The Best Way to Spend a Rainy Day...

I've just taught my son a very important lesson-how to lick the goodness off the mixer! :) Billy and I are making cookies for youth group tonight and we're having a great time! Although I haven't tasted one yet, they look and smell delicious-another succesful cookie recipe from Cookies Galore! They are made with lots of lemon and honey and have a delicious (okay, maybe I licked my fingers a little)cream filling. YUM!

New Friends

At a bachelorette party on Friday night, along with my two best friends, I became aquainted with two new friends that I definitely would like to spend more time with...Hannah, who hosted the party and did an AMAZING job creating a tea party style meal consisting of delicious homemade scones, lots of fresh fruit, homemade cream (YUM!), cucumber and chicken salad tea sandwiches, and of course lots of tea. Everything was just incredible and we had such a wonderful time laughing and visiting. My other new friend? The mocha chocolate chip cookies that were also included in our menu...oh my goodness! Apparently, (being the genius that she is) Hannah just made them up! She says she doesn't have an actually recipe, but basically you make follow the same recipe you would for regular chocolate chip cookies, but you add shredded coconut, coconut extract and that new instant coffee from starbucks (brainfart-can't remember what it's called...) and those are the cookies. Seriously, the flavor in those bad boys is unbelievable! The coconut and the coffee flavor-absoloute heaven in a cookie! I can't wait to try making them. In the meantime, I think one of them might have accidentally snuck out of Hannah's kitchen and into mine...