Highs and Lows of June

On to June! June is a celebratory month for the Conley Family... and not just for Damion and me! His birthday is the 2nd, mine is the 13th, but we also have Aunt Michelle's Birthday on the 4th and Damion's Mawmaw's birthday on the 14th. That's a lot of cake, huh? :o)  We all gathered together in the middle of all that for a big family birthday in Breaux Bridge at Pop and Mawmaw's house.  Pop had just come home from a nursing home care center a couple of weeks before that, so it was nice for everyone to be all together and have him there with us.  We ate lots of yummy home cooking and had cake, ice cream, and presents! Some of the kids even had fun in the little pool outside!

There's always time for a little Barbie play, too. :o)

I saw that a friend of mine from back home had learned a quick and easy recipe for homemade bread, so I thought I would try my hand at it, too.  Here's the original recipe if you want to try it! It's delicious, very easy (quick, but you do have to wait for it to rise), and we love it! We've made less as the summer weeks have come and gone because we've been traveling so much, but I plan to start it back once we get home again!

(Instead of honey, I add 2/3 cup sugar, and then add 1/3 oil

when I add the salt & flour. We did honey for one run, and

it's great, too, just stickier to knead.)

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Sadly, around mid-June, Damion's grandpa, Pop Norris, was diagnosed with a rare brain disease called PSP. We lost him about two weeks later. It was very quick, though the more we learned about this disease, there were evidences of it for the last two years. Pop served 25 years in the U.S. Army and retired as a Chief Warrant Officer 3. 

Rest In Peace, Pop...
July 19, 1943 - June 27, 2014