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Back to baking..

I've been gone for awhile and busy with so many different crisis, but thankfully I'm back. I haven't been backing very much until this week. I don't have any pictures b/c I forgot to take some but I made some lemon bars for my sister on Monday. She absolutely loves lemon.(eh)

Then last night I got the urge to bake and went looking through the pantry and decided to make brownies. Not just any brownies though. I followed the recipe on the box and mixed it together(adding walnuts and chocolate chips). Then i scooped out a layer into my pan, with another layer left in the bowl. Then i got out my nutella and add a few spoon fulls to the middle of the mixture and topped it with the rest of the brownie mix. I baked as normal, actually a little longer and when i took the brownies out I added miniature Hershey bars, square by square to the middle of the brownies for an added gooey-ness!! YUM!

These brownies turned out delicious. They took a little longer to bake but my husband was in awe!!

So next time you get a craving for brownies..try this ; )

The weather outside is frightful..

but the fire is delightful! It's snowing/sleeting in my neck of the woods and it's awesome. The ice we could live without, but what's TX without an ice day once or twice a year. We got two in a row (: I'm loving it!

Anyways, I've got a quick recipe that is mindless, that the husbie & i have been enjoying this winter. It's almost an every night thing. Which is good and bad.

It's microwavable SMORES!

Who doesn't like smores! I'm not big on marshmallows, but you put them with chocolate between a graham cracker and I'm all for it!

Microwavable Smores

1 Sheet of Graham Crackers(4 rectangles)
1 mini sized Hershey's bar(we've used bite size twix, snickers, etc.)
1 big marshmallow

take the sheet of graham crackers. break them in two. Then put two rectangles of chocolate on one side, top with the marshmallow and then put the other rectangle of chocolate and then heat it up for about 10 secs or until the chocolate is just lightly melted. Make sure if you have kids that you let them stand at the microwave and watch. It's my husbie and I's favorite part. The marshmallows get HUGE! Lastly, top with the other graham cracker rectangles and enjoy!

*Bonus*
our walmart is now saling these JUMBO and i mean jumbo marshmallows. My husbie and I are going to try those next. They just might explode in the microwave.

PS. For those of you wondering, my daddy is doing a lot better. Praise the Lord (: and thanks for your prayers!

Prayers..again..please.

Man, has this new year been crazy or what. I started it with my bff and her son going to Heaven and then this past Sunday my dad went to the hopsital for what we thought was a virus.

Turns out. My Daddy has such a bad virus it had completely dehydrated him to the point where he had NOTHING, not a thing in his system and everything was shuting down on him. You talk about words you never want to hear. His kidneys were failng and his blood pressure was out of control. He had developed pneumonia and was to the point where if we would have waited another minute to bring him in, he probably wouldn't still be alive. Thankfully we serve an awesome-healing God and my dad is doing a lot better. After being sedated with a ventalator for 3 days. I cried every single time I went in his room. To see your daddy lying in a bed helpless, with a tube down his throat and asleep. I can't breath even now thinking about it.

I just wanted to fill y'all in a little bit about what was going on and ask that you pray for my Daddy's recovery. I'm a strong believer in prayer. That's what saved my Daddy's life is our sweet, sweet Saviour. I pray that my Dad's heart stress test goes well, and that he can get some relief from his back pain. My dad is medically retired, due to a severe back problem he has had his whole life but got worse as he got older. He's still very young and I just want this all to get passed us and for him to be 100% better in no time.

Thank you in advance and if there is anything I can ever pray for, for you, leave me a comment(:

Blessings from our Wonderful Father,
Kate<3

a broken heart..

I haven't been baking much lately and here's the reason why.

I lost one of my best friends and her baby, he was like a nephew to me this past week. I've gone to funerals, lost some loved ones but never two people at once, and never anyone I was this close to. My heart is aching as I know I can't see them as often as I could if they were here on earth. I'm thankful that they are in Heaven with Jesus and that we will again, see them someday soon.

I ask that you would please be in prayer for The Ray family. As they lost like I said not only one, but two of the sweetest blessings God has ever given.

Thank you in advance.

&& Thank you to God for the relationship I had with sweet Becca&Coco. I love you both very much. Till we meet again, your always in my <3


This is Beccaboo, Coco & Me at my sister's wedding a month ago(:

What's better than a good ol' Chocolate Chip Cookie

..not much, in my opinion! ;) I love me some Chocolate Chip cookies, as does my husband. My husbie has been craving some good ol' chocolate chip cookies lately, and I've been looking for a good recipe. I came across Nestle's original recipe and I have to say, it is the BEST! I might be a little biased, seems how this precious fellow,


also know as our son, his name is Nestle :)

Back to the cookies. You have got to try this recipe. I made some with just chocolate chips, some with walnuts and some with cranberries. Yum! They are all equally delicious! I also made some small and some great big ones :) My favorite thing about this recipe is, somehow the chocolate chips, no matter if they're straight out of the oven or have set over night, melt in your mouth!!




The one with a bite out of it, has walnuts, choco chips, & cranberries!





Hope you're having a great weekend!

I've Been featured at..

I've been featured at My Creative Way. Go check it out :)

Created by Diane.

If you've never checked her blog out you need to visit it. She has some of the best recipes I've ever seen. I've made quite of few of her creations, including the one I'm going to blog about today.

For Thanksgiving, I made Diane's Mini Cranberry Pecan Pies. They were a big hit. I will warn you, if you don't like fresh cranberries or tartness, then you might not like these. My husband like them, but would have rather not had the cranberries. My mom, Nanny, and I loved the cranberries!!! Anyway, here are the pictures of these darling creations.






If you would like to try this recipe, hop on over to Diane's blog.