Snickerdoodle Sunday My Top 5 picks for June

It has been a great month for the Snickerdoodle Sunday. Every week this party gets bigger and bigger.        
For the Fourth of July weekend we have decided to place the Snickerdoodle Sunday on a holiday break. Since we are on a break we decided to share with you each of our top 5 picks for the month of June.
It was so hard to pick 5 of my most favorite. I love everything that everyone links up. I spend many hours going to each link every week checking out everyone's favorites. Finally after many hours of thinking about it and going back and forth from the last four parties. I finally have came up with my top 5 picks. Don't forget if your post has been featured, grab the button below and display it proudly!!! You deserve it.

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With the Fourth of July being this weekend. I have found myself pinning lots of fourth of July pins. Want to see what I have been pinning to my fourth of July board on Pinterest? (Click Here). While you are there, just go ahead and hit the follow button, so you don't miss anything I pin. I just could not help myself to drool over the the 4th of July Bark that Parrish from the Life with the Crust Cut off linked up. I love peppermint bark at Christmas time. So why not try adding red and blue sprinkles and M&M's for a Fourth of July special treat. 

4th of July Bark

What child would not like eating chocolate chip cookies that look like this? What a great way to end the day eating a smiling Chocolate Chip cookie or an Oreo Madness and drinking a big glass of milk.
                                                      Smiley face chocolate chip cookies

Oreo Madness 

I love hanging wreaths on my front door. I think a celebration balloon wreath is so cool. You can hang this wreath for the whole birthday month or just the day.

                                                            Celebration Balloon Wreath


It was hard picking out my last favorite. I had to go with the initial that was a personalized Initial with wine corks, burlap and Jute. I have seen many things made with wine corks. I am not a drinker so I am wondering if I could just buy some wine corks somewhere, so I could make my family initial.

                                          Personalized Initial with Wine Corks, Burlap and Jute

I can not stress how much I love everyone's posts. Don't forget to swing by 2 Crochet Hooks and Meatloaf and Melodrama and check out their top five picks. Please let your friends know about the Snickerdoodle Sunday and keep posting. Thank you all. I hope everyone has a safe and fun Fourth of July if you are in the States. If you are not in the States have a wonderful weekend too.

Snickerdoodle Sunday

Hello everyone! Thanks for stopping in to party with us at Snickerdoodle Sunday!! We had over 100 link ups last week! You guys are so AWESOME!! So much creativity and inspiration shared!!

Everyone seemed to love the new hours so we will continue opening at 5pm ET on Saturday and closing at 8am ET on Tuesday. Thanks everyone for letting us know your preference! Please note there will not be a party next weekend for the holiday but we will be posting our June Favs! Hope everyone has a happy 4th!

We are so happy to have everyone here, you are all invited to kick back, enjoy the party and help yourselves to some cookies!

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Cookies and snacks provided by your fab hostesses!

Kristina & Millie @ 2CrochetHooks, Dee @ Meatloaf and Melodrama, Felicia @ Nifty Thrifty Family

Just a reminder of what we are doing here: Each week we will feature one special blogger, their blog and some of their posts. That featured blogger then has the option of co-hosting with us the next week and picking the best post!

Each month we will also do a round up of the most viewed/hostesses fav links so we all get some extra exposure. Make sure you follow all the hostesses so you can check if you are featured!

This weeks special co-host is (drum roll):

Paris from My Big Fat Happy Life! Congrats Paris! Our Special co-host last week, Barb at alifeinbalance.net picked Paris' post on Ice Cube Painting as her fav!

 

A bit about Paris and her Big Fat Happy Life:

Hello! My name is Paris Anderson. I love to travel and scrapbook. I enjoy spending time with my family, especially my 4 year old daughter while she learns through play.

I started my blog to document our everyday life and the fun that we have along the way!

Follow her here: Blog/Pin/Twitter/FB/Instagram/G+

Some other awesome posts to check out:

Gardening with a Toddler / Sidewalk Painting with Water Guns / Skinny Hot Chocolate Ice Cream

Here's your super special cookie! Everyone stop by, say congrats and check out all the fun and excitement going on at Mybigfathappylife.com!

