Loaded Baked Potato Soup

Ingredients

4 baking potatoes
2/3 cup butter
2/3 cup all-purpose flour
6 cup milk
3/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon of black peper
12 slices of bacon or 3oz real Bacon bits pack (i used oscar mayer)
5 ounces Shredded Cheddar cheese

8oz Sour Cream is option // I did not use sour cream.


Bake Potatoes for 1hr at 400F (200c) Then scoop out the inside of the potatoes and set aside. Discard the skin

Melt the Butter in a large skillet on Medium/Low heat. Stir in the flour to make a roux. Cook 1 min, stirring constantly... Then Gradually pour in the milk while stirring until all milk has been added, bring to meduim and keep stirring until its starts to get thick... add in potatoes,cheese, salt, pepper, bacon and stir then continue to let it heat 5-10mins letting the flavors blend. Then serve :)

Serves -6

I am still around, I am I am!!!

These actually had writing and advertisement all over them for the power company...they also had energy saving light bulbs in each can...but I thought it would be a neat thing to keep some change in and crafty stuff... so I made them look nice :)


Last Sunday I was down town with my church friends and it was a beautiful night.... we went to play putt putt (mini golf) at this new indoor place which I must say was very creative for the little space they had... but this one hole... was neat... it is a bowling lane hole but what is cool was it was made from the old flooring in the building which was from the first bowling alley ever in the city.
Friday I didn't have to work but half a day so we took advantage of the time and went walking on the new trail in town... The trail goes from one city to another city... it actually follows the old rail road system and was really nice!
This is an old plant that is on the walk of the trail ... I thought it looked cool...

We got off the trail when we got to Furman University a local college...but its a really nice place for everyone to come and enjoy and place people take tons of photos at :) So theses are few of the flowers around the lake....

We took a drive and went by this is really cool old stone bridge, which was the only state road from Greenville,SC To Asheville,NC and it was built in 1820 by Abram Landing and name for Joel Roberts Poinsett.... Now it has not been in use for many many years but you can still walk off the road and find it and is still holding up!

I appoligize for the blurryness of some of the pictures, some day I will ride back up there and get more pictures, I can't wait to at fall time lol

My Bubbles!!!

Had fun the other day with bubbles, trying to capture them as they floated past me...and up into clouds .....

One beautiful afternoon

I seen this flower growing near the creek in the backyard


This one was at my grandmother's house and on the side of our yard is a small dogwood tree

and one happy Harper

Pets new toys, and funny pet stories :)

Today I got a few things for the pets...I got Rukia a "cube" since she loves boxes so much, I thought she would enjoy this and she is enjoying it :P I also seen these cat treats, I thought that was interesting and since they were not expensive I bought a small bag to try out, so I take one and lay it on the ground near her feet she then sniffs at the treat and then sniffs at it again... then she takes my shirt that was laying on the floor and covers it up...and she kept trying to cover up it with random stuff around the treat... LOL Its funny because cats only cover up their poo... so she must have thought that treat smelled that bad lol to cover it up like that... It really was funny...



I got Harper a new bed, and new bone also this ducky/rope toy ...

When I gave him his bone, he loved it and after playing with it for almost an hour then decideds to bury it... he burried it in between some pillow/blankets that was beside our couch... then later he burried it behind the tv, covering it up with Chandlers back pack... funny thing to see your dog dragging this book bag trying to cover it up... and at one point he was "burring" at invisible dirt and then covering it back up with his nose... it was priceless!

And all of this funny pet adventures happened all on Tuesday lol

Bath times

Even the trees :)

Harper my hubbys new friend...

Meet Harper!
My Hubbys new best friend

Today Chandler got Harper from the local Animal Shelter , he is a sweet dog :)
I will get more photos of him later but he is cute he has one blue eye and one brown eye.

The other day, Random

Look at how big they have gotten :)

See how funny Rukia looks like this... you would think she was very over weight from how she is in this picture :P and yes I have blue toes haha

its that time...

This week

The Beautiful Sky from the other morning

Sunday we had snow ....




monday the snow was still around for a little bit... I walked to work.... Oh look almost there...
the collection box and last but least....
Wuggles managed to climb on top of the iglo hehe

I tried to fix the red eye problem so wuggles may look funny but its because of me...

Anyways hope you enjoyed my random photos for the week