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My favorite summer recipes

May 25, 2013 By Melissa Leave a Comment

Memorial Day Weekend is here! I love this weekend for lots of reasons. It marks the beginning of summer, the pools open, my baby celebrates his Birthday, and of course, it's always marked with great food. As Read more >>

Filed Under: 4th of July, Cookie Bar, Dessert, Ice Cream, party food, patriotic, picnic, quick and easy, recipe, recipe collection Tagged With: collection post, dessert, holiday, recipe

Freezing Asparagus: How to

May 9, 2013 By Melissa 1 Comment

I'm a bit behind on this post but I thought I'd better get it up before asparagus is totally out of season. The week before we moved Bountiful Baskets (a food co-op group and I participate in Read more >>

Filed Under: Frozen, How to:, How to: cooking, spring, Vegetable, whole food, whole foods Tagged With: holiday, kitchen tip, recipe

Perfect Pound Cake

April 10, 2013 By Melissa 81 Comments

I know Mother's Day is a month away, but you've got to plan ahead for this kind of event! I have an awesome pound cake recipe for you today, but that's not the only exciting part of the post. I have not Read more >>

Filed Under: America's Test Kitchen favorite, baking, Cake Tagged With: dessert, Giveaway, holiday, recipe

Easter Scavenger Hunt

March 29, 2013 By Melissa Leave a Comment

I did a shout-out yesterday on my FB page for a little Easter scavenger hunt help. My mother-in-law had an idea but we were having a terrible time finding what we were looking for on the internet. We gave Read more >>

Filed Under: Easter, Holiday, kids crafts Tagged With: holiday, kids

Whole Wheat Hot Cross Buns

March 19, 2013 By Melissa 25 Comments

I'm so excited. We have another awesome giveaway today. In January when I was contacting companies I love to see if we could work together, one of the very first emails I sent was to King Arthur Flour. Read more >>

Filed Under: baking, Bread, Breakfast, cinnamon, giveaway, Healthy, King Arthur Flour, rolls, whole foods, whole wheat Tagged With: bread, Giveaway, healthy, holiday, recipe

10 Naturally Green Foods for St. Patrick’s Day

March 12, 2013 By Melissa 12 Comments

St. Patrick's Day is almost here and my kids couldn't be more excited. Last year a little Leprechaun snuck into our house and turned our toiled water green! They are still talking about that little adventure Read more >>

Filed Under: Dessert, frozen dessert, Healthy, Ice Cream, recipe, recipe collection, St. Patrick's Day Tagged With: collection post, healthy, holiday, recipe

Rabbit Paper Dolls – giveaway

March 6, 2013 By Melissa 15 Comments

There are two things that you all know I love: my hutch and spring. Yesterday the two met in happy merriment as I decorated my hutch with spring in mind. I just have to share the pictures with you because Read more >>

Filed Under: craft, crafts, DYI, Easter, giveaway, How to:, Hutch Tagged With: craft, Giveaway, holiday

Excited for Spring

February 27, 2013 By Melissa 5 Comments

I was feeling a little sad yesterday that my mom's daffodils in Kentucky are already blooming (blooming!) and I don't even have anything popping through the ground yet here in Utah. I think a little warm Read more >>

Filed Under: DIY, entertaining, spring, Thrifting, treasure hunting Tagged With: collection post, holiday

Collection of Ideas for Valentine’s Day

February 5, 2013 By Melissa 8 Comments

I confessed my love of Valentine's Day and some of my favorite (and funny) Valentine's Day memories last week, and I thought it would be fun to bring you a collection of ideas for Valentine's Day to Read more >>

Filed Under: craft, crafts, Valentine's Tagged With: collection post, holiday

Family Valentine’s Mailbox

February 1, 2013 By Melissa 14 Comments

It's Friday, Friday, Friday... (whatever happened to that girl?!). This post ins't quiet the perfectly executed craft with the perfect pictures to match. This is a real life post with real Read more >>