We won!

My favorite website had a Madagascar recipe contest. The rules said you had to use General Mills products and try to stick to the theme. The winner got reserved seats for four people to see Madagascar 2 today - a week or so before the general public. Me and the girls decided to enter and we came up with "Alex Peanut Butter Cookies."

Here was the recipe:

1 pouch Betty Crocker peanut butter cookie mix

1 C. crushed Chex (we used honey nut)

handful of chocolate chips

Betty Crocker decorator icing (black or brown)

Directions: Make cookie dough according to package directions. When forming the dough into balls before cooking cover just the edges in crushed Chex cereal. Bake as directed. Before cookies cool put two chocolate chips into the warm cookies to create eyes. After they cool, add a nose and "lion mouth" with decorator icing. They look like Alex the lion from the movie - mane and all.

Here was our finished product:

And guess what? We won! (Okay, Okay... so not many entered, but we still will count this as a small victory!) We got up early this morning and made it to the showing by 10. When we got there we got to skip the line and go to special reserved seats. They even gave the girls Apple Dippers from McDonalds for the show. It was in IMAX and we sat in the balcony - 3rd row and dead center. The seats were perfect and the movie was hilarious. I think we decided that we like it better than the first one! Here are the girls waiting for it to start, aren't they cute?

I also have to say, they were very well behaved. We didn't have to leave once, and Ky even clapped when it was over. I want to say thanks to PYP for holding the contest and for all you do! If anyone hasn't been there - I have a link on the right side of this page. It is a great place to learn about saving money, and the people are an incredible family of friends.