Proud Parents

Out of no where today Lydia asked to ride her bike. Guess what she can push the pedals finally. Kris and I bought this Radio Flyer trike when she was 2 months old at a garage sale for $5. After storing it in the garage it has finally come to good use. She went around the block twice and to the park with daddy to play.

We had a beautiful weekend. I have attached some pictures of the yard and what is in bloom.

My 1st Fondant Cake

So my 2nd cake class is Tiered Cakes and Fondant. Last night we played with fondant and I built this.




Lydia won't have anything to do with the camera so no good photos of her.


No other news around these parts.

Easter

We had a great Easter as a family. We dyed eggs, the Easter Bunny came, we had an egg hunt, church and brunch.

Here are a few photos.

Our new addition

Sorry for the title, I am sure some of you got excited!
Here is our backyard before the pergola (addition)





Here it is now, we are finally going to be able to enjoy the backyard this summer!




The pot I found at home depot on clearance for $6, it was BRIGHT PURPLE (this one is for you mom)

The cupcake's I made yesterday for Easter!

Easter Egg Hunt at the Zoo

We had a great Saturday morning at the Boise Zoo, every year they put on an Easter Egg hunt with the Easter Bunny and fun activies for the kids to do. Lydia set out with her Dora Bucket and wasn't sure what to do next. After watching the kids she figured it out. She rode the merry go round and even sat with the Easter Bunny.

Today at church she was a pistle, which really isn't that new, and after Mass we had a older lady come up to us and tell us she is so beautiful and full of life! That kind of made me step back and appreciate that she is so full of life and does her own thing when she wants and not a minute sooner. It made me feel really good to hear those words after fighting with her for 90 minutes to be behave. We are very lucky parents to have such a wonderful little girl!

My Masterpiece'(s)

I know you have all be waiting to see the final cake :)-
Well here it is!


A picture of my other masterpiece!

First week of spring (or weekend)

Spring has popped up here in Boise. We have been busy in the yard all week. Lydia and I painted some old pots, and some new ones to plant out flowers in. We hauled in a yard of garden dirt for our new expansion in our garden. I planted peas, radish, potatoes, red, yellow and white onions, bib lettuce, spinach and a rhubarb plant. I might do beets in a few weeks but not sure yet. I still need to start all my indoor seeds for this summer. We planted 100 bulbs this weekend also, glads, dalhia's, iris and lupine. So needless to say I am done digging for a few days and need to just water water water, and pray the sun comes out. I had my 3rd cake class on Thursday and we learned how to make faces, hearts, cherries, grapes, drop flowers and shell borders. It was fun and next week is the last in the series 1, I have signed up for series 2 that will start in April for 4 weeks. I also finally just about finished Lydia's felt play house, I started on it the day after Thanksgiving but with working and everything else it took forever to find the time to get it done. She just loves it. I just have to get the roof on it.