Pink Cupcakes

Happy cupcake day!

Emma turns 2 and has 2 cupcakes while relaxing in her pink beanbag chair.

Look.  The icing is the best part!  You got a problem with that?

It's lip-smwacking delishy-wishy-ious!

Now leave me alone so I can give this cupcake my full attention!  I'll just set the other one down for later.

Cupcake anyone?

The Candy Man Can

"Who can make the world sing?

The candy man can!

Cuz he mixes it with love and makes the world taste good!"

I'm sure you've heard the song but I'll try to find it on You Tube and put a link on the bottom for you.

My Auntie is my "candy man!"

She is famous for making candy and though I'm not normally one for sweets, she makes this one kind of toffee that I absolutely love.

This was a really nice morning spent with my Auntie.  I got to watch how she made it and took some pictures so that I'll be able to try it at home.

Mmmm - the ingredients - are brown sugar, butter, condensed milk and golden syrup....and mmmm...starting with that, how could anything be wrong!!!

(Oh - she also made a tasty chicken soup that day too as you can see.)

I'm in love!  Loook at that toffee!!!  And I got to take home the batch!!! How lucky for me!!!  Plus she gave me a cast iron pan that she's used for years to make toffee.  I hesitated to accept it, but she said she has another one in her cupboards.  I hope so. 

Anyways, it was so nice to spend the morning with her and watch my "Candy man" making the candy that only she can!  Thanks Auntie!  You mixed it with love and made the world taste good!
Here's the song for you :
 http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=4933508143836519480 
by Sammy Davis (and I prefer to think he was really talking about candy - not cocaine!)

Family Time

These should cheer up your day if it's been anything like mine...very snowy, very blowy and very grey and cold.

  But here's to a couple of kids who brightened our weekend:

Isn't he a cute little dude at six months old?

How about this adorable little two year old face below:

What a fluke to actually snap the camera when the bubbles were right there!

And then there's this newest snuggle bundle addition to the family:

We all had a good time together this weekend

 celebrating Emma's second birthday. 

Sure hope everyone drove carefully home.

Touch of Summer Color

"I feel the need....the need for speed!" (name that movie)
Top Gun of course -- my all time favorite summer time movie!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlkInNZ7xis&feature=related - short clip

This is a longer music video with scenes from the show...makes me want to go watch the movie again:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f90YCdYIADQ&feature=related
 
Actually I feel the need...the need for color!  I've changed my desktop backgroud to a lovely summer butterfly and flower picture because I feel like my eyes are starving for bright, beautiful blues, pinks and greens!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCmUhYSr-e4 - mmm - another Top Gun song for you...Sitting On the Dock of the Bay....love it!

How about you?  Are your eyes needing a lift 'round about now?  Here's the summer picture that I've used for my background so that my eyes can feast on this little bit of loveliness - ahhhhhhh!

Spider Plant Project

Oh groan.  It's time once again for Science Fair Projects.  This year there was a change in the procedures and my daughter had to apply to have her experiment idea approved before beginning.

Her original thought was to try to prove that breakfast IS good for us.  She wanted family members to take a test after eating breakfast.  Then on a different day, take a test first but then eat breakfast right after the test.  Seemed pretty fine to me.

But the all powerful committee didn't think so!  They declined this experiment on the basis that it could be harmful to the subjects.  Harumph!?! Are you kidding me?  With a Science Committee like this, pretty soon there won't BE a Science Fair!!! 

So the second idea was an idea to test whether baby spider plants would grow better in water, ginger-ale or lemon juice.  This apparently is okay with the committee...never mind that we might actually kill the baby spider plants!!! 

So here's a couple pictures of the first day.  The roots in the water are looking pretty good now (on day 9) and the plant in the gingerale hasn't changed too much but has grown no roots, and the plant in the lemon juice is slowly rotting!  Joy oh joy of Science Fairs!