Easter post #2

After attending the eight o'clock (whew! early!) worship service at our church, we came back where I finished up the resurrection cake. Then we headed down to Mr. Confident's family's house in Mississippi. We enjoyed a luncheon feast of smoked pork shoulder (ala Mr. C himself) and barbeque ribs. That's right! Easter barbeque! We do live near Memphis, after all. Barbeque is always appropriate for any occasion. Micah enjoyed hanging out with his three cousins, aunt, uncle, grandparents, and of course, his mommy & daddy! Mr. Confident's family doesn't really do internet pictures, so I can't show you those. However, we had a few of our family that I thought I'd share from our wonderful time down there with them.

Micah peeks into his Easter basket from his grandparents.

Our little family at my in-laws.

Micah is super excited about his basket from his grandparents!
He says, "What is in there?"

Easter Sunday #1

Easter Sunday was a wonderful day at Casa Confident! I can't tell you how much I love celebrating the cross & even better--the resurrection! We had a wonderful, yet busy day. We started off the morning in our own house as Micah "opened" his Easter goodies. After taking a few Casa Confident family pictures, we headed to church followed by lunch with Mr. C's family and dinner with my family. I split the posts up into different sets of pictures because we had so many!! Enjoy post #1.

Micah's Easter basket.
(Sorry, Micah, candy is not going to be my thing. Not when you have a mom who is a teacher. Lots of books are in your future. I do apologize for this. PS I love Lifeway!)

Contents of the basket:
Max Lucado's The Three Trees DVD
Max Lucado's Hermie book
Jesus Lives! Come & See! book (courtesy of our church's Easter egg hunt)
Baby's First Easter book
Praise Baby dvd
Several eggs with not much in them
A football for my boy!

Micah with his Easter basket sitting in Daddy's chair.

Daddy & Micah

Mommy & Micah before church.
I love Micah's face. Priceless!

Mommy & Micah take 2

Easter Egg Hunt

Today we went to the Easter Egg Hunt sponsored by our church out at their ball fields. Mr. C works random hours, so he wasn't off early enough to attend. Instead, I went with my mom, and we took Micah & Ebin. Here are some pictures.

Micah was super tired. I forgot his stroller which was a bad mistake.
Ebin wasn't really having all the people around at first (he's shy), and this was about the best we could do photo wise for a while.

We got there early before the hunting was opened up, and Micah was heavy on my hip.
I took a little baby break with him in the grass.

Finally Ebin got into the hunt, and he was really excited about finding those eggs!

Me & Micah just having a few photos ops since he can't really do much of anything this year.

Action shot of Ebs.

My mom & Ebin after the hunt. It was a great day, and the boys had a lot of fun!

Resurrection cake & Easter baskets.

So now that I am an official certified cake decorator (I promise! I got a certificate for completing the class), I need reasons to practice my skills. I need to practice my art, try out new cake recipes, and basically use what I've learned. However, since I'd like to get my pre-baby body back at some point, I need victims to eat my creations.

Why not start with a Resurrection cake? I guess I could have made an Easter bunny cake, but quite honestly I'm not that much for the Easter bunny. Oh, don't get me wrong. We hunted Easter eggs at church, & I hate to get legalistic. However, while that is fun and all...the focus needs to be on Christ. I want Micah to learn to focus on Christ so I decided a Resurrection cake would be more appropriate for our family. I also went to some great lengths to look for Biblical Easter basket goodies this year mixed with some fun stuff. Not that our Lord isn't fun If anything, He will give you the most unexpected ride of your life if you let Him! Anyway, you know what I mean.

Here I am with the Resurrection cake & Micah's Easter basket that I decorated.
I'm somewhat Martha Stewart these days. Didn't you get the memo.
I know right. When did that happen?

The top of the cake.
Strawberry cake with white buttercream icing colored yellow, brown, & green.

Wasn't my best cake, and I definitely messed up several things that I tried to cover up.

Overall, I think it turned out pretty good! I was assured that it tasted as good as it looked.
Yeah me!

Family birthdays.

My husband's family is a Summer/Fall birthday family. I can't even tell you how many birthdays we celebrate from July until November. Our family? We're mostly a Winter/Spring birthday family meaning most of our days fall at the beginning of the year starting with me in February, my sister Keren in late March, and my daddy in mid April. This year we celebrated my sister & father's bdays together. I've used a new feature of Picasa Picnik to upload these pictures to blogger. We'll see how it works once I post them.

My dad and Keren, the birthday people.

Balloons!

Blowing out a homemade decorated cake by moi.

Uh-oh! Somebody opened his grandfather's present.

Playing outside with his Daddy (my BIL, Jason)

Micah was not keen on the kiss from his Aunt KerKer.

My mom & sister.

Our little family. Not sure what we were laughing at when this picture was taken!

Daddy holds Micah.

Cake decorating #2

Today was the final day of my cake decorating class at Hobby Lobby, and it also coincided with my sister & father's birthdays. So...I took a blank cake to class with pre-made pink flowers while I learned how to make roses. These pictures (though sideways--drat, you Blogger!) show the finished product of my cake #2.

Going green.

What a great way to celebrate this lovely spring Saturday by eating our first green vegetables! Micah is so funny when he eats. I promise he makes this "Mmmmm" sound, smiles & talks all while trying to suck his fingers. He's loves his food! I'd upload the video, but then you'd see my Strawberry Shortcake pj bottoms, my 1999 Union Zeta Tau Alpha shirt, and my hair sticking out all over the place with a nice bald spot. So...nope. Not going to do that. However, you may enjoy the pictures of Micah because he's cute.

All smiles. I hate the flash messed up because I think this is a cute picture.

I even got it on my eye! How is that possible? :)

Yummy! I love my green veggies. Thank goodness because Mommy hates green veggies.

Lick those fingers!

What is even better than licking the fingers? Why, licking the bib, of course!

Yeah for going green on this fine spring day.