Sunday, June 7, 2009

Welcoming Baby Easten

I feel horrible that i haven't posted sooner of my cute, sweet new little nephew! I have been
a procrastinator. I haven't seen him yet, except on the web cam, but were going up to Canada
the end of this month!!! I'm so excited to see both nephews!! I Love them so much!!!
"Easten Taras"
8 lbs 14 oz 22 1/2 in.
Born 3-09

Proud Grandma, my mom went up there to be
with my sister for about a month, it was nice to have my
mom there to help her out

Very proud Mom!


Brady so intrigued with Easten's eye



You wonder what he's thinking about


Precious!


Heaven Sent


So Sweet!!



He was very long when he was born:
he was 22 1/2 in. long

So Cute, always wanting to give
brother a love



loves to give kisses!

CaKe DeCoRaTiNg

I took a "Wilton Cake Decorating Class" with my cousin Emily. We took Course 1 which we learned about making roses and buttercream frosting and many other things!! It was a ton of fun, i love baking so this was way fun to learn a bunch of different things that has to do with baking!! I had to make a cake each week and make buttercream icing with 3 different consistencies. I love chocolate so you can very well guess what my cake was every week. The first week i put a bavarian cream filling in the middle of my chocolate cake which was delicious!! I had bought this bavarian cream filling some time back and was going to use it for cupcakes, so it came in handy for me for this class.



This is my 3 different consistencies of frosting
i had to make a thin, medium and stiff consistency
for cake decorating


This was my 1st cake, a little shabby but this rainbow cake was
very hard to make, i had to switch out the same tip for all the different
colors of the rainbow, which you can see i only got to 2 colors, it took me to long
and i ran out of time, so this is how i had to leave it, not looking to good.
I could not figure out how they get the frosting to look so smooth and not drag pieces of cake with your frosting, i learned i should of used a huge tip for frosting the cake first, instead
of using a spatula to smear the frosting onto the cake. I learned alot of valuable things to be a better baker!!

This is what i had to buy for "Course 1"
I had a ton of fun doing this, thanks Em for asking me to take it with you!!

Sunday, May 3, 2009

SO EXCITED!!!

I am so happy to annouce that i have a "NEW SISTER IN LAW" in the Snow family!! Ryan's brother Paul just proposed to his girlfriend Stephani!! They are perfect for each other!! We are so happy to have Steph part of the Snow Family!!! We are very excited for you guys!! It's funny, Ryan said this morning to me that he had a feeling that his brother would marry Steph!!
Boy was he right on!!
Congratulations!!!
We love you both!!!





Happy Birthday Sister!!!


Happy Birthday to my cute Sister!! Mandee is 27 today!! I just wanted to tell her how much i love her and how much i look up to her!! I hope you had a great day sister!! Sorry i wasn't up there to celebrate with you. I promise you one of these birthdays i will be there to celebrate with you!! You are a great sister, Britt and I are so lucky to have you as our sister!!! I love you very much and wish we could live closer to each other to go play all the time!!
Happy Birthday Sister!!


"look at those gorgeous eyes"

Mandee & Brady at her birthday last year


This was at one of her birthdays a few years ago


Love ya Sister!!


Grandpa and Mandee

This was at Christmas one year, we laughed so hard when she pulled out this sign, we all got emergency car kits from our grandparents for christmas


Me, Bubba & Mandee Boating


Cute pic of Mandee holding our cousin Stephanie

A pic of grandpa and Mandee, she had these beautiful curls when she was little


I love this picture!! Mandee & Brittany

Cute Sisters i have!! I'm very lucky!!

Monday, March 16, 2009

Baby Easten has arrived!!!

Easten Taras Turko is here!!! He was born on March 9th at 8:48 p.m. weighing 8 lbs. 14 oz. 22.25 in. long!!! I have seen him on the web cam and he is beautiful!!! The first time i saw Easten, his little profile reminded me so much of my younger sister brittany who we lost almost six years ago in a tragic car accident. I couldn't believe it, my mom told me the same thing. I want to get a picture of when brittany was a baby and get Easten's picture and post it!! It's amazing how the lord works in mysterious ways!! I know that both Brady and Easten were kissed by angel before they came to this earth.. We are so blessed to have an angel watching over us at all times!!!

I am so happy for my Sister, Taras and Brady!! When i call and talk to my sister, i can hear brady talking and cooing at baby easten, it's so darn cute!!! When brady see's his baby brother, he makes like this wimpering sound until he gives him a kiss. It just melts my heart!! I think it's his own way of communicating to his baby brother!!! I'm so glad that everything went well and he is here safe!! We love you Easten (and Brady) welcome, welcome!! Your auntie loves you very much and i haven't even met you yet!!! I can't imagine how i'll feel once i see you for the first time.

I don't have any pictures yet, but once i get them i will post them!! I am trying to be "patient" waiting to get pics!! i know, i know sister you've been busy!!

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Waiting patiently for baby #2



Any day now my sister is due with there 2nd little baby boy!! We are all so excited for them and for Brady!!! He will be the best big brother!! I am so blessed to be Auntie!! I love my little nephews so much!!! Good luck Sister!! I know you will do great!!! I am a big worrier!! You know me, i can't wait til you have him and everything is fine with you and the baby. I love you sister and i am always thinking about you. It sucks so bad that i can't just get in the car and drive over somewhere close to see you.

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

UFC

Ryan had some friends over for the "UFC" fight. I had asked him what he was having for food, and he told me that this was his deal and to not worry about it!! So, i had to let it go (which is hard for me since it was at our house, wanting to make sure there was plenty of food, etc) but I just let him do his thing and he did a great job!! He ordered some appetizers from Chili's and I was very impressed!! Anyway, they had a great night watching the big fight!!!