I tried to outsmart a pinterest recipe

Chris came home from work Monday night all excited saying that he was going to be making a dessert that he found online.  I told him i would let him make it himself.  About 5 minutes in i basically took over.  I can't help it, but that's pretty much how everything went horribly wrong.

You've seen pinterest fails before, I'm sure of it. Well i thought i would be smarter than the pinterest recipe and change things up a bit and not follow the recipe exactly and well it didn't go so well.


Here is the original recipe: Homemade Little Debbie star crunch-no bake

It seems like a super simple recipe with super simple instructions. I'll go with what we did wrong.

• We only have salted butter.  Eh, I'm sure that will be fine, through it in!  
• I know what i'm doing honey, this doesn't need to be microwaved this long. 
• It would go faster if we didn't make them into disks and we just flattened them into bars
• We'll just put them in the fridge for a few minutes and let them cool and then put the chocolate on

It was basically an avalanche of i know better then this recipe.  

They ended up being bricks!  Giant, tooth chipping, yet extremely tasty, bricks! 

I mean once we sawed out a piece, then successfully taken a bite, then were able to chew on the piece for a bit, it got chewy and it actually tasted really good! 

It was an unfortunate series of mishaps that lead to our brick homemade star crunch krispies.  

I vow now to try again and follow the recipe EXACTLY.  Its gonna bother me until i figure out if this yummy recipe can actually be replicated successfully. 

Wish us luck! 

experiments

to sum up this last week i can use two words...really children?!? 

yeah it has been a week of seeing how far they can push me. When they push they go all out 100%, they sure don't hold anything back.

i can't even remember what days exactly these all happened, i tried to block it all out.

day one: chocolate nesquik powder all over the family room (couches included), bathroom, and children. ugh. both busted.

day two: baking powder all over family room (couches included). at least they chose a deodorizer to spread around. :) both busted.

day three: 10 koolaid packets dumped, seasoning salt, meat rub, and pepper dumped out in the family room. ugh. oh and it smelt terrible by the way. i can still smell it sometimes. ewww.  evelyn busted.

day four: crushed red pepper packet and parmesan cheese packet on family room floor. both busted. they only opened a few thank goodness. found the rest stashed away in one evelyns bags.

day five: vanilla frosting on couch and faces. both busted. amelia immediately blamed evelyn and i believed her. :)

day six: confetti cake mix in family room (couches included) they were eating it up with a laddle and spoon. both busted.  i was going to make cake cookies for chris's birthday and that morning we found this mess. yeah no very fun.


these all happened while we were sleeping.  it's not like we sleep in till like 10 or something we actually get up around 7 or 8. they just get up way before that and have time to experiment.

oh and the koolaid incident happened while amelia was napping and i had fallen asleep too. i can't help it sometimes i'm just so flippin tired. ugh. i haven't napped since then and i'm trying not to at all so these things do not happen.

i hope everyone had a great week and have an amazing weekend!!

full of surpises

sorry i've been MIA as of late. i don't know what to tell ya. oops. :)

so i'd thought i'd share some pictures today that i captured on my phone....well cause i don't have any other camera.

so lets begin.

i have this 2 and a half year old you see, and she is just a little ball of sass and love.

 exhibit A

this little love of mine decided the other day to give her barbie a nice hair cut.

exhibit B

i wasn't upset about that because i did that all the time to my barbies and i was freakishly surprised it actually took so this long for this to happen.

well exhibit A decided she wanted to look like exhibit B

so this brings us to....

exhibit C

(exhibit A picture is what the front looks like. short and choppy too.)

yep looks like she chopped whatever she could grab in the back and the top and snipped away. it is just out of control.

an absolute mess!

i am so sad cause looks like the only solution is to get the girl a super short hair cut, like pixie short. :(

i know she is going to be furious because she loves getting her hair done and getting braid and ponytails in it. but she'll just have to deal with it i guess.

i'll have to get some bows and headbands to make up for the other stuff. poor girl.

why must children do things like this.

she does keep things interesting and keeps me on my toes.

my little amelia.

messing with the messes

When do i not have a messy house? very few times. even when its "clean" it still seems messy.

i was in the kitchen cleaning the dishes.  wait this deserves a moment to celebrate!!

woot woot!! GO ME YEAHH!

okay moment over.  so as i was saying i was tackling the piles of dishes in my sink when i hear a lot of crunching sounds, coming from the family room.  yep of course. my little nugget poured a whole box of cheeze-itz all over the floor and was stomping on them. She was having the best time too, so why stop it. i got on the floor and took some pictures. i was then attacked from a blitz from the left, and then another from the right.

here are a few shots of my little nugget showing off her amazing work. :)



crunching cheeze-itz is an artform that is hard to perfect.

day 7 - a picture of someone/something that has had the biggest impact on you

my children.