Easter celebrations

We have been having fun getting ready for Easter around here.  Poppy and I made easter egg cookies to bring to the egg dying party with her cousins...

I love setting up the piping bags of different colors of icing and letting Poppy decorate her own cookies.  She had so much fun with these.

Then today we did the world's easiest, cutest Easter craft.  Check it out...

Is that not the cutest little lamb you've ever seen?  I found the idea on Pinterest.  Have you been pinning?  I am totally hooked.  I have found so many great ideas via pinterest!  

And then Sammy has been giving me a run for my money in the feeding department.  It started while we were in Florida, he has been refusing to let me spoon feed him and now he is even being picky about finger foods!  The only things he will voluntarily eat are cheerios and avocados.  Feeding time has quickly turned into drama around here...

This was my sorry attempt to get a few fruits and veggies into this kid the other day.  I offered him sweet potatoes mashed and as steamed fries.  I offered him kiwi.  I made a paste out of green bean puree and rice cereal that I could roll into little balls so that he could pick them up and eat them.  He said no to it all.  I finally ended up sticking his beloved cheerios into the green bean mash so that he would have to pick them out and maybe a little bit of veggie would stick to them.  That trick worked for about 3 cheerios until he refused those too.


For now, he wins the battle.  Avocados and cheerios it is!

Tomorrow is perogie making, followed by a ton of cooking and baking.  Poppy and I are making "resurrection rolls" (found via pinterest, of course!) on Sunday, those should be fun!  This is our first time being home for Easter (we're usually in Florida) in years, so we are really looking forward to it.

And I know, I still have to post Disney pics!

Valentiney Fun

Check out these adorable valentine's Poppy passed out this year...

We've been up to our eyeballs with cookies lately.

I was going to attempt to write little messages on the hearts to make them look like conversation hearts, but by the time I got done frosting them I was so over it.

Heart shaped brownies for dessert on top of all of the chocolate Marc gave me and Poppy for Valentine's Day...

Poppy worked very hard to make Sam and Marc valentines today...

She had me write this verbatim on the back of Marc's card:

Dear Daddy,

I really do love you.  Will you be my valentine?  Sammy did not cry at all today.

Love, Poppy

My three valentines...

...plus Lola.  She'll always be my valentine.

Did you know that Marc and I had our first official date on Valentine's day?  10 years ago today!  We met when we were both working at the same restaurant (he was a server and I was the hostess) and we both were going to Buffalo State College.  We were good friends for a while and we would hang out together after work or meet up between classes for lunch.  And then Marc claimed he needed to take an extra class, so he signed up for a lit. class with me (that had nothing to do with his major) and we did a whole lot of flirting with each other when we were supposed to be reading Farenheit 451.  And then he asked me out to dinner on Valentine's day, but made it seem like it was still "just as friends".  He picked me up in his little red Honda accord and I can still remember the exact outfit I was wearing.  We went out for sushi and spent the evening drinking lots of wine and talking about how we would love to go to Europe together someday.   Needless to say, we became "more than friends" after our valentine's day date.  A few months later, we did take our trip to Europe together.  A few years later we got married.  And now Poppy and Sam.  It's been an incredible 10 years together, can't wait to see what the next 10 hold for us...