no bake update

remember how they were just chilling?


tested
&
approved!

no bakes

(i've decided to not even apologize anymore. 

please just consider it understood.

that i will not be consistent with this blog. 

at least not in the very near future.)

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i don't know about you, but when people say 'no bake' cookies

i think to myself

vomit.

no way in heck can these no bake, magic, wonders be good

i have yet to come across a 'no bake' concoction that is in fact

magical.

BUT, most recently on one of my pinterest obsessive sprees i came across this blogger's

No Bake Cookie Bars

i'm not sure what drew me to it. maybe it was the white sandwich cookies?

maybe cause there are only a handful of ingredients?

welp, while my 'no bakers' are firming, 

i decided to keep you informed.

i stopped by walmart

picked up just under $ten worth of ingredients 

and got to

(no) baking:

i went for the $one golden oreo knock offs

i may step up my game next time, BUT

to make up for it,

i fudged her recipe a little.

i went for ghirardelli white chocolate chips instead of choppin

up a white chocolate bar

(that lazy? yes.)

(getting confused between almond bark vanilla and white chocolate bars?

hell to the yes.)

i have NO shame, i am FAR from an experienced

baker.

talk about fudging a recipe.

there was absolutely no hint, nothing similar to even slightly mentioning 

peanut butter in that recipe

but who 

HEARTS

peanut butter?

THIS GIRL.

so, yeah, you see that on the left side of that photo above?

now, look below.

just couldn't help myself, k?

approx. four minutes left of 'firming!'

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then, i'll be off to do my couch to 5k.

that calls for a completely different post.

aunt marge

I went home

to st. louis

for a quick trip to visit

Kennedy

and my friends & family

and to celebrate my nephew (& godson)

Frankie's birthday

i know i have had plenty of posts about little kids

and about being aunt marge

but, to me, it will 

never

get

old

love love all the babies, toddlers, and kids in my life!

so blessed.

dontcha just LOVE lil girls in swimsuits.

delightful!

the little paleontologist/archaelogist

he's seven!

sis and charlie

handsome boy (i deserve braggin' rights, right?!)

little nanners makin her sundae!

chocolate cake my SIL made 

(ah-maayy-zinngg)

my buddy forever.

i told him i will give him ONE more year of kisses

"you'll never stop kissing me aunt marge."

slime project at 8:30 in the morning!!

it's a girl!

little miss kennedy. 

what a doll. 

one of my greatest friends from high school/college had her first baby on July 5th. 

poor mom arrived at the hospital on tuesday,

and little miss kennedy just had to make a grand entrance

and wait until

thursday, july 5th

to arrive

but, i'm pretty sure her mother would agree she has been well worth the wait.

congrats to my friend meghan, her husband bob, and their dog griz

she is a peach:

the past month, or so

going home and celebrating Sis' Bday.

Visiting with Mary Grace.

Spending time with Michael.

Michael's grandparents. *adore*

forgive me?

yikes! over a month! no excuses, really.

but, been getting back into the swing of things.

i miss taking photographs of the little ones - but hopefully that will change this week.

Until then, check out the snapshots from Mike and I's recent baking

exhibit.

Thanks! : Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies/Snickers//Bikini Killers.

whoa.