Happy 4th of July! How’d you spend your day?

Today – Independence Day started off with a Red, White and Blue yummy breakfast for all.

Then post swimming at the pool we had Red, White and Blue icee pops! Kinda gross for the grown ups – not quite the memory I had thought but the short one was very happy!

Then we attempted to make Red, White and Blue popcorn ball treats! The short one was very happy about this. Unfortunately, I didn’t have a candy thermometer to properly measure the sugar mixture so our popcorn never quite rolled up into balls. The short one happily ate the soggy mess anyway. The tall one was confused and asked what the deal with the wet popcorn was. The short one said “Daddy you just don’t understand baking do you!” That’s right girl!!

Fondant Cake Party

When crafty baking ladies gather – cool things come of it! We had a fondant decorating party. Some used the Cricut Cake and some went old school free-hand! It was so much fun to mix colors and create designs and the frosting was pretty tasty too. Thank you to my friend Sherrie for opening up her home and sharing her day with all of us at the Cake party!

Super Cool cake by 7 year old Samera

Cupcakes by Julie

Graphic Cake by Ruth

Geometric Cake by Ruth

Flower Volcano by Sherrie

Floral Loveliness by Pat

Cool Man Cupcakes by Eileen

Sarah my party co-hostess

Sherrie our host rolling out fondant

A perfect foodie goodies day

Today spontaneously turned into a yummy foodie day. We started off with a delicious breakfast of hard boiled eggs, cottage cheese, avocado and steamed spinach. Mid morning I started to dehydrate a stack of herbs I needed to get at before they went bad. Then on to tackle a giant zucchini a friend gave me from her garden. The Short One is here with me today so she requested that we bake. I decided to accommodate and bake some zucchini bread. I put a twist on it (thank you Paula Deen) by making it a chocolate zucchini bread! After it came out of the oven the Short One asked that I spread cream cheese on hers. That was a pretty yummy idea! Click here for Paula Deen’s Chocolate Zucchini Bread.

Yummy Breakfast

Dehydrating herbs

Giant Zucchini

Chocolate Zucchini Bread

Chocolate Zucchini Bread - close up