Fall 2013

Cupcake Wars Party at the end of Summer.

First Day of School! Audrey is now a big Middle School-er with Joey.

Stella's first day of Kindergarten, and below the first time she's ridding the bus!

Walk-A-thon day!

Quinn loved loved loved his 2013 soccer season!

Stella's 5th Birthday... she had a "Garden Party".

A little frog came to visit her flower shop.

It was fun to incorporate sugar cookies into the cake!

Audrey and I had a blast making these Halloween cupcakes. But they weren't half as cute as thee kids... 

For Thanksgiving this year our family teamed up with Aunt Sara and decided that we wanted to go feed the homeless in Seattle before we sat down for our own awesome dinner. It was really her idea to begin with, and she took the lead on this awesome project!

 In preparation for this, I was surprised how difficult it was to find a shelter or soup kitchen that was first open on Thanksgiving, and second would let children help serve. 

So we decided to take matters into our own hands and made a bunch of extra food and then did an assembly line where we made 60 extra Thanksgiving dinners, wrapped them up cute, had the kids color best wishes notes and attach them to the water bottles, and then we just hauled everything down to Pioneer Square and began passing it out to those in need.

It was such a special experience to see the way this impacted each one of my kids. And to be honest me. I couldn't believe how quickly we handed out those meals to very thankful, kind people on the street.

Needless to say that special holiday had new meaning for all of us. 

We ended our special outing down by the pier giving out toothbrushes and apples. Such a great day!