A few more recipes. . .

A few more recipes from blogland that I have whipped up. . .



Chicken, Ranch, Rice Soup - I know everyone has a recipe for chicken soup. This one has unique "something" once the powered ranch is added.

Smore Stuffed Brownie - OK, ,these are good but mine looked nothing like the picture. I don't know if my marshmallows weren't so fresh:)

Layered Mexican Chicken Bake - The kids loved this.

Chicken Tostada Upside Down Bake - The flavors were good in this one. We just didn't care for the cresant roll on top, mine got soggy. My 6 year old thought corn bread on top might be yummy, I second that!

Chicken Bruschetta Pasta Recipe ( TGI Friday knockoff) I needed a recipe to use up some of my tomatoes from the garden. I love the TGI friday version of this and this was just as good in my book.

Birthday Girl!

Today, Miss A turns 6!

The 3rd of July we had a party with friends and family. We started the day off by going to a parade. Then party time with. . .

a hello kitty pinata,

cake balls,
hello kitty cake - using this homemade marshmallow fondant

and ended the day with fireworks. A great day!

Happy Birthday Miss A!

A few projects to do. . .

This weekend was a busy weekend. .. we enjoyed a picnic at the local arts festival - listening to music and watching the boats sail by. We worked another local festival and enjoyed a birthday party. And today we are catering a meal for 400 for company picnic. Food will be served in less then an hour. . .hope all goes well!

Going to A Party. . .

We are heading to a party in a few hours and I made this cool Broken Glass Jello. My sister made it last weekend for a party and everyone loved it so I thought I would give it a try. So simple and so pretty :)

I used blue raspberry, lime, orange and cherry jello. At last weeks party we were talking how easy it would be to change it for the holiday - red/white/blue, 4th of July - orange/green, Halloween- red/green, Christmas - red/white - valentine's day, or your favorite team's colors.

Chocolate Chip Dip

I make this dip often for parties and get togethers. Last night Miss A asked me to make it for her because I only ever make it for other people :) So I whipped up a batch for Miss A last night.


2 TB brown sugar
1 block of cream cheese
1/2 cup butter ( room temp)
1/4 tsp vanilla
3/4 cup powdered sugar
3/4 cup mini chocolate chips

Combine cream cheese and butter, add brown sugar, vanilla, powdered sugar- Mix. Fold in chocolate chips.


We mostly just eat this with pretzels (the whole chocolate and salty thing - YUMMY) but you could also serve it with graham sticks, vanilla wafers, apple slices.

More eggs. . . and cupcakes

Last night we started making these eggs. The day before when decorating eggs it was" Be careful, they will crack if you drop them." Last night it was "Drop them, crack them, have at them!" The kids had a blast! And the results - stunning!

I saw a link for these jelly donut cupcakes at Just Becuse I Am Me. They sounded yummy so I had to try them. Remember I am baking challenged. Something ALWAYS happens. Well this time my hand mixer broke right in the middle of mixing. So I mixed the rest by hand. I am not sure if they turned out the way they are suppose to but they were yummy the way the came out :)

A day of decorating. . .

Today we finished decorating cookies. . .

we used candy corn for our duck bills.

and mini marshmallows for our bunny tails (I cut marshmallows in half)

We also decorated our eggs