Blog Title (a little housekeeping)

I changed the banner at the top of my blog.

It now says "Raising Memories" which is really the most appropriate name for this blog- it's what I think of it as being called, but when people link to posts here they seem to always call it something different- it didn't help that the title at the top of my blog didn't say Raising Memories. But I bought www.RaisingMemories.com for a reason, so I'm going to keep the title at the top of this blog as Raising Memories, because that's what this blog is mostly focussed on these days.

Snack Time Fun

The girls have been getting sick of the same old snacks lately, so I'm trying to mix things up a little to get them to eat what we have...

Where's the Line to See Jesus?

My sister in law shared this with me and I thought it was definitely worth sharing. These days, Ken & I are focussed on making sure that our girls know the real reason for the season.

While it seems that most things around us are more focussed on Santa, we feel it most important to focus on Jesus. It's a tough balance sometimes.

A Pinkalicious Afternoon

Talia recently brought Pinkalicious home from her school library.


It's a cute story about a little girl whose mother makes her some very pink cupcakes. The little girl eats too many of them and turns pink! After my mom heard about this story, she told me I needed to make pinkalicious cupcakes with the girls. So, it's been in the back of my mind for a while.

A few days ago, we had my friend's daughter over for an afternoon and I decided it was the perfect opportunity to make pinkalicious cupcakes. We totally did this the easy way- white cake mix, ready-made white frosting, and pink food colouring.

Here's what we did:

1. Dress girls up in aprons
2. Let girls put pink cupcake papers in pan

3. Let each girl add one ingredient to bowl (that's all you need with a mix!)
4. Send girls off to occupy themselves in the playroom while you mix & pour the batter

(these 3 girls were in the living room playing with the cookie set, pretending they were pinkalicious cookies that were turning them pink ;)
5. Let them watch the cupcakes bake

6. Send them off to play for 10 to 15 minutes while you let the cupcakes cool, then either let them help frost them or do it yourself & call them over for a treat!

Monday Moments #20 - Chalk Drawings

It's been a while since I've done a Monday Moments Post. I'm loving Talia's drawings of people lately- they usually have some pretty fancy earrings ;)

Birthday Fun

Ken came home the night before Katrina's 2nd birthday with supplies & an idea. Here's what we did that night, to surprise the girls in the morning. It was so fun! :)