Oreo Trifle Brownies

Made some yummy Oreo trifle brownies courtesy of

Recipes girl  http://www.recipegirl.com/2012/11/30/mint-brownie-hot-fudge-oreo-trifle/

Dairy free option has layers of chocolate flavored coconut ice 

cream instead of dairy ice cream. 

Father's Day Treat Bouquet

My mister loves his candy. He also happens to be lacto-free.  Do you know how hard it is to find lacto free candy bars?!  Most of the time he eats his candy out of a bag but for this candy bouquet I needed something to go on a stick. I hit glued those treats on a few cake pop sticks. Used a few vases (from the Walmart) to fill with some other of his favs (skittles and peanuts). Surrounded by one of his favorite beverages. 

Father's Day Treat Bouquet

My mister loves his candy. He also happens to be lacto-free.  Do you know how hard it is to find lacto free candy bars?!  Most of the time he eats his candy out of a bag but for this candy bouquet I needed something to go on a stick. I hit glued those treats on a few cake pop sticks. Used a few vases (from the Walmart) to fill with some other of his favs (skittles and peanuts). Surrounded by one of his favorite beverages. 

Tangled themed party

My youngest's birthday is at the end of August and I thought it would be fun for her to be able to invite some of her friends from school to her party.  If I waited until after her birthday to have it then it would be crazy time for me schedule wise with school starting-since I'm a teacher.  So I decided to have the week after school got out for the summer.  She only wanted to invite six of her friends which was super fine with me.  Turns out that only two girls showed up. They also happened to be the two girls from our ward. Ha! Irony. Ah well they didn't notice and had a blast anyways. 

They had tons of little girl fun!  I came up with some pretty fun Tangled themed games. And even mildly original. I love the Internet!  I just did tools searches and Pinterest searches and found tons of ideas. I found some printable tangled crowns, so we printed those up on card stock and the girls used them as photo-props. 

We played hide and seek with Pascal. I printed out several Pascal pictures using clipart off of a Google search. The party girl helped me cut them out. Then the two older girls helped by hiding them outside in the backyard. 

We also had a pin the braid on Rapunzel. I made yarn braids (which each girl got to take home--possibly to use as a hair flower holder). All three of my daughters got to help out with this. Using my roll of newsprint, my oldest daughter traced my youngest daughter.  Middle girl blindfolded the girls with one if her scarves and spinned them into silliness. 

Plus middle child helped by being party pho-tog!

Plus the girls got to do a princess related craft or two. I LOVE the Dollar Tree!!  

Additionally,I found princess bubbles at the Dollar Tree that made a perfect time filler/take home!  

My sister got me a cake pop baker thing for my birthday, so I made cake pops instead of cupcakes. I realized that this option is sooo much better than cupcakes. Kids don't usually eat a whole cupcake anyways-well my kids don't.  

Youngest was waiting for party guests to arrive. Waiting is so hard when you're a little girl. 

Carrots!

I got pinspired!!  Saw these super cute strawberry carrots

And these yummy yogurt carrots

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Hurry ends on the 1st

Elves Off of The Shelves part 1

Elf On The Shelf--round one

Apparently Elfie and Twinkle missed the Polar Express that was to arrive the morning of Dec 1st.  Those silly guys had to catch the next trip and arrived during the night of Dec 2nd.  (how lame am I that I can't get them here in time?)

The elves brought the family some new crayons,
colored pencils, and markers.

The left a message on top of the note that Beka left for them...
she also left a little cup of milk

Ok I gotta say my middle daughter is soo thoughtful of these little guys.  The first night she left out a little cup of milk, the second night she left out some cocoa, and then last night she left out milk again.  What a cutie pie!

Dec 3--UP to no good...you leave these two guys alone for
a few minutes and here they are swinging from the lights at
the top of the window in the living room.  What a pair!

We woke up this morning and they were taking advantage of the netbook.  My son had left the computer out on the counter in the kitchen after doing some homework and the two elves were playing Santa Slingshot on the internet

You can't see in this pic, but Twinkle and Elfie found Santa cam
and were checking in to watch Santa feed the reindeer.