Great Memories!

Dylan's first blue plate special! Something we started is the Packard's Blue Plate Special-Dylan was able to eat off it for the first time Saturday morning for finishing his swimming lessons! He did a great job and is quite the little swimmer!



Here is a memory that our family will share for many many years to come! Friday morning Dylan and I decided to make a TRIPLE layer chocolate cake from SCRATCH for Father's Day! It is my grandma's award winning recipe and the first time I had made it. In the morning we worked together on the 3 cakes. Dylan stood on his step stool and poured in most of the ingredients--and it has a lot of ingredients!! We baked the cakes and they cooled all afternoon. While they were cooling my mom called several times to see how it was going--she doubted my abilities and thought the cake would be lopsided. It was all in good fun though, she knows when it comes to cooking I have my dad's skills, not hers (thankfully!) She is the best mom in the world, but not a cook!! That evening Dylan and I made the HOMEMADE frosting and began to frost all 3 layers! Again, he was on his step stool helping out. We had just put the top layer on and we were frosting the sides. The cake was looking great. It was standing and it was pretty straight! I have to admit, I was very proud of Dylan a myself! Well, as I was frosting Dylan grabbed a measuring cup from the sink that was full of water and poured it on top of the cake! Yes, he poured it on the cake...it was ruined!! All I could do was scream, Seth ran in the kitchen and I just started to cry. At this point Seth didn't know what had happened, and Dylan had non idea what was wrong with me. I wasn't mad at Dylan, there was no way I could be-he had been so helpful and had been using the measuring cups, he had no clue that it wasn't supposed to be poured on the cake!! He kept saying sorry, sorry, and cry then he kissed my tears! I decided that the memory Dylan and I made that day is much sweeter than any triple layer homemade chocolate cake!! I will cook with Dylan again, and I know there will be more mishaps, but it is all worth it! I love cooking and having Dylan help me is a blast. Any quality time I can spend with my little guy is so precious!! Here are a few pictures we captured and that I will always look at and think of the special day!
















And there is the finished product, all wet but still pretty!



WARNING:never give an almost 2 year old M&Ms in the car!! They were on his back, tummy and of course in the car seat!