Try This At Home

David had already gotten his birthday present before his birthday rolled around but I still wanted to do something for him on his special day. I figure you only get one day a year that's all about you. Anyway, it's hard on us girls to think what can we do for a guy that is affordable (that means not electronic) that he'll still like. Flowers and candy are out. So this is what I came up with... it still might teeter on the edge of being an acceptable gift to a guy, but I think it turned out pretty great. I decided to make him an arrangement with strawberries. Let me tell you it was so fun. Even though they're not as forgiving as silk flowers it still turned out. So here's what I did in case you want to try it...

After I dipped the strawberries in Chocolate I sprinkled coconut or put on slivered almonds for variety. I put the strawberries on the ends of skewers for shish-ka-bobs and used kale for the greenery.

Snow Fun

In January we went up to Flagstaff to play in the snow. For months Allyse has been saying that she wants to throw a snowball at her Dad. She finally got her chance even though it was a little hard to make the snow into a ball since it was so powdery. We went up with our friends the Sparks had a lot of fun. Rebecca and Allyse loved sledding. Of course David and I did too. We even raced. Nathan went down with me on one of the first runs before we had some really good trails going and so he got a face full of snow. Needless to say he didn't love sledding. He did love playing in the snow and kept picking up chuncks of snow and saying Mommy look at the clouds. Everyone loved the hot chocolate at the end.