The Platt Family

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Easter Eggs!

Has is really been so long?!?! I'm so sorry -- it's been a bit crazy and hectic around here. But this is me making an effort to catch up....

On Good Friday, we introduced the girls to dyeing eggs. They thought it was fantastic!

Mommy had hard-boiled the eggs, then Daddy lined up all the cups with different colors and we had fun trying them all out.

On Sunday, we had our own mini egg hunt -- Daddy hid the eggs in our front yard! (Yes, only in the front yard, and yes, we found them all!)

Ashley's is inspecting their 'camping hill' for some....

Danielle found one balanced in a bush...

...another on the chair!

...and one last one by the lamp post!

Easter baskets from Grandma and Grandpa!!

Beautiful flowers for the day from Dad and Carol!!

After church we were off to Uncle Raymond and Aunt Mary's -- kids galore, all looking to have fun!!

Off and running!

Counting as she's picking them up....

Showing two off!!

We had a WONDERFUL day celebrating our amazing Lord and his victory over death!!

Thursday, April 4, 2013

Snowman!

We had a 'late' storm last week -- and built a snowman!!

Danielle did most of the rolling, then Daddy helped her to stack them on top of each other.

...working on his face...

...and his arms...

Ashley had fun rolling herself in the snow. Literally.

TA-DA!!

...and Ashely 'shoveled' some snow...(this means seeing how far to could fling it off the shovel)

Being a goof ball!

Wednesday, April 3, 2013

The fort....

A little while back, the girls wanted to build a fort. Daddy was happy to oblige! As it was snowing out, the living room made for the perfect site:

Blankets and chairs all set up....

....and Daddy's work light made for a perfect reading light...

Later on that day Ashley made her own 'fort' to hide out in!

Monday, February 11, 2013

All righty then....I've been catching up so that I could show the BARN CAKE!!! Ashley has been asking for months to have a 'cow birthday.' Hm....what on earth could I do for it? I did a minimal amount of research and found an adorable idea -- complete with DIRECTIONS!! (I can follow directions....)

Step 1: bake a cake mix in 2 rounds, cut a chunk out and piece them together. Trim a pound cake to shape the barn, stack three cupcakes for the silo.

Step 2: frost the base green, with a white spot that will be covered with blue food-gel for a pond, frost the barn and silo white. Stick pull-apart licorice to the barn and silo. Use cereal (Life) for roof shingles.

Skipping ahead a bit. Lay pretzel sticks flat and use melted chocolate chips to 'glue' cross-bracing for fence sections. Coat 'pond'. Pipe white frosting door and windows, add pretzel details, add fences to cake. Add cupcakes for even more cuteness! The cupcakes were great!! The pigs were frosted pink, chocolate chip eyes, pink starbursts cut in half for the ears, then a marshmallow cut in half and dipped in pink sprinkles for the nose. The chicks were frosted yellow, chocolate chip eyes, yellow sprinkles (because I can't stand coconut, which is what it said to use), then jelly fruit slices cut up for the wings and beaks. The cows were frosted white, chocolate chip eyes, same marshmallow nose as the pigs, but then piped chocolate detailing.