Sweet Adeleine

I went to summer camp last week and they had a theme chapter of the Bible, Hebrews 11. This chapter talks of the faith of many people in the Bible including Abraham, Noah, Sarah and many others. We were to memorize as many verses of this chapter as possible, which earned points for our team. I did not manage to memorize more than eight verses, but I liked verse one of chapter 11. In English, this says "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." The whole chapter is a great testimony of the faith of these people, but verse one is a great encouragement to keep faith, even if we can't see the current path ahead of us.

I stated in my post yesterday that I would write about a tradition we have for Fourth of July. Our tradition is very similar to many other  people's tradition, with a slight twist. That's right, we make s'mores. But not just any s'mores, we recently started making a recipe called s'mores dip. I thought that I would share this very simple recipe with you. For this recipe, you will need: 1 bag or more chocolate chip morsels marshmallows graham crackers To begin making this, start your oven on its "broil" setting and move the rack to the top notch. Meanwhile, do this:      Once the marshmallows are placed, put the skillet on the top rack of the oven and let it broil for a few minutes. Keep an eye on it though! Marshmallows will brown, then blacken, rather quickly. Pull out and test the chocolate once the marshmallows are the desired color; the chocolate may not have quite melted yet. If this is the case, make sure the oven is turned off, then...

Fourth of July is coming up tomorrow, and I thought I would put out a survey asking what you do each year for family activities, games, food, etc. Come back tomorrow and I'll share with you one of our traditions!

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...

Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created. Revelation 4:11