Marshmallow Fondant

Buzz LightYear Spaceship

This is my very first attempt at making a birthday cake that was more than a square boxed cake with frosting from a can....and I have to say I am very happy with how it came out. In Daniel's words : " Wow this came out really good-usually things we try to make don't turn out looking anything like what we planned" :) Tavin Loved his cake and when he saw it he yelled: "MY SPECIAL CAKE!" His smile and joy made all the work of making the cake worth it.

My good friend Catherine showed me how to make marshmallow fondant-a lot easier than I thought it would be-and a lot of fun-kind of like edible play-doh-very sugary play-doh-the recipe consists of a whole bag of mini marshmallows and a 2 lb bag of confectionery sugar.

Lets just say it is very yummy cake! More on Tavin's Birthday fun to come...

At It Again!

My little photographer was at it again-he got a hold of my camera and took about 30 pictures of random objects and mystery items:) I was surprised at how good some of the pictures actually came out! And I like the angle on some of these shots-we can get a feel for how things look through his eyes and at his height. To me-a proud mommy-this is art at its finest:)

P.S. We are thinking of getting him a LeapFrog Camera-so he can take his very own pictures-then I won't have to go through and sort/delete a million on mine. I could here him in the living room trying to get Katie to pose for him:) The one of her that I posted was about as posed as she got. Evidently she wanted a try at the camera too.

Deep Sense Of Joy

My children bring me such a deep sense of joy that I cannot find in or through any other thing or person on this earth. Just watching the smile on Katie's face as she slid down the slide was priceless to me. And like children, we need to find happiness in the simple things-even something as small and insignificant as a slide....

Look What I Found in My Cupboard!

You never know where you might find Katie these days-she gets around that is for sure. This particular instance I had just finished cleaning and organizing the bathroom-including under the sink. About 10 minutes later, we could hear noises coming from the bathroom but when we went to see what was going on, all we found was a pile of all our cleaning supplies spread out all over the bathroom floor. No Katie...well at least until we saw her poke her head out from the cupboard:) Time to child proof I guess!

P.S. The very next day I found her in one of the kitchen cabinets-the one with all the Tupperware-the Tupperware was in a pile on the floor and she was squeaking from inside the cupboard. She didn't like this one as much though because she couldn't sit up straight!

P.P.S. Side note: Katie was playing in the bath tub the other day and I went to get her diaper from the bedroom...when I got back, she had one leg up on the side of the tub like she was trying to get out-I wondered why she didn't want to play anymore until I happened to glance in the water to see little floaties-yep she had pooped big time! It took an extra 40 minutes to get the bath tub cleaned out, disinfected, and then refilled and Katie washed! At least she was smart enough to know that she wanted to get out fast after pooping-she wanted nothing to do with it!

Quote of the Week

Tavin: Mom my tummy hurts!
Mom:It does! What is wrong?
Tavin: It needs some....cookies (said this very non-chalantly)
Mom: (getting it now-relieved that it wasn't a stomache ache) Oh you think it needs cookies do you! :)
Dan-laughing goes and gets a pack from the back and we all eat some oreo cakesters
About 30 min. later...
Tavin: mom...my tummy hurts again
Mom: (a little hesitant) it does?
Tavin: yes it needs....another cookie:)

This kid is smart! Don't worry I didn't give in the second time-but it sure made our night:)

Buzz and a Bee

We loved Celebrating Halloween this year-despite the yucky weather. Tavin is finally getting the idea of trick or treating and Candy-it was so fun taking him to the doors and hearing him say trick or treat. He loved all the attention he got from admiring candy-hander-outers and jumping in the rain puddles. He actually held out a lot longer than I expected-every time I asked him if he wanted to go in, he would say: "No I want to get more Candy!"

At one house he even went back for more candy-asking the Lady if he could get one for his mommy-He looks out for me:)

Katie girl liked the candy part and would bring anyone who was sitting around her a bag or bar to open-as you can imagine-the diapers were such a joy to clean the next day!

Carving Flames and A Monsterous Fellow!

Tavin's Pumpkin

Dan and Kendra's Pumpkin

Another one of out Halloween Activities was carving pumpkins! We got Tavin a "Mr. potato head" Halloween kit so he could actually make a face-he is a little to young for the carving part-although he wanted to help mommy and daddy carve theirs! Dan and I decided on a flame jacko-lantern face. I have to say, both came out very Halloweeny:)

Practice Run

Monster Eyes-cute and easy idea to store away for a future year

Buzz Light Year, The Easter Bunny, and a horse-WOW what a crowd

Buzz Light Year Meets Ms. Horse

This is one of my girls that I teach on Sundays-her name is Katie and she was a bee too!

The picture outside our house!

We had our church Trunk or Treat on Tuesday night-inside due to SNOW (yes I did say snow) the kids had a blast and practiced for the big Halloween night....getting the candy and EATING it!

Halloween Festivities

Tavin's cookies

Mckenna's cookies

We started off Halloween week by making LOTS (And I mean LOTS!) of yummy sugar cookies with our neighbors and Dan's sister Deedra (she came to visit us while she was getting things set to go to school here in January-we are very excited to have her close!) The kids got to decorate a few cookies on their own-note the sugar sprinkles piled as high as it could go! Can we say "Sugar High" but they had fun.