Famished Friday - Cream Cheese Tarts

I had gotten this recipe from Suz and oooh they are good and I have a great story to go along with it (don't I Chad/Ute) while we had company for SportyB's birthday it was also Chad's birthday week so Kerry wanted to plan a little surprise for him while the entire family was together.. so I offered to make these great treats and said he wouldn't question anything as I could just say they were for SportyB's party. So after the party everyone was off enjoying each other and watching the kids play so I decided to sneak into the kitchen and whip them up really fast so they had time to cool for the event the next day. No one even noticed - I decided to hide them off in the butlers pantry area (under a dish towel, but right next to the left over birthday cake from SportyB's party.. later I found out, might not of been the best spot). So no worries, my treats were hidden and cooling, right? Right.. or so I think anyway (right Chat/Ute??) I went into check on my cooling tasty treats to find TWO MISSING!!! (remain calm!!!! don't panic!! I'm sure they are around here somewhere!! Surely someone is just playing a little joke on me, right?) WHAT HAPPENED TO MY CREAM CHEESE TARTS?!?!? Everyone looked a little scared (probably due to my tone) and dear ole' Chad fessed up (who they were originally for and he had no clue what just happened) he completed on how yummy they were and how he thought at first they were left over from the party (since by the cake) but once he took a bite and realized they were still warm that he knew he made an oopsy but by then it was too late and they were so yummy that he finished it. Well, while walking out enjoying his warm tasty treat he was greeted by Ute who said 'umm what is that?' he proceed to tell her he didn't think he was suppose to be eating them but they are really good - so she had one too (hence the two missing). AHHH the fun - it all worked out though as I just quickly put together another batch (since we needed 12 originally) we now have 22. To Chad's surprise the next night he was greeted with a Cream Cheese tart with a candle in it - it all came full circle and he had realized what had all happened.

So we know they are very yummy and a big hit - so hide them while cooling :)

(no picture again sorry but just imagine individually wrapped little cheese cakes with the topping of your fancy)

Serves 12
2 (8oz) packages cream cheese, softened
1 cup sugar
1 tsp pure vanilla extract
2 eggs
12 vanilla wafers
1 (21 ounce) can pie filling of your fancy

*Preheat oven to 350 *Place a paper cupcake liner in each cup (12 total) of muffin pan *Beat cream cheese with electric mixer until fluffy. Add sugar and vanilla,beating well. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each.*Place vanilla wafer FLAT side down, in each muffin cup. Spoon cream cheese mixture over wafers filling each to about 1/4 inch from top of paper. *Bake for 20 minutes*Allow tarts to cool completely before filling. When you remove the tarts from the oven, they will be puffed up, but as they cool, the center will sink, creating the perfect well to fill with a couple of spoonfuls of your favorite filling.*Chill thoroughly before serving

Enjoying my Pink Ride

So tonight the boys wanted to hop into the hot tub so we blew up BabyB's float (thank you Grammie) and off they went. I was able to get some good pictures and a few fun videos - Enjoy

She kept licking the water off her float - tasty

Holding on (they squeaked)

Fun shot of the 3 'kids'

This was cute as BabyB was just kicked back enjoying her ride around the hot tub

I think SportyB was waiting for the flash for me to take a picture - cute

and here is one of her saying bye bye and waving

Famished Friday - Chicken Cordon Bleu Casserole

Well I was sending my sister this recipe and thought that I would just quickly post this up here since I had a second. I don't remember where I had gotten it from (sorry to whom ever it came from) but we made it last month while my sister was down visiting. She surprised me with the ingredients one night and we made this tasty dinner - it really is yummy!

Let me know how you like it

Chicken Cordon Bleu Casserole

6 boneless/skinless chicken breast (cut up (raw) into bite size pieces)
1 1/2 cup swiss cheese (grated)
1 1/2 cups ham (chopped)
1 can reduced fat cream of chicken soup
1 pint low-fat sour cream
1 pkg. stove top stuffing (chicken flavor; prepared as directed but omitting butter)


Place raw chicken on the bottom of 9x13 pan. Top with rated cheese & chopped ham. Mix together soup and sour cream & pour over the top of the cheese & ham. Sprinkle prepared stuffing on top. Bake at 375 for 50-60 mins.

The GREAT build, soccer game and birthday party

You wouldn't believe the awesome group of friends we have!! It's amazing! And they all really shined to help us with the GREAT build. As I mentioned before all the grandparents chipped in with us to get SportyB a play set for his birthday. And at my request I wanted it done in time for his party starting at 2pm. Now this was NO easy task - we had a soccer game early that morning so my sister, Grammie and I loaded up the kids to take them to SportyB's soccer game to allow the GREAT BUILDERS to come and help put this thing together. SportyB LOVED playing soccer in front of his cousins and even scored a GOAL!! He calls it his birthday goal. After his soccer game Grammie took the three kids to the park for the morning to allow things to get done around the house before the party without having the kids around. My sister, BabyB and I ran a few last minute errands and picked up the cake and balloons. Everything came together so nicely, below are a few pictures from the day and a HUGE thank you to ALL those that helped in every way that day. We couldn't of done it without you Mimi, Grammie, Other G-ma, Papi & G-ma Beckme, Papa & Nana, Jenn, Holly, Kerry & Chad, Ute, Frank, Charlie & Lance, Freebeau and Anne. The kids had a blast a the birthday party and thank you all for the wonderful gifts SportyB got that day. We are truly blessed.

