I am currently accepting applications...

...for someone to be responsible for updating the family blog monthly. Ivy has been bugging me to get something new up here......now that I think of it, maybe she's the girl for the job......then again....family secrets.....hmmmm...maybe not.

Either way, here's what we've got.

Nate turned 17. OH MY GOSH!! Can we quit with the getting older already? Per family tradition he skipped school that day and we went out to lunch.

We went to Freddy's where I ate my weight in french fries. Natch.

Then it was Easter. Ivy talked me into making these little cake bite chicks. Mmmmmm. Sugar.

We took them to Fountain Hills for the annual Easter Egg Hunt/Picnic,

 with our cousins,

 our grown up married children,

 and our crazy pants uncles.

 A week or so later, after we'd had a chance to work off the consequences of the cake bites Sylvan and I had a Rice Krispy Treat Off. I made batch of the original recipe and Sylvan made a batch using chocolate marshmallows and Cocoa Krispies.

 Turns out not everything needs to be improved upon. 

Original Recipe was declared the winner by a landslide. 

More tomorrow.......