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03.03.2015
Tagalong Cookie Dough Dip
This Tagalong Cookie Dough Dip is that amazing chocolate and peanut butter Girl Scout cookie, broken down into cookie dough dip form! Grab a spoon and join me, will you? We have a running joke in our house that Quinn is a better mom than I am. It’s been going on for a reeeeeeeally long…
02.24.2015
Green Velvet Sugar Cookie Bars
These Green Velvet Sugar Cookie Bars with Cream Cheese Frosting have have the amazing red velvet taste mixed with sugar cookie and could not be easier! I said to a mom friend the other day . . . I never realized before I became a mom how hard and gross it would be to take…
02.23.2015
Samoa Latte
This Samoa Latte is your favorite Girl Scout cookie in latte form! Ummm, you’re welcome. This past weekend Gavin and Nathan went on a Boy Scout campout, leaving me home with the two little girls. And I got a record amount of work done. Seriously. A big round up post for Nikki, and six recipes…
02.19.2015
Greek Stuffed Chicken
This Greek Stuffed Chicken is a fancy dinner that comes together easily! It is jam packed with flavor! Thank you Sargento for inspiring and sponsoring this amazing and delicious dinner! So. I can say with absolute certainty now that I am NOT cut out for a cooking competition show, ala Chopped. My assignment for this…
02.18.2015
Skinny Shamrock Shake
This Skinny Shamrock Shake is a much lighter way to enjoy this fun treat! You guys, why does weight loss have to be so hard? Uuuuuughhhh! My problem is that I get within about three pounds of my goal weight and get really pumped feeling all like a rock star and then I decide that…
02.16.2015
Thin Mint Frosting
This Thin Mint Frosting is your favorite Girl Scout Cookie in frosting form! You’re going to want a spoon. For whatever reason, moms want fat babies. Is it pride? Like, “Hey look! Not only am I keeping her alive, I’m keeping her FAT.” Moms want to chew on fat thighs, talk about baby kankles, and…
02.13.2015
Blood Orange Margaritas
These Blood Orange Margaritas are the perfect combo of sweet, tart, and gorgeous! The other day I got a comment from a reader that pretty much made my whole week. I can’t stop thinking about it. Hi Lisa, I just wanted you to know that I stop by your blog daily and I have since…
02.10.2015
Bacon and Eggs Biscuit Breakfast Panini
This Bacon and Eggs Biscuit Breakfast Panini is FOUR ingredients, and and all but the last two steps can be done ahead of time making it a fast breakfast! You guys. I discovered Alias on Hulu. And I am devouring it. When I say I discovered Alias on Hulu, I mean that I sincerely considered…
02.09.2015
Salted Caramel Sugar Cookies
These Salted Caramel Sugar Cookies are AMAZING! Melt in your mouth delicious! I don’t think I’ve ever talked about it before, but Gavin is essentially me in the body of a seven year old boy. We’re like the same person. Which can be awesome at times. I mean, I can’t even tell you the times we’ve…
02.06.2015
Cookie Dough Stuffed Petit Fours
These Cookie Dough Stuffed Petit Fours are a no bake little treat that are pretty enough not to eat but too delicious to only have one! So after the Crock Pot Chicken Tortilla Soup Debacle of 2015 where I was told on social media, my blog, and in person by my very own son that…
02.05.2015
Dinosaur Valentine
A cute Dinosaur Valentine that comes complete with a funny joke! What more could you ask for? Sometimes there is nothing better than kid jokes. Except when you turn them into Valentine’s the that you can print at home. Why don’t sharks eat clowns? They taste funny. It’s okay, Nathan didn’t laugh either. But Gavin…
02.02.2015
Cake Batter Truffles
These Cake Batter Truffles are made in the microwave! And so so so yummy! Good luck only eating one! My husband sometimes hates that I blog. Mainly because he knows that any ridiculous thing he says or does has the potential to be written about or photographed and shared with the whole inter webs. He…