My Mother's Day

The scouts in our ward used Mother's Day as their fund raiser for Scout Camp. They sold little cakes (mostly to the husbands) for Mother's Day. Dan somehow ended up spearheading and being in charge of this grand project. I think they sold close to 45 cakes. Dan divvied up the labor and I helped by baking 20+ cakes. Saturday morning, I helped Dan frost most of ours.

Its a 4 1/2" 3 layered chocolate cake with chocolate shavings on top. Dan really wanted them to be nice and worth the $10 charge. He did good work. There were some Tower of Pisa issues, but all in all, they looked pretty good.
This was the lemon version. Lemon cake with a lemony frosting. Also nicely done. Dan really wanted something artistic on the top, but this was the best we could come up with. I think there were some variations, and I think they all looked cute. Dan did all the top decorating.

Here are the cakes done at our house. I had wanted a picture of all the cakes we did, but some were already picked up. Still, not bad for a good deal of hard work. (And only one casualty!)

This was the adorable Rylee face I saw this morning. This is her alert face. She has to see everything and be involved in everything. She is such a busy baby. She won't snuggle, because she has to see what's going on. Just look at those eyes!

I did super-cute things with the girls' hair this morning and got all the kids together after church for a picture. Out of the 10 or so shots, this one was the best. Sigh. On the plus side, they are all looking at me, and I think it is in focus!

Since it is Mother's Day, I thought I maybe needed a picture of me with the children. That was fun too. This was the best one. I think it is a little blurry, and Joshua is..... well, I can't actually explain that. I guess its the best one because I look excited to be there!

This is Delaney's hair. She also had 4 tiny ponytails at the nape of her neck, which really made this cute and complicated looking.

This is Marian's hair. 2 tuck-under knots to a tuck-under ponytail. She was pleased with it and she looked so cute!

And Callie;s hair. Just 5 rows of little ponytails and I collected them into one half-ponytail in the back. She was happy with it, but wanted more bows. I guess I may actually have to start buying bows, since we have none! I never expected to actually do fun hair! But I have discovered that I like it, and Callie loves it, and it improves my Mom status, so I guess we'll keep doing it.

Happy Mother's Day!