This post is sponsored by Target. It's that time again…time to share my latest Target run. this year i have shared with you some of my favorite Target Runs, such as items to pack my kid's lunch boxes, summer grilling items, grab-and-go items for summer, fun treats i got for our weekly family movie nights and just recently some yummy fall...
Easy Bacon and Almond Stuffed Baked Brie Recipe
one of my favorite things about the holidays are the appetizers. i am not a big fan of the big meals or even the desserts. it's all about the appetizers for me. i gladly volunteer to bring my favorites to all the gathering we attend. one of my go-to dishes is a Bacon and Almond...
Spooky Halloween Mocktail Recipe for Kids
Today the boys and I had some fun in the kitchen and came up with a fun Halloween Mocktail recipe. Juicy Juice sent over some of their 100% juices. So we decided it would be fun to come up with a Halloween juice recipe. It would also be great for Halloween parties or anytime you want to...
Berry Breakfast Bowl Recipe
they say breakfast is the most important meal of the day, but lately i've been struggling in that department. so i stopped into Ralph's (my local Kroger store) for some great breakfast inspiration. did you know that Kroger has an amazing selection of natural foods? they have organic, gmo-free, and other natural options throughout the...
Arugula Provolone Turkey Sandwich Sliders
August is National Sandwich month! so i have partnered with Foster Farms to share with you their exciting contest taking place this month that celebrates their new Foster Farms All Natural Sliced Turkey lunchmeat. my husband first brought the Foster Farms All Natural Sliced Turkey home a few months ago. i am picky about the lunch meat i...
Pretzel Bite Ice Cream Sandwiches Recipe
It's National Ice Cream month! So I have partnered with Real California Milk to bring you this yummy Pretzel Bite Ice Cream Sandwiches recipe. And Guess what...it's easy to make. Perfect to give the kids as a fun summer craft that you can eat! kids can help layer the ice cream sandwiches, dip and sprinkle these cute little creations....
How to Make Shark Chocolate Bark Candy
We LOVE shark week over here. I'm not sure how we've become so obsessed with sharks, but we have been watching the Discovery Channel's Shark Week shows the past few night. the boys have also been begging to make shark themed food. yesterday we made a watermelon shark. and today we made Shark Chocolate Bark....
Orange Marmalade & Cream Cheese Croissant French Toast Recipe
Mother's Day is just a week away, that means deciding on the perfect Mother's Day breakfast menu. I love to make a special Mother's Day breakfast for the mothers in my life, and my favorite would be this Orange Marmalade & Cream Cheese Croissant French Toast with Orange Syrup recipe. It's definitely a crowd pleaser with its...
Baseball Rice Krispies Treats Tutorial with FREE Printable Baseball Glove
As you may know, we are a baseball family. With three boys playing Little League this season, we are on the field most days of the week. This of course means hungry little baseball players and that's why I created these fun Baseball Rice Krispies Treats. It's especially fun to take my boy's teams special...
How to Make Resurrection Rolls for Easter
Each year around this time, we like to make Resurrection Rolls to celebrate Easter. Some people call these Empty Tomb Rolls. We make them to illustrate the story of Christ's resurrection. Want to learn how to make Resurrection Rolls? Here is everything you need to know on How to make them... What are Resurrection Rolls? Before you...
Winter Family Dinner Idea and Lemon Parmesan Rapini Salad Recipe
This is a sponsored post. with the weather finally cooling down here in SoCal, and how busy our family's schedule have been lately, Marie Callender's pot pies have made it into the family dinner rotation in our home. they are the perfect family pleasing meal that doesn't take a lot of time to make or leave me...
Easy Restaurant Style Salsa Recipe
Here is a very Easy Restaurant Style Salsa recipe. You can make it without having fresh tomatoes on hand. You used canned tomatoes for this recipe. My sister first introduced this salsa to me, and now it's a staple when I have a salsa craving. You may think that there's no way this salsa could be good,...
Homemade Grapefruit Sparkling Soda
This is a sponsored post. it's the New Year! hooray....and one of my resolutions is to eat healthier and also work on loosing weight. i have had to give up sugary drinks and soda for the meantime...which is very hard since i have a major sweet tooth. so i have been trying to find alternatives...
New Year's Eve Punch Recipe and King Julien Celebration
Happy New Year's Eve!...what are all you party people doing for NYE? if you got kiddies and are trying to think of some fun evening NYE party ideas, then i have some for you. how about making this yummy New Year's Eve Punch and watching this King Julien NYE Countdown on Netflix. the boys and i love King Julien...
