I Love Sunflowers

Any one that knows me knows that I love Sunflowers. I had them in my wedding, I have them in my house, and I even have a Sunflower tag on my car. So of course when I found a cake in my Nana's Taste of Home "Best Ever Desserts" magazine that looks like a Sunflower I fell in love with it, and is so simple to make. All that you do to make it is make a two-layer cake and then frosted the top and the sides with chocolate icing. Then on the top placed chocolate chips in large circles, (to make the seeds of the Sunflower) you started using mini-chocolate chips in the middle and then move up to the bigger chocolate chips putting them very closely spaced together, covering the top of the cake. You need to live about 2 inches at the edge for where the Peeps will go that makes the Sunflower pedals. You will just use the Peeps just as the come out of the box and place them around the outside of the cake. So here is some pictures of my Sunflower Cake that I made.

Catching up

Well, it has been a little bit since I have posted anything, and I am trying to catch up. I just don't have as much time on my hands as I use to. My now mobile son Landon (who will be 1 years old on March 16) is keeping me on my toes. He is crawling now and getting in to everything that he can. I don't have time to just seat and eat those Bon Bons that everyone thinks us stay at home mom's eat. He has five teeth now. Two are on the bottom and three are on the top. He is working cut the sixth tooth and it is on the top. So here are some picture. So enjoy.

Landon in his room that he loves to be in.



Landon with his Firetruck.



See mom "I just love to pull all my books off the shelf and pile them on to the floor."



You can see four of my teeth



Can we say attitude


P.S. I will try to keep the Blog up to date.

Putting up our Christmas Tree

This is Landon's first Christmas. We can not wait till Christmas this year. So we put up our Christmas tree early this year. My mother-in-law (Mom O as I call her) as well as my mom and Dad helped Zach, Landon and me get it put up. We had so much fun. Talking and decorating the tree. I will put more pictures up as we get gifts under the tree. Landon did like the hat a lot.

Mom O working on the tree.

My mom and Zach standing on something to put ornaments on the tree.

This is such a tall tree. All 9 feet.



Landon with his Dad.

Landon putting on his first ornament with mom and dad

I love that tree!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Landon's First Christmas Tree

Eating Zwieback Toast

Landon loves to eat his Toast as you can see.
He will get it all over him, the highchair, and the floor.











We have to give him a bath every time he eats on of this.

Mother Daughter Weekend 2007

My Mother-in-law and Sister-in-law have been doing a Mother Daughter Weekend to Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg. Well for the last four years I have gone with them, seeing that I am the Daughter-in-law. It gives us time together scenes I live in NC and they live in TN and we do not get to see each other as much as we would like. Also it gives us time away from the men and the kids. This year was a little different because we had the the two newest members of the family with us, Landon and Liberty. On the first day of our trip we go to the Craft show in Gatlinburg and then head to some of our favorite shops. Then that night we usually eat somewhere nice, and then head to the hotel to rest because on the 2nd day we hit the outlets and shop till we drop. This year we staying at "The Christmas Inn". It was a very nice 4 star hotel. We can't waite till next year. Here is some of what we did......

On our Way

Here I am in the back with the kids
This is what the kids thought about the trip.

The Hotel

The kids on the trip.

Lets see what we can find on this TV.



It is ok you don't have to watch Football.