Promise You Won't Tell??

I know a brilliantly easy way to "frost" cupcakes. My friend Stacy showed me how, and it's so easy! And they turn out looking all perfectly fancy like this!

All you need is a cupcake (duh), some scissors and... dun, dun, dun, dun... mini (colored) MARSHMALLOWS!

Here's the trick: make sure you cut the marshmallows for the petals in half at a diagonal. After you cut them diagonally, place the shortest edge down into the frosting.

Next go around in circles, squishing the petals as close together as you can. Oh, and for the middle of the flower, just snip a marshmallow in half.

So, it's as easy as that! And I don't know about you, but I think it looks just like frosting!

xoxo{marie}

Grateful

Today I'm grateful for my adventurous, playful, beautiful, loving, silly and sweet kids.

These were taken in California last month. We had just gotten home from church and went for a Sunday walk...barefoot, apparently. :)

 {xoxo}marie

Friday Picture Book: Yummy!

Marie:

Lulu:

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Lissie:

What? It's Monday? And My House is Clean?

My life has felt a little cuckoo lately! I'm busy with lots of wonderful things right now, but this last week I was definitely stretched to the max. The funny thing is that despite my crazy week, and the fact that it's a MONDAY MORNING (code for disaster), my house is really quite clean! Everything is mostly in its place, and I have my guy to thank for that. I was gone a lot this last weekend, so he held up the fort, and I'm pretty sure he does a better job keeping things together than I do! I love this man!! XOXO, Marie

Something Frilly

Hey girls!

So, you remember when Emma said we had big plans of doing a photoshoot with Annabelle wearing her handmade birthday dress on the beach? Yeah, that didn't happen. 

We only went two places while we were in Hollywood: church and Target. It was just too crazy trying to make our original beach idea work with all of our kids in tow in such a busy, strange-to-us place. I can only imagine the horror of trying to keep track of all of my little water babies right alongside the Pacific while trying to take pictures of Annabelle! Not to mention the stress of  braving the roads to find a quiet beach and parking. Yeah, parking, we told you about the parking down there. 

But all was not lost! We did the next best thing! We walked out the front door and about 10 feet away from the apartment, we found some ivy on the wall of an alleyway. So, I buckled my baby Juliette into a car seat next to me, and we blocked my two other kiddos from the road and then I got busy shooting! It was still a little crazy! Liam kept bringing me little shards of glass he'd find, but it was a lot more convenient and there definitely wasn't drowning involved! 

Bottom line is, I am SO glad we made time for this! Gorgeous Annabelle in her sweet birthday dress makes me want to dig out my sewing machine from the far corner of my closet and make something frilly! 

xoxo/marie