Friday, January 27, 2012
sweet treat
Ingredients
1 cup butter
1 cup light brown sugar
1/2 cup granulated sugar
2 tsp vanilla
2 eggs
2 1/2 cups all purpose flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp coarse sea salt
2 cups coarsely chopped Butterfinger Bars (approx 16 “Fun Size” bars)
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350°
Cream butter and sugars in mixing bowl.
Add the vanilla and eggs and mix until incorporated.
On low add your dry ingredients (flour, salt and baking soda) until just combined.
Stir in your chopped Butterfinger.
Spread in a 9×13 baking dish and bake for 25 minutes until center is JUST set.
Remove from oven and cool completely.
Preparation time: 5 minute(s)
Cooking time: 25 minute(s)
Butterfinger Buttercream:
Ingredients
1/2 cup room temp butter (1 stick)
1/2 cup vegetable shortening
2 1/2 – 3 cups powdered sugar
1/2 cup chopped Butterfinger Bars (approx 4 “Fun Size” bars)
Instructions
Cream the butter and shortening together until smooth.
Add in you powdered sugar on low speed. Turn speed up to medium and mix until smooth
Stir in your chopped Butterfinger. (I sprinkled mine on top rather than stirring them in!)
Spread on your cooled blondies
Preparation time: 5 minute(s)
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Thursday, January 26, 2012
I love Rolos!
Rolo Cake Mix Bars
Ingredients
1 box yellow, vanilla or white cake mix
1, 5 oz can evaporated milk
1/4 cup melted butter
40 Rolo Candies, unwrapped and cut in half
How to Make
1.Preheat oven to 350°
2.Spray a 9x13 pan with cooking spray.
3.With your mixer, beat cake mix, evaporated milk and butter until combined. Mixture will be thick and sticky.
4.Divide batter in half and press 1 half into the bottom of the pan.
5.Bake until just set, approximately 8-9 minutes.
6.Remove base from oven and place Rolo candies, caramel-side down on top.
7.Drop remaining batter on top of Rolos in teaspoon sized amounts.
8.Bake for 20-24 minutes longer until top begins to golden.
9.Cool completely before cutting into squares.
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Tuesday, January 24, 2012
So Easy!
How cool is this! I think this would look very neat in my moms house! I love anything to do with photos!
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Sunday, January 22, 2012
YUMMY Chix
Chicken
Juice of 1 lemon (3Tbsp)
3 Tbsp olive oil
1 Tbsp minced garlic
1 tsp salt
1/4 tsp black pepper
1/2 tsp basil or oregano
2 boneless, skinless chicken breasts
Pasta
2 cups dried penne pasta
2 Tbsp butter
Juice of 2 lemons (6 Tbsp)
1 Tbsp minced garlic
1/2 cup half and half (or heavy cream)
2 tsp dried basil
2 Tbps capers
1/2 cup grated parmesan cheese
Chicken
Combine first 6 ingredients and mix well. Place chicken in a ziplock bag and pour marinade over chicken. Marinate overnight in the refrigerator. When ready, grill until done. Allow chicken to rest for a few minutes and then slice into strips to serve over pasta.
Pasta
While chicken is grilling. Cook pasta according to directions (10-12 minutes). Reserve 1/2 cup of pasta water and drain. In same sauce pan, melt butter over medium heat. Whisk in garlic and lemon juice. Pour in half and half and whisk until hot. Add some salt and pepper to taste. Add the parmesan cheese, basil and capers, and heat until cheese is melted. Check the consistency of the sauce and add some of the reserved pasta water to loosen the sauce if necessary. Toss in pasta
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2012 Nebel's Studio Cuties Contest
We are doing something a little different this year! It's so hard to pick the winners (We judged others last year, NOT our own) so we are offering MORE awards and breaking up the age groups! This is a cheap session, let's update your walls :)
Feb 4th
March 17th
I also do nights after 5pm
Book now before spots are all full. The 4th only has a couple left.
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We Love You, Grandma Lou!
Grandma Lou passed away on New Year's Day. This is a day that I will never forget. I do believe now that everything happens for a reason & you should always go with your heart!
It started with New Years Eve coming up. Stewart really wanted to go out with his friends (me too of course) We couldn't find a sitter, everyone had plans! My dad called and said that he would love to keep the girls. So that was the plan, Him and Vicki would watch them over night and we would spend the night with my Aunt Jeri Lyn. Karston woke up New Years Eve morning with the flu, poor girl couldn't keep anything down. Sign #1, Of course we wouldn't go out. We spent the evening watching movies and just relaxing as a family. It was perfect other than Miss Karston didn't feel well. She started to feel better about 6pm. So we decided that we would go to church the next day, That was a New Years Resolution of ours to go to church at least once a month. We all got to bed at a good time..
The next morning (New Years Day) we got up, showered, and got all ready for church just like any other morning. (We obviously wouldn't have made it to church if we went out with our friends.) We are driving into church and pull into the parking lot and there is NOT one car there.. We were a little confused, I was driving, so without even asking I went straight to Rex and Mary Lous (they always know :)..) We unloaded and went on in, told them we had plans to go to church, but no one is there. Rex laughed and said it starts at 10 not 9 (Sign #2). So we said we would just stay there and visit until church started.
Stewart was visiting with Rex about farming like always. I was talking to Mary Lou. She was telling me she had been up with the flu, so I told her about Karston too. She told the girls how pretty they looked and such. We were all just caring on a great conversation when I seen Grandma Lou take her last 3 breaths. I jumped up! I told Stewart to HELP!... I grabbed both girls and took them downstairs and told them how important it is for them to STAY down here and NOT come upstairs. I needed them to be BIG girls. They did so. Stewart and I called 911, they guided us and helped us until HELP came. Stewart did CPR on Grandma Lou also. I have never been more proud of him in my life. Even though he was scared, sad and 100 other things all at once he knew just what to do. The ambulance came and rushed her back to the hospital.
I truly believe in my heart we were to be there to help Rex, to help Mary Lou and to see Grandma Lou for the final time.
Mary Lou and I clicked from the first time that I met her. She was always 100% supportive with Stewart and I. She told me one night that she couldn't have picked a better girlfriend/soon to be wife at the time for Stewart. Stewart and his grandparents have a very special relationship, they were VERY close. Rex and him remind me more of "father-son"
Sometimes people may think that photos are a pain, are expensive, but when someone is gone...that is how you remember them years from now. I am so thankful that we have many photos of Grandma Lou for my girls to look at and remember the good times!
RIP Mary Lou, we miss you more than you will ever know. Please watch over us!
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Saturday, December 3, 2011
Sunday, November 27, 2011
Thursday, November 24, 2011
Sunday, August 28, 2011
Waterloo Iowa
We were due for a samll get away weekend. So I looked up on the internet and found this water park! The girls would have had a TON of fun, but it was cold! Crazy- All summer has been smokin` hot and the day we go to a water park in very chilly. That's our luck. We still had a great time anyway! And we will for SURE go again next year!
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Juice...
We finally had enough tomatoes to can! Yay!! We got 16 qts of juice and making spaghetti sauce this week, so much work but sooo worth it!
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We are BACK!!
It's been forever since I've posted anything on here, so I thought that I would try and do better! We will see how that goes! First of all, I would like to know if there are any people who actually read or look at our blog. If you would be so kindly to respond-I would appreciate that! EMail me, Text, call, or post a comment below this. Whatever works best for you~
Where did our summer go??
Here are a few photo from our 2011 Summer Break!
With all of the girls tickets they both go Chuckie T-Shirts! They were so excited! Now Kallee is saving her money go to to "Chunkie Cheese" HA HA !!
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