Easter

Playing Catch Up

So....I've been a little behind in posting here, so bear with me as I post quite a few things to catch you up on what's been happening around here! Hope you enjoy!

(Do you like the new design? Our good friend Dan did it for me! Thanks a bunch, Dan!!)

The Horse Cake

Lauren and her class have been studying cowboys over the last couple of weeks. Imagine my surprise when last Wednesday morning she comes to me and tells me that I need to make a horse cake for her class. After questioning her further, I found out that her teacher had asked the class if anyone's mom would be able to make a horse cake for the class and my precious daughter gladly volunteered me. Thankfully, I didn't need it Wednesday...but her teacher did want it on Monday. So, Sunday afternoon, I baked the cake while Bobby ran around town looking for the specific candies that we needed to decorate the cake. Then after church Sunday night, I started icing and decorating the horse. Everything was going great, and I had actually finished the horse without too many difficulties. I happened to glance at the cake while I was washing things up and noticed that the braided licorice that I had used for the bridle & reigns was beginning to pop! I had red licorice strips sticking out all over the cake and I knew there was no way that the licorice would make it until Monday morning. So I began to search through the cabinets looking for something..anything..that I could make into reigns & a bridle. I found Lauren's sour gummy worms and flattened them and stuck them on. They worked! And the kids loved the cake, but I did inform Lauren to not volunteer Mommy unless she talked to me first! And this is my church home page.

Hayden's Crocs

Bobby & Lauren were out shopping the other day and found these crocs for Hayden. I have to admit I wasn't too excited about them...he already has several pairs of shoes and why did he need another pair? But when Bobby showed them to Hayden, he was so excited and wanted Bobby to put them on him immediately. Well, let's just say the kid has become attached to these shoes! When he gets up in the morning, he will go and get them and want me to put them on over his footed pajamas...he gets upset when I won't let him take a nap with them on...The other day we actually had lost one (he had stuck it between the cushions of the couch). Did that stop him? NO! The kid walked around with only one croc on!

Hayden & the Books

Hayden has never been a child that is interested in books. Papa & Granny have bought him several books, and Bobby & I have bought him books, but he was always too busy to sit still long enough to look at a book. Most of the time he just chewed on the corners of the pages. Well, just recently, he has started to get books himself and flip through them (on this day they weren't any of his books, but hey, they are books). And he looked so cute sitting in front of the bookshelf looking so studious that I just had to take a couple of pictures.

Paradise Park

We took the kids to Paradise Park (not too far from our house), and they had so much fun! Lauren did a cooking "class", made an art project, played at the water table, had fun in the pretend bank and enjoyed playing outside. Hayden had his face painted by Mommy, wanted nothing to do with the water table (but somehow loves to play in the toilet at home), and spent most of his time opening and closing the cabinet doors of the play kitchen (something he also loves to do at home!).