The BEST Margarita E-V-E-R!

I love to end a Thursday with the ONLY cocktail I drink these days. I haven’t had wine in almost a year. Which is crazy because I was very in love with moscato. I haven’t had a beer since late October. I used to love a cold brewski, but I tried to have one the two weeks ago and just couldn’t do it. Blah. It’s crazy how your taste buds change.

10-Minute Honey Garlic Shrimp Recipe

LipSense Gift Certificates & Chocolate!

After booting my kiddos out the door, I made some homemade, chocolate, hot pink lips!!! If you are on the hunt to give a unique, stress-free gift, remember I have gift certificates. Anyone who buys a gift certificate from @lovelylips_by_bollingwith5, will receive a free box of chocolate lips to go along with your purchase!!!! 💋💄 You can contact me on Facebook here or Instagram here.  You can also send me an email here.  

Father's Day ~ 2017

Ahhhh, I feel like I have begun ALL of my blog posts over the last 6 months this way... I PROMISE I am not giving up on my blog. I am finding it extremely difficult to make the time to sit down and post because there is simply TOO much, ALWAYS, going on.  I want to get caught up on the backlog desperately and I am praying it will happen soon.  In the meantime, thank you for sticking around and enjoying the few monthly posts.  

Father's day around here was very chill.  Darren and I actually went out of town the weekend before, so I was not fully prepared, the way I would like to have been. I asked Darren if I could just cook him a nice dinner and told him we would celebrate him with gifts the following weekend.  He was totally fine with that.  The kids had their own homemade gifts for him as well.  

Ty created the word "DADDY", in Roy G. Biv colors, with dominos.  He woke up extra early to work on it. When his daddy walked down, he released the first domino.

Jax created a "Remember When" wall of fame.  He added just a few things to it and allowed his brother and sister to also add to it.  I thought the things they wrote were so sweet.  One of my favorites, which you can't read because it's in yellow, was Ty's message:

"Dad, remember when you lead us to the Super Bowl two years in a row?"

Lilah created a jar of "I love when" or "I love you because..."

The first thing that Darren pulled out of the jar was, "I love when you tickle me!"

Our day started out by worshiping the Lord.  I always consider my King on Father's Day because our earthly Father's WILL fail us, but our Heavenly Father is so unconditionally loving and perfect.

Our Sunday school just so had it planned for everyone to bring a homemade dish for breakfast. I was actually thankful that we had this planned because I was able to cook breakfast, lunch, and dinner for Darren on Father's Day.  For breakfast, I made Creme Brûlée French Toast and fresh sausage links. After Sunday school, we entered the sanctuary to watch a sweet performance.  The children in our church have made it a tradition to sing to their daddies on Father's Day. They work for several weeks, practicing, two songs.  I decided to stand up in the sound room and capture it on video. Enjoy! 

After church, I planned to make Italian sausage, onions, and peppers. I wanted to personalize it, so I just shaped the sausage into the word dad. Hehe.  I served it on fresh pretzel rolls from the Fresh Market.  YUM!

We spent a nice portion of the afternoon at the pool.  Just relaxing.  When we got back, we captures our traditional and funny photo of Darren and the kids smooshing their faces up against the window.  It's our "fascinating pandemonium or beautiful chaos".  LOL! I have been relying TOO much on my iPhone camera, instead of my amazing T6i, so this year's photo is slightly grainy, but it's still so hysterical. They will NEVER beat the first captured, smooshed faced photo though.

Then, we created Darren with MORE food.  The "starter" was shrimp cocktail, served in a "Best Dad Ever" cup. I made him homemade ribs, smashed potatoes, Cesar salad, and garlic knots.  YUM! As they say, "Food is the key to a man's heart!" If that's true, then I sure did complete his Father's Day.  LOL! Wouldn't you agree? Stay tuned soon (I hope) for we decided to purchase for him for Father's Day! He will receive his gifts probably Saturday!

"Daddy's" was served on real plates, but he was already chowing down BEFORE I could snag a photo.  I just chose to eat off of paper plates to make clean up easy peasy.

Planet Venus ~ Creamsicle Fudge

Tyson came home two weeks ago and told me that he needed to bake a food or dessert that represents his assigned planet... VENUS! I kind of "yes'd" him to death AND FORGOT! Whoopsie.  I need my own assignment pad.  So, yesterday around 2 p.m., Ty sent me a text that read "Mom, I need the vegetables tomorrow." Originally, Ty said, "I thought of something we could do.  Maybe Venus Vegetables!" I was TOTALLY thrilled he came up with his OWN idea, BUT... we wound up going a totally different route. This idea is an original of mine and NO WHERE on pinterset so I am super excited to share it with you. This idea was created and decided on two hours before we ALL hit the sack. Eek!

We decided to make CREAMSICLE fudge.  The coloring sort of represents Venus' coloring as it glows. It took about 20 minutes to "bake".

I used a small circle, fondant cutter to cut the fudge into the shape of a sphere.

My home was so WARM and the fudge was getting so gooey.  I cut out 28 pieces of fudge.

I found a Venus image on google: printed it to the size of the fudge, cut them out, and laid them perfectly on top of the fudge.

I loved the way it turned out.  It's incredible how fast and last minute this entire project happened.  

Planet Venus!

I let my kids taste test it this morning and I received a unanimous "Mmmm!"

Green and Gold Football Snacks!!

Tonight, I am responsible for the snack for Ty's football team.  Their team colors are GREEN & GOLD.  Guess what time my husband told me we were responsible? 10 a.m. TODAY!! Eeeeeek! Yes, most parents just go ahead and buy a bag of assorted chips and BAM, DONE! BUT, I can't do that, haha, hence the reason I get up at 4 a.m.  I quickly decided that I would buy (2) dozen Krispy Kreme donuts! Who doesn't enjoy a donut after a hard game of football?  BUT, I wanted to make it a little more special and fun to receive.  I wanted to enhance the donut.  Find out what I did with it (below).  

What do you do with green and gold double bubble? (Thanks Fresh Market)

 Green and Gold Monster Eyes? (Thanks JoAnn Fabrics - 60% off)

 Green and Gold Vampire Teeth? (Thanks Captain Party)

 AND (2) Dozen Krispy Creme Donuts????

 You make GREEN AND GOLD MONSTER SNACKS!

 So fun!!!!! Right?!?!

I adhered the eyes with Marshmallow fluff, inserted the teeth, and dropped a double bubble inside of the mouth.  

I hope the boys enjoy these green and gold monster donuts.