Snickerdoodle muffins

Many of you know i LOVE baking. Even with my new food lifestyle, i still make all of the guilty pleasure foods, and give them away or let my guinea pigs, er i mean kids taste everything. I have SO many yummy recipes i want to share in the upcoming posts. Today, i found THIS gem of a recipe from Oopsey Daisy. LOVE her blog! These muffins are SUPER easy to make by yourself or with your kids help!!

They are currently in the oven baking and i just KNOW they'll be a huge hit!

I wanted you to enjoy the recipe as well ( brittany, i KNOW you'll try it ;)

Snickerdoodle Muffins


Muffins
2 c. flour
¾ tsp. baking soda
¾ tsp. cream of tartar
¼ tsp. salt
½ c. butter, melted
1 c. sugar
2 eggs
1 c. milk
1 tsp. vanilla


Topping
1 c. sugar
2 T. cinnamon


Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Either butter a 12-cup muffin tin or use cupcake papers.


Mix the dry ingredients together in a bowl. In another bowl, combine the melted butter, sugar, eggs, milk, and vanilla. Stir until combined. Pour this mixture into the dry ingredients and mix lightly with a fork.


Fill the muffin cups with batter. Top each muffin with the cinnamon/sugar mixture. It can be applied heavily.


Bake 15-20 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.

Barbie and Kens wedding part 2

Mini me once again seemd to be the life of the party and literally had all the adults watching her dance moves and dying laughing.. Not only a friend of the bride, but a teacher at her school

I'm pretty sure THIS guy may be the father of lil muffin- HELLO! same hair.. lol.. In all seriousness, watch for his face in the media soon. He just made a serious record deal with someone. ( i'll be asking for back child support- bahha)


Awww- lil muffin asleep on daddy's shoulder

And Barbie and Ken lived happily ever after!!!

Congrats to these two!

More summer escapades to come-

Barbie and Ken's BIG day!

This was the much anticipated wedding of the year! our friends, and also neighbors tied the knot and it was a gorgeous, southern wedding. LOTS of pictures to follow!!

The Mr. with some of our neighbors, one of them being Daddy D. i call him- he reminds me SO much of my dad!

Some of the housewives of the street- our fave shows are housewives on Bravo, so we've named ourselves housewives of.. and our street name ;)

Dancing with daddy @ the reception- i've never seen my girls dance so much and for so long- they had a blast!

So cute-

Sisters- they were also the program girls @ the wedding and wore matching dresses- which you may remember from LAST years wedding of my BFF in SC

These two get along so well and are making fun of us girls- the trick is to stick your neck out forward in a picture and you look skinnier.. did you know that? a picture is 2 d and so it always works..

With The Bride. - she's gorgeous!

Mini me looks up to her SO much and was dying to get a picture with her-

Our little neighborhood family!!

Before the wedding- looks like lil muffin was ready for a NAP!

After pictures, on our way to the church in a trolley-

More pics of the wedding in next post as well!!

Its a Wrap!!

Another year of school has come and gone!!! We've been so busy, im just NOW able to sit down and feel like i can breathe!!! I'll update all the pictures of what we've been busy doing and ya'll will see why i've been so MIA! I'm happy to report that i too just finished my second math class, with another A. Really i didnt realize it could be done. LOL!

We will miss Mini me's teacher this year.. we've been so blessed to have two of the BEST teachers since we've moved here ( but ours two years ago still holds a special place in my heart as one of my close girlfriends here!!)

cheers to summer vaca, hot humid summer days, swimming pools, and lots of adult drinks!!

Summer time has come!

First stop- HOT-LANTA, baby! Figured we'd go to the zoo with our neighbors and friends ( seriously, HOW are we so lucky to have the best neighbors ever that are like family to us?!)

Mini me got this book from our neighbors mom a few months back- who is a retired teacher. Mini me is obsessed with it and brought it to the zoo, looking up every animal and all the facts on them. i thought that was so cool!

Somebody's throwing a temper tantrum!!! love the knock knees and the fact that some day she'll be MORTIFIED of this picture!

*Mothers Day 2010*

Mothers Day was so special for me this year! My little brother was here from Oregon and i was able to have brunch with some of our closest friends out here, as well. Here's the day in pictures!
Kell and lil Muffin


Lil Muffin LOVES southern food, and some day will kill me for taking this picture!
Notice the tervais tumbler sitting next to her at the table- that was one of her gifts to me that she insisted on using @ brunch-

Aw... my mini me- i'm pretty sure we paid over 25 dollars for her to eat biscuits and a pound of butter!

For all of you that have seen family pictures of us growing up, you would know that my brother ALWAYS wrecked the pictures doing stupid things.. some things NEVER change! ps- since when did mini me start posing it up so hard?! LOL-

This picture is so my brother- if you've seen any of Jim Carr**s movies, you've

basically met my brother. SAME sense of humor!

This ugly blue thing is the best invention.. EVER! and one of my gifts- its one of those HUGE beach towels that

drapes over the lounge chair and has pockets to put all of your stuff in.. then rolls up into

a bag when you're done. GENIUS! BB& B has them.. watch for coupons to get them 20% off!

You all know how i LOVE to cook!!!! I saw this cookbook in a magazine a few months back and KNEW i had to have it! ... GOT IT ;) Many neighbors, teachers and bus drivers have ALREADY reaped the benefits of this cookbook - i made them a fun candy that tastes like toffee, but is made with butter, brown sugar , chocolate chips and saltine crackers. Its crack!

Kelly gave me this cookbook- another fave- they are made by the Junior league and have GREAT southern recipes in them.. See, my nieghbors are SMART! they know if they buy me cook books, they get fed ;)

Yet, ANOTHER one ;) - Stacey gave this one to me.. just found a chicken appetizer that i have bought ingredients for. Baking is so soothing for me.. i love to have a ton of desserts made and then give it all away. Its the best feeling ever!

THIS plate below has to be my FAVE gift this year! We have some very special neighbors that the girls just adore! They garden with them, go swimming, he takes mini me around to find turkey tracks, explains science things to her, they do all the outdoorsy stuff. They took her to their church one night for "Dinner" and she made this special plate - one of those i'll have for years to come and i am obsessed with the green she used in it! She knows her mama well!

We finished the day off with pool time- i love that lil muffin is more independant. ! our pool has a kiddie section, she she just plays in there, and i dont have to get wet, its great! Add the cell phone with some tunes and you have a lil retreat ;)