cooking girls

There is a lot of cooking/baking that goes on in this house.

the increasing size of my rear end & these pictures...

are proof!

Last Saturday Chloe made bread all by herself!

I wasn't even home- isn't this beautiful!!

My new favorite coconut cake.

French Bread

key lime cupcakes

and from a while back...

onion rings.

the girls were experimenting with making onion rings at home.

What's cooking at your house?

raspberry cream cake

I've been dreaming up this cake for a long time.

Yesterday

I made it.

today

it is gone...

~I miss it~

Besides the vanilla cake part- I made up the rest as I went.

Now I don't think I could recreate it...

well maybe if I try right away?

The filling was something like whipping cream with cream cheese & raspberries. The frosting: butter cream. Thanks Karrie for inviting us over & giving me a reason to make this cake.

It was a lovely night

kristys mom's birthday party

Quite a while back, probably on a Thursday... the blogger mom's were together & Kristy mentioned she wanted to throw a big surprise party for her mom's birthday.

We (maybe it was me... I am bossy, I don't know, we can all be bossy at times?) jumped all over it & twisted her arm into letting us help- plus told her what to serve, how to decorate etc. etc.

Apparently we love planning parties?

Yesterday was the big day & it turned out perfect-

if I do say so myself!

Her mom was so surprised- loads of old friends & family came- the decorations were delightful - and the food!!!!

Just wait until you see what we made-

Kristy & family decorated all the tables with bright colors then put the cakes & cupcakes on the tables for decorative value & so that people could help themselves.

It was so cute & everything looked so yummy.

There's nothing like a bunch of friends to help you get through a big project.

I am so grateful to these guys not for just being my friends - but including me in their lives.

It was a beautiful party, fun day-

at one point one of her friends came up & introduced herself. She said she was our #1 lurker & reads our blogs daily. This just cracked me up. What a sweet heart- (I can't imagine why anyone would want to read this but family) she said she felt like she knew each of us personally. I feel the same way with blogs I read regularly & I was so touched.

I wish I would've taken a picture with us!

I did forgot to take one very important picture-

the one that would've been the best picture of the day!

One of Kristy & the birthday girl!!

darn it

I hope somebody got that one