~Our Family Adventures~

Cake!

This year for Coen's birthday I had decided to let someone else make his cake for his birthday party. It was eating at me that I wasn't making it myself. So he helped me make him a giant cupcake for our little family get together for his 3rd birthday. Coen had decided he wanted to help with his cake. He also requested a blue cake so that's what we made. Here are pictures of him helping me.

adding the oil

adding blue food coloring to the cake batter

scraping the sides of the bowl with a spatula

ready to put in the oven

watching it bake

making the icing

yummy.....

Giant Cupcake!

My sister-in-law is getting married in September and they have asked me to do the cake. I feel honored to be apart of helping Amanda & Nate make their wedding day special. Amanda wants to do a wedding cupcake tower for her wedding. She found a picture of a design she liked & I wanted to do a practice run on the cake that will be on top of the tower. Instead of a small cake on top it's going to be a "GIANT CUPCAKE". I went out and bought a giant cupcake pan and made one just to see how it would turn out. The colors of the wedding will be peach & ivory. I think my practice run came out very pretty and the soon-to-be-bride loves it. Although, the butterfly in the picture will not be used. I will find a much prettier one that matches the colors of the wedding. This is a temporary one I had for the moment.

"A Bouquet of Roses"

Copying daddy!

Now that Coen has a laptop of his own he likes to get his out and play on it when Jonathan or I use our laptop. I think it's cute!

A dog's life!

Christmas 2010

We had a wonderful Christmas this year and the snow on Christmas morning was very pretty. Coen was a good little boy and got lots of goodies. Santa brought him a basketball goal, John Deere dump truck and radio flyer scooter. Coen really got into opening his presents this year. Here are the pictures from Christmas morning & other family Christmas gatherings.

Christmas morning

Catching snow flakes

testing out his new scooter

showing me his new hot wheel cars

his very own laptop

a new desk

he really likes his art easel and loves to paint

Thomas the Train track set

playing the drums

Better late than never!

I have been very slack here lately about posting pictures. It's Christmas time and I'm just now posting Halloween. I guess it's better late than never, huh!

This year Coen actually picked out his costume on his own. He was Thomas the Train, and a very cute one too. He's only two years old but he looks about 4 dressed up in his costume and looks just like his daddy but with blonde hair.

Here are the pictures from our visit to the pumpkin patch.

Apple Picking!

Several weeks ago we went apple picking. We had found a place in Morganton, NC called Apple Hill Orchard Cider Mill. It was a lot of fun and they had several things to do. We had a picnic lunch, took a wagon ride through the orchard, picked apples, and had some delicious fried apple pie and apple cider slushies from there country store where they make everything them selves. Coen had a lot of fun picking the apples off the tree's and we plan on going back next year

On the wagon ride

picnic lunch we had brought

apple cider slushi

homemade fried apple pie with ice cream...it was so good

Just having fun!

Here are some random pictures from the other night after Coen's bath. Coen thinks it's funny to dry his hair with a blow dryer. It's why he has a funky spike going on in the pictures.

Can we say "dimples", I just LOVE them.