Cake #2

Well, here is my second completed cake. This was an egg-less chocolate on chocolate cake so that Chase could eat it too. It was sooo yummy and fun to make. I am "eating" up every minute of class time. It has been so much fun to learn all the tips the instructor has to share. Doing this with Lauren has made the class double the fun!

Eat Your Cake!

This is my first foray into the world of cake decorating. My friend Lauren and I signed up for a four week crash course in decorating at Michael's. The first two weeks have been fun and informative. I am so excited to learn more and hope I can keep up! I'll post the other cakes we do. (This cake tasted really good too!)

Easter

Happy Easter a little late! Because of Chase's egg allergy we can't dye Easter eggs. I cut out a bunch of "eggs" from construction paper and we decorated them instead. Chase had so much fun. We worked on the eggs for about an hour and he was totally into it! We hung them up on our kitchen windows. Chase is so proud of them.


This is our two cuties on Easter morning.

And here we are showing off our new clothes.



We have chosen not to travel on Easter so it was a really low-key day. We had an indoor Easter egg hunt for Chase, because of the cold weather. He was amazingly good at finding the eggs. I'm so grateful that we have a reason to celebrate Easter in the first place. Thank you Lord, for coming!

Holy Lightbulb!

We got together with a bunch of friends to watch NASCAR yesterday. We were in the middle of eating dinner when our area was hit with a severe thunderstorm. The girls were sitting at the dinner table with all the kiddos and my one friend exclaimed "Holy cow!" after a particular lightning bolt lit up the sky. We were all running around the house looking out windows because there was some crazy hail coming down for a while. Once we all settled down and got back to eating Chase started exclaiming "holy lightbulb!" everytime lightning shot across the sky. It was hysterical and also a good reminder that he is copying everything we say right now.

The kids

This is Alexa's everyday personality. She's such a pleasure to be around!

Our "little man" hanging out with his best bud.

(I think he was trying to mimic the cat rolling upside down)

We're still here

I just wanted to let everyone know that I am still trying to keep up with our blog. We lost our computer to a nasty virus several weeks ago and have been trying to get everything back up and working on our new computer. I LOVE the new computer; it's just taking some time to get used to everything. Our old computer was a "dinosaur" so there is a learning curve with all that's changed. Our old monitor was about two feet deep, front to back, just to give you an idea of the age of it. I hated it and am so happy for a flat screen monitor and quiet tower. We can finally see the top of our desk! :-)
I'll be back to post new pictures and some updates as soon as possible. Taking care of two kids leaves a lot less "free" time! We'll be seeing you soon...

To Catch a Thief...

...or in this case a vandal.

Here's the story. Howard installed lattice around the base of our deck this summer. It looked really nice until one day I realized that something had chewed part of one of the openings bigger.

Grrr! We were not pleased but had no idea what was doing it. We did see a rabbit run out from under our deck once and the neighbors have all been complaining of a rabbit wreaking havoc on decks and flower beds.

We set out a humane trap last week and lo and behold we caught ourselves a rabbit! (Don't worry no animals were harmed. We took the vandal to my brother's house where the rabbit was released into the woods). After we caught it we found out it had chewed through another part of the lattice. Apparently this critter had something against white, vinyl lattice. At least we feel like we got justice for the damage caused.