Photoshopped Easter

Instead of going to bed like I should, I decided to play with the photos I took today (actually, now it is yesterday) of the kids. I laughed out loud and made Scott laugh too when I told him I shrunk the kids. Maybe I will post that one at the end. Anyway, after some more playing, I ended up with these, which I think turned out kind of nice.







Here is the funny one.

Amazing Easter Cake

Scott always has the assignment of bringing dessert to family parties. Today he chose to go all out with a carrot cake. See the results below. I don't even like carrot cake, but I decided to try it and it was seriously awesome!



The frosting on the side is textured like a basket.



The nest is made of spun sugar, filled with Cadbury mini eggs.

Egg Dying (or nintendo, your choice)

Friday night we dyed eggs. Scott always really enjoys dying eggs and trying new things (along with some of the old things he learned from his mom). This year he read an idea (on the internet, of course) of putting a bit of vegetable oil in the cup with the dye. When the egg hits the water, spots on the shell get oil on them and those areas will not dye. The result is pretty cool.

Sam, amazingly, did not want to dye eggs, because he preferred to use the time playing Nintendo. (He finally did one egg when we told him there was only one left.)

Our friend Dallin was over, so he had fun coloring eggs with us as well. We were all so excited when he got a call from Hale Theater (during the egg dying) letting him know that he had been cast in the part of Barnaby in Hello Dolly this Summer (the musical in WALL-E). It was so awesome to share that moment with him. Dallin was literally crying, and the rest of us were jumping up and down. He immediately called his mom to let her know (she lives in Arizona. We wish Dallin wasn't spending Easter by himself today while we are with extended family. Love ya, friend!)

Anyway, here are how the eggs turned out.

The rainbow ones are my favorite. Scott's rainbow egg turned out better than mine, of course. The egg on the left was dipped in 3 different dyes containing oil, the oil wiped off really good in between each dunking. I really like the way it looks.

YW Conference

Three mothers and 4 daughters from our ward carpooled to the YW session of conference last Saturday. We had a lot of fun. President Monson's talk on courage was awesome.

Spring Soccer?

I looked out the window this morning and hoped the soccer coach would call, but assumed he wouldn't. So we prepared the treats and bundled ourselves up for an adventure.



Here is Sam, already cold 5 minutes after arriving at the field, so he is wearing the zip-out lining of my coat while dad grabs his coat from home.



I think the kids are a little warmer while running around. Fortunately, not too many of them fell while running, and they didn't even complain very much. We had 7 kids show up and the other team only had 4, so some of our team played on their team. Our best player (who is in our ward), played for them during the first half, and for us during the second half. I think he made all the goals. :)


Ah! Hot chocolate for half-time treat. Good idea, mom. :)

Needless to say, Mom, Dad, and Sam were all pretty frozen by the time we were done!

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Soccer practice was on Thursday, and it appeared to be a beautiful day if you looked to the East.


...but then look West a bit....

...and a bit more...


The wind was insane! But the storm didn't actually arrive until after we got home, thank goodness!