Addictive Peanut Butter Granola

Addictive Peanut Butter Granola

2 1/4 c. Old Fashioned Oats

1/2 c. flour

1/2 tsp. baking soda

1 tsp. pure vanilla extract

1/6-1/3 c. vegetable oil

1/3 c. peanut butter, chunky or smooth

1/4 c. brown sugar

Extras:

1/2 c. mini chocolate chips

1 c. mixed peanut butter and chocolate chips

1 c. chocolate chips

     Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Mix together the oats, flour and baking soda in a large mixing bowl.  Stir in the vanilla.

     Add the vegetable oil and peanut butter and mix.  The mixture will be a bit chunky.

Stir in the brown sugar.

     Spread onto a cookie sheet and bake for 18-20 minutes or until lightly browned.  Cool and then add the extras.  Enjoy!  

     Serves: 4-6

P.S. I usually double the recipe.  Also, the recipe says that it will last a week but we're lucky to make it past two days!  We all love it!

hey all! 

  

  I am so looking forward to seeing you all in a couple weeks. These pictures will just help me wait. :)

Great idea, Hayley! I can do pictures! Here's a few from the wedding last weekend.

black and white --hides a multitude of flaws , right?

    

Tim and Addie Mae dancing the night away  ;)

Marcus enjoying the wedding favors





And here's some more just of marcus :) Not brave enough to post pictures of me still in pjs. Maybe that should be next weeks challenge, Elizabeth!

helping pack ;)

and somehow he figured out how to climb up on his chair -- I see some bumps in his future!

                                   Still in pajamas...

                                                                                                                                                                                   Look at it this way: you never have to put on pajamas because its all the same. Whether it's sweat pants, pajama pants or a bathrobe (which i would like to call a sweater dress) if its comfy; its clothes. Now tight jeans, those are not clothes, that's what i would call torture.  
 Shoot, how am i supposed to know which projection has the "poles" in correct proportion?

finally done with school...can you see the smoke rising?

       I'm writing a paper on how our desires should bring us closer to God; not become our god. Really interesting.  well that's what's going on in over here. thanks Hayley, for the reminder!
       Praying for all of you-

Home Sweet Home

                This is what we've been up to this week! Just staying close to home and loving it!

     Ty got his creative juices flowing and made a car out of a box, paper plates and plastic cups, and put it all together by himself (o.k., I did cut a couple of pieces of tape for him)!  
     Kara and Brock have been spending time in the living room while Ty and I do school so we have to give them some creative ideas too.  Kara wanted to "go shopping" and she had to drive so we made a "car" at the end of the couch! Kara and Brock loved it and it made me think of all the hours my sisters and I used to "drive" on our couch!

hey girls!!

C'mon, you guys, random photo challenge: ;)

upload a photo from the last week: 

The kids are writing books. . . 9 pm. . . with marshmallows to fuel their creativity. ;)