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How to Make Mickey Snowman Cake pops!

I am so excited to share this recipe with you because it’s SO easy! With the Holiday season quickly approaching, my time seems to be more and more stretched. I’ve found it difficult to make everything I love if I don’t begin very early or find super easy and fast recipes. The teenagers love to help come up with ideas and especially love to help execute these blog posts. They helped compose this post from typing to editing the photos; it was their first full project. We hope you enjoy this post: How to Make Mickey Snowman Cake pops!

Eat Drink Celebrate Repeat This Holiday Season with Babble Boxx #EDCRepeatBboxx

Every Holiday season I say that I will be fully prepared for the next, no more last minute loss of ideas. Every year I am running around last minute looking for last minute Hostess gifts. Let’s not forget that one thing we are missing but don’t know what it is yet. That’s me in a nutshell. This post is sponsored by BabbleBoxx.com and as a result I received the cutest package for review. I hope you enjoy reading Eat Drink Celebrate Repeat This Holiday Season with Babble Boxx #EDCRepeatBboxx

Visiting Santa- It’s Never Too Late for a Great Tradition!

There weren’t many traditions around Christmas time while I was growing up, we had Christmas Eve tamales and woke up on Christmas morning with excitement. I always dreamed of having so many traditions and celebrations once I had children of my own, then reality hit. My Husband was deployed more often than not. If he wasn’t on a deployment far away, he was on a work-up trip preparing for deployments and that meant he was gone for weeks at a time. His Military career never gave us an opportunity to settle down and have some set traditions, so we did things as we could. Having premature babies with heart monitors also made for selective outings around people. These were all reasons why we were never able to see Santa every year. It took many years but we finally have one: Visiting Santa- It’s Never Too Late for a Great Tradition!

Recipe: How to Make Cute Penguin Cupcakes

I love baking with the kids, it’s a perfect time to spend some time together and chat, laugh, and make a collective mess. There are 8 humans in our home, collective messes are our specialty! This Recipe: How to Make Cute Penguin Cupcakes requires almost no mess at all though, you can easily buy store bought cupcakes and only worry about making the penguins. No baking mess!

Ultimate List of Holiday Cocktail & Mocktail Recipes

During the Holidays we host a lot of get-togethers for both Adults and teenagers alike. I love to make the kids fun drinks while the adults have some as well. I had a lot of fun putting this Ultimate List of Holiday Cocktail & Mocktail Recipes because it gave me so many ideas to choose from! I hope you can find one, two, ten recipes that you will love!

Recipe: How to Make Pomegranate Agave Martini

This Recipe: How to Make Pomegranate Agave Martini is one of the tastiest Martini recipes I have made. The rich taste of the Pomegranate and the agave together make it really stand out from the rest. Give it a try, it’s a perfect drink during any time of the year!

20 Christmas Candy Recipes to Celebrate the Season

It’s my favorite time of year! Baking, decorating, giving treats, it’s something that makes me SO happy! This means I am searching for months looking for recipes that I will be making. I bake, cook, create things throughout the entire Holiday season and I give them away. There is something magical about the days that make me get into the spirit. I hope you enjoy these 20 Christmas Candy Recipes to Celebrate the Season

The Ultimate Leftover Candy Recipe Collection!

Ah, what to do with all this leftover candy!? Once everyone’s gotten sick of eating candy on its own (who am I kidding?!). Has that ever happened? There’s no way our candy lasts until we’re sick of it. While I love chocolate as is, some of them could use a twist. I’ve put together a list of 70+ different recipes that use different candies to make some seriously delicious treats. There’s everything from cookies and brownies to pies and cheesecakes. The one I’m dying to try is the Candy Corn butter, which they say tastes just like Butterfingers. Definitely something I’ll have to make and eat sparingly! I hope you enjoy The Ultimate Leftover Candy Recipe Collection!

Recipe for the Best Christmas Cookies Ever!

I have posted many recipes in my lifetime but none that I love as much as this one! The flavors and design are the cutest things ever to go on a Holiday table! The kids had so much fun making these cookies last year and decided to make them as gifts this year. Thank you very much for stopping by and I hope you enjoy our Recipe for the Best Christmas Cookies Ever!