A sister is a gift to the heart, a friend to the spirit, a golden thread to the meaning of life.
Isadora James

I adore watching my girls grow up together. One minute they are best friends and the next, rivals. At night I tuck each into their own bed just to find them minutes later crammed into one little toddler bed. They are either laughing and playing or smacking eachother. I have even found bite marks on Evie's little thights that match perfectly to Sophie's bite. Yikes! but for the most part they love having eachother around.

          Today I decided throw them a small tea party, I honestly just wanted a chance to use my new cupcake cups. They are darling. I got got them at Borders. They are silicone cups shaped like tea cups.





They would also be real cute to use in bento lunches



The girls chatting and having "tea" notice Sophie's new cast. switched from purple to hot pink.  



Super cute right? white cake with buttercream frosting and topped with a royal icing flower.





I don't know what it is but my girls don't like cake much. They love frosting though. They just lick the frosting off and leave the rest.

Make your own cake stand

I love cake stands, you can never have to many. I would love to have one in every color. Well now I can! making your own cake stand is pretty easy and cheap. all you need is a bowl, plate and glue.




E-6000 is an easy glue to work with and its only about $3



The plate and bowl are from the Dollar Tree $1 each.


Glue the suckers together and TADA!!!!




cute, cheap and real sturdy.

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY

Hope all the Mommas out there  enjoyed their day. I, had a wonderful Mother's Day. We went out for Brunch at Cracker Barrel. and then to the gardens.

I made my own cake, It was a chocolate cake filled with vanilla pudding. Then topped with buttercream icing in a rose pattern. You can find instructions at

rose cake









My awesome gifts from Nick. He made me a card, stationary with a pen and wrote a book about me. The stationary has beautiful watercolor butterflies on it.



I wanted to go to the gardens to take pictures with the kids but they were not having it and poor Joe is terrible with a camera. Almost all the pictures he took were uber blurry. bah!


It seems that Sophie's leg is healed, she keeps walking on it and wants the cast off.




So much for Mother's Day pictures. haha


I just love this dress.










Motherhood; All love begins and ends there
Robert Browning

Feliz Cinco De Mayo

On the morning of May 5, 1862 4,000 Mexican soldiers smashed the French and traitor Mexican army of 8,000 at Puebla, Mexico, 100 miles east of Mexico City. Even though they were outnumbered by the best Army at that time the poorly armed Mexicans won.


Today was a great day to celebrate with my favorite Mexican dish, Bean soup. usually it does not include steak but since I'm pre-diabetic I have to eat more protein than carbs.


my "pico de gallo" cilantro, onion, tomato and lime



Perfect day to wear my Mexican dress as well. This dress was sent to me by my aunt in Mexico. I love it!

My Evie also sported her Mexican outfit we got her on our Mexican cruise last year

It got bleached out so I added color to the fabric by boiling it with coffee. Hey it worked. its more of a tan color now.



I decorated the table with a Christmas table cloth and a Mexican zarape that my momma got me from Mexico.

used some of my vintage Pyrex, Tupperware and mason jars.

YUM!

Beans, white rice,soft white cheese, pico de gallo, and steak. I usually add shredded tortilla into the bowl but that would definitely put me into a diabetic coma.

and its not a Mexican meal without Horchata which is a rice/cinnamon drink

Peaches and Creme

Besides baking I love to sew. Evie's 2nd Birthday is coming up and I decided on a Peaches and Creme birthday theme. I made this dress to go along with the vintage/girlie theme.







Ballerina in training

Out and About

It was a really nice day in Tucson today. The kids were itching to get out so we packed them up and off we went.

We have an annual pass to the Children's science museum in Oregon but that pass allows us to visit many museums all over the US. There are a couple here in our area that we can visit with that pass. Not bad.

We visited the International Wildlife Museum. We are such a nerdy family, we love museums, observatories and any type of garden

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We saw

Lions


giraffes


alligators




mammoths


all sort of animals with horns


and bears


Kids had a blast.





They love that we always stop to have a treat

Well, this week Sophie had an accident on the playground. She fell on the slide and broke her leg :(

She's so proud of her cast. Hahaha. She asked for a purple one.


We did some sight seeing and found a cool little Old West park called the Pinnacle Peak. Its really cute, they have a  Little Western Town complete with a train ride and carousel. I had so much fun taking pictures there. I gotta go back and take the girls in their cowgirl boots :)









Wish I had one of these at home











I never get tired of taking picture of my Evie, I love her sweet face and unruly curls






It was still bright and sunny after our day out so we went to the pool/spa and had a BBQ




And my attempt at a low carb burger. Now THAT is a cheeseburger


Everyone had fun.




well, almost everyone

She was upset that she could not get in the pool