Free Table

Orchid Show

Hair bow holder

It just tickles me pink how cute this turned out. I got a really cute frame (the one in the picture) last summer but all I knew was that it would be great in Madleine’s room. This weekend I came across this idea so I re-painted it white and found a great ribbon that brings out all of Madeline colors in her room. It turned out so cute that I thought I would leave it just as it was but this morning I put her hair bows on it to see what it would look like. I just think it’s adorable!!!

Take 2 – Ciabatta Bread

I decided to go again with the bread. This time I made my 2 loafs completely different from each other. The first I followed the recipe to a T. The second I decided to have some fun with a few different spices and WOW… I DID IT. I created the taste I was looking for. I am so happy and pleased!

Princess, Tea and Make-up Party

We had such a wonderful girl party yesterday. We invited just a couple of Madeline’s friends over. Madeline was so excited to have them here to play, do make-up and have tea.

Pretty Princess

Madeline was fascinated with herself in the mirror.

The girls absolutely loved applying their eye shadow, blush and then we helped them with the lipstick. They were sure beautiful and so proud of themselves! If you look closely at the pictures you can see the darker eye shadow, in lines, across the girls faces. Way to cute right!?!?!?




We then had a Tea Party. They were able to (with help) pour their tea and milk into their cup and spoon some sugar into it. Maddie had like 8 cups of tea. They really enjoyed it. Before, between and after the girls ran around being girls, enjoying each other and us mama’s had a really nice time chatting.


As you can see Caleb is not in the pictures… he is at school. I wanted to do something special for Madeline since I have done some one on one dates with Caleb. It was so much fun and I can’t wait to do it again. It just blessed my heart to watch these girls.

Cravings… Ciabatta Bread

A dear friend of mine made this wonderful, delightful, heavenly bread and if anyone knew me before a young adult there were two things I couldn’t live without… chocolate ice cream and sour dough bread. These two things were eaten by me, devoured and simply didn’t last long in our house.

Back to my story… I just happened to be at her house after she had baked a loaf and ever since I ate a slice, it is what I have been thinking about non-stop. I have even been simply clicking on her blog just to look at it… yes I am abscessed with this bread and you can see a lovely picture of it here http://scottyandnatalie.blogspot.com/2010/02/conversation.html.

I decided to try my hand at it and this is what came from it (picture below). I found two recipes on the internet and intertwined a few things to come up with mine. It was pretty yummy. I’m looking forward to making some homemade sour dough bread but I just have to get this one right first.

Bowling

The kids went to a Bowling birthday party. It was their first time bowling and they really enjoyed it. I found it really interesting that both of them wanted the heaviest ball which I think was a 8 or 9 lb ball. I’m really surprised Maddie didn’t drop it on her toes. Caleb loved to throw and really got into the game. He even had a strike. Maddie need help pushing the ball and just wanted to roll the ball and didn’t care about the outcome. It was really cute to watch both of them. I have also discovered to not have pizza at any of Madeline party’s because it’s her favorite and she will sit there for over a hour cramming pizza into her tummy and not caring what is happening around her.