Happy 4th of July!

On Sunday before church we were all dressed and ready a little early because I wanted to get some pictures of the girls in their outfits (the mere fact that we were dressed and ready to go early is worth a post in and of itself.....especially on a Sunday!).  Parker is actually wearing the one I made her last year and it took me so long to make....I really needed her to get 2 wears out of it.  The pants were a little tight, so I let them out a little bit in the crotch and legs and they fit perfect.  Hopefully I'll get 2 more wears out of this with Grace!  Haha!

We tried to get one of both girls with Geoff, but Grace was not having it...

*Photo by Parker.  Not too bad!

Thankful to live in this country!  I know it has it's flaws, but truly feel so blessed and proud to be an American and wouldn't want to be anywhere else!  Thankful for all those who fought and sacrificed their lives to make it this way.

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Happy Birthday Momma ! ! ! ! ! !

Today is Marla's Birthday.  In honor of this wonderful day I decided to do a post.  I more so decided to do this because she didn't want anything for her birthday...but I couldn't just sit here and do nothing!!

We decided to bake mommy a Happy Birthday donut cake!!  The girls were very excited!!

I let them put in all of the ingredients and then they took turns mixing all of them..

As you can see, Grace can't seem to keep her hands out of the batter.  

Of course both girls had to lick the batter when we were done!!

These molds are pretty cool.  They're made of silicon.  We used the extra attachment mold to make a reservoir to hold nothing but chocolate.

I then made them a special 4th of July lunch mainly because Marla gets a kick outta that kinda stuff.  She is the creative one in the family, but me...I just cut off the crust.  The peanut butter sandwich was cut using little star shapes.

Once the cake cooked, we took it out, filled up the chocolate (sorry but I didn't get a picture of that.  Just picture a cream filled donut in your head and that is what's pictured below).

All I did for the frosting was heat it up in the microwave so it was nice and runny and then poured it on.  Again, Grace had to have a lick.

The finished product...

I know Marla won't care to much for this part, but I let them eat a lot of the leftover chocolate.  Sorry mom, but it's your birthday and they wanted to celebrate early!!

This is Marla's kid...

Happy birthday momma, we love you so very much and we thank you for all that you do for us!!!!

(This is what we used.  I'd have layer this blog out a little better but I'm no pro like Marla!!)