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Marvel That Monday! Fun Family Recipes

One of my favorite blogs is The Redheaded Hostess. She primarily focuses on scripture reading helps but is extremely family focused and I just love her talents (and besides that, she just named her new daughter Hannah, how could I not love her!)

I am forever trying to organize myself. It is not a talent of mine and I work long and hard at it. I need ideas that I gather from others to be organized and easy to be flipped through. The Redheaded Hostess has again come to my rescue and made Fun Family Recipes cards.

I just love these! I can now easily write down fun family traditions and create a little notebook. I think I will punch a hole and put a ring through them and hang them right above my computer... ie planning station.  This is especially helpful when I don't have a computer handy or just don't want to get on the computer!

Please visit The Redheaded Hostess blog to download these cards and read all her amazing scripture reading helps.

Spring Party

Happy Spring!!!

I love to have parties celebrating the new seasons. We celebrated the arrival of spring complete with yummy cupcakes and stained-glass flowers.

I used my Silhouette machine to cut out the daisies and the word Spring. The templates can be found in the store. I attached the flower/word to a cake pop stick. The "grass" is green frosting with green sprinkles. Logan loved helping with the sprinkles!

That Silhouette machine is awesome!

Please excuse my dirty windows, it's very embarrassing!!! Let's pretend that it's just barely Spring and I haven't had a chance to wash them!

For our fun activity, we made stained-glass flowers. I love stained glass anything... they are super easy to make. The instructions are in this post.

Spring is so wonderful!

This little girl agrees (and loves her milk moustache!)

I hope everyone is loving Spring!

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Rainbow Cupcakes

Top O' To The Morning! This is our theme for March. We usually have a night of breakfast (my favorite!) and fun activities. We still haven't finished our activity, so I will post that later. However, I am in love with these Rainbow cupcakes and couldn't wait to share!

Rainbow Cupcakes

Courtesy of Family Fun

These little cupcakes took me about an hour (well actually 1-1/2 hours because I messed up the cake recipe.)

1. Mix together your favorite white cake recipe. I used this one from All Recipes. My husband loved it.

2. Divide mix into 6 different bowls (I divided by 1/4 cup at a time per bowl.)

3. Mix together food coloring and mix. Food color drops are below...

I used this chart from Family Fun (I found it in a magazine, not online.)

• Purple= 9 red and 6 blue drops

• Blue= 12 drops

• Green= 12 drops

• Yellow= 12 drops

• Orange= 12 yellow and 4 red drops

• Red= 18 drops

{Yes, I'm not very clean!}

4. Starting with purple mix, divide evenly among baking cups. I used between 1/2 and 1 teaspoon. Be careful not to use too much or you will run out of space in the baking cups. You may NOT need to use all the mix. Using your finger (or a spoon) spread out mix to cover the bottom of the cup or the color beneath.

5. Continue with the blue and so forth.

6. Bake and top with whipped cream or frosting.

7. Enjoy and eat your heart out!

Birthday Celebrations

My daughter turned two last week. I can't believe how fast time flies. I am working on making birthdays a special event in our home. A few things we enjoy doing...

Birthday shirts! You can design your own and print out on iron on transfers. Shirts can be bought very inexpensive from AC Moore. Etsy also has quite the selection.

Card design and prints from Brightside Prints

Birthday Cards sent to family and friends. We hang a copy on the refrigerator all year long. It's really fun to see how the kids change from year to year.

We also had a little party with some very close friends to celebrate our little girl. We had a hot chocolate party and polka dots as our decor.

• Our little party consisted of home made hot chocolate, an assortment of marshmallows including chocolate dipped, whipped cream and pizza bites with marinara.

• Polka dot balloons from Walmart. (I was super excited!)

• Table decor... white table cloth, covered with strips of streamers, covered by a piece of vinyl.
  

I am trying to figure out how to celebrate birthday weeks. I'm trying to think outside the box and am kind of stumped. I would love to hear your ideas!