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I mean, seriously…how can they be so cute? I know what its like to have a way cute baby! Can you imagine having 2 at once? To have a house ooozing with cuteness? Double the funny smiles. Twice the sloppy kisses. 4 fat feet full of squishy toes. Not to mention double the amount of itty clothes, adorable shoes, short socks, sweet lovies, soft blankies, and ok let me quit before you all think Im crazy!! boy h and girl h are just the sweetest little ones! I love hanging out with them! On to the pictures!!!
Enjoy!

I don’t talk alot about homeschooling on here. I just don’t seem to ever get around to it. Id love to shout from the rooftops how wonderful I think that it is. Tell everyone what a blessing it has been to our family. How amazing it is to see my girls grow so close to one another. To know that they really are best friends. To see that excitement in their eyes when they learn something new. And how I know that their days are spent learning through living. Learning through reading. Learning while playing. Their days are full of imaginative play and nature study. Its really a beautiful way to grow up. This spring we added something amazing to our homeschool routine. We have begun to follow the Alphabet Path….and what a beautiful path it is! Its been so fun for all of us!!! We just tacked it on with our normal math, grammar, history, and science studies. We love it all. We even used the flower fairy CD at our tea party. Its beautiful music!! Ok, so you can see I’m excited! Anyway, last week was “D” week. We did not have time to make these donuts because we got very sidetracked with dinosaurs. lol. That’s ok…Valentines (or Balentimes) day was the perfect day to make Decadent Donuts! We decided to make it a little more appropriate for Valentines Day and used a heart shaped cookie cutter to shape our donuts! I think they look wonderful! Avah did a GREAT job! Enjoy the pictures!
And here is a recipe! Grab your kids and have fun! It was a YUMMY treat for sure!!!
What you need:
•a roll of refrigerated biscuit dough
•a bag of good chocolate chips
•a cup of heavy cream
•sugar and cinnamon
•premium vanilla bean ice cream (think Blue Bell…)
•oil for frying

Take the biscuits and flatten them with your hand. Use a cookie cutter or your finger and cut out (poke out) a hole. We fried our “holes” lol. Heat your oil and fry your biscuits. It doesnt take long. Mix the sugar and cinnamon on a plate. Roll the donuts in the sugar mixture. Heat the cream on the stove. Melt chocolate chips in the cream. Stir until smooth. Top your donut with ice cream and chocolate syrup. YUMMY! Its very easy…and Im sure you can figure out what to do from the pictures below…my directions are probably scattered. LOL

Enjoy!!!

hmm so I remember saying something about blogging once a week for 2011…and what week are we in now? Pretty sure I failed at that “resolution”…ah well. We have been busy around here! Its been cold. Too cold. We had snow…again…and while I was excited to see it..and take a few pictures in it….I was certainly ok with seeing it melt away. School is in full swing again after our holiday break. We keep things moving around here!!!

A couple of weeks ago, the girls decided to host a tea party for Valentines Day. I mentioned it to my friend Allyson…and we decided it was a go! So, I threw a little something together….it was so fun! I never hosted or attended tea parties as a child. I don’t remember playing tea party either. Maybe every once in a while, but I think we played restaurant more often. So this was new territory for me…but my brain was swimming with ideas…and I have so many more for future tea parties!

Here are a few pictures of the party details. I do have some “action” shots..but they are on my phone and I cant find the cord that gets them off of my phone…so this will have to do for now.

It shouldn’t be too hard to picture a handful of little ladies dressed in their best dresses…gathered around a much too big table and sipping on “tea” should it?

Enjoy! We did!