They're back!!

Look what I saw outside my window this morning!!

To me, it's official!

Spring is here!!!

Thinking ahead to Easter

With our snow quickly disappearing, and St. Patrick's Day just around the corner, I'm beginning to plan ahead for Easter.  And for a quick and easy little treat, you can whip up these adorable Easter nest cupcakes.  I made a homemade yellow cake mix with homemade buttercream frosting (you can use a cake mix and premade frosting to cut down considerably on your prep time).   

Using adorable Easter or spring-colored cupcake liners make it all the cuter! You can buy the candy, speckled eggs almost anywhere and the edible, candy Easter grass I found at Target (it comes in a variety of pretty spring colors):

Little ones LOVE them!

Winter's last hurrah

With the calendar having turned to March, I think we may have seen the last of winter. I've so enjoyed it!  I'll miss the fluffy, downy snow, the excitement of an impending snowstorm, the thrill of watching the Winter Olympics {was that final hockey game awesome or what?!?}, all of the fun we had playing in the snow, the family togetherness of being indoors and vacationing together at Winterlude, the tummy-warming comfort food that brings solace to the spirit during frosty winter days. 


We took advantage of the snow on Friday and Saturday by having a little more winter fun...making snowcones from fresh {clean} snow and cherry syrup, building a friendly snowman in the backyard, having a snowball fight, and building a little snowfort.  

As much as we've enjoyed it, we're so excited about 

the arrival of spring!  

I'm so ready to see flowers again,

to get my hands dirty in the garden,

to see the birds flitting about the yard,

Just think - less than three weeks to go!