Table for Eight

A modern take on s'mores. Okay, first things first: YOU HAVE TO MAKE THESE updated S'mores . We got the recipe from a Halloween magazine and tried them Monday. They. Are To. Die. For. And ... so simple to make!  1. Just use graham crackers (chocolate or regular). 2. Add a spoonful of Nutella to the graham. 3. Add a spoonful of marshmallow fluff (aka "heaven"). 4. Smoosh the two grahams together and Ta-Da! 5. Oh, and roll the edges in sprinkles if you like. Our family loved these (so much so, that our teenage boys snuck the ingredients downstairs and ate them as a midnight snack!) Anyway, it's such an easy/fun recipe--I don't know that I will be making traditional s'mores for a long long time. These rock. Okay, and here are some other random things I wanted to share from this past week. (Time feels like it's moving at warp speed! For you, too?) 1. Pumpkin Man. Art with a sense of humor. This welded Metal Man turns into Pumpki...

Papaya, Bam, Ray and the "Oquirrh Mountain Temple Cat." Okay, today has been the most hilarious day--and it's only noon. On our way inside the Temple this morning, we came across a kitty-cat. So ... of course, our kids wanted to see it, and hold it. (Did I mention we had 4 cats at one time in our lives--despite city ordinances banning such cat-chaos? That's another story though.) Okay, my point! The kids were able to pet and hold the kitty-cat; it was so friendly.  And as they were holding him, I wondered, How does such a friendly cat hang around the Temple without being "picked up" or sent to a shelter? And just about the time I was asking the kids that very question, they started reading the tags on his collar. And this is the part that cracked me up: because most pet tags just say the animal's name and a phone number to call when/if  they are lost. But the Temple Kitty's collar was like a paragraph in length! It read: ...