Project 365

We have been cooking around here. This day Gracie wanted to make cookies so I thought I would let her try to do it herself...I took 2 deep breaths and let her go. I thought the kitchen would be destroyed, but she is a very tidy baker! She was in heaven because every time I cook anything it is a constant negotiation of how many things she can do by herself.

The finished product...I'm not sure what happened to them but I only had one. Paul and Gracie liked them though.

And then there was Gracie's birthday party. Gracie has been spoiled by Candice's extravagant parties so I knew there was no way I was getting away with pizza and a Costco cake at the park with family kind of birthday party. Gracie will actually 'play Candice' now. She will come and invite me to her bedroom. I have to knock and she invites me in and she has a table set and all kinds of games planned, it is hilarious.

Weeks before the party Candice would call or text me almost everyday with a new idea/decoration for the party, but I'm not Candice so I could deny most of them (Candice I'm not downing you in any way...I would love to be you, but I don't have the enthusiasm for parties that you do)

Robyn and I made this cake. It took us 5 yes FIVE hours to make. Candice and April came in for a little while to help too. I guess you could call this a true SG cake as my Mom would say (SG-Stewart girl).

Look, there's Zannie to the rescue of Piper so she didn't get trampled. She is so nice, every time I went outside Zannie was in the bounce house with a slew of kids helping Piper.

After the whole party was over I asked Gracie what her favorite part was and she said, "The Pizza". Ok mental note for next year - all we need is pizza!

One of those ideas that Candice called me about was asking if she could invite Rapunzel to the party. I agreed to that one because Gracie is in love with her.

She was a great Rapunzel and was so fun with the kids. She painted their faces, sang songs, had a treasure hunt and did a magic trick. Gracie couldn't take her eyes off of her.

So in other news, Paul went back to school! He is working on his master's in Marriage and Family Therapy. It took him about a year to actually decide to go because he feels old, but I'm happy he decided to do it. It will be a long 4 years, but worth it. This is him on his first day. He didn't want me to take his picture so he only agreed to stop for a second before he left.

And one last thing. I woke up one morning to this:

Everybody needs a chair on the table to read their scriptures while they watch Max and Ruby right?