WARNING: I need to be totally upfront with you from the beginning. This cookie dough needs to be refrigerated for several hours (ideally overnight) before you bake. For cookie dough fanatics like me, that can be delicious…problematic. That’s it. Consider yourself warned. I never knew Grandma Ada. I’ve been told she was tall. I did…
Crockpot Texas Bean Dip
It’s that time of year when the world falls in love and potlucks abound. The festivities can add a lot of crazy to your already full schedule, so it’s important to have a dish that’s 1) ridiculously easy and 2) ridiculously yummy.
How to Make Your Christmas Tree Tell A Story
Let me kick this one off by saying something totally generic. I love this time of year. L. O. V. E. I love the silent nights and the jingle bells. I love sitting in a dark room with the Christmas lights on, when everything feels still and magical all at once. I love that “family-ness”…
Family Tales
I’m a new mom. Well, technically, I’m a six-month-old mom. And something about being a new mom has made me think differently about, oh I don’t know, let’s say, almost everything. About a month ago, I was flipping through my calendar and saw that Veterans Day was coming up. My husband and I come from…
Christmas Service Star
Many of my most vivid holiday memories have very little to do with the “prettiness” of Christmas. Pictures of these moments-if we even had them-would surely not be very Pin-able. I was probably wearing my over-sized basketball shorts, the lighting would have been awful, and there were definitely no burlap banners with matching drinks in…
Thanksgiving Family Video
Five years and five family members ago, Kellie made this little jewel of a Thanksgiving video. It was pretty incredible to sit down and watch it again-and even more incredible to think about how our family (we’ve added two husbands and three grand-babies!) and lives have changed in those five years. I guess more than…
Breakfast On The Go: Pumpkin Waffles & Breakfast Burritos
We are hot breakfast kind of people. Which has gotten a little tricky with Tim leaving for school around 5:30 in the morning (which should be totally illegal, by the way) a couple days a week. But it’s helped me find some fast, easy, and STILL HOT BREAKFAST options. What’s the secret? Freeze-able breakfast. I’m…
Missionary Mail: Thanksgiving in a Bag
My son LOVES food. His teenage life pretty much revolved around it. So, since he is serving a mission for our church in a place that doesn’t celebrate this scrumptious holiday, I had to send him some Thanksgiving food love – Turkey Dinner in a Bag! 2 Idahoan Mashed Potato packets (4 oz. each) 1…