This is the suitcase I bought at the garage sale!

I’m looking for a child under 1 yr old to photograph in it!  If you know someone send me an email (dawn@ashotoflife.ca) or give me a call 519-285-5652

Once each year we attend a garage sale…It’s huge and close to the farm!  This year we bought a bunch of stuff…

2 thermos’

2 books for the kids

1 photography prop (tomorrow’s post)

1 huge piece of cork board (for the barn)

and THIS…Tools for Ghouls!  I couldn’t pass it up…Eric’s growing pumpkins at the farm for the fall; he was SO thrilled and can’t wait to use his new tools (for ghouls)!!

It might seem silly; but I am over joyed that Trident has changed their packaging!  I love love love the new design!

After a nightmare nap time (climbing out of crib) I decided to set up Jeremy’s Big Boy Bed!  Fun times!  He stayed in it tonight & went straight to sleep…but I will say that it was 9:15 when he went to bed and that probably has something to do with it!  We shall see what tomorrow brings!

You are certainly getting a more than you asked for this week.  3 recipes in one!

Magic Squares: (as I prepared them)

1/2 cup butter or margarine, melted

1 1/2 cups graham cracker crumbs

1 can Eagle Brand milk

1 cup chocolate chips

1 cup skor chips

1 cup peanuts

1 cup sliced almonds

Heat oven to 350F.  Coat 13×9 baking dish (I lined it with parchment paper)

Combine graham cracker crumbs and butter.  Press into bottom of prepared pan.  Pour Eagle Brand evenly over crumb mixture.  Mix remaining ingredients together in a separate bowl and spread evenly on top.

Bake 25 minutes or until lightly brown.  Cool.  Cut and serve at room temp.

This is a link to the recipe I started with.

Eagle Brand is really the magic ingredient.  Its a pretty powerful statement to have written on the can, but it’s so true!
I have a recipe (thanks to Alice) to make your own.  I have not yet tried it here it goes:

1 cup dry skim milk powder

2/3 cup sugar

1/3 cup boiling water

3 tbsps butter melted

Combine all ingredients in a blender until smooth.  Use immediately or refrigerate.

The crafty Melanie packed along tshirt paint and white shirts for all the kids!  What a cute idea!

Eric just covered his in a mess of mixing the colours…it’s still drying!

Both my kids in a picture, sitting together and SMILING…real smiles….ah, my dream has come true!!

(too bad they are covered in cuts, bruised, bites and have dirty camping clothes on- oh well, they are still cute!!!)

YUMMY!!

Mom made these with Eric a couple weeks ago when he stayed there overnight.  He hasn’t stopped talking about it, so I figured we better take  s’more along for him to enjoy!

Finger lickin’ good…Or you have to lick your fingers cause the stuff is EVERYWHERE…baths before bed!!!

I have great memories of camping from when I was growing up!

Everything from the typical campfires (which my dad still has on any given day at his house) to something unique like biking around with a wagon to pick up firewood on rainy days.  There was always a bench full of goodies and plenty of beach time!  It was tonnes of fun; we met alot of fun people that we would chum with year after year.

One thing we did with out fail was tell Dad that the bikes fell off the back of the camper…I’m not sure how this all started but EVERY camping trip we would YELL “DAD, THE BIKES FELL OFF-THEY ARE ON THE HIGHWAY”…and we’d all break out laughing…

The fun stuff…family memories!