Recipes

Make Your Own Chocolate Syrup

Hello friends! I’ve been traveling with my husband and our youth group for the last four weeks and had to take a break from posting but I’m back 🙂 I am so blessed to have been a part of some amazing trips with even more amazing teens this summer, and now I’m thankful to be home and slow down for a bit. The past few days have been about getting back to our regular schedule here in our home. Some of that is laundry (tons), groceries, cleaning (how does a house get so dirty with no one in it?! ), harvesting from the garden, preparing and freezing our veggies, playing and laughing together as a family.

One thing I had to do was make more chocolate syrup, I don’t know about your house but ours has three kids four and under and we can go through some chocolate syrup!

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Recipes

DIY Fruit Leather

My kids LOVE fruit! They almost always choose fruit over cookies/candy. I am by no means complaining about this either. I love fruit also and am always trying new recipes with fruit in them. I came across several recipes for fruit leather. I have lots of fruit right now and like the idea that DIY fruit leather that is made without extra sugar, preservatives, cheaper and very fresh for my sweet kids. Continue reading “DIY Fruit Leather”

Gardening, Recipes

Zucchini… Brownies?!

Our wonderful garden is giving us lots of great veggies this summer, one of the veggies we have in surplus is zucchini. We only have one plant but in the past three days I have five huge zucchini and more coming soon. I made some into brownies with the kids today with my mother’s recipe I grew up loving. It was so much fun so yummy I just had to share! Continue reading “Zucchini… Brownies?!”

craft

Diaper Cake

As I mentioned in a previous post my cousin and his wife had a baby shower which I made a cake and cupcakes for (see the post here: Jungle Cake). My sister Shannon and I wanted to do something special for them and make a gift instead of buying a onesie and card. We decided on a jungle themed diaper cake!

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Jungle Themed Baby Shower Cake

Today my cousin and his wife are having a baby shower for their soon to be born baby boy Micah. My Aunt asked me to make the cake and cupcakes for it, and the shower is a jungle theme 🙂

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Reflections

Celebrating 8 Years

Monday was our 8 year wedding anniversary.

We grew up in families with very different ideas of “vacation”. My family would go on vacation that was planned minute by minute and packed full of seeing and doing everything possible letting no opportunity to learn or experience something new pass us by. My husband’s family would go on vacation and totally relax and just be together enjoying having nothing to do.

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