If you've been reading my blog for any number of months you know that my family is a HUGE fan of Branson, and especially Dolly Parton's Stampede. While there are a lot of fun shows to see in Branson, and several great dinner shows, this one if the best in our opinion. It is family friendly and does a great job of entertaining everyone for the full hour and a half it runs.You can read about our full experience to the "normal" Dolly Parton's Stampede show and then keep reading on to … [Read more...]
Merry Christmas
I want to wish you all a very Merry Christmas! I am taking a few days off to be with family. I hope you have a wonderful celebration with family and loved ones. I pray that we remember the reason we celebrate is the birth of our Savior. I'm grateful for His birth, His life and His death. He lived and died so that we may have eternal life with our families. Here is a special, short video about Christmas that really helps direct my focus.Merry Christmas! … [Read more...]
Nutella Filled Christmas Cookie Pops! Yum!
Ok, I am so excited to share this post (but I am also kindof drooling as I do). These cookies were amazing! I don't mean to toot my own horn but yes I came up with these on my own! Sometimes I take risks and they work out really well and other times not so much. This time- HOME RUN! At least in my eyes. They looked cute but seriously if I don't make another batch in the next 24 hours...I just might ...lose it! So here is what I did. I found my favorite cookie base which comes … [Read more...]
Simple Sugar Cookies with Killer Frosting Recipe – 12 Days of Christmas Desserts
Cookies, cookies, cookies! That's all we think about when the holidays come to our house! The kids and I spend a lot of time in the kitchen but sometimes we need a simple semi-homemade recipe that's easy, especially for last minute gifts or school parties. We make simple Semi-Homemade Sugar Cookies with Frosting to save us time throughout the holiday season!For the first 12 days of December I have teamed up with several friends to spotlight our favorite holiday desserts. Make sure to check … [Read more...]
How to Make a Jingle all the Way Glass Block
Stefanie found this cute craft on pinterest and asked me to create it for her. First I had to find a svg file of a jingle bell that I liked (and that she liked). Then for the words I used two different fonts, Georgia for 'jingle' and 'way', and Century Gothic for 'all' and 'the'.Next, I set the cut settings by finding the Silhouette Vinyl optionSilhouette Tip: If the cutting blade in the machine is getting dull and doesn't cut well the blade setting can be increased by 1 … [Read more...]
Stuffing our Stockings with Target – #MyKindofHoliday
Disclosure: This post is brought to you by Target but all opinions and content are my own. Your opinions may differ. You can follow along at #MyKindofHoliday.Time is ticking and Christmas is almost here! I've been thinking about what kind of stocking stuffers I want to have this year. I headed to Target to shop for stocking stuffers and wanted to show you some of my favorites. Perhaps some of these items are going to make it into your stockings as well. My kids don't … [Read more...]
Quick Christmas Crafts
This week we all were sick so we had a couple sick days and a we had a snow day. Needless to say I had some time to kill with the kids! Luckily I also have some random crafty things hanging around the house so we were able to come up with a couple fun activities.First we made Santa hats. This is super easy, all you need is red construction paper,cotton balls and glue. Since our refrigerator isn't magnetic we decided to hang … [Read more...]
Time to Make the Gingerbread House! Psych!
Every year at Christmas, we make a gingerbread house. This year, when I bought our kit, I was rushing. 2 weeks later, when I pulled it from the cabinet for the kids to work on it, I figured out it wasn't gingerbread! It was chocolate! At first, I was disappointed, but really, it was SO much better! Sometimes the fact that I'm an airhead works out to my advantage!So in this kit, it gives you the milk chocolate to melt and then you pour it into the molds to make the sides and roof. Then you … [Read more...]
5 Best Buy Gift Ideas for the Family This Christmas
With Christmas time practically here, I reckoned that this is an excellent time to think about some last minute gift ideas and gadgets. I’ve taken these from the Best Buy store as they have a very large range in stock and are still shipping even with a few days to go. They tend to have a diverse range of home appliances and technology options which you can purchase making it very simple to find something to match all the people in your family. If you are stuck for ideas then here’s some of … [Read more...]
Santa Bread
Today's recipe was visually an epic fail! But my girls LOVED it and it was yummy, so it was totally worth it! I know what changes I'll need to make the next time we make it- and there WILL be a next time! It was so fun!Gypsys Melting Pot gives a recipe for the dough that I’m sure is delicious, but I’m a lazy chef, so I just bought Pillsbury Simply Rustic French Bread Dough instead. (I used 2 of the Pillsbury containers) “Divide into two portions, one slightly … [Read more...]
Gyspy Melting Pot
Okay folks, you know how I feel about creative and simple recipes! I just fell in LOVE with Gyspys Melting Pot! They do an awesome job compiling super cute and totally adorable recipes and crafts that are so simple and so creative! I was so excited to share them with you! I’ll post 2 today and 2 more on Thursday.Christmas treeGypsys Melting Pot made it with veggies, (Click here to see theirs!) but my kids are MUCH more likely to eat fruit! And our family tradition is a Christmas … [Read more...]
Poinsettia Craft
Getting in the mood for Christmas!! Here's a cute craft for ya!What you'll need: Green Paper, Red Paper, Yellow Paper, Paper Plate, Scissors, Pencil (or marker, pen, etc), Glue (or tape or stapler) First thing they'll need to do is trace their hands several times on both green and red paper. Depending on the their hand size- I'd say they'll need 10-12 of each color. My kids got seriously sick of cutting out hands, so I cut the plate to … [Read more...]
Decorating for Christmas
We have started to decorate for Christmas at our house. We actually started before Thanksgiving but only did one thing here and one thing there. I am finally done with my fireplace mantle. We have a couple Christmas trees up, but no ornaments on them yet. Tonight my husband wants to put some lights outside in the bushes, and the columns on our front porch. I wanted to share an easy Christmas craft with you. First here is our mantle.The craft I wanted to share with you in the "JOY" in the … [Read more...]
