Scentsy Candles

Elina and Noah's preschool is doing a fundraiser by selling Scentsy Candles.  This is my first exposure to this brand of wickless candles, and I think I am in love!  So if you don't know what the heck I am talking about, you can go to the website for the lady at school that is the consultant.  www.scentsy.com/brandypair

She is donating all 20% of her commission to the school.  Just click the link on the left that says "A Fundraiser".  Don't feel obligated to buy anything, I just thought a blog post would be easier on everyone that us going door to door (gag me!)  But if you see something you like, have a blast!  Your order will ship directly to you, and just let me know if you do place an order so I can tell Brandy to count you towards Elina's totals!

Above All Others! Peanut Butter Cookies!

1/2 C. Butter

1/2 C. Peanut Butter

1/2 C. White Sugar

1/2 C. Brown Sugar

1 Egg

1 Tsp. Vanilla

2 Tbls. Milk

1/2 Tsp. Salt

1 tsp Baking Soda

1 + 3/4 C. Flour

You know how to do it...cream the creamy stuff, add the wet ingredients and then the dry ones.  Roll into 36 ping pong size balls.  Bake on flat ungreased cookie sheet at 375* for 8 minutes.  The cookies don't look done, but trust me, they are perfect!  Remove from oven and press a Miniature Reese's Peanut Butter Cup into the center of each cookie.  Carefully remove from pan and allow to cool before you rub your face in them!  P.S.- we ran out of Reeses, so used some Hershey Hugs for the last dozen, and they were delicious too.  Matter of fact, Jason liked them better!

Markers

This is the first time we have ever just handed a marker to Lydia and I think she did just fine!  Better than her brother, who thinks that once he has scratched out enough random lines on his piece of paper he can move onto his face, hands, and clothes!  And Elina is so proud of her new skill: drawing hearts!  We sure had fun making your letters, Mummi!

Doritos

In TRUE Burnside fashion, Lydia crawled over to my tupperware cabinet and sniffed out the Doritos!  For those of you who don't know my Dad, his family and all of his children, we LOVE Doritos!  The best is with plain ole sour cream, but we will take them any way we can get them.  Heck, we even make a casserole with cheese, chicken, rotel, rice and doritos just so we can eat them for dinner.  And when I ask my husband what vegetable should I make to go with said casserole to make it a more wholesome dinner Jason's response is: There's corn in the chips, right?  Hhhhhh, guess I am going to have to move my chip stash up to higher grounds!

Poppi's Birthday

Going with Angie's great idea to do birthday cakes for our family members that live across the country, we made an apple pie for my dad's birthday last week.  Homemade everything, even the crust (sorry Pillsbury) and we used the apples we picked from the orchard too.








Then we called him on Skype, sang happy birthday and showed him his birthday pie.  It was so yummy!  (Now, Angie, my dads only request was to figure out how to mail our family members a piece of their cake!)