It was one of Benjamin's good buddy's birthdays this weekend so he put in a special order for my yummy tie dye cupcakes. I went and grabbed the white frosting, and cake mix, got home put the girls down to bed and started another tie dye cupcake night. Girls were passed out, and the mix was all made up separated out and colored when I started putting the cupcake papers in my pan only to find that I only had 10 left! No worries my husband, who I called in a panic at work to beg him to fix my problem, said...10 is plenty for Josh...just make a cake with the rest! Sure a cake...here we go! I decided that since the frosting was in so many colors anyway, for the tie dye cupcakes of course, that I should have some fun with the cake frosting as well....Id say things turned out pretty cute since I have never attempted any kind of cake decorating before, I order birthday cakes to be pink sparkly princess spectacular, here is the Easter fun the girls got to wake up to the next morning...and couldn't wait to take to Daddy....Daddy couldn't have been more impressed with my skills! ;) Did I mention half way through frosting mess Makaia woke up....ahhh...this is how the kitchen looked when I was finished...at least she wasn't a grump in the middle of the night...

Year full of Fun

I had the hardest time at the end of 2010 trying to find a new family calendar. We have done the lighthouse year, the Disney Princess year(Daddy loved that one), the black & white gorgeous shots of big cities year, but I just wasn't feeling another year of any of those. I also just couldn't bring myself to spending $15 on a calendar! So onto eBay to find a blank DIY calendar to start my fun project! I found them on eBay for like $3 and figured you cant beat that, I ordered 3! I decided it would be a fun way to share the year through pictures, and making my own calendar was a fun winter project anyway! Of course the grandma's would need one as well. Especially with Makaia being in her first year and changing so much month to month, this would be a great way to keep up to date! So I made the layouts...

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

I left the picture's blank and at the end of every month we mail off the picture for the next months slot so grandma's month is up to date! She of course looks forward to see who made the cut for the next month! Such a fun and super easy little project...I'm thinking we will do this every year!!!

Tie Dye cupcake fun

I decided to try a fun new cupcake and they turned out great! The girls just LOVED them, and Daddy was pretty excited to take them to the station to show off his girls cupcake baking magic! I started with a plain white cake mix and made it just as the box said. Then I separated the mix into 5 different bowls. I added food coloring to each bowl, I used the neon food color which I ended up loving, the colors were sooo vibrant! Then I just dropped a bit of each color into my cupcake tin and...

Magic! Tie dye cupcakes! I love the colors, these are too cool!

Then onto the frosting! I made some yummy colors, put them all in the bag and voila!

These were so fun, so easy, and sooo pretty! I'm not a cupcake eater but Benjamin and the girls said they were soo yummy too :) Enjoy!

Tiny Dancers

The girls have been taking dance for about a year now, and they are just too stinkin cute! They take a dance/tap/ballet class and are getting ready for a big show in June! The costumes are so adorable its disgusting! So much fun to spend our Friday mornings watching them learn and love dance! Here are some pics from ballet... This is Malaia and Miss Ava, their Daddys work together.

Little Mia in ballet

Snider Family Fishing Fun

Daddy came home from a loong 2 days on duty only to convince me to go fishing with him and the Bigs. Usually fishing trips are for Daddy Malaia and Mia while mommy puts Kaia down for a nap and gets some scrapping done. But today was a full family fishing day. In the RAIN! I don't like being cold, but what Daddy wants Daddy gets...so I bundled up and headed out for the adventure...

Ok so Dad's fishing hole is pretty covered by trees, and it was only sprinkling outside so we were safe from the rain...

Kaia thinking...why do they do these things to me....

The Bigs...they are fishing pros...they taught mommy that fishing trips really just mean, outside with lots of snacks while you throw sticks in the water and scare the fishies away...which makes Daddy upset;)

Ill be honest I spent most the fishing trip taking pictures of the girls...I cant help myself! But we had a fun outdoor day with Daddy...and I think Kaia even had fun, although none of the pictures really captured that;) Our fishing trip was cut short due to our little Mia falling in...Daddy was right there to grab her right up, she was our only catch of the day. Mommy laughed, Mia yelled...its not funny! We spent the rest the day talking about having Mia for dinner...her only reply, Its not funny guys!!!

Happy Wednesday to all, hope yours was a fabulous as ours!!!

One of the Coast Guard wives is the assistant coach for the high school cheer leading team in Reedsport. This year when they did their Jr. Cheer camp she thought of our little Malaia and made an exception to the rule, letting Malaia do the camp even though she was only 4. Malaia had practice every day for 2 hours all leading up to the big Friday night halftime show. She loved practice, and we loved her coming home and teaching us her moves! She was a little upset on day one when she came home and told us she had to be a Brave, and not a Bruin like aunt Kiki, but we told her with Daddy's job she would be cheering for many many teams in her years:) Go Braves!!!

Mia and Makaia got red ribbon to cheer on the cheerleader!!!

G O everybody LET'S GO!!!

The halftime dance, it was too cute! She did so great! Very proud mamma!
High V....GO BRAVES!!! Go Laia!!!

Our dentist here likes kids to be 3 before they come in for their first cleaning. Malaia has always loved getting her teeth cleaned, if we drive by her dentist office she will even ask, "Can I go get my teeth cleaned!!!", so you can imagine how excited Mia was to turn 3 and be old enough to get HER teeth cleaned! Auntie Jamie would be so proud. Mia did just wonderfully, and walked around the rest of the day showing everyone, "See how clean my teeth are!!!". So sweet! 20 beautifully perfect teeth! Go Mia!!!