Mother's Day :)

For Mother's Day lunch I was in charge of desert.... It is my favorite :) So I logged onto my Pinterest to find something delicious. It was way too easy.

 

This was my original inspiration, which can be seen on my Desert Board. But, my sister Megan and I wanted to make it our own. So we did.

Our bottom layer was a mixture of crushed up Oreos, Oreo cream, and a little butter to hold it together.. We are still working out a way to perfect this, so any ideas would be awesome. I think I had more fun taking the cream off of the Oreos so that I could mush up the Oreos easier. For real, it was a lot of fun.

Anyways, back to the cooking. Mush up the Oreos so that they are as fine as possible. I recommend doing this in a plastic bag and using a rolling pin... Or letting a little kid step on it a few times :) Once the Oreos are crushed, pour them into your pie pan. Next, in a small bowl throw all your Oreo cream and about 2tbs butter then place it into the microwave to melt it. Mix this into the Oreo crumbs until everything is covered well. Press this into the pan well and bake in a 300* oven for about 8-10 minutes to help it set.

Next is making some mousse. I decided to use a White Chocolate Jello mix for this. A small box of the mix will work just fine. Mix that with 1-1/2 cups heavy whipping cream. Whisk it until it is nice and thick. Now is putting together the pie.

So here we have the Oreo layer... On top of that I put a layer of strawberries. After the strawberry layer was the mousse layer. Then, after the mousse layer I put another layer of strawberries.... Finally, I topped the pie off with some melted Hershey kisses and semi-sweet chips. We put this in the fridge to set for about an hour while we ate dinner and so that the chocolate could harden up.

While we were kind of worried that this pie was not going to turn out, it was delicious. I know there are stil. Some kinks to work out, but I will definitely be making this again and again... And really, who doesn't love strawberries and chocolate?

That's all I've got for cooking originality... I also made some lemon cookies which you can find in my desert board and they were outstanding.

All in all, this weekend was awesome. Here are some of my favorite pictures from it.

Lexie cuddling with uncle Richard and Coco.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lexie showing Avery how big kids play with the toy piano... He loves his big sister.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Crafts for Kids

Saturday my big sister Megan, her husband Sam, and their kids Lexie (2) and Avery (6months) are coming to visit. Megan and I had some crafting to do so to keep Lex entertained I made a few things.

First off was this cute little guy. I made him from leftover plastic Easter eggs. It was raly simple. Basically, I threaded some yarn through the eggs. I made sure that the bottom of each egg was resting inside the top half of the egg. At the end, I put the whole egg on there and glued it shut. Put some googly eyes on there and a felt tongue and you have a snake. Another idea is to throw some beads or something in the end before you glue it closed so that it makes a rattle snake.



Then, I made some play-doh. Follow my recipie below and you will never buy store bought play-doh ever again. Seriously, this stuff is the best.

In a pot pour all your ingredients:

1 cup flour

1cup water

1/4 cup salt

1 tbs oil

2 tsp cream of tartar

Food coloring- I love the neon colors, or even kool-aid powder will work

Place the pot over medium heat and stir, stir, stir.

The mix will go from watery to play-doh pretty quickly and once it looks like the picture to the right it's done. You should be able to scoop it all out at once.



















Now comes my favorite part. Divide the batch into two parts.

Add a few drops of food coloring to each half and knead it in.

Once you're done with that you have the best play-doh ever. I repeated this process so I had four colors, but you could just double the recipie in the first place and then divide it into four parts.

So Lexie didn't last long, but her sleeping is still really cute. And Coco decided to cuddle up with her.

Now, this is the actual project Megan and I did. She had a lot of baby food containers that needed to be turned into storage containers.

First start by removing any labels and cleaning them up.

Next, take the lids and paint them with chalkboard paint. We tried to do a yellow around the rim and just the chalkboard on top, but it did not look good so we painted it all the black.

To make the jars look cuter I hot glued a little lace ribbon around the jar. This also helped to cover up the glue from the label that didn't come off and also any printing that was on the jar. Personally, I think they turned out really cute, but I may be biased :)

Check back later this week for my next tutorial and I'll be doing a video soon!

Avery's Bucket List

Hey everyone, I ran across this story today about a little girl who is 5 months old and was diagnosed with Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA). It is the number one genetic killer of infants and children under two. The problem is, people are not automatically tested for it and many doctors do not offer it. Most times you must request for this to be added to all the other genetic testing. 1 in 40 people are carriers of SMA.

That's Avery. Isn't she absolutely adorable?

Please follow her blog, or at least read it and share it with everyone you know. The word needs to be spread about SMA so that one day there will be a world that no baby will die from it. Right now there is no testing being done but something needs to change about that. I for one hope I never have to watch my baby suffer like this.

Averycan.blogspot.com