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Ingredients: 

1 box of white cake mix

1 block of cream cheese

1/2 cup of butter, softened

1/2 teaspoon of vanilla

1 egg

1/4 cup of powdered sugar

Food coloring

Candy eyeballs (I got mine from the Bulk Barn)

Instructions:

Beat butter, vanilla, egg and cream cheese together until fluffy

Mix in the cake mix. Add the food coloring. If you want to do different colors for in one batch then separate the dough into different bowls and add whatever colors you want. 

Let chill for 30 minutes!

Roll into 1.5 inch balls and dip into powdered sugar

Bake at 350 degrees for 11 minutes.

Once you take the cookies out of the oven, start pushing the eyeballs into the cookies however you would like them arranged. 

There's to many of my favorite things in this pasta I can barely handle it; Peppers, feta and penne. Helloooo tasty. 

The only ingredient that I didn't add was an onion and that's simply because I didn't have one. I probably would have used almost the entire onion if I had one on hand. I quite enjoy onion and garlic as you can tell. 

What you will need:

1 red pepper 

1 orange pepper

5-6 large mushrooms

4-5 cloves of garlic

2 boneless skinless chicken breasts

1/4 cup of feta

1 jar of roasted garlic pasta sauce

3 cups of penne

2 tablespoons of coconut oil

Directions:

Cook pasta following directions on package
Add 1 tablespoon of coconut oil to two frying pans. One small and one large.
Place on burner and turn each burner to medium heat
Cut up peppers and mushrooms into small pieces(see photo below) and place in a large frying pan
Mince cloves of garlic
Slice chicken breasts up into small chunks, place into smaller frying pan with garlic, stirring occasionally
Place pasta sauce in a small pot and turn it on low, stir often
Feta usually comes I'm large cubes so I would recommend cutting them up into smaller pieces
Drain the oil from the chicken and the vegetables
Drain water from the noodles
Combine all ingredients except the feta into the large frying pan
Sprinkle feta on top of finished product

 Yes, that's a cheeseburger birthday cake. She always, always, always wants cheeseburgers and she's not always, always, always allowed to have them obviously. When I saw the cheeseburger cake, I knew it was the one for her. What a delicious cake, too. It didn't last long in our house. 

It's hard work being a birthday princess. 

"PAPA! Get the BBQ going." Ceili and Aunt Sherry.

My second cousin, Camryn taking it all in. 

 My niece, Abigail giving her Aunt a scowl.

 There was more. Much, much more. 

 Yummo. 

 My ladybug friend. 

Covered in dirt and loving it. 

 Ceili & Papa.

My wonderful Mama. <3

 My cousin, Emma :)

 Aunt Crystal(Kiki) & Camryn. 

 Emma & I <3

My sister & I being... my sister and I <3

 Aunt Cynthia and I <3 (Worst picture of me ever)

Emma & I again taking some selfies. 

 Kenny, Alanda and Abigail. Lovely picture. 

I couldn't think of a better way to spend the day with this group of people then on a beautiful lake in the sunshine, eating ridiculous amounts of food and getting eaten alive by black flies. The day zoomed by and came to an end as days often do however, as usual I can't wait to do this again. Not everyone's schedule lined up for today so not all of us are here but hopefully next time. 

I have two favorite soups; Turkey and Vegetable soup and Carrot and Dill soup. I've only ever had these soups at one of the restaurants beside my work. I would take both of these soups over deep fried fish & chips and I love, love, love anything deep friend. Fish & chips especially. A little off topic but everywhere that Alex and I go, we always try their fish & chips before anything else. We're foodies. Kidding. 

I found a recipe for carrot and dill soup and I thought I had to try it. It turned out really good but I will say that the amount of dill required in the recipe, I will cut in half next time. (Anyone who knows me and is reading this, your jaw just dropped, didn't it?) (I also love dill anything for those of you who don't know me. Dill pickles especially!)

3 tbsp of olive oil

1 onion

1 2/3 pounds of carrots

1 sweet potato

Salt & pepper

4 sprigs of thyme (leaves removed or 1 tsp. of dried)

1 tbsp of honey

5 1/4 cups of chicken stock

2 tbsp of chopped dill (I reccomend 1 or 1.5)

1 tbsp of Italian parsley

I don't know who ever thought to mix carrot and dill together in a soup but whoever you are, you have my stamp of approval.