Five for Friday and an Easy Chocolate Dessert!

I slept in this morning and have lots on my plate today, but I wanted to do a Five For Friday post sooooo I am cheating a bit!  I have chosen 5 posts from my blog that I like for one reason or another...If you want to laugh, be inspired, reminisce about a favorite pet or just celebrate this wonderful life we live check them out!  Sadly my technical skills have gotten me nowhere this morning so I can not seem to give you an easy way to get to these posts other than clicking on the appropriate month in the archives and then scrolling down to the title and clicking...Nicole is at work (and I've already used up my weekly tokens with her for blog disaster help), Chelsea is in the middle of the worst week of college life imaginable...first exam of the semester in all five classes began yesterday. So, unless I want to ask her a question about...Physical Chemistry, Biochemistry, Immunology, Comparative Anatomy, or Genomic Biology, I kind of need to leave her alone until the end of next week!! Katelyn...well she is the youngest and has watched her sisters figure everything out for me in the world of technology...smart she is, she has stayed away from blog stuff and most picture from the camera to computer to blog situations! Before you think "well that is not nice..." let me just say this...she has set up every one of my new cell phones and tells me when I need to add an app...Yes...I am challenged!

So here is the list of Five For Friday posts that you can check out...

1. Driver's License Fun  (March 16, 2010)
2. Happy Birthday to My Favorite Guy (March 25, 2010)
3. Here It Is, The Story of Barcelona (July 20, 2010)
4. Wills (January 3, 2011)
5. Inspired By (June 14, 2011)

Okay, and here is a little treat for your weekend...
Rich did a cookout on a job site for lunch today and I helped out by making this super-easy, crowd-pleasing, calorie-loaded dessert (recipe courtesy of my friend JM who made it way back in the day when I taught her daughter...3rd grade!!).

Here is the recipe...

In a 9 x 11 pan place 12 unwrapped ice cream sandwiches

Pour over top~ hot fudge sauce (slightly heated to pour) and caramel sauce

Spread over that one-8 ounce tub of Cool Whip

Sprinkle mini chocolate bits over top (Hershey)

cover and freeze overnight

Now for three pans of this dessert I used 36 ice cream sandwiches, 2 large jars of hot fudge sauce, 11/2 jars of caramel sauce, 24 ounces of Cool Whip, and one container of mini chocolate bits...in other words you kinda eyeball some of it!!  There are probably lots of versions of this recipe and I am sure every one is good sweet eating!!  Enjoy :) 

A Random Morning of Picture Frames, Turtle Talk, and I SPY GAMES!

I was wandering through the house this morning and this stopped me in my tracks....

I love this picture frame...found in Rosemary Beach, FL.  I bought it thinking it looks beachy and would be great at Carillon, But...when I got home with it I looked at it and decided its new home would be my bible study/writing table (formerly known as Rich's puzzle table).  I immediately moved the candy dish...which I don't need to be staring at, even though the only candy left in it is candy I don't like to eat...yep...it was a perfect fit!!  So this morning I noticed that it still has the original picture in it!  Who is that sweet little boy?  If he is going to live in my house, he must have a story...And then I started thinking...is this a job???  Are there people out there who's resumes say...picture frame model?  How would it feel to walk into a Hobby Lobby and see your face smiling back at you from dozens of different frames?  Do they get a lifetime supply of picture frames as part of their compensation package? 

I will never know the answers to these perplexing questions...but I am pretty certain that I could be doing something better with my mind and my time this morning...like possibly getting back upstairs to Kate's room and finishing the job I started 2 days ago!!

My life lately feels like an I SPY picture book!

 It is fun to go down memory lane and think back on the days when this guy was Katelyn's hero...(no worries Kate...not all of this stuff is in the get rid of pile...and good news, I've left all of the clothes for you to go through :)

Back to the salt minds and I leave you with this...slow and steady wins the race...Gabby barked at the dining room window for a solid half hour as this guy slowly made his way across the driveway!! 

Riveting stuff I know...but this is my life...today!