Gender Revel Cookies

A really good friend of mine is expecting her second baby and I love to live vicariously through her...as there are so many fun ideas to share that your expecting, gender reveal, and baby photos. So I make her try all this fun stuff!!

Well this past week she had her ultrasound and was going to find out what she was having, and since she is a teacher we thought it would be fun to have her kids guess and then give them a special treat to find out what it was. After searching I found these delicious chocolately fudge cookies and decided these were PERFECT!!
Fudgy Delights (as found on easybaked.com)

INGREDIENTS:

• 40-50 Wilton candy melt pieces in BLUE or PINK
• 8 oz. Philadelphia Cream Cheese
• 1 bag (12 oz) semi-sweet chocolate chips
• 2 c. all-purpose flour
• 1 t. vanilla

DIRECTIONS:

• Soften Philadelphia cream cheese in microwave until completely smooth.
• Melt chocolate chips in microwave in 30 second increments, stirring well in between.
• Add cream cheese to melted chocolate and blend well.
• Add flour and vanilla and stir into a thick dough consistency.
• Flatten about 1 tbs. of dough in your palm, place 2 candy melts (flat sides together) in the center and gently wrap the dough around the melts until they are completely covered.
• Flatten dough and shape into an Oreo shaped and sized cookie and place on an un-greased cookie sheet.
• Bake cookies at 350 degrees for 8-10 minutes.( I did mine just a little longer, but time varies based on your oven.)
• Remove warm cookies from cookie sheet and place on parchment paper (they will be a little greasy on the bottom, the parchment paper helps with this)

These cookies are super delicious and could be done for almost any holiday or just a sweet treat! On her site she even uses the peanut butter candy melts, or hershey kisses...Oh the possibilites!!!

Ice Time

On Sunday we headed to GR to meet some friends. The fun part of meeting them was we were going skating on an outdoor rink, as part of a fundraiser by the local hockey team and then for some dinner.

It was a lot of fun, there were hockey players out there, fires to warm yourself by, ice sculpters, hot chocolate and pretty decent weather. We enjoyed seeing good friends and catching up. Once we were done skating we headed to a local restaurant for an early dinner. It was good food and good friends all rolled into one!

Adventures of Fun

On Monday we decided to surprise the kids with a trip to the local amusement park! It was a TON of fun, especially with a group of friends!!

The whole gang, minus adults...maybe we'll try that next year!

 We rode roller coasters, played games, and even enjoyed the water park! It was a ton of fun and we can't wait to do it again next year!!! 

Do your kids like roller coasters?? (Mine do...I can motion sick since having Jake so I'm in trouble!!)