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Thursday, June 21, 2012

s'mores on a stick


How adorable is this dessert? You can call these "s'mores on a stick" or "s'more pops" or "deconstructed s'mores" or "cute and easy party dessert". I made these for a lifegroup grill-out recently where one of our lifegroup members was baptized in a backyard swimming pool!

NEED:
jumbo marshmellows
graham crackers
melted chocolate
skewers

DO:
Skewer the mallow. Crush the graham crackers into powder. Dip mallow in melted chocolate. Then dip in crushed graham crackers. Set on parchment paper or wax paper to set. Deliver to party and watch how happy they make people when they pop them into their mouth.

Note: Next time I make these, I will set them down in some kind of glass where the s'mores part is on top. I think that will look cuter than set down on a tray like above. Live and learn.
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Sunday, June 17, 2012

my favorite quotes

“'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.” -Jesus

"Will you marry me?" - Slater Jackson

"Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.” - Anne of Green Gables

"There is love that swells the heart so full that it splits and leaks an aching joy." - Ann Voskamp

"People are like stained glass windows. They sparkle and shine with the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within." - Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

"A sunset is proof that God colors outside the lines." - Beth Moore

“A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.” -Ruth Bell Graham

"A heart is a fragile thing. That's why we protect them so vigorously, give them away so rarely, and why it means so much when we do. Some hearts are more fragile than others. Purer, somehow. Like crystal in a world full of glass, even the way they shatter is beautiful." - Everwood

"So we make it our goal to please Him..." - 2 Corinthians 5:9

"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain." - Dolly Parton

"I love you to the moon and back." - unknown

"My anorexic soul, that keeps binging on this sugar-coated world, needs to fast from here and feast on Him." - Ann Voskamp

"Crying doesn't indicate that you're weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive." - unknown

"Its always like springtime with You / making all things new / Your light is breaking through the dark / You make me come alive" - Bethel worship

"Never doubt that a small group of committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." - Mead

"When we know Heaven is our home, we are free to risk in this life." - Jimmy Seibert

"Peace isn't a place you walk towards, but a Person you walk with." - Ann Voskamp

"God didn't save us to make us safe, but to make us dangerous to the Kingdom of darkness." - Christine Caine

 "If I'm not between a 3 and a 7 on the emotional scale, I'm crying." - Kristen Bell

"Faith is an intelligent response to God's record." - John Dawson

"True testimony = 'My life was pretty hard and then I met Jesus. It's gotten a lot worse, but He's worth it and one day I'll be with Him" - Mark Driscoll

"When I touch a poor child, I touch Jesus. Among them, the Creator is hidden." - Mama Maggie Gobran

"Guess why I smile a lot? 'Cause it's worth it." - Marcel the Shell

"'Cause the only way to find your life is to lay your own life down. And I believe it's an easy price for the life that we have found." - Andrew Peterson

"If a sudden jar can cause me to speak an impatient, unloving word, then I know nothing of Calvary love. For a cup brimful of sweet water cannot spill even one drop of bitter water however suddenly jolted." - Amy Carmichael

"Filter your pain through the brevity of this life and the unending beauty of the next." - Max Lucado

"Our only steadfast defense against life's uncertain certainty is unconditional trust in a Savior who loves us more than His own life." - Beth Moore

"How lucky am I to have known someone who was so hard to say goodbye to." - unknown

"Pastor says that joy is peace on its feet; peace is joy at rest." - Anne Lamott

"I want to worship Jesus from up close and down deep." - James Mark Gulley

"You is kind, you is smart, you is important." - Aibileen Clark

"When I met Christ, I felt that I had swallowed sunshine." - E. Stanley Jones

"Summer afternoon - summer afternoon...the two most beautiful words in the English language." - Henry James

"Every experience of beauty points to [eternity]." - Hans Urs Von Balthasar

"The earth in summer is brimming with beauty, beauty of such magnificence and variety and unembarrassed lavishness, ripe beauty, lush beauty, beauty given to us with such generosity and abundance it is almost scandalous." - Eldredge

"I adore spontaneity, provided it is carefully planned." - unknown

"Every woman in her heart of hearts longs for three things: to be romanced, to play an irreplaceable role in a great adventure, and to unveil beauty." - Eldredge

"Then the time came when the risk it took to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." - Anais Nin

"Nursing inferiority can be just as self-consuming as seeking superiority...constantly thinking little of ourselves is still thinking constantly of ourselves." - Beth Moore

"Its so fluffy I could die!" - Despicable Me

"Where the needs of the world and your talents cross, there lies your vocation." - Aristotle

"I love you....but...God loves you a whole lot more." - Daddy

"The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it." - William James

"Get rhythm when you get the blues." - Johnny Cash

"If you've got fat, tan it." - Lori Caskey

"The best is yet to come." - Frank Sinatra

"Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance." - Oprah

"In this life, we cannot do great things, we can only do small things with great love." - Mother Teresa

"Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it." - Anne of Green Gables
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