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Giant Fluffy Cinnamon Roll Recipe
I came up with this giant, fluffy, homemade cinnamon roll recipe by combining the best parts of several recipes that I had for cinnamon rolls. If you are looking for an ooey gooey cinnamon roll recipe that is ACTUALLY ooey gooey then this is your recipe! These cinnamon rolls are simply irresistible and honestly not at all difficult to make! Especially is you choose the overnight cinnamon roll method! This recipe came about because my husbands’ go-to sweet breakfast favorite is Pillsbury cinnamon rolls… However, he would prefer them bigger, fluffier and HOMEMADE, but he had yet to find one to satisfy him before I created this one! We would…
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Mother’s Day | Meaningful Gifts with Your Photos
The most meaningful gifts that you can give your mom for Mother’s Day are personalized gifts. When you were little and you made your mom a necklace out of yarn and colored pasta her face would light up. That was because it was made by you specifically for her. She knew that it was made with thought and love. As adults, giving your mother a noodle necklace for Mother’s Day might not go over as well… Luckily, there are companies like Snapfish that allow you to easily create personalized, meaningful gifts for any occasion. I first started using Snapfish when I created our profile books for our adoptions. I fell…
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Bunny Footprint Template | Easter Fun for Kids
Having Easter bunny footprints throughout the house is a tradition from my childhood. Now that I have children I want to share with them the joy and excitement of finding Easter bunny footprints in the house on Easter morning! So to make it easier on myself, I made an Easter bunny footprints template to make the tracks with and I want to share it with you! If you haven’t heard of having Easter bunny footprints in your house before now, here is how they started in our family: We would go to my grandmother’s house every year for Easter when I was growing up. Easter morning was always so exciting…
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Easy Easter Side Dishes | All You Need is a Microwave
The holidays can be stressful! Especially if you are doing the cooking! With most of staying home this year for Easter, it may be the first time you have to cook Easter dinner! Take the stress out of dinner prep with these seven easy Easter side dishes! All you need for these amazingly easy Easter side dishes is a microwave! Save yourself some time and the mess of cooking without sacrificing any flavor! These easy side dishes never fail to impress! All you’ll need is a microwave, a microwavable casserole dish with a lid and a few other staple kitchen tools (like a bowl and potato peeler) and you are…
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Bang Bang Shrimp Pasta Recipe
One of my first jobs was as a hostess at Bonefish Grill. While I was there I fell in love with Bang Bang shrimp and ordered it for dinner every day that I worked! When I got married and bought a house we were no longer close to a Bonefish Grill location so I started missing my Bang Bang shrimp! That is when I started to try to make it at home! I tried so many variations of the copy cat Bang Bang shrimp recipe that I found online, but I still couldn’t find one that satisfied my craving for the real thing. That is when I started trying my…
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Quick and Easy Irish Soda Bread Muffins
These quick and easy Irish soda bread muffins are one of my favorite additions to any meal! Also, they have recently become one of my go-to breakfast choices. As a mom, I am always trying to find quick and easy to make breakfasts that I can take with me anywhere! That is why I started making my Irish soda bread muffins! They are so easy to make that even my toddler knows the steps to baking them! Irish soda bread has been around since around the 1830s. During this time, in Ireland, there was a financial strife and ingredients to cook with were hard to come by. So as an…
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Over the Top Date Ideas | Build Your Own Epic Date
My husband planned this date one time back when we were dating that absolutely blew my socks off. He did this multi-step, scavenger hunt that was so thrilling and sexy it will forever be my most memorable date. If you are planning for a birthday, anniversary, Valentine’s Day, a proposal, or just looking for over the top date ideas this is IT! However, you don’t have to do everything that he did. You can build your own epic date and pick and choose what you do… Put your own spin on these ideas for an over the top date: #1 Send them flowers/candy arrangement with a sentiment plus an instruction.…
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DIY Winter Craft | Toddler Sensory Activity
Kill two birds with one stone with this combination sensory activity for your toddler and stunning DIY winter craft/home décor!
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