Sweet Adeleine

Philippians 4:4 Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice. Philippians 4:4

One of my favorite desserts that we rarely eat is cheesecake, especially if that cheesecake is chocolate. Generally, we limit how often we eat cheesecake because the excessive amounts of cream cheese gets expensive, but today I have a recipe that is a little better on your budget than normal cheesecake. I love this recipe because it is cheesecake and chocolate chip cookie combined, yum! Also, it is slightly cheaper than normal cheesecake because it has less cream cheese and no other expensive ingredients. Here is the list of ingredients you will need. For the cookie part 2 1/4 cup all purpose flour 1 teaspoon baking soda 3/4 cup granulated sugar 3/4 cup packed brown sugar 1 cup melted margarine or butter 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 2 eggs 12 ounces chocolate chip morsels (your choice on flavor ie. semi-sweet, milk, etc.) For the cheesecake 16 ounces cream cheese, softened 2 eggs 1 cup sugar If you don't want to make your cookie dough, the recipe also states t

So, we recently went on my senior trip to Corpus Christi. We had four main activities planned: horse riding, visit a turtle rescue, the U.S.S. Lexington, and the Texas State aquarium. My souvenirs from the trip. Click to enlarge. The first day we went to a local horse riding stable (on South Padre Island) and got a two hour ride. Even the trip to the stables was interesting, as you can see from the pictures below. Click to enlarge. While waiting for the horses to be fed and saddled, we met the other inhabitants of the stable/ petting zoo. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge. While we were in the area we visited a local turtle rescue, which had large pools and tanks filled with different sea turtles. The photos of the turtles did not turn out, but you can see the nice stone turtle statuette I bought in the souvenir photo above. The horse stable was, unfortunately, not close to all the other activities, (being on South Padre Island), so after we were done in the area, we