Bonfire Bars

These are super easy, only a few ingredients and they don't take long at all!

3Tbs Butter/Coconut Oil (or combo)

6C Golden Grahams Cereal

3C Marshmallows

2 Tbs Mini Chocolate Chips

3 MORE C. Marshmallows 

First spray your 9x9 (or 8x8) pan with nonstick spray. I just used some coconut oil

 In a saucepan melt the coconut oil or butter, then on medium heat, add 3C marshmallows and stir until it's all melty and combined.

*Turn oven on to broil*

Turn stove heat off, add 6C Golden Grahams Cereal. Stir it all together to coat.

Pour into pan and press down with spatula.

Sprinkle Chocolate Chips evenly

Add 3C marshmallows on top to cover evenly.

Put the pan under the broiler until marshmallows get all melty and crispy and brown and perfect!

Let cool, then

Good Luck Cutting them even ;)
Prepare to be sticky

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Thanksgiving #13.. Porch Stuff!

I am a fan of porches! I like that they are the first place any guests and visitors will see and it is a whole new place to decorate! Our porch is pretty small and feels more like a patio because there are no steps up to it. But I still decorate it occasionally. But with no rail or steps I was struggling for places to put the FLUFF!  We added these little window boxes that get NO sun.. and I have yet to get anything to grow in them! So I just keep them filled with some dollar tree moss over some dirt and replace what is on top! Right now I have little pumpkins in 2 styles, white and the little very round ones.

I am not feeling like I am that great at porch decorating. All I have are those little pumpkins and some other pumpkins from the various trips to the pumpkin patch, oh and our "year round" wreath that I made HERE, and it looks HORRIBLE, because the birds love it, they have picked about half the moss off and the "G" has been pulled off a few times.. it needs help, it looks pitiful!

So I am on a mission to find some non Halloween-y Fall porch fluff for next year! These are what I have found so far:

Like these pumpkin topairy sets (think it's too late to catch funkins on clearance?!)

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I especially like the address one!

And I like this porch, but without the crows, they are a little too Halloween-ish for me.

via Pottery Barn

This wreath is cute too, and ours really needs replaced!

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Better Homes and Gardens has a whole section on wreaths, this one is my favorite over there.

We also have these chair cushions that are the perfect color.. hoping to find something coordinating!

really really bad picture though

Any ideas, links.. aything? HeLp!!

And since it's naptime here, I am off to work on my organizing Friday  project.. eek.. see the before at the bottom of THIS post!

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Ready to spend some time outside.. when it stops raining!

It was SO nice here the last few days... Let the baby play in his jumper outside!

Last year we were outside a lot and the kids ask to eat outside just about everyday!...We didn't have any kid friendly sit and eat area's....but we do now! I have been on the hunt for a cheap or free table on Craigslist, nothing special, plain was best since I had plans to cover it anyway. Found one on Criagslist for free! It was just plain wood but I made some cheap changes so it could go AND stay outside!

~First I spray painted the legs white (I should NOT be allowed to use spray paint!)

~Then rolled out some oil cloth upside down (LOVE OIL CLOTH!) moved the table onto it and started with the staple gun! It took a couple of days but not a lot of time. I just was working in 10 minute increments! So the top is covered and spill proof and water proof, chalk, dirt, juice all of that can be wiped (or hosed) right off!

I have a bench about the right size that is getting the same treatment, when I get more Oil cloth!
We also got the kids a little picnic table at target.. it is small but sometimes there are a lot of little's over here and we want to make sure there is a place for everyone! I will say that I don't recommend the picnic table from Target.. it was a little spendy (if you didn't have a coupon) and it's not the best quality, ours was missing some screws and a piece was scratched. I called the number on the instructions that specifically say "Do not return item to store, call customer service for replacement parts" I left a message and got a call 3 days later that they do not carry ANY parts for the picnic table. Oh well.. home depot had some screws that worked and I can deal with the scratch!  The kids got to use it a little the other day... I think they liked it!

I started our veggies inside a week or 2 ago.. they are already ready to be moved outside! Guess that means we should be getting to work on our garden area huh?! I have tried planting stuff before and I am a HORRIBLE gardener, seriously horrible! I was SO pleased the other day that something I planted actually lasted through last summer and over the Winter.. it's not brown or dead! That is a big deal for me!

We got some cute blueberry plants called "Pink Lemonade" Blueberries! They look cute, the berries are pink and light yellow! I haven't killed them in the 3 weeks we have had them! I am keeping them in containers for this year.. to make sure I can keep them alive! We have a few nice days this week and a TON to do outside! I am actually a little excited, yard work is not usually something I enjoy that much but this year feels different!

Hope everyone is having a good Spring Break week!

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