Friday, February 14, 2025

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Teddy Bear Cookies

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Have you guys seen these cutie teddy bear cookies that went viral for Valentine's Day? They are the easiest things I have ever made and only take three ingredients and a few minutes to come together. 🧸

TEDDY BEAR COOKIES

Three ingredients: sugar cookie dough, chocolate chip cookie dough and mini chocolate chips!

INGREDIENTS:

• Sweet Loren's Barbie Pink Sugar Cookie Dough (my son made sugar cookie dough for this but I highly recommend anything from Sweet Loren's)
• Sweet Loren's Chocolate Chunk Cookie Dough (we had their limited edition Valentine's Day dough for this but again, anything from Sweet Loren's is amazing and this is the closest you can find)
  
• mini chocolate chips
  

DIRECTIONS:

1. Pre-heat the oven to 325 and let the cookie dough sit out for a few minutes. I like to do this just so it's a little bit more moldable to make into teddy bears.
2. Roll the cookie dough pieces from each type of dough in to a ball. Keep two dough balls of each kind to the side for the ears and snout.
3. Place them on a cookie sheet with parchment paper, spacing them about an inch between.
4. Flatten each one with your palm into a circle.
5. Start taking pieces of the dough balls that you put to the side and create ears. I made two small balls and pushed them down on top of the head.
6. With the opposite type of dough (ie: if you have a sugar cookie head, you'd use chocolate chip cookie dough for the inner ears and snout), go ahead and make the inner ears and snout.
7. Bake for 8-10 minutes.
8. Once the cookies are cooled, pop the mini chocolate chips in for the eyes and the nose.
9. Enjoy!

Tuesday, February 11, 2025

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Valentine's Day Occasions Bin

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One of our favorite "new" traditions for almost every holiday since the kids were little is creating an occasions bin. The occasions bin idea came from Occasions By Shakira (she is amazing!) and we've incorporated it into every single holiday since!

Sunday, January 19, 2025

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Gift Guide: For Toddler Girls (4 years old)

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The last gift guide is for little chickadees (2-4 years old)! Again, I know these are way past Christmas but I recommend coming back if you need suggestions for upcoming birthdays. Best part of sharing a gift guide way past Christmas is at least I can let you know if it was a hit or miss! 

Friday, January 17, 2025

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Gift Guide: The Little Guys (6-8 years old)

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Moving onto to B's gift guide! Again, I know I'm sharing these way after Christmas but might  I suggest using these as a good reference for birthday gifts this year? The plus side to sharing after the holidays? I can let you know if they were an actual hit or a big miss.

Wednesday, January 15, 2025

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Gift Guide: The Older Boys (8-10 years old)

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(If you're reading this after Christmas, no you're not. 😜 Refer back to this for birthday presents!)

I had planned on doing gift guides for all my children's age groups for Christmas but I ended up going the chill "influencer" route and shared them on Instagram and LTK and never on here. That's no bueno because my blog is my baby. So here I am sharing my children's gift guides in January. I suggest bookmarking these for birthday gift ideas. The plus side of sharing them after Christmas? I can tell you what my kids really thought about them and if they were a hit or miss!

Wednesday, December 18, 2024

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DIY Cardboard Gingerbread House

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I just wanted somewhere permanent to share this cardboard gingerbread house we made for Christmas in July at a campground last summer. We had two weeks to come up with something (hi, camping last minute on a theme weekend 😆) but we really wanted to put some oomph into it. My dad was able to grab some large cardboard boxes from his work, we pulled down some of our Christmas decorations and went to town!