With Memorial Day here, and the 4th of July not too far away either, I thought I would share 3 very easy red, white & blue treats, that are perfect ideas for your all-American weekend celebrations and gatherings.

As I’ve mentioned, we all choose what we want for our birthday cakes in our family.  Up until this year, we’ve really lucked out in that, {J, O & S} have always just agreed on the same kind of cake.  So this year was a ‘first’.  They had all spent their own bouts of time flipping through their big sister’s cook books, and it seems 2 of them had seen something they wanted, and they knew exactly on which page, in which book, it was.

So this post isn’t directional recipes, per say, but a few cute ideas you may like to use for your kids, or yourself, sometime!  Good news: Birthdays are not a requirement!  An ordinary Sunday, the kickoff of a school vacation, or… Continue reading

After our good-intentioned whining spells as of late, about wishing for more comments, we thought you all deserved some nice treat ideas.  The hot cider was one, and just as soon as we get some “I”s, I’ll be posting the easy recipe to that. (Yes, we are relentless.)  (OH….I double posted. So there is a new post, posted before this one, down below if you want to start there. ) In addition to the cider recipe, we’d like to share some steps to this easy, pretty, fun and festive treat!

Last year for our Christmas gathering with some family, we made these pretty pretzel rods drizzled with chocolate.  Our visiting family even wanted to… Continue reading

Still trying to catch up on work here, but had the chance to finish getting these family photos processed too, which are (some) from Memorial Day weekend, actually. So I thought I’d share them on the blog real quick.

‘Make Your Own Ice Cream Sundae’ is a pretty exciting happening around here. Actually…the kids like to ‘make their own’ anything!! But sundaes seem especially fun. It’s something we do more than not, because with Shane having an anaphylactic allergy to peanuts, we all feel better about just having this treat at home. It’s a lot safer, and we can lick in peace. Not to say we never get ice cream out, but if we… Continue reading