Kids in The Kitchen- Muddy Buddies

YAY!!! I made it, I am later than usual on my KITK post, but lets just say its a miracle I am posting LOL! I am sure everyone could tell I am behind in my blogging adventures lately *and to all the kind folks that are doing the letter exchange, we have come to a screaching hault, but will start again soon! I am so sorry!* On the upside of things my wedding is TOMORRROW!!!!! and such is why I have been so BUSY! I am nearly done with my crazy antics, stressed out ways, and preperation .... GOOD LORD what would I have done if it were a big wedding! Thank goodness God gave me enough sense not to do a BIG one!! Today I am packing and resting, oh the joys of the day almost being here, I will soon be lounging on the beach for my HONEYMOON!

And yes this week we did something totally easy, and this has been on serveral Kids in the Kitchen links so we stole the idea from a few of our wonderful friends that participate with us on KITK! We made MUDDY BUDDIES and YUM are they good!!!

You'll need:

4 1/2 cups of corn chex cereal (I used store brand)

1/2 cup semi sweet chocolate chips

1/4 cup pnut butter

1 tablespoon butter

1/2 teaspoon vanilla

3/4 cup powdered sugar

Measure out the cereal *notice how much is actually making it into the measuring cup* put cereal in a big bowl and set aside!

Place the chocolate chips and pnut butter in bowl *my lovely Lu kept sneaking the pnut butter so I don't know how much actually made it into the mixture LOL* See that grin!

Microwave the choc/pnut butter mixture for 1min, and stir, then pop it back in microwave for 30 more seconds ... stir until smooth

pour the choc mixture into the cereal, and coat EVENLY!

I took the cereal put it into a ziploc bag, poured the powdered sugar into the bag

and shook shook shook!!!

Its kinda nice to go grab a handful here and there, they are sweet and yummy, just the right mixture for a sweet tooth!

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Muffin Tin Monday- Plane, Trains, Automobiles

Today's Muffin Tin Monday was all about Planes, Trains, and Automobiles.

We were actually going to skip MTM today because we were so busy running errands that there just wasn't anytime ... and we ate on the go. I also kept thinking I know nothing about Planes, Trains or Automobiles, I have a GIRLY GIRL ... no boys and no knowledge of those 3 things. But then I decided we could do it for dinner, I was making enchiladas, certainly I could somehow make something out of that right?? RIGHT.... a car, light bulb goes off... YAY MTM back on! Lu just loved it, and she knows now how fun it is!!Top: is our Milk Fuel, pretzel stick shifts, graham cracker/skittle stop lights.
Bottom: enchilada car with olive wheels, olive wheel spare tires, and a flag for the finish line, made from a left over tortilla (from the enchiladas) and preztel.

YUM, Lu love it and I liked making it, not as challenging as I thought it would be, and she ate all of it, which is more than she would normally eat in a dinner sitting, I might have to bribe her more often with a meal in a muffin tin to get her to eat more :)

Stop by Her Cup Overfloweth to see more great Muffin Tin Meals.

Finally The Foamerator

It seemed like it took us forever to make the foamerator, after it came out in the Family Fun magazine that we get Lu wanted to do it so bad, then I saw it on every blog I like to look at, and we kept pulling bottles out of the recycling bin but something else came up instead! So I am glad we finally did it, and Lu had tons of fun!!! She blew some mean foam bubbles ....

and blew them around the yard!!!

and then chased her mother with the suds....

too bad her mother is quicker than she is LOL ..... :) However we had a BLAST, we will do it again, and saved out bottle and cut up terry cloth for next time!

For more Kid Friendly post go here and here

Kids in the Kitchen- Cinnamon Twist

Wow, Its Thursday already!!! This week has flown by, and I have been so busy I can't even see straight, part of me wonders how the heck I got all this stuff done while I was working? Because I can barely manage now when not working!!!

Glad you all have stopped by this week to check out Kids in the Kitchen, you may think that I would have a biscuit fetish, doing 2 post in one week using biscuits (see Easy Donut post here) In all actuality though I am just trying to use whats in my fridge before we leave for our honeymoon next week, and truth be known I am a sucker, I bought the 4pk of biscuit cans instead of getting just 1 pk bc afterall I thought I was getting a deal (and I was!!!) And last night when visiting a local fast food resturant, with Lu in the back seat hollering for some cinnimon twist, a light bulb went off, "HEY I BET I CAN MAKE THOSE WITH THE BISCUIT DOUGH AND BETTER THAN THE FAST FOOD PLACE" so off I went on an endevor to find a recipe .... and they were Oh So Simple!

I did not take a picture like normal, so the ingredients are as follows:

*1 can store brand buttermilk bisquits

*cinnamon/sugar mixture

*butter (just a couple melted tablespoons)

*Preheat oven to 350 degress

I also whipped up some glaze to go on top, and will get to the ingredients later in the post.

I cut the biscuits in 1/2 while Lu rolled them out, this part was fun, and she described it as making snakes with her her modeling clay.

Then she took a marinade brush, and brushed the melted butter on 2 strips at a time

Then sprinkled it with the cinnamon.sugar mixture.

and twist .... this was fun too! Lay them on a nonstick cookie sheet, and once again sprinkle a little more sugar mix over them. Put them in the preheated oven for 15 mins or until golden.

