The Princesses: Lunch and a Party!

Way too much fun for one day!

Pretty girlies

One for fun

Party time

Um num num num

Thanks for inviting us Ray & Happy Birthday!

- Posted from my iPhone

Mum's post: Baking with Amelie

Goes a little something like this:

So I'm making dinner late and I have a girl who really wants to help out, but nothing for her to do, so she offers to bake a cake.
Ok.
Get out the recipe, bowls, and basic ingredients.
She mashes bananas, pours, mixes, tastes and mixes more.
She is fabulous.


While the food is burning on the stove I want to record this fabulous moment.
"Smile Amelie!"
And here's what I get:

Yup, that's her. Fantastic Amelie, super girl wonder and super hero helper.

P.S. The cake was great.

Recipe here:

Kari’s Fab Breakfast & Snack Banana Cake

1 cup mashed ripe banana (2-3 bananas)

¾ cups sugar

1 ¾ cups flour

½ tsp baking soda

¼ tsp salt

Pinch of ground nutmeg

1/3 cup vegetable oil

½ cup milk

2 eggs

1 tsp vanilla extract

½ cup chopped walnuts

In a small bowl mix bananas & sugar, let stand for 10 mins. While you’re waiting, Pre-heat oven, grease & flour baking tin.

In a large bowl mix oil, milk, eggs, & vanilla. Add banana mix.

Sift dry ingredients together into wet stuff. Mix until just combined.

Quickly stir in nuts.

Spread batter into pan and bake 40-60 mins at 180 C.

I double this recipe and bake in a bunt tin for 60 mins. Good luck.

The Princesses: Stuff we did in June, part 2

T's Birthday party at a park :)

The Princesses: Happy Birthday Ojichan!

Obachan, Ojichan & the cake he requested

5 of the 12 grandkids

Mum's post: Birthday suprise

Mia worked hard all afternoon & decorated this cake for me & her aunt Dawn by herself & of course her sisters had to get in on the photo. They kept jumping in at the last minute, as you can see.

Obachan baked it & Mia decorated it. Thank you Joan & Mia!

The Princesses: Blueberry cake

This, this is good! How good?
Good enough that we wish we had a camera handy to catch Amelie trying to lick the batter off her elbows and forearms.

Princess Chia: I'm 4 years old!

Do you like my hair? It's a bow that mummy did. She also did a bow in Mia's hair, but not today because its my birthday. She watched a video and did it in my hair with hairspray!

(Mum: Here's a smaller version of the bow in Amelie's hair, but as you can see, her hair is bit too short for this style. With Mia's bow I used hairspray when it was done, and it was falling out and a mess by the end of the day. As Chia is a bit more active, I used hair wax, a little gel for the baby hairs, and hairspray at the end. It hardly budged at all.)

I like my pretty pink heart cake

I blew them ALL OUT!

Me and Mia

Amelie waiting patiently

A happy family

The Princesses: HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMELIE!

Happy Birthday to you,
happy birthday to you,
happy birthday dear Amelie!
Happy Birthday to you~!

We had such a fun day.

Mia helped make the cake & Amelie helped with prepping it. She likes "Pooh Bear" so we made her a Pooh.

Singing the birthday song (what a serious face!)

Seriously blowing out those candles.
After she blew out them out we asked her "What is that Amelie?" as she'd been asking for a "Pooh Bear" cake. She grabbed the tray with both hands a yelled "MINE!".
:)

Tucking in

Mum started to cut it (she was talking to Nanni)

So daddy took over

We had a nice little celebration with a few friends (look closely, you can see extra plates & a hand!) , during which Chia talked non-stop about what would happen on her birthday "tomorrow"

Love at first sight

So happy with her presents.

Pooh before he was sliced & served.

The Princesses: Visiting with friends

We visited some friends for a few days and had a blast!

Bible and character study time

Actions songs with your feet

Bookworms

Happy Birthday Ryan!



Brushy brushy!

Aloha girls

Mr. Hunter

Fun at the park

Super daddies!