Family Harmony (in Three Parts)

Part I: Marykay Makeover:

My friend came over Thursday to provide a facial since she thought the girls would enjoy it--we just did the soft skin business, you know, no makeup or anything. Here we are:




















When she was finished, the girls were like "Hey lady what about the makeup?" She kind of hesitated out of respect for me in case I didn't want them in makeup but it was a loooost cause. The girls saw her baggy full of samples and it was all over.

Here is what they came up with. I love Gill's face on this one:


















Next up Pinewood Derby:

Steve is actually the Cub Scout leader so ironically, Casey was the only one without a car on the day they were tricking them out (injecting with graphite or some such thing) so they ended up actually carving one out of wood. How old school is that?

So here is Casey's car (pics from derby all compliments of Bridget):



















Isn't it so originale?

And here is the man himself:



















You can see his car was doing extremely well:


















The wheel came off and rolled down the track by itself. Apparently Casey thought that was really cool which is wonderful since it apparently compensated for not finishing in the top half of his heat with the kids whose grandpas were also pinewood derby champs.

That stuff is serious business.


Lastly, a cupcake party. Steve took the Meg on his Home Teaching appointment so I could have time to do the cupcake stuff and a few minutes of sanity again. (I was kind of overwhelmed today since she was up until 10:30 last night and I was feeling like I don't have any alone time anymore. Kids don't wait until your youngest is 4 to have another baby, k?)

Here are the kiddos with the final row of cupcakes:



















We did leetle doggies from an awesome cupcake book called Hello Cupcake that Jen gave me for postpartum reading. We tried doing one when Meggers was only 3 weeks old but I think we are getting better now:



















I had a buncha frosting leftover so I made a plate for my awesome friend Katie (who I still love even though I didn't win her giveaway) to eliminate the ongoing requests for frosting licking, an action I find utterly and totally disgusting. I just sat at the table by myself using up the frosting from my new pampered chef frosting distributors--four stars for SURE if you ever do frosting stuff. Anyway, if you were my neighbor you might get one of these: