Yikes!

FIVE days till Christmas! Man! This happens every year. I plan, plan, plan and it's gone, gone, gone ...

I still have a list of want to do's that will probably become didn't happens. But that's normally the case each year too.

I still have some treats I AM going to get made. Here are a couple of my annually requested treats. I managed to get these made last weekend.


HAYSTACKS

1 (12 oz.) pkg. butterscotch or chocolate chips
1 (12 oz.) jar peanut butter
1 (9 oz.) can chow mein noodles

You will need adult helper, saucepan, mixing spoon, teaspoon, and waxed paper.

Put chips in saucepan. Stir over low heat until melted (ask an adult to help you). Add peanut butter to chips and remove from heat. Stir well. Mix in the chow mein noodles. Drop by teaspoons onto waxed paper. Let the "haystacks" harden for 1 hour.


SWEET NOTHIN'S

1 stick butter
1 (6 oz.) pkg. butterscotch chips
1/2 c. peanut butter
1 box crispy rice squares cereal (12 oz.)
1 box powdered sugar

Melt butter, peanut butter and chips together. Pour over cereal, coating well. Put 1/4 box sugar and 1/4 of mixture into a bag, shaking to coat. Do remaining mixture the same way. Store in tightly covered container.

These are super simple - and great if you're pressed for time, need something tasty - but not necessarily pretty :)

I didn't get around to blogging about our trip to the Opryland Hotel to see the lights. Last week was an unusually hectic week. So here's a short re-cap.

Had a blast on the ride up. Priss served as our Mad-Lib Master of Ceremony. If I had to guess, I'd say this photo was taken during the reading of our Christmas themed story :)


We DO love our car games :)

We stopped for dinner (that son-in-law thought to make reservations :) for a great meal at the Sante Fe Cattle Company. We then joined the bumper to bumper traffic and headed out to walk it off while viewing the lights.

The trees were huge and beautiful and the lights were pretty awesome.




But they paled in comparison with these lovely ladies :)




We did run into more than a few interesting characters


although I was really hoping to see King Julian (I like to move it, move it :)

I hope the guys enjoyed it at least a little bit. They just sort of followed our lead. But then if we're honest ... a hotdog and a beer would've been more down their alley anyway - and we know it ;) So the sacrifice did not go un-noted.

They were good sports though. They even picked up our slack a time or two ...


FYI - if it's across the chest, it's a satchel...

Good times and even better memories :)

Until later :)