Category Archives: Holidays & Occasions

Hoppy Easter – Peep Treats

Another file to share. An adorable tag for you and your kiddos. I was waiting to blog this on facebook for a few days, but I realized so many people are doing the same thing. So – I will join with the Peeps tags. I made this for my daughters class. She will give this…

Fushi – Fun Fake Sushi (aka candy sushi)

April Fool’s day came and went.  I love EVERY holiday. In this house if we can we celebrate. My kid’s were looking forward to the dinner. They were not sure what we had up our sleeves. They were very surprised!! Candy Sushi – or FUSHI as we call it.  Fun Fake Sushi. 🙂 My daughter…

Earth Day Craft Crayons

We made some of these for Valentine’s day in many colors, but after I created the Earth Day Poster with the Heart Earth (see other post) It got me to thinking– that heart earth looked like the crayons. So my son and I decided to make some Earth Crayons. We went through our stash of…

Our April Fool’s Day Lunch 2011

I have been so excited for tonight to get here so I can start pranking my kids and setting up!! I made their lunch tonight. For many reasons, but mostly so I could blog and share with everyone. I made a change from my last post about the worm in the apple. I realized my…

Earth Day Poster – Freebie

I created an Earth Day poster.   I just love how it turned out!! WOOHOO!! And adding some earthy things around it. Looking at it makes me happy! We started celebrating Earth Day 2 years ago. And last year we took it up a notch. This year I actually wanted to have a little area…

What we plan for April Fool’s 2011

I can NOT wait till Friday!  Everyone gets excited for Friday, but I am excited for other reasons. We love April Fool’s as you have already seen in my previous posts. I plan to make the kiddlets their lunches with many surprises. Their lunch will have some switch out similar to Family Fun link here….

April Fool’s Day – Lasagna for dessert

This is by far the funniest dish. It was quite delish I might add!! This prank dessert was pretty involved- I won’t lie. It took some time to prepare.  No cooking or baking — just many layers of yummy goodness to make it look legit. We loved this as a family. It makes quite a…

April Fool’s Day – Cupcakes for dinner

Can you imagine the look on my kiddlets faces when we served them cupcakes for dinner?!?!  They looked at us all cross eyed.  My kiddlets knew we were cooking dinner and dessert at the same time. So they figured April Fool’s we were going to have dessert 1st, dinner second. However- they are still wrong….

April Fool’s Day – Lemonade

This trick really got my kids all riled up! They were not expecting what we had in store for them. You will simply need 1 or 2 boxes of your favorite gelatin flavor. We chose to make ours lemon flavor. Also we only made 1 box of gelatin flavor and wished we had made 2…

Are you ready for April Fool’s Day?

Be sure to check back with us this week! As we will be posting some fun recipes and ideas for you and you family for April Fool’s Day coming up this friday! My kid’s are always suspicious about what pranks and tricks we will play on them. We get the funniest reactions out of the…

Banana Nut Bread Baked in a Jar

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I did this back in 2002. I went to a few classes last night and one of them was amazing about Jars. All the things you can do in a jar. She was awesome and got my mind going again for the holiday. Very exciting because – I LOVE JARS!!!  So she asked me what…

Patriotic Fruit Tarts

Inspired from my latest copy of Food Network Magazine. I used the photo as the inspiration. I did not want to do a rich tart as they called for mascarpone cheese etc. I used a recipe that I previously posted for my eclairs but I also use it when I make Coconut Cream Pies. Ingredients-…

Family Pina Colada

Yup– one the whole family can enjoy!!!  A different twist- gets  all frothy and foamy and delicious. Cinco de Mayo– we enjoy this wonderful drink with our Mexican dinner. The kids enjoyed it. It is a RICH drink so — like real Pina Colada’s 1 (or 2 ) will do ya! Ingredients- (Makes 4) 1…

Dirt for Dessert – Earth Day Treat

For our dessert tonight- we had the infamous dirt and worms.  All kinds of ways to do this dessert, I just chose to put them in glass tumblers with some gummy worms. But in case you have never seen this– Ingredients- 1 bag of Oreo cookies Bag of candy worms Chocolate pudding prepared according to…

Happy Earth Day 2010

We went all out and had a Earth Day party with the kids. 🙂  Decorated the house with earth stuff etc. One of the fun things we did was boil eggs, and make them look like planet Earth. Then we stood them up using the top of a soda or water bottle cap. They stood…

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