Easter Weekend

Happy Easter Everyone!  We started the day off we a nice surprise!  Elizabeth Jayne Ricks was born this morning just after 8am.  She weighed in at 10 lb 1 oz and 20 1/2 inches longs.  She is just about 8 pounds lighter than her sister Marlissa who is 14 months older!  No pictures yet but as soon I get some/take some I will post them. 

Friday I traveled to St. Louis to go to the temple and then came to Herrin where I picked up Katie and we went and had some bonding time.  We got her a dress and a hair cut.

Saturday we watched conference and ate some yummy snacks.  I found a recipe for this popcorn cake and it was really yummy and for all of those Ball's out there - this is a pretty perfect snack.

Here is the recipe:

Popcorn Surprise Cake

Ingredients:

12 cups popped popcorn

Peanuts (as many as you like)

¼ cup plus 2 tablespoons butter

One 10 ½ oz bag miniature marshmallows

1 teaspoon vanilla

M&M’s (as many as you like)

Butter the angel food cake pan and spatula. Put the popcorn and peanuts in the mixing bowl. Melt butter in saucepan over low heat, stir in marshmallows, continue stirring until melted, pour over popcorn and peanuts and stir. Mix in M&Ms and press mixture into buttered cake pan. Push down mixture until even. Let the cake rest at least 1 hour before unmolding.

Conference has been wonderful so far.  I have loved so many of the talks and the kids have done well with their conference packets and drawing.  Lucky for us Marlissa has chosen the conference times to sleep through mainly so we haven't even had to entertain a baby!

Last night while Rob was at Priesthood Session the kids and I dyed Easter eggs.  It went pretty well except for one of the dye color tubes split over sending blue dye across the table and the kids - so after cleaning that up we again dyed eggs and placed stickers on their "faces".  I think it was fun! :)

Easter - this morning I came over and saw what the Easter Bunny had left the kids - candy, a book and some needy t-shirts for this spring weather.  I decided to make butterscotch sticky buns for breakfast and we made the dough yesterday with the bread maker so Rob added blue food coloring just for fun. 

So we had lots of hard boiled eggs, bacon and blue sticky buns after some chocolate of course!

I hope that you all enjoyed conference and had a wonder Easter as we did.