Grace is 4

I must have been tired when I first wrote this because I said she was 2 and she is not 2 she is 4.




I can not believe I did not post this sooner. I can not believe we did not get a better picture. Grace had a great birthday. She spent part of the day helping me make her cake. I think this will be a new tradition. I always ask if the kids want a store cake or homemade cake and they always choose homemade. which is kinda funny because I am not a great decorator. She made a purple and i mean PURPLE cake with yellow, burn your eyes yellow frosting and then we put purple clowns on top. The candles were pretty cool. They were connected by paper and so when you lit one a stream of fire went to the next one. i will try to upload the video later.
She got a baby doll potty chair for her birthday. we are doing her party next week. I am actually combining it with one for hope.

Boyscout popcorn

Last year Michael (and Rob) sold boyscout popcorn. Michael was actually number 14 in the nation selling over $10,000. Over half of that was donations to send popcorn to the troops. With Rob being in school this time there is no way we can make a tenth of this amount. If you would like to help him, he would love to take your order. He is accepting donations for troops again. He has stood outside of Walmart the last two weekends collecting donations. I would like to explain that rob has been deployed 6 times and leaves again in April. He did recieve boyscout popcorn while deployed and said it was like a touch from home. So I do not know the popcorn gets to the soldiers. The other side to this is that Michael has been able to pay for him and his father to go on several camp outs and trips this year. All of his dues have been paid for from selling popcorn. he took our family to disney last spring and he has a wonderful scholarship. He will recieve a portion of his popcorn sales in his scholarship and camp fund again this year.

Chicken in the deep dish baker

I am loving the pampered chef deep dish baker. Last night we made a chicken in 30 minutes. So easy, I rubbed (okay, okay rob rubbed) butter on the chicken with southwest seasoning (pampered chef). put it in the microwave for 30 minutes. put the thermomenter in and it said 165. we covered and let it set for about 10 minutes. WOW, do juicy, so yummy, so amazing, so easy. The recipe did say you could add potatoes and carrots and change the cooking time to 40 minutes and I might do that next time.
The second thing we had was pumpkin pie. It is actually the extra pumpkin I had from making mini pumpkin pies last week. Then we made (i made, rob rolled) homemade pastry dough and rolled it out. it was yummy, we baked in another piece of stoneware and it was yummy. I let the kids have the left overs for breakfast.

Not me Monday

I am so glad MckMamma started this. It feels so good to confess to someone, hahaha!
This week I did not set at the table shaking my leg because I did not want to walk to the bathroom. I would never do this after fussing at my kids for doing this. I also was not avoiding the girls bathroom (you know the one company uses) because I knew there was wet toilet paper on the floor.
I did not send my kids out in the cold to walk laps this week. I would never let them get cold and I definitely would never have kids who could not stop talking instead of doing school. I have my children trained better than that.
While my children were walking laps they found a organizer a child had left. I most certainly did not enjoy looking through the binder for a name because it let me see what kind of work she was doing. I then most certainly did not point out how neat her handwriting was to my children. I would never do that.
I did not hear my son announce to anyone who would listen that Hope and Grace fit in the washing machine. I have definitely trained my children to be safer than this.
My precious Grace turned four this week and I let her make her own cake and icing. I did not however let her brother and sisters taste the cake and icing while she was still down for her nap. That would be rude and I most certainly did not tell them not to tell her.
Okay, no one shoot me for this one. But I did not make it look like I was on my cycle a couple more days so I could go to sleep early and not be the wife my husband needs. I would never do this.
I did not bribe Hope with FOUR ice cream bars if she stayed home with Rob one day this week. That is just wrong, I always want my children with me and I never encourage sugar.
Speaking of food, I have a awesome husband and I would never take advantage of him by making him roll dough until I could see the muscles in his arm shake, especially on the same night as I went to bed early.
I also did not spend most of the last 2 weeks convincing Grace to eat constantly so when she goes to the DR this week it will look like she has gained weight well.
Anyone else do silly things they are willing to admit. I would love to admit to hear about it.

new blog

I love cooking, I love trying new recipes and new craffts. I wanted some place to keep these without digging through my blog to find them. So I started a new one. To see my new ideas for crafts, for cleaning supplies, for food just click on the rainbow cake in the side bar. If you like something let me know, if you have a idea of something new to try let me know.