And for you, Mom...some pics of the kiddos!

Dorian....glasses he won in the arcade at the bowling alley on Christmas night.

Molly Lou playing with her new DS that Santa brought...

Dorian...if you know Dorian, this picture describes his personality perfectly...

O...M...G....this is blackmail material for sure!

My little baker...so cute!

Woo Hoo, new game for her pink DS! My handsome boys on Christmas morning.

Look what Santa brought to Momma's little angel....(cuz Momma backed over her old scooter!) Molly and our GREAT friend Fred, Merry Christmas!

Dorian and Molly's Birthday Party

So, everyone always expects these giant, elaborate cakes for my kids birthdays and honestly, they could care less and this time I just wasn't feelin' it. So...we made cupcakes. Actually, Luke and Molly made cupcakes. I found this picture on flickr.com a while back that I absolutely loved of a rainbow cupcake and so I thought we'd give them a try. :) This is Luke layering the different colors of batter into the liners.
And all of the yummy rainbow-ness baking in the oven.

The finished product on a disposable cupcake tree....not half as cool as when you bite into them and find......

THIS!!!! I love these, so cute!
Apparently the kids enjoyed them!

Dorian was excited too

Here's Ms. Molly playing in the pool at our gym with her pal, Madi.

What a ham!

Cousin Prestley coming down the slide backwards. It was all fine and dandy until he drug his face through the water backwards and got a snout full of chlorine, poor kid.

Some of Dorians friends playing in the pool.

My Valentine's Day....

Steve actually sent me roses! They are beautiful!!! Thank you Steven, love you so much!

And check this out...I've seen these little purple flowers a bunch of times at weddings and stuff but who knew that they actually bloom again? Look at the the little white blooms in the middle of the purple! Cute!

Winter Fun!

Sheesh...where did this kid come from?!?! He must get his genes from his dads side.....

And she must get hers from mine :)

Rock and Roll, Daddio!

Molly trying to make a snowman but the snow was too dry...she settled for a "'snow pile" instead. Luke getting ready to sled the hill at the gym...

Dorian...ready to shred some snow.....or something

I can't seeeeee you!

My little princess putting on ornaments...awwwww :)

What's so funny? Stud....

Luke's Birthday

Well....I said there wouldn't be any cake pics from last week because I had lost my camera...but my sister-in-law snapped this pic of my sons birthday cake and emailed it over. He wanted a mountain with army climbing up the side fighting and a plane dropping bombs from the top with flames and craters in the mountain side....uhhhh, whatever. He got the mountain, the guys, and the plane...no bombs, flames or craters.....sounds like a fair trade to me?!?!

Here's Molly Lou waiting for a piece of cake...little doll baby. :)

And here's my handsome husband and his hot sister....they've got some good genes on that side of the family!

Happy Halloween!

First up....this is the cake I did for the pumpkin auction this year. It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!This is the pumpkin my daughter picked out at the pumpkin patch....I couldn't bring myself to carve it.

Here is my daughter the cookie with her cousin the milk :) Everybody LOVED these costumes!

Here they are with my son the soldier in action.

and my other son the devil...if you know him, you know this is a totally appropriate costume for him!

Molly got tired and crabby by the time we walked around the block so she chilled on the porch and handed out candy. She was a bit picky about who got what...we had a line of trick or treaters all the way down the stairs to the driveway....maybe she has OCD or something?
My sister and I also chilled on the porch and enjoyed some frosty beverages. So, check this out...at HyVee, you can build your own 6-pack. I had been wanting to try some pumpkin beer and what better day to do it than on Halloween. Only one out of six was worth the effort of going to the store and getting it. There was no name brand on it but the label was plain black with an orange jack-o-lantern on it...the others....ew.

Here we are...sisters up to no good!

and oh yea, when the kids went to bed....momma went out. Bow chicka wow wow!

Deanna Rose Children's Farmstead

Yesterday, we had planned on going to the water park for the day but since it was so cool, we opted for Deanna Rose instead. If you have kids, and haven't been there, go. It's fun AND free.

So, when I went to wake up the kids, Luke had decided to use the cat as a sleep mask...:)

This is Molly Lou telling the black goat to get off of the brown one...not nice!!!
Luke's whopper...catch of the day, eh? You can pay $3 and get a little tin bucket of worms and the kids can fish with cane poles in the little lake.

Molly and Meme gave it a whirl too (but Meme didn't even put a worm on her hook)
They have these tiny little goats that you can pay $1 for a bottle and feed. They liked to eat my clothes and hair instead.
Dorian got them to work on his bottle but it was like fighting off a mob really.
Molly Lou sitting at a desk in the one-room schoolhouse...she drew a very nice Plankton for the teacher on her chalkboard.
If you know my mom, you won't be surprised that she sat on the ORANGE bench in the butterfly garden....she has O.C.D. I think...anything yellow or orange is automatically her favorite. (P.S.-we didn't see any butterflies in the butterfly garden but as soon as we walked out....guess what we saw? A butterfly bush....and guess what was on the butterfly bush? I wonder why they didn't plant that inside the butterfly garden???)

Three flowers, three kids...it's a given that I would want my kids in them right? As you can see, the older they get (and the more manly) the less excited they are to be posing as poseys.

Then at bedtime, Molly and I had a little fun with our ponytails. If one pony is good, why not add a few more?

And more.....

And more...until it finally falls over! :)

Thanks for peeping our Fun Day...see ya soon!