Daphne's Birthday Party!!!

Ugh, it's been so busy around here this summer it took forever to get these pictures off my camera...but here they are! Daphne's 2nd birthday.

We had a couple of my friends up from Toronto and all the grandparents. There was lots of food, ridiculous amounts of time in the sprinkler and two tired toddlers by the end of it all. It was such a fun day, and perfect weather to be outside....except for one small thunder storm...

My mom has a post up on her blog as well with some different pictures. Check it out if you'd like. 

A birthday party for the D and Bapa

Last Saturday we had an excellent little get together for Daphne's first birthday and for my dad's 65th birthday. Lots of friends, food, laughs and cake!

Thanks to everyone who came. My little lady was super spoiled and exhausted by the end of it all!

Happy First Birthday, honeybear!

I can't believe it's been one whole year!!

It all started at 10am on July 24, 2014 at the Queensway Carleton Hospital - waiting to meet you :)

Born at 1:14pm that same day...what an awesome/exciting/drooly year it was! Seven pounds five ounce of sass. 

All the exciting things we've gotten to experience this year have been nothing short of amazing! Crawling, babbling, eating, cruising, assaulting the cats. I wouldn't change it for anything...well maybe a few extra hours of sleep. 

LOVE YOU

Happy Birthday ......... or WHAT???? They are four !!!!!

HB and I are in Alberta and today our favourite Alberta twins are 4!!!!!!!!!

 

 

 

Happy Birthday kiddos.

One of my all time fav pics.
"please let us out of baby jail"

 

Nona and Bapa love you very much!!

 

 

 

ciao for now

susan

Hummingbird Cake

I made this for my hubs 30^th birthday. I used a recipe from allrecipes.com but I modified it, of course. Heaven forbid I make a recipe as written. The best part of this cake is that is can double as breakfast…there is banana in it…is that a stretch? No?

What you’ll need:

-          3 cups flour

-          1 teaspoon baking soda

-          1 teaspoon salt

-          1 teaspoon (overflowing) cinnamon

-          2 cups sugar

Mix all of this together in a big bowl.

In a separate bowl mix:

-          3 large eggs

-          1 cup vegetable oil

-          1 ½ teaspoons vanilla

-          2/3 cup milk

Stir together.

Mix wet and dry together. Add three chopped banana’s and however many pecans you can afford. Bake in three pans at 350 degrees for 28 minutes (that’s my oven) or until a toothpick comes out clean. I completely omitted the traditional pineapple from this dessert because I just don’t like it. Bleck.

I frosted this mother with a cream cheese, butter and icing sugar frosting.

It was delish! Although there was so much of we ended up bringing some to my mom and dads for them to enjoy.

--Siobhan xo