Ghoulish Pizza Pot Pie

This Ghoulish Pizza Pot Pie is an easy, tasty dinner to fill you up before heading out for trick-or-treating with the kids. Sausage, pepperoni and a homemade marinara sauce are topped with puff pastry cut with spooky shapes to make it extra fun and festive. Plus, it’s pizza-esque so it will be a big hit

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Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffies

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffies are the best part of the muffin, the tops. Muffin batter is baked like cookies to create moist, dense muffin tops bursting with pumpkin, fall spices and dark chocolate chips. Topped with Halloween sprinkles to give them a spooky, festive vibe these are perfect for your Halloween breakfast or after school

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Hannah’s Mermaid Cake

Hannah’s Mermaid Cake for her 3rd birthday party is my first attempt at a decorated layer cake. Decorated with purple and teal fondant mermaid scales, pearl dust, pearl candies and hand piped coral, this key lime pie cake turned out very successful. Well folks, I bit the bullet and made Hannah’s birthday cake all by myself.

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Colorado Springs Eats

I’m sharing all my favorite Colorado Springs eats with you guys today. Donuts, ice cream, burgers and pizza abound because vacation calories don’t count. Keep reading for the must eats and one fun experience restaurant in Colorado Springs. When I travel, I sometimes research where we’re going to eat as much as I research what we’re going

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Cheesy Chicken Wild Rice Soup

This Cheesy Chicken Wild Rice Soup is creamy, warm and hearty on these cool fall days. Shredded chicken, wild rice and veggies bulk up the lightly cheesy soup base to create the perfect dinner for your family. This weekend we celebrated Hannah’s 3rd birthday with a mermaid pool party at our local YMCA. To say

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Colorado Weekend

Today I’m sharing some of my favorite photos from our Colorado weekend. We hiked, went to the top of Pike’s Peak and cheered on Air Force to victory. It was a super fun trip with just my boys creating memories I will always cherish. After school last Thursday we picked up Noah from school and told him

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Lemon Thyme Roasted Chicken

This Lemon Thyme Roasted Chicken is the perfect Sunday supper this fall. Covered in lemon thyme butter then roasted in a cast iron skillet atop onion and lemon slices, this chicken is chock full of lemony, buttery goodness. Have the cool temperatures and breezes of fall hit you yet? We’re still waiting for them to arrive

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Dijon Bacon Croutons

Homemade croutons are the best but add bacon and Dijon mustard to create these Dijon Bacon Croutons and they become magical. Add crazy flavor and crunch to your favorite salad with these delicious little bread nuggets. “AGAIN with the bacon Meg?” hopefully said no one ever. I really didn’t mean to go overboard on the

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My Trader Joe’s Favorites

Today I’m sharing all my Trader Joe’s favorites and must buy items. From snacks, ok mostly snacks, to staples (hello coffee) and more read on to see what you need to snatch up on your next trip. I love Trader Joe’s. Who doesn’t? Sadly, I don’t get there as often as I would like as

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