Five Beautiful Blessings Between Heaven & Earth

We had our family photos taken for the first time since we lost our Beautiful Colette. I think I knew it would be hard but I don't think I was prepared for how hard it would be. I just had my dad take them out int the back yard while we were all wearing our July Shirts. I just was not up to setting up the lights and the backdrops. I'll have to do that eventually but this will do for now. To be honest now that we have had them taking I've been really struggling with the fact that at 31 my family photos will be incomplete for the rest of my life. It hurts my heart and my head to know that we will always be missing our Colette. That there should be two little girls with darling dimples not just one. It just really does not seem fair and I'm having a hard time dealing with the fact that while everyone else takes their complete family photos for granted and their biggest frustration is that someone was not smiling or not looking at the camera. My biggest frustra...

One of the best things about living in Utah is that if you don't have time to fit in all the festivities on the 4th of July you can wait and do it on the 24th! I found this darling idea for red white and blue cupcakes, and just didn't have time to get it done for the 4th so I decided to make them with my kids on for the 24th. And here are my three happy helpers. First you take a white cake mix and mix it all up according to directions. divide the cake mix into thirds, add red food coloring to one part of the cake mix and blue to the other. leave the last 1/3 plain white Scoop one spoonful of each color into a muffin so you have lawyers of red white and blue. Then cook according to directions while they were cooking my little helpers make blue chocolate hearts to go on top of our cupcakes. here are my helping hands making the chocolate. Bridgett didn't get to do as much as the boys did but she still had a great time watching and helping where she could I love thi...

Yesterday was Dad Chadwick's Birthday (yes I'm a little slow on the posts this week) for over 4 years I"ve been trying to make this cake for Dad for his Birthday, This year I just decided to make it especially since Mom had to work till late that night. You can't have to many Birthday cakes right? So I opened my book and was excited to try this new cake for the first time. Double Chocolate Mousse Cake! Here it is right out of the oven. After it sits in the fridge for over half a day you "frost" it with melted chocolate, you place wax paper strips under the cake to catch the drips and then when you are done you gently pull them out, and walaah "You have a perfect cake" at least that is what the recipe book says, to be honest i was nervous about this step but it worked wonderfully! I used some melted chocolate to make the words, wrote them on wax paper, and put it in the fridge until hard, peeled them off the wax paper and placed them ...

Today we went to a friends house for a play date of water fun! My kids LOVE to jump on anything bouncy and apparently if you add water to it it's even more fun! No one wanted to come home for lunch. I finally dragged them home at noon for some food. I think everyone had a great time! This is Aaron Bridgett and Caden on the Trampoline.

I've started working on my quilt. so far I have turned all my fabric into 6" squares. Something tells me that this was the EASY part of the project. But I'm happy to have it started none the less.

For everyone who knows me Green has always been my favorite color. I LOVE GREEN! Right now my room is painted sage greeen with darker sage green curtains and bedspread. Sadly my comforter is not going to last forever and Dusty and I can't find anything to replace it with that we like. Seems that greens are not in right now. What's in ? Well it seems that hot bright colors are in, and while I can appreciate those colors I love that my room is restful because of the greens. So I'm diving into a new project. It won't be a quick one it's going to take lots of time but I'm so excited. I want to make a new comforter for our bed. using .... you guess it! Lots of different shades of Green and cream. and instead of tying it I want to send it in to someone who owns a long arm stitchery and have them stipple it for me. I'm just hoping that when I"m done it will be as good as the vision I have in my head! Am I crazy??? Probably! Any...