Joshua on August 23rd, 2009

Last week I ran across this very easy recipe for making butter and thought the kids would like it.  I asked Wesley what he thought and he was all for it.  Of course, what goes better with homemade butter than homemade bread?  Nothing, that’s what.  So we made bread, too.
This morning Jillian and I made [...]

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Amber on August 21st, 2009

I knew I wanted to make Jillian’s cake have something to do with ducks and turtles.  She is in love with them right now.  My first idea was to sculpt a 3D cake.  A turtle on the bottom and a duck riding on it’s back.  I knew it was a big undertaking, but I was [...]

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Amber on February 25th, 2009

For Wesley’s bedtime snack tonight I cut up some apple and arranged it in a circle on his plate.  When he saw it he said that I made him a flower.  But that the flower needed a middle.  So I got about 5 chocolate chips and put them into the center.
Wesley had been eating his [...]

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Amber on February 12th, 2009

We decorated cookies with the Eisenbarth family yesterday.
I set up some tables outside, got the pink frosting, sprinkles and cookies and let the kids have at it.
The girls spent the whole time with a cookie in each hand.  They just licked the frosting off.  Then then would stand next to their brothers and eat the [...]

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