Oreo Turkeys

Turkeys I made...

Picture of the turkeys from the internet...

We are going to make these tonight with the Garrett's for FHE and I thought I'd pass it on to everyone. This is a tradition in my family to make these & we use them as "name cards" at Thanksgiving dinner... we write each person's name on the bottom oreo or attach a name card to each. They are fun & easy! Hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving!!!

What you need:
Candy Corn
Double Stuffed Oreo Cookies
Whoppers
Mini Reese's Peanut Butter Cups
chocolate icing
white icing & food coloring to use to decorate the turkey

Directions:
Prep:
Put your Peanut Butter Cups in the fridge to cool. If you have cold hard chocolate to work with it makes it a lot easier.

Squeeze some of the white icing into a bowl. This will be your orange. Mix red and yellow food coloring with the icing to create your desired orange. Then put that into a plastic bag and set it aside for later.

Creating:
First you will be creating the tail using 1 Oreo cookie and 6 Candy Corns. Gently, poke each candy corn into the white filling on on Oreo cookie to make it look like feather (about 6 or 7 candy corns).

Take your icing and squeeze a generous amount onto the top back of an Oreo cookie. Take the other Oreo and put the bottom into the icing to have it stand up.


Remove your Peanut Butter Cup from the fridge. Take your knife and cut off the very bottem so you have a flat surface. Put icing on the bottom of it the bigger flat. Bump it up against the bottom and back of your Oreo cookies. See picture.

Next take your Whopper and squeeze more icing on it on one side. Place the whopper on top of the Peanut Butter Cup to make your head.

Find a piece of Candy Corn that has a nice big white end. Using your sharp knife cut the color off leaving you with the white end. Place some icing on it and stick it on your whopper as the beak to your Oreo Turkey. Hold for a moment.

Take your icing and place two white dots as eyes. Get your tube of black piping gel and place a black dot on each eye to make them come alive. Grab your bag of already created orange. Cut a very small hold in the corner of the bag. Now, pipe feet.

Okay so I have to know

Alright, so you have to admit that today was such a blast!! I loved going to see Twilight, it was so fun to sit around and see something played out that we have been fantacizing about for a while (me a few months, others a lot longer...hmmm.. Andrea). So I loved these books, and so I thought it would be fun to post what we all thought about the movie in the comment section.

(Spoiler alert if you haven't seen the movie)

For me, I must admit that it was a lot better than I expected. I heard horrible reviews, so I must admit that I really enjoyed the movie a lot. I don't know if this is because I read the books, but I didn't feel the chemistry between Edward and Bella. If I hadn't read the books would I really get what is going on? He hated her and then suddenly they are declaring themselves, I don't know if they connected the love and intensity between them. Bella was much better than I thought she would be, although I did imagine Bella to actaully smile every once and a while, which movie's Bella was a little more "uncomfortable/awkward." I love the cullens and I wish they had given them more lines, when they came in they were so cool (I hated that they were all cuddly at school and their peers viewed them as perverts), but they did look gorgeous and beautiful and I loved that!! Now I must say this was very cheesy though, was I really supposed to laugh so hard when Edward was tormented by Bella, he just looked like he ws about to blow chunks all over, and the "angle wings" behind him.....super cheesy. But movie Edward was really cute and I liked him. I hated the very end when he had to suck her blood, hello that made the whole thing really cheesy...Edward would never look stupid. I was dispointed that the meadow scene and the wondeful days of "getting to know each other" weren't there, and pretty much that the whole movie was out of order, oh and that Bella wore leggings and tennis shoes to the prom...(Hello, Alice ((who really wasn't even in the movie)) would never allow this). But I think I would like to see it again, and most likely I will buy it. I also heard that they announced the production of New Moon, now my big pondering question is....will they get a new Jacob because he was short (and cuter than Jacob should be), or will they do like Lord of the Rings and make people super big and super small?

Anyways I thought this would be fun, please do tell I want to know what you think!!! Love all of you and thank you for a fabulous adventure!!

Free Oatmeal

Just wanted to spread the word that you can still get great deals at Kroger this week:

(Listed is the price after the coupons)
Quaker oatmeal (old fashioned or quick cooking): Free
Breyer's ice cream : $1.50
Welchs 100% grape juice : $1.50
Dannon activa yogurt : $0.50
Betty Crocker Frosting: $0.50
Quaker Rice Cakes: $0.50
Fleischmann's yeast (3 ct): $0.59
Domino's Sugar (5lb): $1.00
Smucker's jam: $1.30

Let me know which ones you want to get and I'll have the coupons ready for you. I won't be using them as I have plenty already.

Pumpkin Muffins

My mother-in-law made some yummy pumpkin muffins yesterday for breakfast & to my amazement it was the same recipe that I use for the pumpkin cookies. I was so surprised. They were such yummy muffins & are on the healthy side. They take only 2 ingredients:
-1 box spice cake mix (just the mix, don't add anything to it)
-1 can pumpkin

Mix them together & scoop in muffin pan. She made jumbo muffins & I believe they cooked at 350 for 30 minutes. If you do regular muffin size, you should cut the time down to maybe 15-20 minutes.

Just thought I'd share this good idea. They make your house smell so good.

BOM

90 Day Encounter with the Book of Mormon
reading schedule

One of my Mom's friends in her ward got a challenge from her son's mission president. The challenge was that the missionary & the parents were to read the Book of Mormon 3 times in 3 months. Wow! Doing this made such an impact on their family that they are doing the challenge again & she shared it with my Mom.

Each time that you read the Book of Mormon, you're supposed to read it with a different perspective. The first time, you're supposed to mark in pencil all the "stories" of the people. The second time, you're supposed to mark in red pencil all the references to the Savior. The third time, in blue pencil you liken the scriptures to yourself and mark anything that strikes out to you personally.

My Mom passed out paper back copies of the Book of Mormon and challenged us to do this last night at FHE. I thought it was a neat idea & wanted to pass it on to all of you. I put the link on the top of this post and you can print out the directions & there is a reading schedule too. You can change the time length and read it 3 times in 6 months or whatever works.

The very end of the directions gives a promise which is: "This Book of Mormon read will change your life. You and those who read with you will never be the same. You will come closer to Jesus Christ. This experience will energize and spiritualize your life. It will transform you and all those who participate with you."

Russian Chicken

2-3 chicken breasts

1 envelope dried onion soup mix

1/2 jar apricot jam

1 small (8 oz.)  bottle Russian salad dressing

Cook in crockpot for 4-5 hours.  It is great served just as breasts over rice.  I just barely tried this shredded.  That was our favorite.  We cooked it for 4 hours, then took it out and shredded it.  Then we put it back in the crockpot for another 1-1 1/2 hours to let the shredded chicken absorb the juice.  This might be really good as a salad too with lettuce, beans, cheese, rice, tomatoes, etc.  This is our favorite smell to come home to after church!