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#BearNakedGranola... Have You Tried It Yet?

Have you heard of Bear Naked Granola? No. Well, let me tell you, it's a delicious and healthy snack. I personally love the Sea Salt Caramel Apple Crunch. I eat it by itself, but I hear its pretty good to add to yogurt. My kids love to put mix-ins in their yogurt. It's a perfect snack to take on the go with you, anywhere. With real apples and caramel pieces this snack will trick you into forgetting how healthy it is. A 1/4 cup only has 120 calories and 3 grams of protien!


I received a free sample of Bear Naked Granola in exchange for my honest review.

Minion Birthday Gifts and Cupcakes

This post is long over due. Back in August my nephew Tater turned 7. And he was really into minions, those little cuties from Despicable Me. He said he wanted me to make him minion cupcakes and I thought it would be fun for him and I to make them together. When I asked him what he wanted for a gift, he said a minion jacket. What?! Where am I going to find one of those? He says, "You can make one." Simple as that. Naturally all sorts of alarms went off in my mind. I can't make one, and it actually turn out nice. No way, no how! So I said, "Sure Buddy, if that's what you want, you got it!" Then I freaked out forever. I googled so many pictures trying to find one that I could copy. I found a good one and I set out with my fabric and Heat-n-Bond, on a mission to create a minion jacket for my little pal. For the record, I bought the jacket, a plain black hoodie from Wal-Mart. I basically just made a giant minion iron on patch. And since that actually turned out nice, I got a little cocky and made him a bottle with some vinyl and a Dollar Tree bottle.

This is Tater decorating the cupcakes. As you can see, we thought it would be cool to color our batter to match the minions too.

So here's what we did:

1. We baked our cupcakes.

2. We frosted them with blue icing and set them aside.

3. Tater cut the twinkies in half.

4. I put dots of frosting on for eyes and Tater stuck white Smarties on them. (I'm sure he only ate about a pound of smarties while sorting out the white ones)

5.Tater put long chocolate sprinkles on the top for the hair.

6. I used gray and black frosting to finish the eyes and goggles.

7. Tater placed one Twinkie half minion head on each frosted cupcake.

 

And this is our finished product. Aren't they adorable? No, they don't look like they came from a posh bakery. They look like a 7 year old got to have a blast with his favoite aunt making cupcakes. They were absolutely PERFECT!

 

Turned out pretty good, huh?

 

How to make your own:

What you need: Heat-n-Bond Ultra, yellow fabric,blue fabric (I used old jeans), scraps of black,brown, white and gray fabric, 2 buttons, hot glue gun

1. Prepare fabric according to Heat-n-Bond instructions.

2. Draw complete outline of minion (hands,gloves, shoes included) on paper to make a stencil. (I had to do mine freehand but I would recommend tracing a copy if you can.)

3. Trace the complete outine of minion on yellow fabric and cut out.

4. Trace and cut out the overalls, gloves, boots, each layer of the eyeball, goggles, mouth and the pocket of the overalls.

5. Iron the yellow outline on your jacket.

6. Iron on the pants, gloves, boots, goggles strap and mouth.

7. Iron on the white of the eye and the jeans pocket.

8. Iron on the brown of the eye and the gray ring of the goggles.

9. Iron on the pupil (black dot in the eye).

10. Hot glue 2 little buttons on the minion's overalls.

11. Enjoy your creation!

 

   

I think this last minute idea was absolutely perfect. And he really loved it, too.

 

You can make one too!



Here's what you need:

Cheap yellow bottle or cup, adhesive vinyl (black, white, gray, brown), something to cut with e.g. scissors I cheated and used my Cricut.

1. Cut black strip about 1 inch wide and long enough to wrap around your bottle/cup.

2. Adhere strip to bottle.

3. Cut 2.5 inch white circle, 1 inch brown circle, .75 inch black circle

4. Cut 2.75 inch O ring shape

5. Adhere black circle on to brown circle, then brown circle on white circle. Now you have an eyeball!

6. Adhere eyeball to bottle on top of strap.

7. Adhere the gray ring to the eyeball.

8. Cut a mouth and adhere it under the eye.

9. Fill it with your favorite beverage and Enjoy!

 

Thanks for stopping by. I hope you enjoyed my minion projects. Come back soon.



 

When You Finally Realize Your Baby Sister Can Kick Your Butt...

Hey there! You all may remember a while back I had a Wordless Wednesday post of my favorite military person. Well, in honor of Veteran's Day I thought I would bring her back and share some more with you all about her. She's my younger sister, by 17 months. (The way our birthdays fell, we were 2 years apart in school.) But I've always felt super protective over my siblings. She'll always be a bratty baby to me.
About her:
She's in graduate school at one of the top schools in the country for her field. She spent 4 years in active duty in the United States Air Force and has since been in the reserves. She currently holds the title of  Technical Sergeant. Although she would kill me if she found out that I told you this; she just got picked number 1 for an officer training scholarship program. EEEEEEP! My baby sister is going to be a Lieutenant!!!

This is her accepting the offer on Veteran's Day. Isn't she beautiful?!

Yep, she's on her way back to active duty. While we don't live in the same state now, I still get to see her almost monthly since her reserve base is in my state. Once she's stationed, I'm going to see much less of her and I'm going to miss her terribly, but I can't help being so excited and so  proud of her. Since I've never written about her, I never gave her a name. So I guess we're going to call her Lulu (for lieutenant). Pretty cute, right?

On a more serious note, if you see a vet today or any day, Thank them. And ALWAYS, ALWAYS PRAY for them. 

Wordless Wednesday: Snaggletooth

My Banana lost her first tooth!!

WW! Our Story Isn't Over!

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How 'bout a visual?

I think its time that I get some pictures up on here. What about you? Lets see if i have any pictures of Monkey or Banana that might capture their true essence. Probably should be something of them covered in dirt. That would be about right. Lol! Just kidding. These are some pictures I took of the kids last Sunday. I needed some new ones for my walls, so carmen and I dressed our kids up and headed out to the field behind her house. Not a bad location, huh?

This one is kinda dark, but I love it! They were genuinely having a good time TOGETHER. And all you parents with more than one child know just how few and far between those times are.

They're actually watching Carmen's kids but it turned out so cute, I just had to use it.

This is sooooo her. She always wears her headband like that.

Nothing much to say about this one. It just happens to be one of my favorites.

My little muscle man was so proud that he could lift Banana up.

 

Ladies, stay back! His heart belongs to his MAMA!

Well I hope you enjoyed the pictures of my babes. I know I sure do. Now you know what makes my world go round. Thanks for stopping by and come back soon.