Disney's Frozen Family Movie Night

Pin It now! Last night we had our long awaited Frozen movie night!!! In January we had a Frozen themed birthday party for my daughter and I wanted to try my best to come up with new ideas for this movie night. There were a couple of things that I just loved too much and decided to do them again. :) :)

Before Christmas I found some Frozen wrapping paper at Walmart, I used that to make our placemats for tonight's dinner and I used some of the kid's Frozen toys to decorate our table.

No movie night is complete without family movie night tickets! The kids had to pay me with a kiss to get their ticket. :)

We used our Christmas tree lights to decorate a little bit. I would have looked so much better if the strings would have been white BUT the kids loved them and that's all that really matters, right?! I love doing fun little things like this that make the kids so excited and happy!!! We also hung up some snowflakes that's I've been holding onto since two Christmases ago. (I've used them 3 times now and I don't plan on getting rid of them yet!) haha

For dinner we had:

Anna and Hans' "Finish Each Others Sandwiches"

Elsa's Snowy White Mac & Cheese

Sven's Carrot and Raisin Salad

Olaf's Snowman Pieces (powdered donut holes, pretzel sticks, raisins, and carrots)

To drink we had:

Kristoff's Iced Koolaid

And for dessert we had:

"Some People Are Worth Melting (chocolate) For" Fondue with strawberries, bananas, and marshmallows to dip

And these cake pops that are too cute for words! I watched an awesome tutorial from My Cupcake Addiction and knew I had to make them.

And I printed out these cute little pictures and taped them to long toothpicks to stick in the fruit for dipping.

Yummy dessert!!

And for during the movie I drew little snowman faces with colored sharpies onto some clear cups for the kids to eat their popcorn out of.

We put some of our Frozen wrapping paper on their table, too, and put some Frozen pillows on their chairs.

And just for fun here's a picture of Ashlynn in her Elsa dress. :) :)

We had planned to play freeze tag and color some pictures but we didn't have time. While I was making dinner the kids colored and did some activities in their Frozen coloring book . They had fun with that!

Did you have a special family movie night? I'd love to hear about it!

Muffin Tin Monday - Halloween!

Pin It now! Happy Monday!! I have some BIG news!! My baby boy, Dawson, is going to be THREE years old tomorrow!! Can you believe it?! His birthday party is going to be on Saturday so I decided to go ahead and do our Halloween lunch this weekend since I'm sure we'll be too busy with other things next weekend to even think about it. So here's what he had...

mummy dogs (hot dog wrapped in a crescent roll), ghost shaped marshmallows, witches hats (bugles)

ketchup for dipping, Halloween shaped spook-aroni and cheese, Greek yogurt with Halloween sprinkles
And for dessert a Jack Skellington cake pop!

Here's a closer look at Jack:

And a closer look at the rest of his meal:


He LOVED this Halloween tin! I made him save the cake pop for last and he finished everything except maybe 1/3 of the hotdog. Yay!

To see more muffin tin meals head on over and visit Muffin Tin Mom.

**Don't forget to enter my Just Me Music CD/DVD giveaway! There are not very many entries and there will be 3 winners so your chances of winning are not bad at all. :) And your little ones will LOVE hearing their name sung by their favorite characters.

Jack Skellington Cake Pops

Pin It now! Not too long ago I watched Nightmare Before Christmas for the very first time. I have no idea what took me so long to see it but I loved it! Even before I had watched it I had been wanting to make some Jack Skellington cake pops, so after I watched it I really wanted to make them. So I did. :)


I did a quick Google search for Jack cake pops before I made them and found a cute little template for his body from The Party Animal. I had to have it so I printed some out and I love the way they turned out. Between the Jack cake pops and the Cinderella cake pops that I made, I don't know how I'm ever going to make character pops again without printing out accessories to go with them! I love how they turn out. :)


**Don't forget I've got an awesome Just Me Music personalized CD/DVD giveaway going on. The prize would make a great stocking stuffer for your little one! And there will be 3 winners!

Cinderella Cake Pops

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I made these Cinderella cake pops for my niece's 4th birthday. I was excited when my sister told me she wanted Cinderella because it was something I haven't done before. I'm always up for trying new things! I was a little nervous about what they'd look like when they got to her because I had to ship them from San Diego to Salt Lake (in July!) but thankfully they made it there ok. And I heard they were a big hit at the party! :)

Cake Pops - Swimming Teddy Bears

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Over the past few months I have made quite a few cake pops but never got around to posting them... so I am going to start posting them now. :) These swimming teddy bears turned out super cute and I'm pretty proud of them. I think I'll definitely be making them again to take to summer barbecues or pool parties!

