These pictures are so pretty and serene, I am just going to let them speak for themselves.
I just love how you can see the sun starting to light the trees in the background. It was such a beautiful way to start the morning. Reminded me of God’s presence everywhere. If it was not so cold, I would have stayed outside all morning taking pictures. I hope you enjoyed them as much as I do.
Give a girl a good camera and she thinks she is suddenly a photographer.
Little did I know when I created the background for the blog this winter that it would be so appropriate. We in the South almost never get snow but in the last few years that has started to change. Needless to say, the Chicklet’s enjoyed watching the snow fall on Friday and waking up to a white morning on Saturday. They has snowball fights that froze them to the bone.
It makes me cold just looking at the pictures.
As you can see with all the snow, it is no wonder my living room looked like the laundry room for the next day.
It was pretty but I sure am glad it is gone. I do not drive in the snow. I don’t think could live in the North were it snowed all of the time. I would never leave my house.
Check back tomorrow, I am going to post some pictures that I took outside on Saturday morning of the snow.
This year I pulled an old idea out of my head for the teachers gifts. I made them roses out of Kisses. I made these one year when I was in high school. I think my dad still has the ones that I made him in his office. 
After about 3 hours of wrapping the kisses in red cellophane, adding a wire stem, leave and lots of florist tape, I had a large stack of roses.
In the end, I had a dozen roses each for the six teachers that the chicklet’s have. When I took them to the school, I was stopped in the halls several times to comment on how cute they were. I think they were a big hit.
Happy Valentines Day!
This year I made my famous Rice Crispy Treat Hearts for the Chicklet’s to take to their friends at school.
I made sheets of the treats and then used my heart cookie cutter to cut the treats out. After I had them cut, I melted red chocolate and drizzled it over the hearts. 
After the chocolate was dried, I put them in a cellophane bag and tied them with curly ribbon. all of the kids in the girls class love to get these for each holiday.
I hope all of you have a wonderful Valentines Day.
Chicklet #1 and I just completed our first cake course and had a ball. This course was a Christmas present from her Papa and she has absolutely loved every min. of it. We learned how to make icing, write on cakes, different drop flowers, clowns and roses. I have to say that I have a greater appreciation for all the ladies who can make all of the gorgeous roses on wedding cakes, because they are hard to make.
Here is her Clown. It is hard to tell what it looks like with all of the parts being the same color but it is too cute. 
Here she is learning how to make the first part of the rose. 
This is her first completed rose. Eating the rose after we made it, made me think about all the times when I was younger and Aunt Julia and I would go to Harvey’s just to get icing roses to eat. Oh the fond sugar induced memories.
We made cupcakes during the 3rd class to take home. For the last class we made cakes that we decorated with some of the techniques that we learned and this is our results. I would have had better pictures of them and pictures from the class itself but Chicklet #2 got a hold of the camera and accidently deleted all them. Please ignore the fact that the cakes are half eaten. That is a testament to how good they are.
This is Chicklet #1’s creation. She had to have blue roses. They turned out really pretty.
This is my creation. I just love yellow roses. We start on the next course of the class this Saturday.
Martha Stewart look out. Here we come!
