Last day of Jr. Jazz

Well, we are done with Jr. Jazz for the year. 

Dallin really enjoyed it and even improved and made a basket!

Here are some pictures from his last game.

Dallin is #5.

Dallin is the one in the red shorts on the far right.

Here he is with his certificate and his medal.

Cake decorating date night

On February 22, we decided to decorate cakes for our date.

I made a cake and baked it in two layers.

I also made a batch of frosting and ended up need to make a second one.

We decided we would decorate our cakes to represent stuff the other person likes.

Here are our cakes frosted in white, ready to go!

I made three colors, but if we did it again, I would divide the same amount of frosting into more colors.

Aaron working on his creation.

Me working on mine.

Here is my cake, all done.

Here is Aaron's.  You can tell he is the artist of the family!

Such a fun date night!  And we had a dessert built in!  Yum!

Valentine's Day

Here is our Valentine's day.  A month late!

The kids got a toy (a puzzle for the older two), a reese's heart, and a drink.

Aiden

Brooke

Dallin.  I don't know what he was expecting, but I think he was disappointed.

We also had heart shaped french toast with nutella, strawberries, and whipped cream for dinner.

Aaron and I celebrated the next night.  Aaron made me a fireside, candlelit dinner.  He made shrimp scampi, garlic mashed potatoes, and a salad.  I made chocolate lava cakes for dessert. It was all very yummy.  And romantic.  Until the kids came down to see what we were doing.  And a few of  Aaron's friends stopped by to see if he wanted to go with them.  I don't think they believed him when he said he was doing this for me.

Four leaf clover tutorial

I just came up with this simple project for Brooke and I to do.  I thought I would share it with you.  Please excuse the pictures.  I have a nice camera, but I am still learning how to use it. 

You will need green construction paper, scissors, and glue.

I then cut my paper into 1/2 and 2 1/4 size strips

Take one strip and fold in half

fold in half again

And one more time.

Cut along the fold.  You will cut a half a heart shape.  

When you unfold the cut shape you will have 4 hearts!

Put some glue on the pointy end of the heart

Glue the heart to a little scrap piece of paper with the point of the heart in the middle of the paper.

  

Repeat with the other 3 hearts and it should look like this.  

Cut a scrap piece of your paper to look like a stem.

Glue the stem to the back of the clover and you are done!

This was simple enough for my almost 5 year old to do.  I cut the hearts and she did the rest!

We put ours on our back door!

Happy St. Patrick's day! (on Sunday!)