eyeballs

One of my favorite candies of all-time-Christmas-goody-plates are Buckeyes.  Mmmmm.  Classic combination of creamy peanut butter and chocolate.  Home made taste, and bite size goodness that one cannot pass up.  Even my Trenters loves 'em, and he doesn't even care for peanut butter.  No...I can't get him to eat a reese's peanut butter cup, but I can't stop him from eating these morsels of yumminess! :)   

Rewind...I still remember standing on a chair next to the stove (in the little kitchen, before we remodeled everything) while my mom was melting the chocolate.  With toothpick in hand, she started dipping them.  I tried once, but I accidentally dropped the buckeye all the way in, so I got banned from dipping.  I still managed to sneak a few of the finished product while she was busy trying not to drop them all the way in herself.  Ahhh, good memories...Moving forward again...

Aleana helped me roll it into balls, and she and Trent helped me dip them.  Trent lost interest rather quickly, but that was only after he realized that "eyeballs" as he kept calling them, do not require sprinkles.  So I put him to work dipping and sprinkling pretzels instead.

(in every picture that was taken, Trent has his finger in his mouth.  He only thought he was sneaking some chocolate-ty goodness when we weren't looking.  Also pay close attention to the corner of Aleana's mouth.  Don't let that smile fool you.  She's just as guilty!  Snitchers!)

And that's one thing off the "to-do-list".  Now on to sewing...

Until then...here's a pic of Aleana.  We are so proud of her.  She is a good little athlete.  Her basketball season ended yesterday.  

  

(When I get time, I will come back and rotate this pic)