Crockpot Cheesy Chicken, Bacon Tater-Tot Casserole

You guys gotta try this recipe.  It was pretty good and easy!

1 pkg. (32 oz.) frozen tater-tots
12 pieces of bacon, cooked and broken up  (or more - Mike likes the bacon!)
3-4 raw chicken breasts, cubed
3- 4 cups shredded cheese
1 cup milk
Salt and Pepper

Spray crockpot with non-stick.  Layer half the of the tots on the bottom.  Sprinkle with 1/3 cheese and 1/3 bacon bits.  Then half the chicken on top of that and sprinkle with salt and pepper.  Then other half the tots, 1/3 cheese, 1/3 bacon and the rest of chicken.  Sprinkle with salt and pepper and then top with the remaining  cheese and bacon.  Cook on low 6 hours.

Sorry, don't have a picture!

Carmelitas

I found this on Pinterest and have made it a few times with great success. I made it for a Relief Society lesson and all the sisters thought it was amazing. 

Here is the original website:

32 caramel squares, unwrapped
1/2 cup heavy cream
3/4 cup butter, melted
3/4 cup brown sugar, packed
1 cup flour
1 cup rolled oats
1 teaspoon baking soda
6 ounces semisweet chocolate chips

Combine caramels and cream in a small saucepan over low heat. Stir until completely smooth; set aside. In a separate bowl, combine melted butter, brown sugar, flour, oats, and baking soda. Pat half of the oatmeal mixture into the bottom of an 8x8" pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 10 minutes. Remove pan from oven and sprinkle chocolate chips over crust. Pour caramel mixture over chocolate chips. Crumble remaining oatmeal mixture over caramel. Return to oven and bake an additional 15-20 minutes, until the edges are lightly browned. Remove from oven and cool completely before cutting.
*A stint in the fridge will help them cool off if you're pinched for time. They shouldn't be served cold, but all of that molten caramel takes a long time to cool down. They should be stored and served at room temperature.
**If you want to use homemade or store-bought caramel sauce in place of the caramel/cream mixture, use 1 1/4 cups of sauce.
***To make a 9x13" version, simply double the amounts. 

Watch out! They are addicting!

I made this for Will's kindergarten teacher for a thank you gift on the last day!  I found the idea on Pinterest and it was actually pretty easy when I figured it out.  Here is the link how to http://acreativemomma.blogspot.com/2011/05/crayon-monograms.html

An easy way I found to cut the crayon was to kind of roll the crayon while the knife is on it and then it just snaps clean!

YW New Beginnings! 2012

I serve in the Young Women's in my ward and it is that time of year! New Beginnings! We decided to do a "Carnival Theme"! We didn't want to make this a boring, just sit there and listen activity so we had three different booths. Well, let me start at the beginning. As they entered we had them go into the RS room and we gave them a # as a family 1-3. This decided which booth they would start at. In the RS room we had it all decorated cute (forgot to take a pic :( ) and had all the new Beehives coming in this year sit on the front row. We had opening prayer and theme, then intro from the YW pres, and then we spotlighted each new Beehive. One of the other YW read the spotlight, they each came up and their baby pic was displayed on a big screen! So, cute! I love baby pics! They were each given a bag of valued colored M&M's with a cute handout about Making the Most out of Young Women's! Then we split to the gym, and they each started at a booth depending on the # they got. Each booth was different. The first was a spotlight of our Seniors graduating(we have 10 of them), and wanted to do something special for them! Then second was about Personal Progress, the Values, and the New 2012 Theme "Arise and Stand Forth". Then third was the Secretary and Camp Director. The Secretary went over calendar events and things happening this coming year. And the Camp Director went over camp stuff, had parents fill out forms, and answer any questions they had, because for the first time in like 50 years our stake is going somewhere different than where they have always gone before. So, as you can imagine there were questions! ;) We rotated about every 15 min with a ringing of a bell! For the refreshments at each station they had something for them to munch on. #1 had popcorn, #2 had Churros (ones from Costco, cut in half!), and #3 had cotton candy. And also for fun in the middle of the gym we had a candy table with all different kinds of candy with little bags that they could fill. This Table was a hit!!! The parents and the girls loved this part! We had to pull them away after each rotation! And water was on this table too! Also, to add to the fun we had a jar filled with candy at each booth, and had them guess how many candies were inside. The winner got to take the jar home! It was a great night! We had lots of compliments on it, and how fun it was!

The Candy table before the fun started!

The PP, values and theme table! They also had a fun game to help them talk about all the stuff!

The Senior Spotlight Booth!

Let the fun begin!!!

The candy table! I manged to get one last pic just before the chaos began here!!! It was awesome! We had to keep refilling all the jars in between the rotations!

Yeah!! I finally did it!

This is a test to make sure it works!