Snow ice cream!

Yesterday in the "blizzard," I was wishing I had sweetened condensed milk in my pantry so I could give this recipe a try.  I didn't... so it had to wait until today.  Although the snow wasn't "freshly fallen," I know it had not been touched.  No footprints were anywhere close to it!

Here's where I got the idea...

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I had just been out with my parents so invited them in for the experiment.  I went out to the back yard, scooped up the snow, and mixed it all together.

It all happened so quickly that my dad said, "Did you just make this?"  I said, "Yes!  With SNOW!"  He said, "Clean snow?"  Hahaha. :)

YUM!  Highly recommended!

More funfetti!

So we had my nephew's birthday party a couple of weeks ago, but today was the actual day.  I got to host the family tonight so I volunteered to make the cake.  After the successful funfetti cupcakes, I decided to attempt to make a cake with the same mix.  I have a horseshoe cake pan to use for Colts parties, and he loves the Colts, so it seemed like a good fit.

So pretty!

All mixed up and in the pan, ready to bake... I had to guess at how long to bake it since I doubled the recipe and the original timing was for cupcakes...

Baked, frosted, and ready to eat!

Homemade funfetti?

We had a staff birthday at church this week.  For staff meeting on Wednesday night, we needed to celebrate!  After the whole scenario with the delicious not-out-of-a-box brownies, I felt I needed to try to make cupcakes from scratch, too.  So I looked on pinterest for funfetti cupcakes.

Found them here...

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Here's the final product.

I told the staff I needed to blog about this, and everybody thought they were pretty tasty.  Already made something else with funfetti last night but will tell you about that in my next post...

Family Movie Night: The Polar Express

We had our second Family Movie Night at church since the first was a great success.  We showed The Polar Express... kids wore their pajamas and we gave them popcorn and hot chocolate.  During the movie, kids can come back to tables and work on activities if they need something to do during the movie.  One of the crafts they got to do was make reindeer ears.

The idea came from here:

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And here's the final product:

It was hard to get the ears to stand up.  We ended up taping popsicle sticks behind them so the ears wouldn't be floppy.  And I think we did figure out a way for Rudolph to not have staples on the front of his face... this was just try #1!

Very cute!!

I may never make brownies from a box again

So a few weeks ago (yes, I'm so behind on this blog, but let's overlook that for now), I was at my sister's.  She was gone to get her haircut and I was leaving to get mine cut in about thirty minutes.  The twins said, "Essy, let's make something!"  I surveyed the fridge and cupboards and found many ingredients, but no butter.  I told them we might not be able to make cookies without butter.  They then said, "What about brownies?"  I got on pinterest and quickly searched "brownies no mix" and the rest was history.  I may never make brownies out of a box again!  Delicious!

The recipe came from here:

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And here is a picture of how they turned out:

Enjoy!