Inch Worm and tunnel

Well I have to do a quick blog today to interrupt my behind blog catch up stuff to update everyone on a few things.. I was able to get a picture of BabyB's bottom teeth and took a few videos of our commando crawler/inch worm for the family to all see. Her first three commando crawler moves were Friday the 10th. We are very excited although QueenB has a lot of baby proofing to do.

SportyB had a soccer game on Saturday AM and he scored another goal! He is having so much fun this season and is really learning the rules of the game. After each game the parents form a tunnel and after the good sportsmen ship high fives the kids from both teams come running over and go through. I caught it on film this past weekend.

I think this is the highlight of the game for the kids

Happy Easter

From our family to yours Happy Easter

Birthday, Prep day and SURPRISE visitor #2

Surprise visitor #2 came in late in the night and snuck in to be here in the AM when KingB woke. A few weeks prior I had received a call from KingB's other sister to see if it was ok that she too came with her beau and be part of the surprise - ohh I couldn't wait to finally get one over on my hubby for all the surprises he does. Very exciting - and that he was

One of SportyB's birthday presents from us and his grandparents was a playground and some prep work was needed for the building site.

Meanwhile the kids got to swim - we had turned on the sprinklers for them too but that was too cold

Then they hand some hang out time on the couch with Papi before it was time for him to go

Grammie and Other G-ma arrived in time for dinner and had fun playing Twister with the kiddos before bedtime

SURPRISE - visitor #1

We all know that I really don't like surprises.. I mean I guess I really do BUT being who I am I really like to be in the know so I can plan.. so FINALLY I was able to be the one behind the scenes for a few surprises. KingB's sister contacted me a while back saying she and the kids wanted to come for SportyB's birthday and surprise them, I was excited and up for the challenge. And Challenge it was, let me tell you however it was all well worth it and we managed to keep it a surprise. They were due in dinner time on the 12th and once they arrived the fun began. The kids had such a great time as you will see over the course of the next few post and I don't know if BabyB's bottom hit the ground much with being passed from arm to arm. Once they arrived the kids got to play outside for awhile before our pizza party dinner

SportyB got a tree swing for Christmas from Papi and G-ma Beck-me that the kids really enjoyed

Holding BabyB was a never ending request from her cousin. She LOVED holding her and was always asking. She was so good with her and gentle. I think BabyB loved all the attention once she got the idea

To top off the great surprise G-ma Beck-me stopped by Sams and picked up a few pizza's for a pizza party. Boy is that pizza ever yummy and the kids enjoyed it too

Where to begin

WOW It's crazy to think that I haven't had time to do much of anything since really all I have is time now since I have been laid off on the 12th. But we have been busy with company, a trip to Sarasota and just life that getting to my computer to organize the abundance of pictures from the last 3 weeks from the 4 cameras has been somewhat overwhelming and when I think about sitting down to start I quickly get side tracked with house stuff that I have been wanting to do.. or just plain ole' do nothing! Cause I almost forgot what that was like (of COURSE in between job hunting, sending resumes, touching base with contacts, completing applications that are forever long!).. but I've finally started and caught up with pictures on the first few days of March (so long ago, I know) and thought I would just do a run down to get me at least half way through the month.. HA


I thought these were fun pictures back on the 5th of March after dinner I was doing a few things in my closet and brought babyB along. I had a balloon in there and she found entertainment between that and my shoes.

on the 7th we took a drive down to St. George to their annual chili cook off we had a good time and SportyB even managed to get in the water - brrrr

So on the 12th I was going to take a half day from work and take Friday the 13th off for SportyB's birthday, before I was about to leave work for my weekend they informed me my position had been eliminated (nice huh) So I came home with all my boxes and figured it was 5 o'clock somewhere, right? To make the most out of a cra-apy day my sister and I hung out by the pool with a few brew-ha-ha's.. it got kind of warm so we had the bright idea to jump in the pool. After SEVERAL minutes of making sure the other WAS going and if we were going to go ON 3 or 3 then go and how exactly we were going to jump in - because that is important - we finally did it.. and man oh man was it cold and I refused to do it again.. but we did it

Also to help make my day a little brighter my sister got me these - aren't they pretty? They made such a great centerpiece for all the company we had

April Already

OH my has it been awhile - and do I ever have some catching up on with posting.. just to give you a glimpse of the post to come, since our last post we have: one family member on unemployment, our oldest had his 5th birthday party, my sister visited, trip to the beach, KingB's two sisters surprised him with visits, swimming, LOTS of other visitors, charades, a trip to Sarasota, two teeth, spring break, doctor visits and a few new fun recipes.. so hang on to your hats and bear with me as I PLAN (LOL) to hopefully be updating every few days over the next few days.. now if just somewhere in there I can find time!

Stay tuned