Cookie Face

I haven't shared anything about Annie in a while so I thought I would. Annie is almost 2. She is getting so big so fast. I just thought I would share some pictures just cause she is so darn cute! Get ready cause here we go. . .

Annie's Cookie Faces. . .

She is just a cutie . . .

S'mores Bars

I was skeptical about these, but they were really good. The one thing I hate about s'mores is the chocolate never seems to melt all the way, and these taste just like a s'more but are better because they chocolate is melted. Try 'em, you will love 'em.

S'mores Bars

1/2 cup Butter, room temperature
1/4 cup Brown Sugar
1/2 cup Sugar
1 large Egg
1 tsp Vanilla Extract
1 1/3 cups Flour
3/4 cup Graham Cracker crumbs 

1 tsp Baking Powder
1/4 tsp Salt
2 king-sized Hershey's Milk Chocolate Bars
1 1/2 cups Marshmallow Fluff

Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease an 8-inch square baking pan. In a large bowl, cream together butter and sugar until light. Beat in egg and vanilla. In a small bowl, whisk together flour, graham cracker crumbs, baking powder and salt. Add to butter mixture and mix at a low speed until combined.

Divide dough in half and press half of dough into an even layer on the bottom of the prepared pan. Place chocolate bars over dough, they should fit perfectly side by side, but break the chocolate (if necessary) to get it to fit in a single layer no more than 1/4 inch thick. Spread chocolate with marshmallow creme or fluff. Place remaining dough in a single layer on top of the fluff. This part can be tricky. I spread mine out on parchment paper and flipped it over. Bake for 30 to 35 minutes, until lightly browned. Cool completely before cutting into bars.

Recipe Source: thegirlwhoateeverything.blogspot.com

Maycie is 6 Months!

Maycie turned 6 months on August 5th. 

 

So many things have happened in the last 6 months with our little Maycie. . .

*She learned to crawl(she army crawls), but she can move and thats all that matters!

*She learned to sit up. She can sit up without falling over. She can go from her tummy to sitting up and from sitting up to her tummy without smashing her face into the floor.

*She sleeps from 8.30pm to 7.30am.

*She loves to put anything she can find in her mouth including her toes and her bottom lip.

*She loves to follow Annie everywhere she goes. 

*She loves to laugh.

*She loves to yell.

Just some pictures of our cutie on her 6 month birthday. . .

Look at all that hair!!

She loves to smile!

When she cant find anything else she loves to eat her toes!

Thats our little sweetie at 6 months!

**Just out of interest at 6 months and 2 days Maycie got her first tooth!**

Twice Baked Potato

Potatoes are one of my favorite foods. They are so good. There are so many ways to have a potato, all very delicious. This was no exception. My husband who hates potatoes, still required BBQ sauce to make it worthy to eat.

Twice Baked Potato

4 large Baking Potatoes

8 slice Bacon

1 cup Sour Cream

1/2 cup Milk

4 Tbsp Butter

1/2 tsp Salt

1/2 tsp Pepper

1 cup Shredded Cheddar Cheese

Preheat oven to 375 F.

Bake potatoes in preheated oven for 1 1/2 hours. I used potato nails to bake mine so they cooked faster. You can just microwave the potatoes instead because its faster and they taste just as good. About three minutes per potato, just check for tenderness. Make sure to poke holes in the potatoes with a fork before microwaving so that they don't explode.

Meanwhile, place bacon in a large, deep skillet. Cook over medium high heat until evenly brown. Drain, crumble and set aside. When potatoes are done allow them to cool for 10 minutes. Slice potatoes in half lengthwise and scoop the flesh into a large bowl leaving about 1/4 inch of flesh so the potato maintains it's shape; save skins. To the potato flesh add sour cream, butter, salt, pepper, 1/2 cup cheese and milk (start adding 1/2 cup of milk but you may not need to add it all depending on the consistency you want. You don't want them too runny). Mix with a hand mixer until well blended and creamy. Spoon the mixture into the potato skins. Top each with remaining cheese and bacon. Bake for another 15 minutes.

Cherry Cobbler

I have honestly never had cherry cobbler before I decided to make this. It was super easy. We ate it warm with vanilla ice cream and it was delicious.

Cherry Cobbler

1/4 cup Butter

1 cup Flour

1 cup Sugar

1 tsp Baking Powder

1 cup Milk

1/4 tsp Vanilla

1 1/2 (21oz) cans Cherry Pie Filling

Heat oven to 275 F. Place butter in 8x8 baking dish and place in oven to melt butter. In a bowl mix together flour, sugar, and baking powder. Add milk and vanilla, stir. Remove baking dish from the oven as soon as the butter is melted. Pour flour mixture into the dish. DO NOT STIR. Pour fruit evenly over and DO NOT STIR. Raise oven temperature to 350  F and bake for 55 minutes, or until golden brown.

Recipe Source: allrecipes.com

Busy, Busy, Busy!

  So even before we moved into the place we have been living for the last 3 weeks I knew I would have to work on some things. There are things I don't like about it, they had a door on the bathtub and when we moved in it was not clean and covered in MOLD. So gross! The floors squeak like crazy and the green carpet has a lot of orange all over it, probably from bleach, but it still looks gross. There were spiders and earwigs everywhere. The kitchen cabinets are a horrendous color! But there are a lot of things that are tons better than the last place we lived, fenced in backyard, the kitchen is open to the family room, a finished basement for all of Annie's toys, a huge storage room, an office for Brent to study, and a room for all of my crafty stuff. So even though it sounds like I like to complain its mostly stuff that we can fix. So its ok.

   Brent took the nasty doors off the bathtub, bleached and scrubbed the walls of the shower where it was to kill all the germs cause I couldn't even go in the bathroom it was so gross and he cleaned the tub(I hate to clean the bathtub so he so kindly does that for me). Sprayed for bugs and the last thing we did was paint the kitchen cabinets. 

This is our Poop Log Kitchen, as we call it . . . 

We puttied the handle holes . . .

Sanded the doors . . .

Primed everything . . .

Did the first coat of paint . . .

and the second . . .

After 2 days of hard work it turned out pretty good . . . 

It is so much brighter and the color is much more appealing. Thanks to my mum for watching the girls for the 2 days. We never couldve done it that quickly if she hadn't.

Maycie and the Rice Cereal

Maycie had her first experience with solid food today. I tried to take pictures but they were all fuzzy cause she was moving so much. It was even more difficult to get the food in her mouth. The following pictures are the only ones that you could kind of see her face without too much blur.

She loved it, hopefully she will sit a little more still next time or I will get faster! The latter is more likely.