Happy Easter!

As one of our pre-Easter activities we decorated Easter cookies using a technique I found here on my friend's blog. The kids loved it and were very intent on doing a good job. They love to paint, so this was perfect.


A mixture of everyone's cookies.

Fred's flower, the rest are mine.

Joseph's cookies!

I had a rough week last week for various health reasons (sick baby, sick mommy etc.). But in spite of, or maybe because of the struggles I've been going through I've felt especially tender about this Easter season and the gratitude I feel for my Savior. May you have a wonderful Easter Sunday. He is Risen!

R7: the CAKE!!!

This year's birthday cake was a rainbow cake.











One little girl asked: how did you make the cake? As I started to explain: you take two boxes of.... when Warren interjected: "She reached up into the sky and grabbed a rainbow and pulled really hard and pulled it down. Then she put it in a big bowl and stirred it up, but the colors didn't mix with each other...."

Actually, the idea came from here from a friend of mine. You can follow her link to another link etc to get to the original idea. When I saw it I knew I wanted to make it.

It's not hard, just a little time consuming. But the guest's reactions to a cake they assumed was only going to be one color on the inside was priceless. It was worth every minute.

Bows, beautiful bows

This summer my sister-in-law got me started on hand-making bows. It is so much fun, especially when you have a little girl who loves to wear them every day.
Here are a few photos of some of the bows I have made. My sister-in-law gave me brief instructions, but then I have just experimented and tried to figure out what works. I just wish they went a little faster.