Today was soooo warm and sunny–it was perfection! I love the first few warm days of spring. They are so refreshing! Unfortunately, they are usually followed by a few more wintery days…but I am not going to think about that right now. I’m also choosing to ignore the mud!  We took advantage of the weather and spent some time outside this afternoon.

That tomato is suspicious.

Pure evil.

Evan’s ball is a lot more fun.

And she’s not giving it back.

This girl knows how to corner!

Once the ball was back in safe hands, Lily tries to liven up Tyler by biting his ankles. He ADORES this, can’t you tell? Sometimes I think she is part blue heeler.

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Due to my intolerance to gluten, most of our holiday baking ends up being holiday candy. Sunday night, we made an old favorite and a new one:

On the right are our old favorite, peanut clusters. My family’s recipe is my favorite of all I’ve tried, and it’s soooo easy. You simply melt a bag of semi-sweet chocolate chips, 6 squares of white almond bark, and a handful of butterscotch chips in a bowl in the microwave. Stir in a jar of peanuts, and drop onto waxed paper. EASY! Evan dropped them on the waxed paper all by himself, which explains the odd shape of some of them.

A new candy we tried was peppermint bark. I found this recipe on the blog of former Morrison-ite, Molly: http://bloggingmollyr.blogspot.com/ I must admit we changed it a bit. First of all, we couldn’t find regular candy canes so we used pink ones. I would recommend sticking with regular. Also, to make up for the pink candy canes we decided to crush up some mint M&M’s on top. But, it’s pretty good the way we made it, so I know it would be fabulous made the right way!

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