The 4th (3rd) of July in Inkom

Inkom chose to celebrate Independence Day on the 3rd of July this year. We had a wonderful time celebrating in our small home town. Tradition is in our family to take a picture before we head off to the parade. The kids who were going to catch candy decided to bring their Halloween buckets and backpacks to stash their goodies in. This was also MaKady's first parade to march in as a cheerleader. I'll try to post a video of that later. The kids are growing up so quickly and it's fun to compare pictures from previous years to see just how much they have grown and we can't let the opportunity pass to get a silly picture in as well.

MaKady's birthday

With youth conference and all the other things going on in MaKady's life we got to celebrate her birthday a little later this year. She wanted a cupcake tower with a giant cupcake on top. Her and her friend Hanna and Meggan, a Gracie made all the little chocolate flowers to decorate the cakes. It was a really fun night decorating.

Pop-eye pancakes

I'm not sure why these are called pop-eye pancakes at our house. My kids love them and these were so amazing they needed a picture. I used to be able to make a single batch and that was enough now we make a double batch and inhale every bite.

Dustin and Brock "date" night

As I mentioned in an earlier post Brock loves to climb. For date night this month Dustin took Brock and they climbed the "I" hill near our home. Brock loved every minute and I'm sure Dustin enjoyed hauling home all the amazing, beautiful, cool rocks they found on the way.

Official Young Woman

MaKady is now an officially a young woman. These are pictures of her first Sunday in young women's and of course we needed a picture of her incredible hair. She is loving everything about youth conference, girls camp and going to mutual. I can't believe how fast she has grown up. I love you Miss MaKady!

Dustin's birthday

I try to learn something new when it comes to making a cake every time I get to make one. This year Dustin didn't want cake and who can blame him, we have 3 birthdays plus fathers day in that week. He got double thick Brownies not quite done so they were still gooey, marshmallows and fudge frosting, with coldstone sweet cream and cookie dough ice cream with homemade hot fudge. I've never done homemade hot fudge and let me tell you it was worth it. It's a fun new thing to add to my cake making skills. So yummy!!! Happy birthday sweetie! I love you!

Baseball 2010

This is the first of many catch up posts. Brock played baseball again this year. He absolutely loves it. You can see when he isn't playing on the field he's busy climbing anything he can find. I love his enthusiasm for life.

A new toy and a new look!

A couple of new things to post about. A couple of weeks ago we got a fun new toy at our home. A flip video camera! We were still using a big old camcorder that didn't transfer to the computer and we had to do quite a few steps to even save it to a video we could watch later. So tada a new way to save those important moments. Hopefully we can add more to our blog. The first video I am going to share is a before of Meggan's hair. She has been trying to grow her bangs out all school year. It was enough to drive a mom crazy. For dance she had to have a french braid with a side pony tail so after her final competition and recital she wanted it cut really short. The second video is her after. She had 10 inches cut off and donated it to locks of love. I think she looks pretty cute! Love you Meg!

My Sister's Birthday!

Happy Birthday Kristy! I made a new cake for my sister Kris. It's a 4 layer chocolate fudge cake with chocolate ganache poured over the top and pirouette cookies around the outside it was so yummy! Kristy's blog is the ashbyarchives.blogspot.com you can check out what an amazing woman she is. She is an incredible sister, friend, daughter, wife, and mom... I love you sis and hope you have an amazing day!

Happy Mother's Day Mom!

Happy Mother's Day Mom!!! I'm so blessed to have my mom. She is an incredible woman who has faced many challenges in her life and has taught me many important things. I'm grateful for every lesson I've learned from her. I'm grateful for her testimony and devotion to the Gospel. I'm grateful for her wonderful hugs. I'm grateful for her unconditional love and most of all I'm grateful for her wonderful example. Love you mom!