Oreo Cookie Dessert

Oreo Cookie Dessert

Recipe:
2 children to help preferably ages 6 and 2
1 package of Oreos
1 8oz. container of Cool Whip
I jar Hot Fudge or Caramel topping
1/2 gallon of vanilla ice cream, softened
1/2 cup butter, melted
Nuts (optional)

First take the two helpful children and put them in aprons that are too big for them. After all, we don't want them to get dirty before Lydia's birthday dinner!!!


Next get all the ingredients out.
Cruch Oreo cookies and keep out one cup for the topping.
Don't let the children be in charge of the Oreos..... the cookies tend to disappear :)

Mix remaining Oreo's with melted butter. Press Oreo mixture in 9x 13 inch pan. Put ice cream on top of Oreo Mixture. Put in the freezer for one hour.

During that hour make sure to check the ball game.And hug your mother lots!

Put hot fudge or caramel on top of ice cream.


then put Cool Whip over that. Top with nuts and remaining Oreo mixture.
This part is the helpers' favorite! So make sure you let them do it all!!


A second supervisor in the form of a brother in an orange shirt is always helpful.

Warning, little baby fingers and crushed Oreo's in container don't mix well. You might need to assist.


Put back in freezer until ready to serve.



Enjoy!!!

The most interesting box came in the mail last week...

Last Friday the mail carrier delivered a unexpected large package.

When we opened it we found a great delight!

And immediately began paging through the contents on the inside...



Sarah thought the contents were great! And immediately claimed an object for herself.



As for the rest of us. We're ecstatic!




Our coloring books are finally here!!!! Project completed!!!

Fixing the laptop....

Apparently, I look like this a lot :)

I just wanted to let everyone know that Benjamin came home and he doing fine. The doctor was very encouraged by his appearance and that he was back to his smiling self. Rachael told me that the doctor said they can't usually resuscitate a little baby that stops breathing and that they were very lucky. But they are giving God all the credit, they know that He really intervened in their situation. Keep them in prayer. Rachael is a little overly worried about Benjamin, and she knows it, but it's just her mommy instincts... he does have to sleep with a monitor for the next 3 months. It monitors his heart rate and his breathing, and sounds an alarm if anything were to happen. So, that is a comfort to her.
Rachael told me that word spread fast and that lots and lots of people were praying and that has been that has been a blessing to them so thank you!

A prayer request

One of my best friends called me today... a mere 6 hours after we had said goodbye. They were having an Easter get-together at his parents house. Their little boy(Benjamin) who is almost 3 months old was taking a nap. She had checked on him about a half-hour ago, when she suddenly got a strong feeling that she needed to go check on Benjamin. She went right away. He wasn't breathing, his skin was pale and his lips were turning purple. She scooped him up and ran to the other room. One of her sisters-in-law who knows CPR went right to work. A brother-in-law called 911 and the rest of them went to praying. Thankfully he started breathing and they think that he is going to be alright. They took him in the ambulance to the hospital but they don't know why he stopped breathing. He had been suffering from a cold so it might have just been that but they aren't sure. The hospital wanted to kept him overnight and put him on a monitor to make sure that he is o.k. and possible figure out what caused it. Rachael was doing better when she got around to calling me about 3 hours after she found him, but she sounded like she had been pretty shook up. They were in the ER wanting for the doctor to come talk to them about the monitor. She was asking us to pray, for them, for Benjamin, and that everything would be alright.

It really struck me. How quickly his short life could have been over with. He's not 3 months old. A few minutes more and he would be in heaven. Or if they hadn't been at the farm with the sister who knew CPR.... Life is so precious, and to think what might have happened. God was so good to them today! I'm thinking it would be a good idea to actually learn CPR, not just slightly know it....

So, this is a praise report and a prayer request. Please keep them in prayer, the situation and that Benjamin would be o.k.

New Hair Cut

O.k. so.. bad picture of me, but you get the idea :)

Quote of the Day

"War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing he cares about more than his personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men."

~John Stuart Mill

Messiah Pictures

O.k. all! I'm sorry but these are the only pictures I could find, so far. If I find more, I'll post :)

You can actually see me in this picture, if you look really hard :) Directly behind the lady in white there are 2 violinists. I would be the one on the right without red hair :)

Yes I Know

Katie post something interesting! What's going on in your life?

O.k. well...
I've been gone every night this week. The University did a performance of Handel's Messiah, and I got to play in the orchestra! Let me tell you if was a huge treat! And possibly the most fun I have ever had preparing for and playing in a concert! We had a 26 person orchestra, complete with harpsichord. And a 210 (something like that) person choir!! Talk about stereo!!! Anyway... I'm hoping that I can find a picture one of these days and I will upload it. It was such fun that I wouldn't mind performing it 3 or 4 or 5 more times!

Interesting Scientific Bible Fact

I read this on a blog, tacked on to the bottom of 90 Day Bible Challenge info. I thought it might interest you all :)

"Just for your amusement, my brother who is currently studying at Moody told me that there have been scientific studies done that prove that reading Leviticus puts you to sleep."

Random question

Hey everyone! I was thinking of what I should post and I came up with a random question? What's on the background of your computer screen? Your desktop background, whatever you call it....

Here's what is one mine.... you don't have to post a picture, just describe it.

New Stuff...

New Profile Picture



New theme


What do you think?

Josh Groban on Michael Buble's Concert

O.k. this just makes me laugh!

Groban can do Jazz, but Buble can't do classical....

My favorite places in Washington D.C. #3

What can I say... we love history....I mean come on! How much more exciting can it be? We were STANDING ON THE 700th BLOCK OF CONSTITUTION AVE. IN DOWNTOWN WASHINGTON D.C.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh, and that's the National Archives in the background...

Hello all!!!

No, I have not forgotten about you. I've been terribly busy, I'm not sure why, but it's been a LONG month!

Anyway, I've been thinking recently about music. And well... I reread Brock and Bodie Thoene's book Vienna Prelude a month or two ago. And well, the musicians in the book talk about music expressing the thoughts or words of your heart. That as a musician you can express what is on/in your heart through the music that you play. The music of the heart.... So anyway, I've just been thinking about that,... and wondering, what my heart says....