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Inside: How to use ice pop molds to make blueberry Greek yogurt freeze pops inspired by the adventures of Percy Jackson & the Olympians in the “The Lightning Thief” by Rick Riordan, our top choice for middle-grader summer reading. This post has been sponsored by Disney Book Group. All opinions are 100% mine. My son Matthew is starting middle school in the fall. We left
One of my long time friends from college calls these delicious Mexican Wedding Cake cookies “butter balls”. And for good reason: they are made with lots of butter and rolled in powder sugar that just melts in your mouth. My family has been making these for three generations and we have perfected the recipe. These cookies bake up as round balls that crumble to the
This post is in partnership with Lionsgate Hold on tight, everypony! My Little Pony: The Movie is blasting to theaters on October 6! We are so excited for the My Little Pony: The Movie that we threw a party for all of our Bronies and Pegasisters. No matter the time of year, it’s always a good time to throw a My Little Pony themed party, right?
Have you ever seen those EPIC milkshakes, sometimes called FREAK milkshakes, on Pinterest? My kids are all over that trend! When my friend Jen came to town with her family earlier this year, her kids asked us to find a freak shake shop to visit with them. But the only one I knew of was in Palm Springs, too far away from Los Angeles for our
Ever go a little too crazy during a sale at the grocery store and come home with more stuff than will fit in your fridge? That’s me, every time I go to Costco or find a meat sale at Target. Meat is easy to freeze but what do you do when you buy too much of something you can’t freeze … like yogurt? Google “recipes
This post was created in collaboration with JCPenney. All opinions are 100% my own. With Easter around the corner, we’re all thinking about what to eat, what to wear, and what the Easter Bunny will bring. If your family is spread out across the country (and maybe even in other countries!) like ours, you probably do Easter at your own home with your immediate family.
This post is in partnership with Universal Pictures Home Entertainment. Get ready to laugh, cry, and sing with SING! When we heard SING Special Edition is now available on Blu-ray & DVD, we started planning a family movie night. Movie nights can be simple but still fun and exciting. I’m all about easy but memorable experiences these days – we’re all really busy, right?! To get inspired for the
Everybody is making everything into churros! Churro donuts, churro dessert cups, churro chips, churro Chewbacca… seriously. My kids are always like, “I want a churrrrrrroooooo” at Disneyland and I am like George Lopez’s Grandma, “You wanna Souve-que?!” Three dollars for a churro and it lasts all of 15 seconds. A couple years ago a friend made cinnamon rolls in her waffle maker and it gave me
This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #LetsMakeSmores #CollectiveBias #sponsored There’s a trend to make everything gourmet and why not? We recently went to a waffle restaurant that had an “Elvis Waffle Sandwich” on the menu. I thought it was amazingly delicious. So when the kids started asking for us to make s’mores around the
