Nov

01

just a couple o’ small fries

just a quick little post to tell you that we had a blast last night, and i went to bed wishing that days like that wouldn’t pass by too quickly!

thought you might want to see some full pics of the costumes:




best fam pic we got…please excuse the boy’s fake smile!
i’ve literally eaten myself sick today, and am in desperate need of finding a good place for all these leftover Halloween goodies….so i’m off to share some Jack O’ Lantern cake pops with my bible study girls!

be back later,

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Oct

30

Cake Pops

i’ve got one more Halloween recipe for you, and then i promise i’m done for the night! afterall, the hubs is still up watching the USC game, and i’m still wired from Florida’s OT win over Georgia! finally…i was beginning to forget what it felt like to win!

anyway…
have you heard of Bakerella? i’ve found her blog a while back, but she just came out with a cookbook, that the bug and i literally drooled over a few weeks back in the bookstore. anyway, she’s a master at these creations called Cake Pops, and i had the crazy idea to attempt them today:

you can get the recipe here and you can see her Halloween creations here. since she’s got step by step directions in her recipe, there’s no need for me to repeat, so i’ll just show you some pics of the process. that way you can read her recipe and follow along:






(the stem is a green Tic Tac, from the Mango Melon flavored pack)

i was pretty bummed when my edible marker that i bought for $4 didn’t really work, and only had enough juice for me to finish 4 of these little faces. so may i just suggest NOT buying the Wilton edible markers? (hope i don’t get in some kind of trouble for saying that. typically, everything i’ve ever bought of their brand has been wonderful, but don’t waste your pennies on their edible markers…they just simply don’t work.) i might try to find a better one tomorrow after church, and if i do, i’ll let you know. but if not, we’ll just be happy eating plain pumpkin cake pops with no faces at our party tomorrow night!

i’m officially signing off now. just realized that someone pranked us already…and tied our adarondak chairs on the roof of the hubs car with toilet paper. that takes some guts, considering we are still up with all the house lights on! i’m assuming its some of our old students. oh well…its certainly not anything that we’re not used to, after almost 10 years in youth ministry. (although that does NOT mean that i find it amusing!! just in case some certain peeps might be reading) sheesh…it might be loooooooong night!

Happy Halloween, my friends!!

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Oct

30

Jazzed Up Apples

so i realize that in a few hours, it’ll be Halloween, so it might be a little late to be posting Halloween recipes, but oh well! i guess these can be made anytime!

one of our fave fave fave Halloween treats are these:

its pretty much your typical caramel apple, just jazzed up a bit!

so just in case you want to whip some up, i’ll show you how we do it:


melt some caramel. i use these, cause they are super simple: (and sometimes they come with popsicle sticks inside)
meanwhile:
spoon chocolate into a squeeze bottle:
(if you don’t have a squeeze bottle, just drizzle with a spoon)let chocolate harden in fridge.

then dig in!
we do keep a couple plain janes around for those of us who don’t like chocolate…
“those of us” being my children. neither one of them really enjoy chocolate. the bug will eat some, but the boy won’t touch it at all! crazy, huh?

but to make up for the boy’s craziness, we have some exciting news to share with you:
that is a tooth….coming in behind Canaan’s baby teeth! momma was freakin a little, cause the baby teeth weren’t budging, and all i could think about was how crooked and crazy that little adult tooth was gonna look when it came in, cause those cute little baby teeth weren’t movin out of the way for it! but, as we discovered yesterday, the boy’s bottom 2 front teeth are in fact loose!! and he couldn’t be more excited about it!!

so…he’s been begging me all day for an apple so he can chomp into it to get those teeth out, so maybe it’ll happen tomorrow when he enjoys his “un-jazzed up apple”! (i guess it would be fitting for the Tooth Fairy to visit on Halloween!) but at least then he can stop working so hard to get them out on his own!
is it just me, or does it seem like when adult teeth start coming in that its a reminder that your little ones really are growing up?? how does that happen so fast???!!!

wishing i could hit the pause button on life, and that he could just stay dressed as a cute little Mr. Potato Head forever (you guys were correct on your guesses, btw!)

can’t wait to show you the full costumes,
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