Happy 5th Birthday, Jack!

Jack went for a unique birthday theme.  He wanted a Minecraft cake.  Well, I've never made or even seen a Minecraft cake.  After the kids and Shawn showed me what one looked like, I decided to try it.  It was my second time using fondant but my first time enclosing a cake in it.  I guess it didn't come out half bad.  The kids said it was tasty and even enjoyed playing with the leftover fondant.

No, John!  Don't eat all of the cake!

But Jack is glad to be 5!  It means he gets to go to school all day long and be a big kid!

 

Pure happiness from little gifts like Legos, Pokemon, and How to Train Your Dragon.  Happy birthday, Jack Jack! 

It's Great to Be 8, Kelsey!

We loved having family and friends come support Kelsey as she was baptized on July 12th!  We had such a great day!  And Kelsey looked beautiful!  We are so proud of you, Kelsey!

She has some great memories of this day!  I can't believe she's already 8 and looking so grown up.

Awwww....poor unhappy, Jason. But the rest of the kiddos look happy!  Thanks for being a great sister!  We love you, Kelsey Woo!

Happy Birthday, Mommy!

Linda's birthday had a bit of excitement surrounding it...and not just because it was a birthday!  We were celebrating Kelsey's upcoming baptism and Macher came to visit.  So we had loads to celebrate!  In the meantime, Linda had been practicing her cake decorating skills and came up with a way to decorate a cake for herself and Macher to share.  It was pretty and yummy!

Happy Birthday!

This Is Embarassing

Here I thought it had only been a couple of months that I'd neglected the blog.  Don't I feel sheepish to find it's been a LOT longer.  Well, let me update with a few posts...they'll come out a few days from each other.  Now, where were we...?  Last entry was in early July...

Ahhhh...summer projects will be the first entry...

  

I decided that a summer without anything to do would just be too long and BORING for everyone involved.  So...since there are some life skills that seem to be missing these days, I'd introduce them to the kiddos and see what happened.

  

We broke up the week into different "events" and one of those days happened to be a sewing day.  We started with fabric coasters and moved to treasure bags and then to Stuff-tees (drawn animal shapes stuffed with poly-fil).  The kids did some really great work with these!

 

We also had an art day which varied in medium from chalk, Play-doh, and even fondant.  The kids shaped, molded and colored some pretty cool art pieces.  They were very proud.

Just turn your monitor...hah!

  But it was a successful summer and we will probably do some of it again next year!