Easter Nests

One of our few Easter Traditions:

Easter Nests

Begin with some crushed shredded wheat cereal.  

(the big plain biscuits work best)

Then throw some chocolate chips (3 parts chocolate), some peanut butter (1 part peanut butter) and a few T of butter into a microwave safe bowl.  Microwave in 30 second intervals to avoid burning.

dip your finger in the melted concoction and spread it all over your face.

Drop large spoonfuls onto waxed paper and shape into nests.  Fill with chocolate or peanut butter eggs.  These make cute decorations for your easter table as well as good gifts for the neighbor and treats for school classes.

*Note:  We like dark chocolate and natural peanut butter but you can use any variety of chocolate that you prefer.  Obviously, for a sweeter nest, use milk, then semi-sweet for a little bit richer etc.  

Snowflake Tortillas

We enjoyed these so much that I thought I'd share.

Start with a large tortilla (if you can get your hands on the uncooked ones please do....tastes like a funnel cake;), fold in half.

Continue folding just like you would a paper snowflake.

Cut.

You should end up with something like this

but not exactly like this because no two snowflakes are exactly alike ya know:

Melt a heaping T of butter in a frying pan and fry it up.

Sprinkle with Powdered sugar:

DEVOUR:

Make war paint with residual sugar...

And so it begins!

The Christmas season is truly here and the parties have already begun!  Here are a few shots of what we've been up to already this December.

Here are the kids singing at the Ward Christmas Party.  I could hardly hide my enjoyment at watching my two children holding on tightly to each other as they sang.  It was too much for words.  Isaac was so proud to have Georgie next to him.  He invited her to come up and sing with him and put his arm tightly around her neck.  He kept peering down at her while they sang, giving her his cute little toothy grin and she hugged him back and constantly patted his tummy. 

A cute idea for school treats:

Isaac really enjoyed making and eating these!

Here we are with some friends at Joey's Medical Group Christmas Party.  

We had a really great time.