Treats for the Munchkins

I am getting a little crazy...two posts in one day!  I made these treats a few weeks ago, took pictures and everything so I could make a blog post about it, and then forgot...so here it goes.  This semester I have been  "student teaching"in a first grade classroom up in Roswell.  I absolutely love first grade!  The kids are so sweet, and their inability to pronounce my new last name makes them even sweeter!  With Halloween rolling around the corner, I figured these kids needed some sugar to prepare for the copious amounts of candy they would get while trick-or-treating.  I found this recipe on Pinterest...my newest obsession thanks to my sweet friend Cara.

So here's what you do...

First, lay out mini pretzel twists on a baking sheet...

Then unwrap 2, 000 Hershey kisses (not really, but it felt like a lot) and put them on top of each pretzel.  I chose to use kisses, hugs, and the caramel-filled kind (what are those called?).  Oh, and I ran out of baking sheets, so I had to use my 9 inch cake pans!

 Bake in the oven on 275 degrees for three minutes.  Remove and place one M & M on the top of each kiss, hug, etc.  Refrigerate immediately until ready to eat!  Here is the finished product...

So I took these to my first graders the friday before Halloween, and they LOVED them.  One of the munchkins came up to me and told me these were the best thing they had EVER eaten.  I got lots of hugs from the others.  Hahaha!! I love winning the approval of seven year olds.

For more awesome recipes...check out Pinterest!

One Year Ago...

A year ago yesterday, Barrett and I got engaged...

I can't believe it has already been a year.  So many amazing things have happened in the past year, and it has been so much fun looking back.  This past weekend, we went to the lake to celebrate what happened one year ago.  We arrived late Friday night and watched movies.  Saturday, we drove up to Lake Burton, ate lunch at this wonderful restaurant, and drove around the whole lake looking at the amazing houses.  Lake Burton got hit by the same tornado last spring that tore through Tuscaloosa.  The damage was unreal!  During our site-seeing, we managed to stop and take one picture (Our only picture from the whole weekend!!! I am so bad about getting out my camera!).  Make that two pictures...I forgot about the other one...

That afternoon, we headed back to Lake Rabun and spent some time out on the boat dock.  We got engaged on the boat dock, so we spent some time trying to remember exactly what happened a year earlier.  Barrett was not as nervous this time :).  That night we went back to the Lake Rabun Hotel Restaurant where we ate the night we got engaged.  We remembered the food being a little better the last time we went, but that might have just been all the excitement!  I don't have a picture from this year, so here is last year's picture...

After dinner, we went home, snuggled up by the fire, and watched the uneventful LSU v. Alabama game.  It was the perfect ending to a perfect day.  Yesterday was back to reality for us...grocery shopping, afternoon naps, Bible study, frozen pizza, and two hours of Shark Tank.  Married life is the best!