Busy Baking and Candy Making

Jacob and I were busy, busy, busy yesterday! We baked the cookies last week, but everything else we made TODAY. Yikes! We're celebrating Thanksgiving and Christmas tomorrow at my sister's house.

I've never made candy before. It's really not that hard, but there are a couple of things you MUST do. Like tap the trays after you pour the melted chocolate in them...get's the bubbles out. Didn't do that on my first ones, and you can tell.



This was my first batch. The red and green ones I didn't tap the bubbles out, so they're kind of melty looking. These are mint. I'm so impressed with myself! (well, kind of!)

Cherry candy! SO SO good!

Peanut-butter-Chocolate and Chocolate coated pretzels.

Red Velvet Cookies dipped in white chocolate and sprinkles! Doug made the spritz cookies in the middle. Then, white chocolate dipped pretzels. Yummy!

Peanut butter-chocolate and Chocolate candy. I'm gettin' the hang of this!

Peppermint Bark. YUM!!!

Jacob and I started about 1:30 yesterday afternoon, and got done about 8:00PM. I didn't really stop either! Just to make Jacob lunch....I didn't even eat lunch! I was in the zone. Felt good. I was way too keyed up though, because I didn't fall asleep until about 2:30 AM. Ug.

Really Cute Cake and Other Cute Pics

So I made this cake today for Doug and Jacob...it's supposed to look like a giant bowl of candy... But it's really a cake in there! I got it from Lindsay's Kitchen. My hubby's 2 FAVORITE candy bars are Kit Kat and M&M's. Okay, so technically M&M's aren't candy bars, but you know what I mean!

Anyway.....here's how it turned out....

Interesting, eh? I thought it was supposed to look like a giant cupcake, but it doesn't. It's kinda cute though!

Anywho....here's what we did this weekend:
Oh, and have you ever seen anyone use a rototiller IN a wheelbarrow????? Not me!

And finally, LOOK at this FACE!!!