Recipe Stuff

Here is a link to some really great cookies, Chocolate Chip Treasure Cookies. They're like Hello Dollies, but in cookie form.

Also, I promised my mom several months ago that I would send her this recipe that she tried out with the kids while she was visiting. Sorry it has taken so long for me to get to this!!

Chocolate Drop Cookies

from Betty Crocker

1 cup sugar

1/2 cup margarine or butter

1/3 cup buttermilk

1 tsp. vanilla

1 large egg

2 oz. unsweetened baking chocolate, melted and cooled

1 3/4 cups flour

1/2 tsp. baking soda

1/2 tsp. salt

1 cup chopped nuts

Chocolate frosting

1. Heat oven to 400 degrees. Grease cookie sheet with shortening.

2. Mix sugar, margarine, buttermilk, vanilla, egg and chocolate in large bowl. Stir in flour, baking soda, salt and nuts.

3. Drop dough by rounded tablespoonfuls about 2 inches apart onto cookie sheet.

4. Bake 9 to 11 minutes or until almost no indentation remains when touched in center. Immediately remove from cookie sheet. Cool completely on wire rack. Frost with chocolate frosting.

Walk a Mile in His Shoes

Caleb is finally taking some steps!!! Can it really be??? This boy, who we thought would walk so early (he started pulling up to furniture at 7 mos, and cruising a couple weeks later), has turned out to be very reluctant to let go and take the plunge.

But he's finally doing it!! And here is some proof, albeit blurry!

Way to go Caleb!!

Happy Fathers Day!

To my wonderful husband,

Happy Fathers Day to you! Thank you for being the father of our beautiful children. I could not have asked for anyone better! In you they have a great example of faith, obedience, and love. They love you and look up to you, because in their eyes you're a giant. I love you and hope you have a great day!

Love, Heather

To my own Dad, I wish I could tell you Happy Fathers Day. I wish I could tell you that I love you.

New Blog!!

I have started a new blog, just for my scrapbooking.

You can find it here: http://scrappyheart.blogspot.com

I am on the Creative Team for a designer, so I will be posting all my scrapbooking stuff there.

If you come check it out, you'll get to see who the designer is, info about her kits, and any other fun stuff I can think of!

Scrapper's Heaven

One of my recent scrapbooking layouts was featured on the Stuff to Scrap blog!!

I completed this layout for a challenge (complete the challenge, earn points, get free stuff), and it has become one of my favorites.

Go see it here!!

It's the very first one, called "Grandpas make the best friends."

Happy Birthday Caleb!!

Caleb is one year old today!! How can it be that a whole year has already passed?!?!?

We are so blessed to have Caleb in our family. He is a smiley, bright-eyed, curious, and loveable little boy. He watches everything and everyone like a hawk, picking up on everything that is going on. He is one of the fastest babies we have ever seen. I like to call him Spider Man because he gets to a new destination in the blink of an eye. He has been cruising around the furniture

since he was about 8 months old, so we thought he was going to walk way too early. But he is very comfortable with his mode of transportation, so he hasn't braved the new skill of walking - YET! He has a very unique way of greeting people too. He gets close, then bangs his head, as softly as he can, into the head of the other person!

Here is a look back at an amazing year!

We love you Caleb!! And we're so glad you're part of our family! We hope you have a wonderful year, and we look forward to all the new things you'll be doing in the coming year!

Love,

Mom, Dad, Emily, Josh, and Rachel

Potty Training

I swore to myself that I wouldn't even try potty training Rachel until she was a little older. I started too early with Emily, and it was NOT a pleasant experience. We waited a while with Josh and it was pretty much a piece of cake.

Well, I went back on my promise and started potty training Rachel. She has shown quite a bit of interest, and we've been having some "defective" diapers that somehow have ended up around her knee on several occasions! We started just "trying it out" last week, and she did OK - but we weren't real serious about it since we had so many places we needed to be. So this week we hit it hard core. And she is doing really well!! The best was yesterday, though - we had a successful #2 in the potty, completely initiated by her!! It only took one accident for that one to stick!

To spare her the embarassment of a potty picture that could haunt her as a teenager, here is a picture of one of the sweetest girls I know! (She's trying to sit on one of Caleb's toys)