A Cooking Adventure

This morning I had to make the red velvet cake early for my yummy red, white, and blue trifle. I decided to have A help me with this task, which was interesting to say the least. All in all she did great, especially for a two year old (Well less than three weeks from now she will be). So off we went making our red velvet cake, from a box of course. I like to bake but I am nowhere near a pastry chef level.

We had lots of fun making this cake, especially using the mixer which she thought was quite hilarious! I have uploaded some of the pictures and the finished project!

Yummy Fourth of July Desserts

So Ch and I were sitting on the couch trying to decide what we are going to do tomorrow for the big holiday. The first thing that came to mind was "What are we going to eat?" I mean when you think of American you think of apple pie and all the other yummy food that we all know I love to eat. The good thing is that I only have to bring dessert because we all know I burn almost everything so that main cooking should be left to someone else.

I hopped online and tried to find a dessert item that would not only be yummy, but also very patriotic. I found many things that looked quite yummy but a little too difficult for my liking. I searched and searched until I found the dessert that I think would not only satisfy the yummy factor, but is very patriotic. I wanted to show you a picture of it and once I make it tomorrow I will upload mine and see how much better mine is of course lol.

We Love to Sing...

So for the past few months A has been obsessed with her "Twinkle Star" book. She wants to read it almost every night and even though I am getting a little annoyed by it she loves it. The just last week she started singing it on her own so tonight i was finally able to video tape her singing it to me (with a little help).


I was also able to videotape her reading "Five Little Pumpkins." Yes, this is a Halloween book but she just loves it. Enjoy!

A blog? Me? No!

When I started thinking about writing a blog I thought I would never have enough things to talk about and I would probably bore everyone to sleep. I probably will still bore everyone but at least this gives me a chance to type a lot instead of talk everyones ear off like we all know I like to do. As I thought about what the name of my blog should be the only ideas that came to mind all centered around A of course. Her being the center of my world and the person that I love the most did not surprise me in the least that I would want to talk non-stop about her.

So, I sat down with Ch and tried to come up with a name. We had to do this fairly quick due to the fact that we are leaving on our road trip in one week and I am nowhere near prepared to be gone, in a car, with a 2 year old, for 3 weeks! Yes, I have been told many times that I am crazy, and no, we are not cancelling the trip. So I sat down with Ch and we threw ideas back and forth at each other. Nothing was sounding good to what our family was about and what we wanted to blog about. So without a name, I started designing the header for my blog. I was picking cute pictures of a (which of course took forever since every picture of her is cute) and it came to me. I was looking at pictures of her at the park and how happy she was just playing on the slide. She did not care what was going on in the world around her, or whether or not we are going to find a house, or all the millions of other things going on in my mind right now. All she cared about were "Life's Simple Pleasures" and that is how this blog came to be.

I will use this mainly to showcase my gorgeous daughter and all the cute and funny things she does on a daily basis. I will also be using this blog to update everyone on where we are on our roaptrip along with a few pictures or videos along the way so you can see what we are doing and so that two certain grandmas won't suffer from not seeing their grandduaghter for 3 weeks..eh hem. lol. So I hope you enjoy reading my blog and I hope you get a laugh or at least a smile from our family as we experience "Life's Simple Pleasures."