Easter

I absolutely love having my kids decorated eggs My husband says I go over board (I wanted to do a full five dozen ) So I settled with only three dozen they girls each get their own dozen ;) I know that is a lot of boiled eggs but we like them so it is all good. I love the mess that comes with it dyeing eggs, the kids always have fun dipping and dipping and re-dipping and then maybe dipping again. ;) They get to be creative and messy all at once. It is great, and an easy clean up when we are done which makes the best kind of mess!



 
           

A Happy First Birthday!

We made it through the year and now my baby is officially one. We celebrated with our family and I actually made some pretty amazing cupcakes thanks to my sisters frosting recipe.

Frosting and I have a sad history. When Hannah my oldest turned one all I wanted to do was make her the best cake a baby could have and so I tried and failed  miserably to the point when my husband came home and found me crying over the frosting he took me to Wal-Mart to buy a can of frosting, which as we are picking it out he proceeds to tell me that he doesn't understand why I tried to make frosting in the first place when it would have just been better to buy some or better yet just buy a cake. I was 5 months pregnant with number two and very emotional so here we are down the baking isle and I am still crying about the frosting and ruining two cakes already. All I wanted was the perfect homemade cake for my babies first birthday. People gave us weird looks and some gave my husband very dirty looks as they passed us. It was one of things that I remember now with each of my kids first birthdays and am glad to say that now I can make frosting and I don't ruin the birthday cakes any more. :)

Bethany's Frosting:
6TB flour
1 cup of milk

Mix in a sauce pan over med heat until thick like brownie batter.
Let cool to room temp.

1 cup real butter
1 cup sugar
1 tsp flavoring (I did 1/2 vanilla and 1/2 almond)

Cream together butter and sugar add flavoring and any coloring
add flour mixture to butter mixture and beat until creamy about 5-10 min.
check frosting between fingers to make sure sugar is dissolved.
Frosts about 24 cupcakes

This frosting was great not too sweet I hate it when the frosting is overly sweet and this one is super easy and yummy and it was great to pipe with I always have troubles getting my frosting to pipe well so another plus for this recipe ;)

Ella loved her cake!

St Patrick's Day




With St Patricks day on Sunday we had to make sure we all had a green dress to wear
 Then I decieded we looked picture perfect.


We love holidays and a green day is a lot of fun  This year I made a sign and it says "End of Rainbow bury Pot of Gold here" a little cheesy but every year we don't try and catch the Leprechaun we try to trick him into leaving his gold that way he can bring it every year so we make a big rainbow and hang it up in the window. the kids think it is great so I thought this sign fits in with what we do every year :)

We had green german pancakes and green OJ,
the girls thought is was pretty fun.

This year they were left "real" gold ( gold $1 coins)
with their chocolate they were super excited about it.

Dress-up closet

I finally made a dress up closet. I have been wanting to for a while, and my girls dress up box just got fuller and fuller. So Thrusday I broke down and made one.The best part of it was I had every thing on hand to make it and the girls were good enough to just play with the other toys while I painted and hammered it all together. A good project day



This shelf was left behind when we moved into our house its ugly and a bit beat up but still sturdy so why not make it pretty :)



The closet rod was another one of those Items that got left behind and I don't need a spare so in it went.



The finally touch of paint was what was left from painting the girls room when we moved in. Of course added touch of all their stuff, makes it complete.  I did discover I now have a trunk full of purses and bags that I guess I will have to come up with a good way to store them as well :) Gotta love a house full of girls and all their dress up stuff ;)



March Celebration

My baby is turning one where has the time gone! It went way to fast if you ask me but I had fun doing our March celebration table in honor of her for the month. I may need to add a few more pictures, I printed off a lot; I had too may favorites so I may have to add to it but for now I like the way it is. Happy Birthday to my Ella ;)

I just used my Silhouette software to type up both subway arts so I have one for each of the kids and the Happy Birthday one that I will put up for all of them.

Dounuts, we love them

Jenna decided today while I was making bread that she needed to help, but not with the bread but to make donuts..so I being the amazing mom that I am decided why not so I found a recipe for buttermilk donuts and the girls helped out and we had a lot of fun making spring time donuts.

Recipe: 

 Jenna mostly just loves to play in the flour



Brigham Young's Buttermilk Donuts

Mix together:

5 cups flour

1 tsp baking soda

1 tsp baking powder
1tsp salt
1 tsp nutmeg

Cream together :

1/4 cup butter

1 cup sugar
2 eggs
2 cups buttermilk

Gradually add dry ingredients to wet add more flour as needed until it forms a stiff dough. Roll out until it is 1/4-1/2 inch thick. cut into doughnuts. fry in hot oil drain and coat in sugar.
    

 



Hannah came home and discovered she was just in time to help eat them, that girl was a little ticked off that we do all the fun stuff when she is at kindergarten. :)



Helping my husband see my vision

I want to add more garden space and a fire pit in our back yard and a few more fruit trees, but Bryce just hasn't been able to see my vision no matter how many pictures I draw or walks around the yard with the occasonal stops telling him where things go he just dosen't get it. It must be a man thing ;) So I got a bright idea when I was doing my first spring tour of the yard, take a picture and photo shop it to a pencil sketch
and draw on inb so he can really see my vision! So this is what I did:                                                     



After I showed him my drawing and walked the yard again all he had to say is how big is your Arbor going to be to make shade? So my bright idea worked :)

White Wall (Three white Dresses wall )

So I have had this idea rolling around in my head for a while and yesterday I did it. I want a place to display my girls important moments in life so I have a white wall now or as my sister was calling it a Three white dresses wall although if I ever have any boys that term doesn't work so well. : )  I have their cute pictures from their blessing; Jenna's I had to hunt all over the place but I finally found one that worked the poor girl was blessed when my sister got married so the best one of her was the family shot of her Daddy holding her so with a little cropping magic I got a good picture of her. So I have my favorite picture from my wedding in the center and then each of the girls around it. It will branch out from there with their baptism pictures and wedding ones so I am sure in the future I will have to move my arrangement to a bigger wall but for now I have the start of it and that's what counts!

I know some of the pictures are sepia and some black and white I printed them and thought I had had printed the 2 new ones the same as what I already had silly me, but I kind of like the mix.