Princess Wedding Breakfast

Like a third of the world's population we were up bright and early to witness the festivities of William and Kate's nuptials. Lola was so excited to see a real princess wedding that she didn't fuss for a second when I went in to wake her up at 5:30am. I remember watching princess Diana's wedding all those years ago with my mom and my two older brothers. This event was something that I had to share with my little girl.

I pulled out my mom's tiara for the event and Lola and I took turns wearing it. I normally try not to put terrible pictures of myself up on the internet (there are already more then enough of those here and here), but I love this picture because Lola and I are completely mesmerized by the love and the pageantry.
Darcy was even in the princess spirit and wore a crown while making our delicious princess breakfast.
Congratulations Will and Kate! Good luck and thanks for letting us be a part of your special day!

Man vs Ikea

Our house has looked a bit hoarder-ish lately, ever since Darcy took a trip to Ikea and came home with the eight boxes that would make up our new backyard furniture.
Almost our entire house has been made by the those sneaky Swedes and an allen key.
Lola loves when new boxes from Ikea arrive at our house because she knows that it means a special project for her and Daddy.
She is a really big helper and will pass you the 'knocker' or the 'squisher' when asked and very rarely misplaces one of the screws.
Lola and Darcy managed to get the table, six chairs, and the bench together. The project ended up spanning over two days and only involved one broken part and a dozen words we hope Lola doesn't repeat. The backyard look great, the only problem is that it has been raining ever since so I haven't had an opportunity to get outside and take some pictures of the finished product. Hopefully you will see lots of pictures of the new backyard set up over the summer!

Party Rockers

We have a new favourite song around here, Party Rock Anthem, Lola requests it all the time. These photos don't do her shufflin' justice, but enjoy none the less.








And yes, this dance does need to be done topless and with props.

Easter Crafts

Mom and Sarah like to make stuff. They spend weeks looking through craft books and magazines in order to completely plan out their holiday crafting and baking sessions. This year for Easter they decided that working on cream filled eggs and Chick cakepops would be the focus of their Easter craft day.

The cream filled eggs were a recipe suggested by Grandma and the ladies thought that they would tackle them first.
They were pretty easy mix sugar with more sugar and then some sweetened milk.
Form the sugar into egg like structures.
And then dip in chocolate.
Wrapped in purple foil to make them look official. Done!

Part of the excitement for Mom and Sarah is that while they are baking and crafting they get a chance to go and get fueled up on designer coffees from the Red Rocket. The Red Rocket is always full of delicious treats and on this visit the ladies felt that they needed something a little bit more substantial then a cookie or a muffin to get them through an afternoon of cake popping. They decided that they needed the macaroni and cheese empanada! It also contains cut up hot dogs and a sprinkling of potato chip. It is as delicious as it looks, unless you think it looks gross, then it is way better then it looks.
Then it was back to work in the kitchen. They are getting pretty good at decorating cakepops. Though when you are working with something this cute it is really hard to screw it up.
See, look how cute they are!

The cakepop chick army all ready for distribution across Southern Ontario over the Easter holidays. Mom and Sarah were pretty happy with how everything turned out.

More pictures from the rest of the busy Easter weekend to come!