Happy Birthday Jonathan!

I can't believe Jonathan turned 3 in the middle of June! We celebrated with friends and family at our house. The lunch menu consisted of Jonathan's favorite food: Hot dogs, corn, mac-n-cheese, green peas and of course birthday cake! Happy Birthday Jonathan! We love you!

Jan Karon Cooking I

For Mother's Day I gave my mom a copy of Jan Karon's Kitchen Reader that accompanies the Mitford Series. I've never read the books, but Momma is a huge fan of Father Tim and his parishioners. So this summer we're cooking our way through some of the yummy recipes. Yesterday our first attempt was the Orange Marmalade cake. I have to admit I had my doubts - I'm not a huge fan of any cake and putting orange marmalade on a cake didn't sound appetizing - but I was happy to be proved wrong! It was wonderful! Even more enjoyable than the cake was the time we were able to spend together. We followed the recipe without any deviation and the end result was a light fluffy cake with the perfect sour cream icing (not too sweet/not too sour). It's a really pretty cake although I could use a tutorial in icing. Come have a piece!

Toe Jam...

Today Jonathan rediscovered the dirt between his toes. When I told him it was called toe jam he refused to accept this conventional term and insisted, "Mom, it's not toe jam! It's toe boogers!"

Playdough Mountain

Today Jonathan and Maddison painted our playdough mountain. We'll use the scene to teach this week about the life, death, burial and resurrection of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

Hoppy Friday!!!

This morning I took Maddison and Jonathan to meet Taylor, a precious little black bunny our friends just adopted. Maddie gave Taylor kisses (which she calls "poppers"). I couldn't resist sharing!

More Snow Day Pictures...

Snowy Night!!!

We measured the snow from our patio table about 30 minutes ago and the snow has already exceeded 9 inches!!!