Easter with the Little Ones

I was lucky enough to have several days off the week before Easter to go down in La Fayette. Here is Zoe & Bryce with the very elderly cat Ernie. Blessings to Ernie and his sweet life these past two years in La Fayette.

What does a visit from Teppie mean? Lots of picking up, throwing around, dropping and tickling. Later followed by sore muscles and a back ache. But its worth it.

The first of Project CupCake Practice. The kids were sooooo helpful with the baking of the cupcakes, which Bryce picked out from the grocery store.

Who loves cake mix? Pretty much everybody. It must run in the family.

Learning the art of partially-filling the cupcake holders. Zoe wanted to fill them all to the top.

Now for the Icing making. They picked their own favorite colors.

Stacy had the awesome idea of bringing her friend Cresta over to teach basic Icing techniques to me. I was affirmed to learn that I had started down the right path with my collection of Wilton supplies, and Cresta then gave so many additional Handy Tips & recommendations to my many questions. After this night of Icing practice we headed straight to Hoby Lobby to pick up the rest of my needed supplies and pertinent decorating books as recommended by Cresta.
Saves me so much time and money!

Zoe & Nanny

PICTURE TIME WITH TEPPIE!!! Which means making lots of silly faces!

And just like Otto, all the playing around and dancing and being a general goof ball eventually wears the lil pups OUT!

When I got back from Indiana, I had the awesome task of baking cupcakes for the Vlcek Easter Sunday gathering. It took sooooo much more time that I had expected. I did get the icing texture correct - even maybe alittle too tough.

Ray took this sweet picture. I suppose that without thinking about it, this is the smile that he brings to my face.

My hands got so cramped and
sore for days afterwards.
The Icing was so thick, it took
lots of muscle to work it.

Eli drinking soda from a wine glass. He had lots of opinions to share on Sunday about global warming, the bailout and the government! Lol.

My easter cupcakes with Pam's double chocolaty-chocolate lamb cake.

Emily's 3rd eye!

Playing a fun game of 500 Rummy. It came down between Ray & Becky.

The two little pooch's running around Pam's house. Ray and I left Otto at home to relax...he'd had two days and several hours of dog park fun lately and we decided he needed some time off from all the socializing.

Ray helping Emily unravel her Easter Egg towel. We also had fun playing outside with her giant bubble wand and some bouncy paddles/balls.

A really good Easter time was had by all! Thank you Pam for hosting & Thank you Stacy for letting me stay over for the week. Such a great Easter week.