun birthday for Corey! It was just him, me and the kids, while the kids were at school I baked a gluten free cake with the new cake pan that Melissa had given me and then when the kids got home they helped me decorate it and then they each picked daddy out a present at the dollar store, it was very cute! We topped it off with root beer floats! Happy birthday honey, we love you!

Daddy daughter dance!

So Corey took Riley to her first daddy daughter dance this year, actually her first dance ever!!! She wanted to go last year but Corey was in Chile at the time, so he promised that if he wasn't gone this year for it that he would take her! The day of the dance me and Riley spent some of our own special time shopping for a dress for her. She tried on SOOOOO many dresses that day and we kept coming back to the pretty pink one that we both agreed was PERFECT! She wanted what she calls "mermaid hair" but to get that I normally braid her hair after her bath the night before and take the braids out in the morning, and we didn't have time to do it that way so we tried waving it with a waver and it turned out beautiful! Topped it off with a pretty pink broach, and after lots of pictures her and Corey were off to the dance! I hated not being able to go, but I knew this was special time that just her and her daddy needed. I Kept texting Corey the whole time to get updates and it sounded like they had a great time! They ate pizza and danced and did a coloring contest and of course chatted with all of her friends that ended up going to!

My sweet baby boy

So in the year 2006 we decided it was time for another baby and Riley was sooo ready for a sibling and full time playmate! We had no problem at all becoming pregnant, it was actually very surprising how fast we got pregnant! We were in the exact same month that we were in when we conceived Riley, we didn't plan to have it be the same month we really didn't think we would become pregnant so fast, so we thought it was pretty funny that they could end up having the same birthday!! So again I spent Christmas nauseous and queasy, and of course Corey was up for a deployment again and I would go through another pregnancy with out him, Which completely sucks but there was nothing to be done about it and I was more than grateful that he would be back in time for the birth! Before Corey left I kept getting sicker and sicker, I kept going to the doctors telling them something was wrong that this was more than just morning sickness and they kept telling me it was just a bad case of morning sickness. It was sooo horrible the day that Corey left, I was sooo sick I couldn't even get off the couch to tell him good bye, let alone take him to the deployment building. I cried and told him goodbye, wondering in my head if I would even be able to take care of Riley? I had already not been to work for a week dealing with this! It literally killed him to leave, one of the girls that I worked with came and picked him up and he told her that if I still wasn't coming into work to call and check in on me! Well I ended up taking a leave of absence because it was so bad, but when it got to the point of Riley at three years old opening the fridge herself to get some food, I finally called my mom and told her that I thought I was dieing of cancer! I know that sounds extreme but I have never in my life felt like I was feeling, I told her she needed to fly up here now, that I couldn't even get out of bed to take care of Riley. I then called one of my friends and asked them to come and stay with me to help with Riley til my mom got there, She came and took care of me and my daughter! Thank you Evelyn! Once my mom got there she took me and Riley back home with her where I found out I had salmonella poisoning from contaminated peanut butter and that I had just been reinfecting my self over and over, cause I knew I had to eat for the baby and the only thing I could think of that I felt I could stomach with protein was peanut butter toast and that was all I was eating! Both of the jars of peanut butter that I had were positive for salmonella!!! How crazy is that??? So after we figured out what it was and I stopped eating the peanut butter I got completely better! The doctors checked Cody in my tummy and did a few tests to make sure that he was okay and he was just fine! They explained it as my body took the brunt of it and protected the fetus! So as horrible as that was that was the only bad thing that happened during my pregnancy with my sweet little boy! I ended up going back to work and everything turned out just fine! Having him in our lives is such a beautiful blessing!! The love we feel for him is soooo grand!!!! He has the cutest little face with his little button nose and cute little teeth!! I just want to eat him up he is that cute and adorable!! My sweet baby boy, Thank you sooo much for being in our lives! We love you!