LuLu's Cake

I made my first "big" cake this last weekend for my good friends little girls 1st birthday! (Wow that is a mouth full!) I was really nervous going into it since I haven't attempted to tackle a three tiered cake before. And it definitely helped that Karina was there helping me throughout the night. She was the best and rolled all of the little balls that went around the base of each layer and also cut out all of the dots and put them on the cake. By that time I was really tired and ready to be done so she really saved my bacon! It was a lot of fun and I learned a lot. So now it doesn't seem too hard to decorate a cake that big.

Karina made the things coming out of the top and found the boa that wrapped around the base of the cake. It turned out really cute!I also made a little cake for LuLu to be able to eat all by herself. She was really funny about it though and didn't really want to get messy. She ate like a little princess. To see her, go here...
I can't take credit for these great pics. I stole them off of Karina's blog. Thanks Karina!!! You captured the perfect pictures of the cakes!

Easter Time

This year I decided to take the easy road and not host Easter at our house. This has been the tradition for the last several years and this year it seem to be too much for my mind to wrap around so we went to my mom and dad's house for Easter dinner and an egg hunt.

The girls slept in on Easter morning, which was nice, but Eric and I were up around 7:30. It was funny that we were the ones waiting for the kids to get up so they could find their baskets! When they finally got up they found their baskets and had a lot of fun going through them to see what the Easter Bunny had brought them.

Aubrey was really excited to find new "diva" sunglasses in her basket. Her sunglasses had fallen out of her purse, the week before, when she was riding her bike around the driveway and her Daddy has accidentally run them over with the bulldozer which squished them flatter than a pancake. When she found them she was crushed. She loved those sunglasses. So it was a great thing that the Easter Bunny knew just where to find new ones to replace them.
She went a little wild trying to find all of the hidden eggs.
Kiersten was a little more mellow about the whole thing. I hope she doesn't think that she is getting too old to do a egg hunt. I still wish that I could participate.

All in all, rain and all, we had a very relaxing Easter! It was fun to be with my family and only have to worry about making one salad. Hope that everyone had a great day as well!!! Love to all!