Frappuccinos, & truffles

If your looking for a GOOD home-made frappuccino recipe here it is! We've had the recipe for along time but never made it! Don't know why?!

Easy Frappuccino

2 1/2 cups milk

1/2 cup fresh espresso

1/4 sugar

To make espresso, put 1/3 cup coffee grounds into coffee filter, run 1 1/2 cups water through coffee

maker (or make very strong instant coffee) mix together. We save empty frappuccino bottles & like to put them in those, or fill a glass & put cool whip on top with chocolate syrup, chocolate covered coffee beans, chocolate curls etc.   To make mocha frappe use 1/4 tsp. cocoa powder (or chocolate milk mix) 

For vanilla frappe use 1/2 tsp. vanilla.  Enjoy!

Simply Sensational Truffles

2 1/2 pkg. Bakers semi sweet chocolate, divided

(this would be 20 oz. & any chocolate will work including milk chocolate)

8 oz. cream cheese, softened 

Melt 8 oz. chocolate. Beat cream cheese w/ mixer 'till creamy; stir in melted chocolate. Refrigerate until firm. Shape into 36 balls. Place on wax paper covered tray. (Refrigerate again before dipping) Melt remaining chocolate. Dip truffles in until completely covered. Garnish tops with chopped nuts, peppermints or sprinkles. They are also good plain. Store in fridge.

I don't have a picture of these so I guess another of the coffee drinks will have to do! :) 

Happiness!

•  A candle is burning
• piano is practiced for the day
• Jolly fat snowmen sitting on the shelf
• the laundry is getting clean :)
• I'm happy about the fact that I am updating 5 days since my last post instead of 15! :)
• I'm working on sewing a dress
• there are the best chocolate covered coffee beans (that my sister won in a giveaway) sitting on the desk & sometimes I get 1 or 2. or 3?

The new year is coming! 

I'm thankful for another year to be alive & most importantly another year to serve my God 

& discover more of His Greatness!

Blog transformation.

 Greetings & Salutations!  Now that this blog has been "transformed" for several days I have finally decided to talk about it! :)   The pages of songs & quotes have been re-done as well. Tell me what you think!  I might do a little more to the pages yet sometime, no promise. :)  Thanks to Corina for loaning me the picture for the header. She does a wonderful job with photography!    Someday I will do a real post again. until then.... Merry Christmas!

Of cousins & coffee shops

When we were in Iowa for Thanksgiving, we made a point of going to the little coffee shop there in Kalona.  I discovered that they are very generous; They forgot about my order so they brought me a size larger then I had ordered, it was almost more then I could drink but the tasty-ness made up for it :)  ~For what it';s worth~ if you ever go there get a snicker's mocha!

   ( If you wonder why I re-posted this, it's cause I realized the picture wouldn't come up if you weren't signed into google.)

Wisconsin...

Last weekend we went to Wisconsin. That being the place I grew up I have great respect for the north & it's winter beauty:) *grin*   We went up for a wedding but because of snowy weather the ones of us that were going to the wedding later in the day turned ourselves around & came back home for the day. (Home as in our friends house:) We had a grand & wonderful day just being together ! :)

                I have discovered that I love bowling!   Great fun :)

                        Afterwards we went to Culver's for lunch...

                                                         Micah & Noah

 

All of us -except Kathryn-

                                                    Snow covered pine trees

The best conversations are late at night, sitting on the counters 'speeching' about... oh never mind

                  Micah & Jonathan (perhaps we ought to say; trouble:)

-phase 10-

                           All of us children -- oh the joy of friends! ;)

                                                         

                                            Kathryn & I - Love you girl!

                                                             snowy-ness...   

                                Hope you all have a Happy Thanksgiving!

6 Random pictures

       My bro-in-law w/ his kidders, something must have been very funny! :)

Cousins                                      Jaden

                                         Naomi's car, looks just like her I think:)

                           Carson with his ice cream birthday cake.

                           All of us girls at Jon & Mary's wedding.

   Most of these pictures are old but I still like them:)  (my blog lacks people pictures so I thought I'd put some on)            

Attention!

 My friend Kristin is doing a giveaway on her blog! the drawing is on Tues. so there isn't much time left!
 The prize includes coffeeish things:)  Here is the blog; Transparent Splahes of Color

Surrender

I feel somewhat inadequate to be writing this seeing that it is an area that I myself struggle with, but I feel like I should.
 It can be so hard to give up everything. Completely. But it's so necessary to do so. we need to give our Life, time, energy, talents etc. to God for Him to use as He wishes. This is a song that puts it perfectly I think. When I first heard the song I didn't appreciate it very well, it made me feel sort of guilty but now that I have accepted what it was/is trying to tell me I am thankful & am challenged to give more of myself to Him daily, He is the reason I live!

                                                                  More Of Me                                       

All the riches one could gain

All the ever glad refrain          

All the glory yet untold              

All the love the heart can hold

CHORUS:  He has given all to me

          All I'll ever need 

And it's not that I need more of God

But He needs more of me

More of time time I waste each day

More unceasing when I pray

More my heart my mind & soul

More of all to His control 

      

     We are constantly faced with times when we want to hang on for dear life to the things we call "ours".

 (dreams, talents, attitudes etc.) Let's remember that it's not us who need more, but GOD!

My new favorite song

I heard this song a few days ago & it made me think,  we all have times when it's hard to really have faith but the Bible says that If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.
 Listen to this song, I know you'll like it.