Best Gingerbread Fudge Recipe
last weekend, our family took a road trip up the coast to the little town of Carmel-by-the-Sea. while we were there, we visited the town's candy store where they had lots of unique imported candies, homemade truffles and all the homemade fudge that you could imagine. while we were there, i spotted their seasonal gingerbread...
Christmas Grinch Juice Recipe
Christmas time is here! and it is time for holiday parties, get togethers, and gatherings with family and friends. you may need a fun and quick recipe for one of your Christmas events, so i am showing you this Grinch Juice recipe inspired by one of my all-time favorite Christmas stories, How The Grinch Stole Christmas. so i love...
My Perfect Virtual Thanksgiving Dinner
i have always dreamed of having the perfect Thanksgiving. i would spend all week preparing the food in the kitchen with my mom, or my kids or anyone one else who would love to join in. the warm smells of heavenly food would waft through the air. holiday music would fill the room, and the tasting...
Crispy Brown Sugar Sweet Potatoes
The hustle and bustle of the holidays have arrive. So much to get done with so little time. I have a lot of cooking and baking to do for the holidays, and also for my families everyday meals. These Crispy Brown Sugar Sweet Potatoes not only make a great dish to share during the holidays,...
Movie Date Night with Brown Butter Popcorn Brownies
This is a sponsored post. i hear it all the time from my friends and readers, that it's too hard to get out on date nights with their spouses. it's either that it's too expensive to go out and also pay a baby-sitter, that it's too hard to get the house and kids ready so...
Easy Crockpot Chicken Verde Burritos with Caramelized Onions
This is a sponsored post. - The holidays arriving, things are about to get hectic. The last thing that anyone wants during this busy season is a big mess in the kitchen, and to have to come home from a busy day and make a big dinner. That's why I LOVE the crockpot and this recipe...
Thanksgiving Spiced Apple Cider Punch
it's fall ya'll....and almost time for Thanksgiving! i love this time of year because of the fall colors...it has to be one of my most favorite color schemes of all the seasons. plus, THE FOOD. i love all the food served at Thanksgiving time, best of all, the appetizers and desserts. believe it or not, i could...
Mummy Hotdogs for Halloween Dinner
if you are looking for a quick and easy Halloween dinner idea, these Mummy Hotdogs are just that. i made these for my Halloween party, and the boys (and everyone else) really enjoyed them. all you need to make them are hotdogs (i used organic turkey dogs) and then breadstick or pizza dough. the dough...
Halloween Onion Ranch Cheese Ball
This Pumpkin Shaped Onion & Ranch Cheese Ball made the perfect appetizer for my last Halloween party. The kids and adults devoured it, they liked it that much! Such a great appetizer for any Halloween, Fall or Thanksgiving event. It's really yummy! I love cheese balls, and had the idea to make one in the shape of...
Mummy Snack Pack Pudding Cups
This post was sponsored by CollectiveBias and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. every year i end up being the room mom for one of my boy's classes at school. with that, i take on the duty of planning the class party for each holiday. i am always looking to doing a fun themed treat....but...
Easy Meals Kids Can Cook By Themselves
making sure my family has a well-balanced meal for dinner is really important to me. so i have partnered with got milk? to bring you this post that shares how i am teaching my boys how to plan and cook well-balanced meals. by doing this, i hope that in the future, they will know how to make the...
Halloween Party Ideas: Appetizers, Dinner, Desserts and Printables
I have always wanted to have a Halloween Party, there are so many fun ideas, and I knew my boys would love it. So last night we finally hosted a not-so-spooky Halloween Party! It was more of a Halloween Dinner Party, and us and our neighbors enjoyed some spooky drinks, food and desserts. Let me...
Halloween Candy Corn Ice Cubes
This week I made my Sweet’N Low Candy Corn Ice Cubes as part of a sponsored post for Socialstars #SweetNLowStars it's Halloween time! i love this time of year because i love all the cute Halloween decorations and fun ideas that you see all over the place. i don't like the scary stuff, but i love...
Superhero M&M's Blondies Recipe
This is a sponsored post. to celebrate the release of Captain America: The Winter Soldier, we made some yummy Superhero M&M’s Blondies. these blondies are super soft, moist, and fast to make. it's a really easy M&M's Blondie recipe! the batter comes together in one bowl, in 5 minutes, without using a mixer. that means you'll have plenty...
