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Due to a few computer problems and being super busy moving, we haven't updated the blog for quite some time.  We're back now and hopefully will post more often!

St Patricks Day 2011

Another fun St. Patrick's Day but we did not get around to doing near as much as I had planned.  Here are a few of the things that we did.

St. Patrick's Day Activities of the Past

St. Patrick's Day is always fun at our house.  Every year the kids usually make a leprechaun trap, dress in green, and do a series of green activities.  I color their food with food coloring and pick green veggies for meals.   I have a lot of ideas for this years St. Patrick's Day but won't have a chance to post them until next week.In the meantime, I have posted a few pictures of a St. Patrick's Day from a few years ago.

Valentines Day Lunch

I packed the kids an extra special lunch today.  Everything was pink or red and they got a few things I wouldn't normally pack (pink pop-tarts and chocolate covered heart pretzels).  I used a cookie cutter to cut their sandwich into a heart shape, and I gave them some strawberry milk, apples with raspberry jello,  strawberries and some Babybel cheese.  I decorated them with heart stickers and wrote a little note on their lunch-kit.  

Valentines Breakfast

Woke up early and made the kids some Valentines Pancakes.  I put some red Wilton food coloring in the batter so they were pink. We topped them off with whipped cream and strawberries.  

Valentines Day Cards

An idea for Valentines Day cards has been floating around the blog world and when I saw these I thought I had to try them!  I posed each kid as if they were holding something, developed the pictures and then cut a slit in the hands and placed a lollipop on them.  I love the 3-D effect and how it looks like they are really holding the lollipop.

Rainbow Cake

We found this idea for a rainbow cake on the internet and just had to try it!  

How did we make it?

1. We used 2 boxes of White Cake Mix and mixed the batter according to the recipe on the box.

2. Divide the batter into 6 different bowls

3. Put some Wilton Food coloring into each bowl (a different color per bowl). We got our Wilton food coloring at Michaels. It is important that you use this brand as it is bright and vibrant even after the cake has been cooked.

4.  Bake each separate color using a round cake pan. (Makes 6 cakes altogether)

5.  After the cakes cooled, we put them together with a layer of icing in between to help hold them together.

6.  We iced the cake and decorated it with skittles, sprinkles and cotton candy.

Making Valentines

We created Valentine pictures using our footprints.

Welcome!

Welcome to our blog.  Our mom is going to start it for us and then teach us how to create our own posts.  We will be posting all sorts of fun things for kids to do.  Keep checking in to see some of the stuff we have been up to.