Lions and Tigers and Bears (oh my!) Cake Pops!

Pin It now! I made these cute little cake pops a couple of weeks ago... Lions and tigers and bears! Oh my!


I think they turned out super cute so I thought I'd share. :) As soon as I saw them in Bakerella's book I knew I had to make them! Now the tough part...decided which ones I want to try next! There are so many cute ones to choose from!

A quick question for those of you who make cake pops...what kind of candy coating do you use? I use the candy melts that you can get Michaels but I am thinking of trying a different brand because I have a hard time writing on the ones I use with my edible markers. :/

Easter Cake Pops

Pin It now! My husband had never had a cake pop before so I decided to make some this week. They didn't turn out exactly how I had imagined, but they tasted great so that's ok.


They didn't turn out quite as cute as Bakerella's but I'm glad that I made them anyway.

I hope everybody has a great Easter weekend!

Christmas Cake Balls

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It's day 4 of the Holly Bloggy Christmas Bash! Wow, this week is just flying by! Anyway, today's theme is Christmas recipes. Earlier in the week I made cake balls to give out at my family's Christmas party. (They were a big hit by the way) I got this recipe from Bakerella and it's actually a cake pop recipe minus the lollipop sticks. (Really the only difference between the cake balls recipe and cake pops recipe is the balls are dipped in chocolate bark and the cake pops are dipped in candy melts. I dipped my cake balls in candy melts because I wanted them to be Christmas colors.)

Red Velvet Cake Balls

• 1 box red velvet cake mix (cook as directed on box for 13 X 9 cake)
• 1 can cream cheese frosting (16 oz.)
• 1 package chocolate bark (regular or white chocolate) or candy melts
• wax paper

1. After cake is cooked and cooled completely, crumble into large bowl.
2. Mix thoroughly with 1 can cream cheese frosting. (It may be easier to use fingers to mix together, but be warned it will get messy.)
3. Roll mixture into quarter size balls and lay on cookie sheet. (Should make 45-50. You can get even more if you use a mini ice cream scooper, but I like to hand roll them.)
4. Chill for several hours. (You can speed this up by putting in the freezer.)
5. Melt chocolate in microwave per directions on package.
6. Roll balls in chocolate and lay on wax paper until firm. (Use a spoon to dip and roll in chocolate and then tap off extra.)

***You can use any cake mix and frosting combination that you want. I made a batch of red velvet cake with cream cheese frosting and a batch with yellow cake mix and milk chocolate frosting. I actually prefer the yellow cakes ones.

I put the cake balls in mini Christmas baking cups and then put them in cute Christmas tins lined with tissue paper. They turned out pretty cute and were really yummy!

To see other Christmas recipes head on over to Simply Sweet Home.

Tomorrow's theme is Christmas Memories and Traditions and it will be hosted by Tidy Mom.

Halloween Cake Pops

Pin It now! Happy Halloween! I'm really looking forward to taking Dawson trick-or-treating later tonight! Last year he was less than a week old on Halloween, so we just stayed home and handed out candy. This year I'm going to take him to a few houses just for fun. I'll post pictures tomorrow because he is just too cute in his costume and I need to show him off!

Anyway, I made some more cake pops! Halloween themed cake pops! My friend is having a party tonight, which I'm not going to be able to make it to, but I'm still sending treats. :-) She was at Dawson's birthday party last weekend and fell in LOVE with cake pops so I figured making her some would be perfect. :-)

I made some pumpkins...


And some ghosts...


Here they are all packaged and ready to go...


I am so happy with how they turned out! And they were so much fun to make! (Probably because they are so darn cute!) I don't think I am going to make any for Thanksgiving, but I'd like to try some Christmas themed pops! And I'll definitely be making these again next Halloween, I'll probably try something different though... Maybe something a little more spooky. :-)

To learn how to make these (or many other cute cake pops) visit Bakerella.com

Have a fun and safe Halloween!

Puppy Cake Pops

Pin It now! I found these puppy cake pops in Bakerella's blog a few months ago and I knew they would be perfect for Dawson's party!


Aren't they just so cute?! I made about 50 cake pops tonight and I had intended on making them all puppies, but it would have taken me FOREVER. I decided just to make the rest plain blue.


I made enough puppies so each family that comes to the party will get at least one puppy and then a few blue ones. :-)

Other posts related to Dawson's 1st birthday are here.