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Showing posts with label Traditions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Traditions. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Cake Celebration

A lot of family was in town last week for my cousin, Matt's wedding. My grandparents made it into town all the way from Oklahoma too! We all got together and had a Cake Celebration. We celebrated a bunch of birthdays and anniversaries and had a blast just being together eating cake!
Everyone brought a homemade layer cake. I think we had something like 12 layer cakes all lined up! It was amazing. I especially loved my cousin, Em's Angel Food Cake. I'm hoping to get the recipe so we can share it with you.

How is your week going so far?

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Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Quinn's Blessing Day

Quinn was blessed this past sunday! After the meeting we gathered at Kara and Kimble's home to eat and be together. Here are some pictures:
Juice bar. I made tags for each different flavor of juice.
Britt made these ham and swiss sams. Talk about decadent. RECIPE HERE.
Our mom put together this rad spread where everyone could make their own yogurt parfaits. It was a hit! Ingredients included: plain yogurt, fresh mixed berries, shaved coconut, chopped pecans, raisins, uncooked irish oats and raw sugar.
I was in charge of putting together the cereal bar. There were three different cereals offered as well as a granola. I placed a bunch of bananas on a cutting board for slicing and had a large pitcher of cold 2% milk at the ready. This cereal bar was a cinch to put together, but had a big impact. The kids loved it.

Mom made apricot bars! Dynamite.
I made this banner the night before the blessing day. I saw the idea on Say Yes To Hoboken and thought it was clever and I'm stoked to be able to use it on other occasions. I used miniature clothespins to attach the chalkboard circles to the string and I like the way it kicked it up a notch. P.S. I found all the stuff to make this at Michael's. 
And one last one of Kara and Quinn, matching noses and all! Aaaaaaaw.
It was a perfect day spent with loved ones. If you have any questions, let's chat in the comments. Thanks for stopping by!

all images by Briana

Monday, July 4, 2011

Happy 4th Of July

Hey everybody!  We hope you are having an awesome holiday weekend!  I'm so grateful to live in a beautiful valley that has one of the largest 4th of July celebrations in this amazing Nation!  It's called the Freedom Festival and The Stadium Of Fire!  We've bbqued, went to the balloon launch, swam, went to the Stadium of Fire where I have to admit, every year I get a little teary eyed as nearly 65,000 spectators with hands over hearts say the Pledge Of Allegiance and then 4 F16 fighter jets fly straight over the stadium in a roar!!!!  It's incredible  and I am always filled with a grateful heart for the land I was born in!  There's the big parade where 6 years ago our Momma had the brilliant idea to jump on our scooters and head down the parade route the night before, throwing out candy to all of the little kids camped out with their parents, saving places for the parade the next morning!  What an awesome tradition!  It started with just our family and has now grown to over 75 people on motorcycles and scooters!  And the fun isn't over!  Today will be filled with family bbques, swimming and everyone gathering at our home tonight for more food and big fireworks!  This is hands down my favorite time of year!!!!!  And although with everything going on this weekend we've had to pick and choose because with little ones sometimes it's hard to go, go, go, it's still been amazing so far!  Unfortunately hauling my camera with me for everything going on, hasn't been realistic when you have a baby carrier on one arm and a loaded down diaper bag on the other arm and your husbands arms are occupied with the other two kiddos!  And although iphones can take some pretty amazing pictures, the pics I attempted to take were a big fail!;) So...a few pics from the balloon launch!  
Ace, Daddy and Vader

Indee, Dadda and Vader



Tallest balloon in the world @ 160 feet

My little family up at 6:30 am to see the balloons!
Happy 4th of July everybody!!!!!  Make it a memorable one!!!!!