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Just a few Rules

**Please DO NOT link and run…Yes we mean YOU….please visit, comment and pin on a few of the blogs that are sharing here today. Visit at least as many posts as you linked up! This is a great way to get people to visit you and everyone’s blogs will benefit!

• Remember to Follow Your hostesses- 2 Crochet Hooks, Nifty Thrifty Family, Meatloaf and Melodrama and alifeinbalance.net
• Take a second to comment below - it's the nice thing to do!
• Link to your post and not to your blog home page
• Linkback on your post ( optional, but always appreciated)
• No adult content blogs, Family Friendly posts – old or new
• Please no more than 3 links to your blog
• No links directly to your shops or websites selling things/services please! Reviews w/affiliate links are ok!
• Yes you can link giveaways & link parties (add them to our Party page!)
• Share the hop via your social media pretty please!

• Adding your link to this blog hop gives the hostesses permission to share your posts and pictures via social media and as features on Snickerdoodle Sunday- All features will be pinned to our Pinterest boards and will be linked back to the original source.

Time to get your Groove on baby! Let's boogie woogie woogie!



Soda Can Chicken with guest blogger Donna Mott

Today I am excited to have Donna Mott as my guest here on the blog today. Donna Mott is known as the “Blendermom” thrown in the mix of a blended family. On her blog www.blendermom.me which was just recently voted the 3rd top step parenting blog of 2014 on www.voiceboks.com She loves sharing her faith, her joys, and her trials of being both a biomom and stepmom. She has also written stepfamily and parenting posts for www.familyfusioncommunity.com and www.upliftingfamilies.com. Today we are blessed to have her share with us, one of her families favorite grilled chicken recipe. 

 Soda Can Chicken Finding a great recipe that will feed my family of 5 can sometimes be difficult. Because the grocery store runs great specials on whole chickens, I have tried numerous different recipes and they all seem to come out the same with the outside skin of the chicken being flavorful and the meat tasting somewhat bland. That is until I found soda can chicken. This is a family favorite and it is a variation of the original beer can chicken grilling recipe.

 Ingredients:
5-7 lb whole chicken
1 can of soda (we love to use Pepsi but any will do)
Vinegar
1 whole lemon
Olive Oil (~2 Tbsp)
Sea Salt Favorite Seasoning (I use cajun seasoning or asian seasoning.) Enough to cover chicken + 1 tsp.

 First off you will need a large bowl or the kitchen sink filled with water. Take a 5-7 lb whole chicken (cleaned out, contents inside removed) and place into the water. Then pour a little vinegar in the water. (I use ~1 cup of white vinegar) Let the chicken soak in the water anywhere from half an hour up to 2 hours. Discard the water and rinse the chicken inside and out and pat dry. Cut the lemon in half and squeeze the half and rub all over the chicken inside and out. Use the other half of lemon if necessary to cover the entire chicken. Next rub the entire chicken inside and out with olive oil. Last, sprinkle the entire chicken inside and out with seasoning making sure to coat the outside well. Sprinkle salt over the chicken inside and out as well to taste.
Now we are ready for the fun! Open the soda and pour out 1/3 cup. Cut a hole on each side of the opening in the top of the can to make 2 small holes. Take a teaspoon of seasoning and pour it into the soda can, but you may want to do this over the sink because it will foam up. Next, insert the soda can into the cavity of the chicken and fold the wings in. Carefully place the chicken on the grill so that it is sitting upright, balanced on the can like a tripod. Grill the chicken for 1-1.5 hours on low to medium low or until the meat thermometer shows 160 degrees in the thickest part of the chicken.

Carefully remove the chicken from the can, slice, and serve.

Donna loves this recipe because any flavor of soda and seasoning can be modified to your family's taste and preferences.

I can't wait to fire up my grill and try this recipe. It sounds so delicious. Thank you so much Donna for sharing one of your families favorite grill recipes. Please swing by the Blendermom's site and let her know how you like her recipe.
Do you have a favorite recipe? Would you like to share it with us? If you would like to be a guest blogger please contact me thru email or in comments.


Check out some of these other great grill recipes:
Grilled Salmon
Coconut Grilled Chicken Kabobs