My daughter and I made these for FHE last night: we just made the standard cake mix cookies (we used devils food) and then put store bought mint chocolate chip ice cream in the middle instead of frosting. They were really good, cold, rich, and easy! The best part was smashing the ice cream between the cookies.
We got the idea from a favorite new website, Our Best Bites. These girls are amazing~you will be salivating as you scroll through all of the pictures and recipes~check them out! They give lots of great step by step instructions and pictures to follow. For all you Utah girls, they are doing a free class at Macey's too! They made homemade peppermint ice cream to go in their cookies, but we took the easy route and they were still delish. Here is their recipe we followed. Have fun!

The old door we took out (you can see the old storm door behind it) That blasted storm door was my enemy. The latch always stuck so my kids could barely open it. My 4 year old would just sit there and ring the doorbell until someone came and half the time ended up waking up the baby. The main door made our hallway like a cave because no natural light came in. I told my husband the best Mother's Day gift would be a new door.

I LOVE having such an ugly bathroom before, because no matter what, this is going to look better, right? Oh, and I just have to clarify: all of those Valspar cans in the post below are *trial* little half pint cans, not the full size. Yes, I'm a paint spaz, but not that bad, yet. We're still not finished attaching baseboards, but you don't care, right?

good-bye nasty glass shower doors...but the tile is in! hooray!

My husband takes care of the ugly brown banister things for good and you can see all of my paint trials on the walls...

Holy projects, Batman! My husband has had the past 2 1/2 weeks off of school and we have been trying to tackle projects outside and around the house. Some of his buddies also had a fence and a floor to install, so they went from house to house helping each other. Here they are working on our fence!

getting a little tired of working together...

Do you think we need a new fence?

I am just kidding! I'm just being dumb. It was in such awful shape and was barely holding on through our last wind storm. My husband is actually working on that this week.

Even more important:

American Idol.

Which David are you rooting for?? We're pulling for Archuleta here~he just has an angel voice, and seems like the sweetest guy. BUT, I do love Cook's Always Be My Baby. So, vote in our very official poll on the side here and we'll compare notes after the finale!