For the glaze I did not measure, but we used approximatley 1 cup powdered sugar, a couple tablespoons of milk, some vanilla, and a dash of salt. She stired until a nice creamy consistency.

Then spooned the glaze on the warm twist.

Heres the end product, they were yummy, and now I only have 1 can of biscuits left ... any ideas yall got out there for me to make with it???

I leave you with this one last pic of my little Lu, eating and talking on the phone, oh shes just like her mother!!!

Thanks for participating in Kids in the Kitchen, please link up to Mr. Linky ... And remember anything related to Kids and Kitchens can be included! Kid friendly recipes/cookbooks, cooking with the kids, how you get your children to eat their veggies, or how you get your kid to help in the Kitchen.

Wordful Wednesday- Pre Wedding Photos

I am so excited that its FINALLY Wordful Wednesday, I decided to save these pictures for this post, they are only a couple days old so I didn't have to wait long :).

I know these look like normal pictures of me and Joshy, but they are actually infact our PRE-wedding photos, we are getting married NEXT WEEK! (its coming up on me soo fast) and because we've decided to have a small wedding with just a SELECT FEW of our friends/family (and I do mean a few like 4 people) we wanted everyone to have pictures, and also because we will have a reception soon after the honeymoon, with all of our friends/family I wanted to send all of our invites a nice photo! Didn't they turn out SPLENDID? I love them! I just wanna run out and get them all blown up and put them EVERYWHERE in the house!!!! My dearest friend Christina took them, shes wonderful, did such a good job! And I just wanted to share them with you all!! The top one to the Left is Joshy's fav!

This is my fav, I love the blue pole and my red hills :)

and this one, I simply wanted to share, because I don't have many pics of Joshy truly smiling, hes a fake smiler picture taker LOL This is one of my second favs (and yes we are both displaying our wedding bands, that are now safely put away until the official I Do's, they were just needed for the picture)Love the door!We are walking away into the sunset, to our HAPPILY EVERY AFTER!!

Happy Wednesday, to see more great photos go here, here, and here

Photos are property of Christina Rulig, please do not copy them for any reason.

Muffin Tin Monday- Party Animals

This is our FIRST time doing a Muffin Tin Monday, I am an avid fan of MTM I look every week at the wonderful creations everyone does.

This week for MTM its Party/Celebration themed, so I went with it ... I know at first glance these look like a bunch of food animals, but OH NO ... look again, these are our PARTY ANIMALS FOLKS... yes thats right me and Lu made Party Animals, aren't they the cutest?? I had fun with it!!! Except I couldn't fit the animals in the holes of the muffin tins, those party animals are such REBELS, so we made do! On top: is a white oreo spider, and chocolate oreo frog (and milk)
Middle: is a bear (with peanut butter, and raisins for the face)
Bottom: is a turtle (if you look closely you can see the legs from raisins, the body is a banana slice with a little green food coloring) and of course we couldn't have a party without ants on a log!

Lu loved it, but she didn't know what we had to eat from the muffin tin, she'll get use to it :) although she did tell me 15 times how good it was!!

To see how others celebrated click here

Quick Easy Donuts!

Okay, so seriously I could of waited and saved this for Kids in The Kitchen this Thursday, but you guys have no idea how simple and delish these are, so I decided to share RIGHT AWAY! Lets just say this much, I like to be on time to EVERYTHING and if I am a minute late than I am freaking out, weekends are the worst, because even though church starts at 11:00 yes I did say 11:00 o'clock which is nearing the afternoon, I hate cooking breakfast, thats right people I am not a breakfast cooker, so while running out the door at 10:30 we always stop and grab something, well I am into budgeting lately *well ever since making the choice to be a stay at home mom* I figured that I could make something just as good, and cheaper, so when I saw this recipe I had to give it a try. It cost me .59 cents YES thats what I said, all I needed were biscuits, I had the rest ... and they were DELISH, everyone GOBBLED them up and there were ALOT of donuts from that little can of bicuits...

So heres what you'll need...

*1 tube of biscuits (I bought store brand, buttermilk) do not get flaky or extra thick biscuits, they'll be to doughy

*1/2 cup oil (canola or vegtable)

*cinnimon and sugar mixture

*small circle cutter (get this I used a medicine cup that comes with childrens tylenol they work GREAT)

And this became a family cooking session, so much fun! I put the oil in a nice big pan on medium heat, Lu and I took the med cups, pressed out a donut hole, right in the middle of each biscuit, we gave them to Josh and he put them in pan, they do not take LONG, so watch carefully, and once they are golden on one side flip to the other side (use tongs they are EASY to work with), when they were done, he handed them back to Lu and I and with the donut holes we put them in a small bag and shook in the sugar/cinnimon mixture, and the bigger donuts we put in a bowl and put the mixture on them!

This didn't take long at all, and was better than the FAST FOOD! so glad we made them. Next time I will glaze them with a powdered sugar/milk glaze ... ooohh and maybe a little chocolate too!!! so many variations to this, we may have donuts all the time!!! I am watching my budget not my waist HAHAHA!

I thought these were so good I wanted to share them over at Tempt My Tummy Tuesdays, to see more tempting foods go here!