More babies, bread, bikes, and bainbows, no ... rainbows

So another baby girl, Jady was born on Saturday! She is the one I threw the shower for. Megan was already out visiting members of our church with me less than a week later ... wow .. I'm impressed. Sounds like one baby is too easy for her.

In other news ... Tyler made some cinnamon raisin bread and it was a huge recipe! It made four loaves. Here he had to roll it into one huge snake and then cut it. It is quite delicious.

One of the reasons he has time to make cinnamon raisin bread is that he is now working from home. During the past three weeks I could have taken a picture of him napping with the girls, or us taking walks, or him going on stumbleupon.com, but that wouldn't have been exactly fair. He is working on building his networking business, and it has been wonderful. I actually remember why I married my husband, and enjoy being around him. Not that I didn't before, but I didn't remember what it was like to be around him a lot. Between a corporate job and a business, I didn't realize how busy he was and how little time we got to spend together. Welcome home daddy! We love you!

The theme this week is rainbows. Who doesn't like a good rainbow? But first let me talk about last week's theme: lighthouses. Lighthouses are great and all, especially when you live in a state that is full of them. But when it's cold and rainy, and you drive an hour to try to find one, then don't, it's a little disheartening. The location online was in a location called "old channel NE in Lake St. Clair." The GPS couldn't find it. Neither did we. We did find water and a huge barge was passing through. Very pretty. We got hot chocolate on the way home. Violet soaked herself with it, but a good time was had by all.

On to this week's theme. Below are some fun projects we've done:


Ava riding her bike with all the gear. It's funny how unheard it is to have a kid ride a bike without a helmet now. When I was little helmets didn't even exist. And if they did they would have been the size and shape of a basketball.
Pasta rainbows were a bit of a challenge. They lost interest, so mommy had to help a lot. I dyed the pasta really easily, just using rubbing alchohol and food coloring. Soak for an hour and then dry overnight. I got impatient and dried them in the oven, but I think they got a lot of fine cracks in the pasta.

Ohhh pretty colors. I love rainbows!! I also bought a ton of jello to make layered jello. We'll see if I get around to it as we disassemble our house. It's sort of like we don't even live here any more the walls are getting very bare.