Best Pumpkin Bread. Ever.

Yes, you are seeing this right, I am really posting 2 days in a row!  Holy cow, I know!!  This makes my total for November a whopping FOUR!  That's pathetic.  

Anyways, I just came here to tell you all what an awesome wife I am!  Seriously.  :) Today is the big soup cook off at Josh's work, and to prepare for it, well...it was quite the ordeal!  I picked Jeni up from school yesterday and headed out to do a little returning and shopping since the power was out here at home.  Anyways, I called Tamara and she saved my life by asking if I could drop the girls off there!  Thank you sooo much Tamara.  :)  So I went to babies r us and got a bunch of onesies, then to Old Navy and returned a couple things, then on the way back North I went to Krispy Kreme for some doughnuts.  The last place I needed to go was to the grocery store to get ingredients for the soup I was going to make.  Which by the way was a creamy chicken noodle soup, the best!!  My friend Danette told me about a new Smiths Marketplace (like fred meyer) they built and I decided to check it out, not that it's anywhere near where I live.  But I was already on the other side of the valley and the boys were still being good so I figured what the heck.

Well, they didn't have the noodles I needed.  The homemade kind of egg noodle.  So I decided I would stop at Walmart because I thought I had seen them there,  So I left a few things on my list that I knew would be cheaper at Walmart.  By now the boys were starting to get a bit fussy.  They wanted to eat.  So I ran into Walmart and got the few other things I needed, except for the stupid noodles.  What I had seen were bags of fettuccine.  Grrr!  So I drove over to Costco because I KNEW they had the noodles.  When I got there I fed the boys in the car in the parking lot, so not the best place to feed 2 babies at the same time, but I made it work.  We ran in and YAY they had the stupid noodles.  I grabbed them back and hurried to get the girls from Tamaras.  I felt so bad because it had taken me an hour and a half longer than I anticipated by the time I finally got there.  First I got stuck waiting for a train, not to mention the horrible traffic because it was 6:00.  Then after that the traffic was hardly moving and I was trying to hurry the best I could, and I think it was making me nuts because I had no control over it.  So I took a new road hoping it would get me where I needed to be, according to my GPS it would, so I gave it a try.  And it was the best decision I made.  It was sooo much fast than waiting through the mess I was in.

I got home and started boiling chicken while I fed the babies and then I got the soup all done and we ate it for dinner last night, I made a double batch.  Since the email about the contest said comfort food I decided I would make some pumpkin bread to send as well.  So I made that at 10 last night.  The recipe makes 3 loafs.  I kept one and am sending 2 with him to work.

Not the best picture, but here is a loaf all sliced and ready to go.  Let me tell you, this is the best bread.  So moist!  Pumpkin has been my go to since I am not eating chocolate.  You must try it!!

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• 1 (15 ounce) can pumpkin puree
• 4 eggs
• 1 cup vegetable oil
• 2/3 cup water
• 3 cups white sugar
• 3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
• 1/4 teaspoon ground ginger

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour three 7x3 inch loaf pans.

In a large bowl, mix together pumpkin puree, eggs, oil, water and sugar until well blended. In a separate bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves and ginger. Stir the dry ingredients into the pumpkin mixture until just blended. Pour into the prepared pans.

Bake for about 50 minutes in the preheated oven. Loaves are done when toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.

Ok, I better run, I need to get Kiki off to school and then it's back to bed for me while the babies are sleeping!!  :)