Apples On A Stick Snack
This is a sponsored post.did you know that the Fresh & Easy has orchard fresh apples from Washington? like picked from the tree and delivered to Fresh & Easy stores within 2 days?! i had no idea that their apples were this fresh...it's definitely not the standard of most grocery stores. we thought that was pretty...
Pretzel & Caramel Ice Cream Dessert Bars
This is a sponsored post on behalf of Dreyer's. When Dreyer's asked me to create a family-friendly ice cream recipe, i was more than delighted to do so. I love desserts, especially ones that i can create with my boys. they really enjoy spending time in the kitchen with me, and it is fun to...
Easy Pumpkin Spice Cheesecake Popsicles Recipe
It's that time of year when pumpkin everything pops-up all over the place. Pumpkin lattes, pumpkin bread, pumpkin desserts, and pumpkin drinks. Once the pumpkin starts to appear, you know that Fall is in the air. However, here in Southern California, it's hot....really HOT. today it was 95º where i live. You aren't going to...
Easy Turkey Stuffed Bell Peppers Recipe
these Turkey Stuffed Bell Peppers are an easy and filling dinner that even picky eaters will like. my boys like to only eat the filling out of the bell peppers, but my husband and i like to eat the entire thing. it's a great dinner to make if you have leftover rice, ground turkey or...
Easy Broccoli Cheese Wontons Recipe
I thought I'd share a fun recipe that my kids love to have for an after school snack. I made these for them today because this is their first week back to school. They have become obsessed with wonton wrappers and the variety of different foods and flavors you can combine to make a fun...
Fun After-School Snack Ideas for Kids
It's our first week back to school, so I'm now just getting settled on the school routine. Sometimes I'm a fun mom and try and find fun snacks to give to my boys after school. This year my goal is also to try some healthier options. I thought these school snack ideas from Parenting Magazine were pretty...
Cherry Limeade Slushie Recipe
i would say my all-time favorite drink is a Cherry Limeade...my boys and hubby LOVE Cherry Limeades too. but it seems that we don't get to drink them very often....we only get them at restaurants. but i have been craving them bad during this hot and humid weather we've been having. so, i thought that it was time for me to...
KOA Camping Recipes
i am constantly having people ask me for suggestions on what to cook while they're camping, or more specifically, camping recipes. i have to admit though, when we go camping, we don't really rough it…or cook specific camping recipes. i buy a lot of pre-made meals, and we do a lot of foil meals like this lemon herb...
Summer Ice Cream Party | Easy Homemade Ice Cream Recipe
people know that i love to host parties and i like to serve fun food that looks pretty. next month i am going to have an end-of-summer ice cream party, and i have been having a lot of fun planning it. when you have an ice cream party, you need lots of fun toppings and...
Yummy Melon Spritzer Recipe
It's summer! The weather, the sun and most of all…summer fruits. melons happen to be my favorite, and sometimes I end up buying a little too many of them because my eye are bigger than my stomach. So what can you do with melons when you have to many to eat? Make this Melon Spritzer Recipe! Aren't the colors pretty! How...
Strawberry Shortcake with Rose Cream and Lime
today is National Strawberry Shortcake Day, and what better way to celebrate it than with a Strawberry Shortcake dessert. this Strawberry Shortcake with Rose Cream and Lime was the same cake that was made by Hollywood Chef Sandra Cordero for actress Audrey Anderson Emmons Strawberry Shortcake birthday party (Audrey plays Lily in ABC's hit show Modern Family)....
Summer Cucumber and Tomato Salad Recipe
This is a sponsored post.many of you know that we planted a summer garden a few months ago. we have been waiting patiently for everything to grow. so far we have grown lettuce, basil, cilantro, zucchini and cucumbers…SO MANY cucumbers. unfortunately, we haven't gotten a single tomato yet. i've been waiting for those tomatoes to make...
Jalapeño Cilantro Lime Steak Foil Packets
i have been getting ready for our road trip this next week, and have been trying to plan a few meals. i am not sure when or where we will actually be cooking over a campfire, but i definitely know i would like to do some campfire or barbecue cooking during the trip. and besides...
How to Make Semi-Homemade Ice Cream Sandwiches Hack
We spent this past Memorial Day weekend taking it easy and hanging around the house. I made the kids these yummy semi-homemade ice cream sandwiches. You might think they look really fancy, however they took less than five minutes to make. We really enjoyed eating them…and they were perfect for the hot sunny weather. How to...