Oreo Truffles

Everyone seems to love homemade truffles lately. They’re super easy to make and taste delicious. This is a batch we made for our Pumpkin Carving Contest last week and Micah is still having fun learning to take better photos with his fancy new camera.

First you crush 3 cups of oreos. This comes out to be just less than one package which leaves a few to enjoy with milk while you work.

After your oreos are crushed add an 8 oz package of cream cheese and mix.

Form the batter into bite size balls. Cover a tray with foil or parchment paper and arrange them on a tray. We forgot to cover the tray and the balls stuck to the tray. Leave the tray in the refrigerator for 15-20 minutes.

Melt a package of melting chocolate and dip each ball in the chocolate. Use two forks transfer the balls to the tray. Add sprinkles for fun. Place the tray back in the fridge to cool and harden. Enjoy!

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Jack-o-Lantern in a Jar

Jackson wanted to give something to his Kindergarten teacher so I decided to make some sugar cookies I had seen.  The idea was to make cookies in the shape of jack-o-lantern parts.  Here is the recipe I used.

The frosting is very thin and is applied with squeeze bottles.


Then I got some orange plates and added stems.

You can then mix and match the cookies to make silly faces.
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Dinner with the Dennings

Last Monday night Micah arranged to have a neat family over for dinner.This is the Denning family.

Micah found this family with five children through one of the blogs he follows and was definitely intrigued by their story. You can visit their website here. For this particular trip, they started in Alaska and are on their way to Argentina, driving a vegetable oil powered truck and living out of a pretty cool rooftop tent.

Micah found them just in time as they were passing through parts of AZ that we were able to invite them over for dinner. All the kids had a great time playing and swimming together and dinner went well. We were able to talk for a while with them about their adventures and learn more about their neat family. We were inspired to be a little more creative with our family time and more motivated to take chances or opportunities that may not always seem like the logical choice to others around us. It opened my mind to acting on dreams…

Thanks for stopping by for the evening and good luck with your travels!

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