Valentine's Day goodie cups

I volunteered to make goodie cups for my son's class for their Valentine's Day party. I decided that I would fill the cups with candy and little goodies and make Rice Krispie pops to stand up in the cup. I had never made Rice Krispie treats, and I must say that I don't think I will make them again for awhile! I was thinking this would be a super easy, quick little treat, like chocolate covering strawberries which I absolutely love! By the time I finished the Rice Krispie pops, I must admit I had said a few choice words. I will just say that I am glad I had enough to make some extras in case I had an "oops" (which I had several of!). I followed the original Rice Krispie recipe that is on the box, and here they are all nicely pressed out ready for the cookie cutter...

After I cut the hearts out with my cookie cutter, I just inserted the lollipop sticks and stuck them in the refrigerator for about 10 minutes to cool and harden...



Next, I melted my chocolate in the microwave (I prefer the Kroger brand chocolate bark for melting chocolate because it melts so smooth and hardens pretty quickly) and dipped the hearts in the chocolate and covered them in sprinkles. This is where I had the "oops" moments. I think I should have left them in the refrigerator for awhile longer, so they would have been harder before I dipped them in the chocolate. When I dipped the first one in chocolate, the chocolate more-or-less melted the Rice Krispie treat right off the stick. It was a hot mess! If I were to do it again, I would leave them in the refrigerator for about 30 minutes to harden and really cool. After it was all said and done, I think the goodie cups turned out super cute and the treats were pretty yummy too...

I just wrapped them up and tied some curling ribbon around the top. The little cups were a steal - 4 for $1 at Kroger. I figured you can't beat that, so I cleaned Kroger out of the little cups! And drumroll please, 6 hours later... Here they are, all packaged up and ready for Mothers Day Out. :) I hope these are the best Rice Krispie treats these 2 year olds have ever seen! :)

I hope that everyone had a great Valentines Day filled with lots of love! :)

my son's letters that I FINALLY finished!

I ordered plain wall letters about 6 months ago (no exaggeration!) from http://www.craftcuts.com/ with the intent of decorating them for my son's bedroom. In the past 6 months they have taken up space on my kitchen counter, my son's closet, in the laundry room, and in the garage. My husband cleaned out the garage this past weekend, and told me that he was going to chunk them if I didn't do something with them. Instead of relocating the unfinished letters to yet another place in the house, I FINALLY got around to finishing them. So TADA! Here they are...

I covered them in scrapbook paper, except the M. The M is actually leftover wrapping paper from his birthday party last summer. Sorry for the poor photo quality.. I took the pic on my cell phone. I think they turned out pretty cute, and my son loves them! :)

Crazy Texas Weather

So the weather dropped 12 degrees just on my way to work this morning. All of the stations are predicting that we could have snow flurries on Thursday and Friday. I am pretty excited about this because I would love for Cameron to get to enjoy some snow because it is pretty rare for the gulf coast to get snow! Southeast Texas snow usually = a sludgy mess, not real snow, but hey I will take that! Southeast Texas snow also usually = crazy drivers who don't have a clue how to dry in freezing weather... which means that we would get to leave work early! I will take that any day of the week! So we shall see what happens with this crazy Texas weather. Happy Tuesday! :)