Yumstar.

I thought my 100th post needed to be something sweet.  I am not talking like I am a nice person and want to talk about someone I love... I am talking about put a cavity in your front tooth sweet.

Do you use pinterest?  I came across a photo of something while I was sucked in for two hours on the website and thought that I would attempt it myself.


The original recipe was from a blog called Kevin & Amanda who got it from another blog Picky Palate... I think the train stops there... Back to K&A...I opened it up and whoa!  they had on Auburn shirts.  War Eagle to this recipe people!

Here goes.

Cookies and Cream Oreo Brownies

Step 1

Gather your ingredients

1 package of brownie mix
1 tub of cookies and cream ice cream
1 can of hot fudge for ice cream
Eggs
Oil



Ignore Chad.  His hand is NOT in the recipe nor are alot of the other things in the photo...I'm a busy girl

  Step 2

Heat oven to 350 and grease an 8x8 pan.  You can use the spray stuff if you want.  I used butter.

Step 3

Mix the brownies as is on the back of the package but  leave out the water.  Add a couple spoon fulls of the fudge (they say 1/4 cup... i winged it)  and a couple spoon fulls of ice cream ( again I winged it but they used 1/2 cup). Mix it.

Step 4

Pour half the mixture into the pan.  Layer the oreos...

Step 5

Cover the oreos with the remaining batter.  Put in oven and bake as directed on brownie package.

Step 6

EAT!!!!!!  I cut mine into really small bite sized pieces because they are really rich. 

Step 7

Bug your eyes out and run in circles really fast because of the sugarness (not a word... I know)



Quincy did not eat the brownies.  It's just an example of how you will feel with one bite.

 Would I make any changes to the recipe?  Eh, not really!  I'd make sure that I used a fudge brownie mix and not bake the full 50 minutes as directed on the package.  I like my brownies super ooey gooey. I might even mix in some nuts or chocolate chips for a little crunch.

A chalkboard for my thoughts.

We all have random thoughts that need to be noted every once in a while so I decided that I needed another chalkboard in our kitchen dedicated to just that.  If you have a cold weekend and need a small project this one was super easy and a lot of fun.  I bought myself a new Cricut cartridge at JoAnns on Friday and was itchin' to you use it.  It has a fun name "Alphalicious."  Who wouldn't want to make something with a name like that.

Step 1
Pick a frame.  I grabbed one of my empty ones off of my living room wall.  I have collected them from Goodwill off and on.  Might cost around a dollar.  Any frame will do.  Check out TJ Maxx and Marshalls clearance.  I see busted mirrors and paintings there all of the time.  Toss the art keep the frame for later uses like this.

Step 2

Trace that baby onto your board!  I keep these boards around the house.  You can buy a massive sheet of it at Lowes and have them cut it down to a more manageable size.

Step 3
Put on your safety shades and cut your square.  I used a jigsaw but whatever you have around that will cut will do.


Valentines gift from my mother circa 2004

 Step 4
Paint!  Stir your chalkboard paint and then paint two coats... Let dry over night.

Step 5
Snap it into the frame.  You can use a staple gun to secure it if you need to.

Step 6
Hot glue your ribbon to hang it by and cut your words out and put it on the board.  Find a spot in your house and share your thoughts!

Black Thriday

You can't really say Black Friday anymore because  shopping  starts Thursday night.  I told everyone yesterday that I hadn't decided whether I would go out that night or not... well it got to be about 6 o'clock and I needed to get out of the house so Chad drove me around so I could take photos of the crazys sitting out in front of Target and Best Buy.

One thing lead to another and I got the itch to sit outside in the freezing temps myself so I sat in front of Coach at 9 PM, Walmart at 10 PM, Dicks at 12 PM, then a little nap and then I went to Lowes at 5 AM.  Would I do it again?  I wouldn't at Coach.  They have the same deals and coupons every weekend.  WalMart?  Only if I needed Toys...  Dicks?  Totally!  Chad and I both scored sweet Nike hoodies for $25.  Lowes?  I had to get my wreaths and garland. 

Walmart was the most intense.  They let you in the store before it officially opened at 10 and everyone snuggled around huge pallets of stuff... finally at 9:45 one customer got sick of waiting and ripped into one of the pallets.  Of course everyone followed even me...  I grabbed my Rubbermaid and canister vacuum and RAN to the front to  check out where I had to wait until 10 PM sharp to pay.

I have decorated the tree and put all of my goods away.   Now to prepare myself for the Iron Bowl tomorrow.  Yipes.

Welcome to The Adams 1st Annual Thanksgiving.

Well now that all of the turkey has been eaten and put in the fridge for leftover meals I can say that I am very proud of the little Thanksgiving Chad, Zach, and I threw for ourselves.  We deserved a home cooked meal and a little exercise this morning.

EXERCISE?!  Yeh---- we ran the Loveland Turkey Trot with a few thousand other people this morning. It's not exactly the easiest thing to squeeze on a sidewalk with 3000 starving people but we survived.  I finished 10th in my age category of people walking.  I wonder how many signed up? ha... Who cares... 10th place!

After we finished the race we went to WalMart for a newspaper and scoped out where all the deals were hidden for tonight.  I still can't decide if I want to brave it or just sleep off the fried turkey.  FRIED TURKEY?!  Yeh---- we fried a turkey.

Now I am off to clip coupons for the morning.  Can we say $5 wreaths and garland at Lowes?!?!?!

Open at own risk.

Whoa! We live the high life...  We have lived in this house going on three years and still haven't organized everything... we just kind of moved in.  Ya knowz?  That's OK but when you have no idea what is in your pantry or how long it's been there you know that you have a problem.

If you have a Labrador you understand that you can't keep your trash can out in the open or you will come home to a massive mess.  Actually, you can't leave anything out...

Don't turn our oven on because that is where we store our loaves of bread... check the microwave before starting it because that's where we keep stuff like cakes and cookies. Quincy tried eating candy corn this week through a doubled up ziplock baggy.  Last week it was a loaf of white bread.  It really stinks if we forget to put food away.  Don't get me started on the bag of flour.  Still vacuuming that junk up out of the carpet.

I was feeling productive after dinner at PFs tonight so we came home and I pulled everything out of here while Chad watched football.  I am not going to show you a picture of everything all over the kitchen because it's embarrassing and you don't want to see it... really... you don't.

I took out all of the flour/sugar/ oats/ nuts ect. and gave them a space of their own...

I combined all of my canned good...

Cereal and other boxed items....

I need to do a little more in the morning but I am happy with the work I have made tonight.

And lucky you!  I have some things I am tired of looking at... leave a comment below if you want any of these boxes of tea or dumplings and I'll mail them to you.  Let me know which one and your email address.



Sleept Time Tea, Gree Tea, Jasmine Petal



McLibs Southern Dumplings (will last in box foreverrrrrr)



Yeh..

I am having one of those days... I got up ate a healthy bowl of oatmeal, ate a chicken sandwich for lunch, ran to and from the gym, and then it happened...! I posted about it on Facebook...

But then something better happened.