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T- 6 hours. Heaven help us!

Dipped Chocolate and Candy Apples

Back to School? Perfect treat to make for your kids after school or a fun activity to have them help with! Slice apples Melt- milk or dark chocolate chips white chocolate chips butterscotch chips caramels Drizzle chocolate/caramel on apple slices and dip! Crushed peanuts Heath toffee pieces Coconut

Summer 2015

Summer 2015- Green hair, same clothes, not a lot of brushing hair or violin. Sun burns and bathing suits all day even to bed. Driveway full of strollers and bikes and crackers and garbage. Hose permanently turned on and water balloons in every nook and crevice. Late nights and late mornings with too many Jesse episodes. Sugar for breakfast lunch and dinner with a “treat” in-between. Bike rides and crashes, close calls and scraped up knees and elbows. Yelling, fighting, sharing beds and laughs. Leaving every door open, inviting every fly in and leaving trails of food and wrappers wherever they go. Sunday hikes with lots of complaining, and going all day until they crawled into bed. 3 year olds keeping up with 9 year olds and running back and forth across the neighborhood 12 hours straight. Everyday. I’d say it was perfect!

Traeger Kitchen

Can’t wait to show you the new Traeger Test kitchen and headquarters that will be finished in just 2 short weeks! I have a feeling I might be cooking there or throwing some parties very soon. Gwyneth is keeping all the subs in line.

Babies, Bottles, and Banana Bread

Babies, bottles, and banana bread! I am planning on stealing this banana bread recipe, but I may leave the babies!

Farmers Market Saturday’s

My shrine

Steel Cut Oatmeal

A delicious and quick Steel cut oats (that your kids will love too): Mix unsweetened vanilla almond milk with your favorite steel cut oats in the microwave or stovetop (@courtneyzwick turned me onto Country Choice Organic which is now my favorite -it’s what they use at Jamba Juice) Mix in more almond milk to get desired consistency A dash of kosher salt Maple syrup And a little bit of butter Top with TJ pumpkin spiced pumpkin seeds

Peanut Butter and Granola Stuffed Apple

A family approved protein packed snack! Core apple (perfect with pink lady apples that are slightly tart and crisp) fill with a combination of natural peanut or almond butter and your favorite granola.

Tupperware Snacks

Heading out on a road trip with my four girls this morning and borrowed an idea from my brilliant friend @sarabato. Each child gets their own Tupperware to fill with their favorite snacks for the car ride so there is no fighting, complaining, or sharing needed over the next 5 hours!

Apple Galettes

My girls love to help in the kitchen so instead of having them “help” with party prep this week, I raided the freezer and we ended up with these yummy apple galettes. My 2,4, and 6 year olds made these and they were easy and fast. Use leftover pie dough. In this case I had one Trader Joes pie crust left in my fridge and split it into 3 pieces. We chopped up apples but you can use any fruit you have in the house. Add cinnamon and sugar to the fruit, mix and pour it into the middle of the pie dough. Fold edges over and spray with coconut oil. Bake at 400-425 for 20 minutes or until golden brown. These were gone in 3 minutes and my girls were so proud of their work!