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Lego Minifigure Holiday Cards

December 12, 2013 by Stephanie Leave a Comment

This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of LEGO for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine.

I don’t know about you, but we live with a 6 and a half (never forget the half) year-old boy who is obsessed with LEGOS. They are always at the top of his Christmas list. Last year Nicholas’ favorite gift was the LEGO train he got from my dad. Guess what he asked Santa for this year? Another LEGO train. Sigh.

So when I got the opportunity to work with LEGO on their new Minifigure postcard website, I knew I had to say yes. It is super easy (and free!) to create these adorable personal LEGO postcards of your family. Just go to the website and click “get started.” You can easily add each member of your family and personalize their face, hair, clothes, even skin color.

If you are like us and never got around to taking that perfect Christmas card photo, emailing these to friends and family could be a fun and affordable alternative.

It was very easy to create and Nick was super excited to see himself as a minifigure. I love the gap in the front teeth that matches his real-life gap while his teeth grow in! I wouldn’t mind if my hair looked that nice every day either.

I chose to put our family inside by the fire. (Yes, it took me a minute to realize we chose the option with the Kwanza candles. Oops. There is a similar scene with Christmas stockings that we can choose next time if we want.) There are a bunch of other scene selections and holiday greetings to pick from too, from the office to a horse ranch. I’m sure you can find exactly the right fit for your family.

Click here to create your LEGO Minifigure Family.

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Snow Day

December 9, 2013 by Stephanie Leave a Comment

Nicholas’ school district closed today for the very first snow day of the year. Abby’s preschool was open, but only for an hour and a half, so I decided to just keep her home, rather than chance the icy roads.

Our grass seed hasn’t come up yet, so there is a whole lot of mud hiding under this snow and our driveway is a solid sheet of ice. Since we can’t play outside, we brought the snow into the house.

We may or may not have already eaten all of those cookies we made yesterday.

Happy Snow Day!

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Potato Chip Cookies (egg-free)

December 8, 2013 by Stephanie 4 Comments

The cookie recipes continue this week.

I originally got this particular recipe for potato chip cookies out of my grandmother’s church cookbook, ages ago.

Once upon a time, when I was a little girl, I would make them with my Mommom when I slept over at her house. She would only make half the recipe and we would bake them right in the toaster oven on her counter. Then when I was in college (We don’t even have to talk about how that was now 10+ years ago), I was a nanny for a little boy who had some food allergies. Eggs were one of the things he couldn’t eat, so sometimes we would make these cookies together, since this is an egg-free recipe.

No eggs also means that it is safe to eat the raw cookie dough!

I made them with my own kids over the weekend. I have yet to meet a child who doesn’t love making these cookies. I chalk it up to the crushed potato chips that are part of the recipe.

Potato Chip Cookies:

2 sticks of softened butter

1 cup of confectioner’s sugar + extra for dusting

1 tsp pure vanilla extract

1 cup crushed potato chip crumbs

1 and a half cups of flour

(We also used 1/2 cup of white chocolate chips this time, which is totally optional)

Yield: 2 dozen