Weekend Coffee Cake

TGIF!!!!
Here's an easy to throw together cake to go with your coffee as you linger over the paper in your PJ's this weekend!!!!

Quick and Easy Coffee Cake

2 cups Bisquick mix
2/3 cup of milk
2 Tbsp. sugar
1 egg

Topping:
1/3 cup Bisquick
1/3 cup packed light brown sugar
1/2 Tsp. cinnamon
2 Tbsp. cold butter/ margarine

Mix cake ingredients together and pour into greased 9-inch round pan. In separate bowl, mix topping ingredients until crumbly (get your hands in there!) Sprinkle topping over cake. Bake at 375 for 18-22 minutes, until golden brown. Best served warm!

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Heavenly Coconut Cake

1 package yellow or white cake mix, prepared as directed on package
1 can sweetened condensed milk
1 small can coconut milk
1 tub whipped topping (Cool Whip)
1 bag coconut, flaked
1 wooden spoon (for pokin' !)

Bake cake in 13x9 pan. Remove from oven, and while still hot, poke holes all over the top with handle of wooden spoon. Pour evenly over cake sweetened condensed milk. Wait a moment for the cake to soak up some of the liquid. Now pour coconut milk evenly over top of cake (you may decide to use only 1/2 of a can, so eyeball it.) Cover cake and place in fridge for one hour. Remove from fridge and "frost" cake with whipped topping. Sprinkle evenly with flaked coconut, pressing into whipped topping. ENJOY!

Devilishly Delicious Chocolate Cake

1 box chocolate cake mix, prepared as directed on package
1 can sweetened condensed milk
1 jar caramel ice cream topping
1 tub whipped topping (Cool Whip)
6 Skor or Heath candy bars, chopped
1 wooden spoon (for pokin' !)

Bake cake in 13x9 pan. Remove from oven, and while still hot, poke holes all over the top with handle of wooden spoon. Pour evenly over cake sweetened condensed milk. Wait a moment for the cake to soak up some of the liquid. Now pour caramel evenly over top of cake. Cover cake and place in fridge for one hour. Remove from fridge and "frost" cake with whipped topping. Sprinkle evenly with candy bar chunks. ENJOY!

Hooray for snow!

We had our first snow of 2009 this week. Isn't it funny how it takes 30 minutes to get kids into their snow gear, and then after 10 minutes outside they are ready to go inside again? Oh well!!! We are just thankful to have seen some snow this winter!

Fear not......

I will admit, I started off this afternoon pretty stressed. Fearful even. But first let me say that this morning was great! The kids were at school, so Shane and I got to go running together...something we have not done in YEARS. But afternoon brought reality crashing back on me. Primarily, that I had taken too much time off of work and now I am woefully behind, which creates a major financial strain on us. But the pity party that I wanted to throw was not going to put cash in my bank account, much less pay the tuition bill that's due, so that meant it was time to get it together! I love the verse from Ephesians 3:20, "For God can do exceedingly, abundantly MORE than I can ever hope, dream, or imagine." I don't have a lot of scripture memorized, but I cling to that one a lot because I am often stressed out and fearful of what lies ahead. But then I think, is this bigger than my God? No way!!! He can do ANYthing!!! Including a *huge* blessing of my efforts this evening "at work." Please let me be a good steward of the blessings He has given me tonight, and help me to remember to Fear Not, because my God is so big, so strong and so mighty, there's nothing my God cannot do! :)

Daniel Fast begins...

Today begins my 21-day fast. I am entering into this fast for a couple of reasons. First, my body needs to be purged of the accumulation of toxins from too much holiday indulgence. Secondly and more importantly, it will clear my mind of all that is keeping me spiritually unhealthy, and from all that is keeping my heart from what God has planned for me for 2009.

I hope to complete this journey both physically and spiritually renewed by January 23rd.

If you are reading this, please pray for me to have the endurance to stay the path and for Him to draw me in closer during this time so that I may more clearly hear His voice in my life.

And so it begins with this simple prayer: Lord, please guide me on this 21 day journey. Help me to battle the daily temptations to break the fast for earthly pleasures. Renew me in mind, body, and spirit so that I may know you better. In Jesus name, Amen.

Sometimes it is just good to be silly together...we recently had our pictures taken by our favorite portrait photographer, www.catherinekeene.com. They were all so good, we're having trouble deciding! But this one was just fun, so we thought we'd share.

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving! We are thankful for our family, our health, our earthly blessings, and for friends.

God Bless!