St. Patty Poem

I found this saying online and kind of liked it. I cut it out with my silhouette and added it to some green paper with some coordinating shamrocks but you could print it out on some cute St. Patty paper.

May Luck be our companion
May friends stand by our side
May God bless us with happiness
May Love and Faith abide.



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Turtle Trifle

This dessert is the super easy, delicious treat I made for my husband for our early Valentine dinner. Enjoy!

Turtle Trifle

8 oz pkg of mascarpone cheese or cream cheese, softened
1 1/2 cups whipping cream
1 1/2 tsp. vanills extract
1 (2 lb) frozen pecan pie, thawed and cut into 1 inch cubes
1/3 cup chocolate fudge topping
1/3 cup caramel topping
1/2 cup chopped pecans, toasted

-Beat mascarpone cheese, whipping cream, and vanilla extract in a large bowl at medium speed with an electric stand mixer, using the whisk attachment, 2 to 3 minutes until smooth and firm.
-Place half of pie cubes in bottom of a trifle dish or clear bowl. Spread half of whipped cream mixture over pie cubes. Drizzle with half each of chocolate fudge topping and caramel topping. Sprinkle with half of chopped pecans. Repeat layers.
-Cover and chill at least 1 hour or up to 8 hours.






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Valentine's Box- Horsey.

My sweet daughter needed a Valentine's box for school for next Monday and those of you that know her know she is completely overly OBSESSED with horses. Of course she said she wanted a horse, so we got creative and made her this adorable Valentine card holder.



Constructed out of paper, cardboard, toilet paper rolls, soda pop bottle, ribbon, yarn and paint. Once the idea was in my head it came together really easily.
-First I cut a rectangular hole in the soda pop bottle (the horses back) for the Valentine's to go in.
-Then she painted the soda pop bottle and toilet paper holders red.
-Once they were dry we hot glued the legs together, glued red paper on top of the holes, then hot glued the soda pop bottle on top.
-If I had been thinking we would have put the paper hooves on first, I wasn't so it made it a little harder but all is well.
-Next I drew a horses head in photoshop(it kind of looks more like a cow face, oops... what can I say, I'm not exactly the best artist).I printed it out, traced around it on cardboard and a red piece of paper. Then I cut it all apart (the horse template) and traced the upper part of the head out of red, the chin out of pink, hair brown, etc... Then I pieced it back together on the cardboard with glue.
-Hot glue the head to the neck of the soda pop bottle, then to hide how ugly the neck of the bottle was we tied some ribbon into a bow.
-For the horses tail I took several pieces of yard folded in half, tied it with another small piece of yarn and then hot glued it to the bum.
-I took red ribbon and glued it around the sharp parts of the bottle where I cut the rectangular hole and lastly I cut her name out of vinyl with the silhouette.
She loves it, I love it and I am sure the kids in her class will too. Happy Valentines! Spread the Love :o)






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52 Things I Love About You

Need a cute and thoughtful gift for your hubby for V-day? Last year I took a deck of cards and wrote 52 things that I loved about my husband, added in some pictures from online and tada! Fun, thoughtful gift to let him know all those little things that I love about him! Click on the picture to see it larger, then click down in the right hand corner to make it even larger. These are just a glimpse of the deck :O)



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Jan. COTM Reipe- Banana Cake Cookies

I love trying new recipes. Last month I went looking for a Banana Cookie recipe but didn't love the one I tried offline so I converted my grandmothers zucchini/banana (it can be used for either) bread recipe into a cookie recipe and LOVE how they turned out. Especially with cream cheese frosting- EVERYTHING needs cream cheese frosting on it! Anywhoo- I thought I would share. This is the recipe that I used for the first month of the Cookie-of-the-Month Club :o)

Banana Cake Cookies

Recipe yields 3 dozen cookies
Preheat oven to 350 degrees

1/2 C shortening
1 C sugar
2 eggs
1 C mashed bananas
1 tsp. vanilla extract
2 C all purpose flour
2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt
1 1/2 tsp. cinnamon
1/2 C chopped pecans (optional)

Cream shortening & sugar. Add eggs, banana & vanilla, beat well. Sift together flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt & spices. Add to creamed mixture, mix well. Stir in pecans if desired.
Drop dough by rounded spoonfuls 2 inches apart onto greased cookie sheet. Bake for 10-11 min. Remove to wire rack to cool. Then frost with cream cheese frosting of your choice, I chose to melt mine in the microwave and then drip into center of cookie.... ENJOY!



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Reading.

Not feeling well today so I am curling up on the couch with a book and blanket. I just wanted to share a paragraph from the book I'm reading. To The Rescue, the biography of President Thomas S. Monson.

"When you have sampled much and wandered far and have seen how fleeting and sometimes superficial a lot of the world is, our gratitude grows for the privilege of being part of something we can count on- home and family and the loyalty of loved ones. We come to know what it means to be bound together by duty, by respect, by belonging. We learn that nothing can fully take the place of the blessed relationship of family life."

Love.

I have been wanting some Valentines decorations at my house so I went to a craft night from this website with my friend and made these:




A couple of days later I was inspired to make a Valentines decoration that reflected TRUE LOVE and PURE LOVE. Something that included the Savior. Something to remind my household that Valentines is more than chocolate and flowers and candy. So I had my husband cut a 2x6 3 1/3" wide, I painted it and modge podged paper and a missionary card from the distribution center on, added some ribbon and cut the word LOVE out of vinyl with my silhouette. And I love how it turned out. I hope it makes my family reflect a little the next couple of weeks on the one who layed down his life for his friends.:



And I decided to use that same idea as my Activity Days project and talk about the pure love of Christ for our first Feb. activity:



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