Happy Easter!!!

Happy Easter!  I hope everyone had an amazing holiday spent with family and friends.  It was a gorgeous Easter day here in Pennsylvania, and it could not have been more perfect.  We had an Easter egg hunt which the kids loved, had dinner with my family, then came home and napped and relaxed and enjoyed a lazy Sunday.  Days like today remind me how blessed I truly am.

Here is our Easter weekend in photos.

Again, Happy Easter!

Bunny Food

I really wish I was a creative person.  I mean I am, to an extent, but I can't come up with these super cute ideas.  I love people who do, because then I get to steal their creative genius via Pinterest and make it my own.  I will say I typically add my own twist on things, and I hate following a recipe to a T.  With that said, here's another totally adorable Easter gift/treat that I found on Pinterest that I knew I'd have to make.  Max and my niece will LOVE these, I just know it :)  

Instead of M&M's(which is what the original Pin had ) I went with some jelly beans.  The kids will get enough chocolate on Easter from Neena & Pap Pap, I don't think they need more from me!  

Happy EASTER weekend!

Easy Valentine's Day Treat, Part 2

Okay - Part 2!  Another easy one, and again, can be adapted to any single holiday or occasion.  I actually prefer my rice krispie treats naked.  No chocolate dipped treats for this little lady.  But it does add a certain cuteness and of course some extra sweetness.

White chocolate dipped rice krispie treats:

5 c rice krispies

4 c mini marshmallows

1/4 butter

1/2 bag white chocolate chips

pink food dye

 In a large saucepan melt your butter, then add your marshmallows.  I love little marshmallows, they're so cute :)  Mix, mix and mix a little more.  Then once they're all melted, keep mixing.  Once it's super smooth add in your rice krispies!

 Then mix, mix, mix some more.  Make sure all those little babies are covered!

 Put your mixture into a greased 13x9 baking pan and cover with wax paper.  Press down firmly to spread it into the pan.  

 Use every ounce of willpower you have and don't dig in now.  I didn't do that step.  I ate some, because when mixture is warm it is SO dang good.  But that's just me, no willpower here!  Cut them into whatever shape and size you want.  You could stop here and these would be one of these most heavenly sweet treats on earth

  But I didn't stop here.  I sprinkled them with Valentine's Day inspired sprinkles.  You could stop here and these would not only be delicious, but festive.  But I didn't stop.

 I melted down my white chocolate chips over low heat until smooth, then added a few drops of pink food dye.  Then I dipped half of each treat in the chocolate.  Now PLEASE, stop here!

Aren't they beautiful???  Even though I said I liked mine nakey, these ARE delicious.  I'm just a sucker for a plain jane rice krispie treat I suppose!

Happy Valentine's Day Eve!

Easy Valentine's Day Treat, Part 1

HAPPY SUNDAY!
I love Sundays, they're spent being a little productive, a lot lazy, and always with family.
Which has nothing to do with my post, but I just thought I'd share that little tidbit.

Here are the how-to's one of yesterday's Valentine's Day treats.  crazy easy.

The other great thing?  It can be adapted to any holiday just by switching up the colors.

Pretzel Buttons:

Waffle shaped pretzels

1 bag of Hershey Kisses

1 bag of M&M's

 Step one.  Unwrap your kisses

 Step two.  Assemble your kisses on your pretzels on a wax paper lined baking sheet.

Bake at 200 until the kisses aren't melted, but look glossy.

Step three.  Remove from oven and place one M&M on the kiss, pressing down to spread the chocolate.

Let cool completely.  Placing in the fridge for a few minutes works great!

HOW easy!  So many variations - switch up the Kisses, switch up the M&M's, you could make these for virtually any holiday, or any day for that matter.  They're SO good, the perfect sweet & salty combo, and I'm a total sucker for sweet & salty!  One warning, they're addictive.

Make 'em & enjoy!

Valentine's Day Preview

So today I decided to start on Max's Valentine's Day gifts for his friends and teachers.  I have a girl's night planned for Monday night(dinner and going to see 'The Vow', woohoooo), so I wanted to have this stuff done since all the Valentine's festivities are Tuesday.  

For his teachers I got them each a red mug filled with goodies - a dinosaur Valentine(he's obsessed with them at the moment), biscotti, hershey's special dark bar, dark chocolate truffle,  dark chocolate godiva square and a small pot of hand lotion.

Added the pink tissue paper too, I looove a red & pink combo!

Now for the kiddies - each treat bag was filled with a white chocolate dipped rice krispie treat and pretzel buttons.  Oh, and of course his little dinosaur Valentine cards.

I thought they turned out pretty cute and I'm happy to be giving out something other than just plain candy!

The rest of my Saturday evening consisted of sheet forts, cartoons, and playing shoe dress up.  These are the moments I live for...

 I'm a master fort maker from WAY back.

 He loved it!!

 Enjoying a little tube time before bed.

 Such a ham!

What?!  Boots and crocs don't go together?  Who knew.

Hope everyone is having a fab weekend!!!