3 years old!

Olivia's second b-day celebration of the month with my family.  3-D snowman cake! 

Daddy project!

My husband thought it would be a good idea to teach Abby (now 5) to play checkers.  She loves games and will actually sit and play with you for a while.  As much as it killed him to purchase (for a whole $5) a set from a store-he did.  His motto always being -why buy what you can build.   And as luck would have it the game set he bought had missing pieces!!  I know there a few of you out there that can feel my pain and know I will never hear the end of it.  So one night while at work a building session happened in our basement!

These first two pics have nothing to do with the checker board itself-it just kept them busy while he worked on the board.

Made with leftover wood and paint!

Skipping cleaning day

Today we went to the Children's Museum instead of cleaning the house.   I won't include a picture of the house, it's really messy.  Didn't feel like cleaning and did not feel like staying home to look at the mess!

If this outfit does not make a fashion statement I don't know what does!



Birthday month

This month is Olivia's birthday month.  She is turning 3.  We started off with her first party with Daddy's side of the family this past weekend.

BTW- The frosting ended up being Duncan Hines. 

My sister in law brought her blue gel dye and it worked great! 

This little shirt is SO cute.   If you look closely you can see Livy and Plumpy snuggling together in the picture and my sister in law embroidered "LOVE" underneath.  Olivia loved it.  (She used Fabric Transfer paper from Joanne Fabrics and printed out the image from her computer!)

Her next handmade gift was "Livy's gnomes".  See the box.

 Another sister in law craft with help from the cousins.  She saw the idea over at Gingercake.

and of course her favorite, ice cream.

Thanks for a great weekend everyone.  Olivia loved all her gifts (even if I did not get pics of them all!) and enjoyed a fun time with her family.



Valentine Day dinner

Valentine Treat Bags

One of my favorite blogs to visit is The Farm Chicks.   So when she posted about Valentine Treat Bags I was all in.  See link here.   (you can download the PDF file and print out the bags, fold then fill!)   Once I showed Abby how to fold the bags properly she was able to do them all by herself.  We filled them with chocolate hearts and conversation hearts!  Abby will pass these out to her classmates for their Valentine's day party.

Breakfast idea

I recently discovered this blog called Feeding the Chaos and decided to try her Puffed pancake recipe.  It was really good despite the pictures looking a little bit off.  I promise.  It is like a giant popover.  And it was easy to mix, throw in the oven and wait.  Both girls loved it and so did I.  Daddy, well let's just say he let us eat it all. 

Puffed pancake

2 Tbsp butter


3 eggs

1/2 cup milk

1/2 cup flour

1/4 tsp salt


Heat oven to 400 degrees. While oven is heating up, put butter in a baking dish and place inside oven until butter melts.  In a mixing bowl, beat eggs. Add milk, flour and salt and beat until smooth. Pour into baking dish. Bake at 400 for 25 minutes or until sides are puffy and center is done.
 
We used syrup.  But I think powered sugar or jam would be yummy!