Visting with friends....

Last year when we went on a cruise we were amazed to meet some awesome friends. Since then we have kept in contact through email and face book with some of the couples. Two weeks ago one of the couples we met planned their layover at LAX (on their way to New Zealand) so we could spend some time together. We had a wonderful time with them. They met our kids, visited our offices, and we got to show them a little bit of our town. After we dropped them off at the airport Tim said, "Man I wish they lived closer!" We were so blessed by how caring, understanding, loyal, and sweet they were. Hopefully one day we can head to Indy to visit them. Thank you Huffords for visiting and we miss you already!

Addisyn Jenni and I Addisyn took this picture of the 4 of us

Addisyn took this one also

Tim, Todd, & Karsten

My handsome Karsten

Another one of Jenni and I

Todd and Luke telling stories

Ainsley & the boys shooting rubber bands

Todd trying to have Luke finish a made-up story

All of us with Karsten

Todd and Jenni Hufford

Wordless Wednesday

AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Today is my grandparent's 62nd Wedding Anniversay!

My grandparents are AMAZING people. They have modeled GOD to so many people. They are seriously the MOST sweet and compassionate people I know. My grandma absolutely LOVES kids, especially babies! She will hold, love on, and kiss any baby in sight. My grandpa will help anyone in need.... he is not afraid to get down and dirty. To this day he still mows the lawn at their Church in Norco and works in his wood shop. These two people have servant hearts like no other. I'm so happy they are my grandparents!

Here they all with all of their great grandchildren at Christmas time!

I LOVE you grandma and grandpa! Happy Anniversary!

Luke's Letter Snack

Every week in Luke's class a different student gets to make a menu and serve food that starts with whatever the LETTER OF THE WEEK is. Luke was chosen to do K because he has a K in his name. He did so good at presenting his menu to the class! He also gave all the kids Krispy Kreme hats and they were so excited!

this is what happens when i'm on Facebook....

Wordless Wednesday....

Valentine's Gifts for some of our favorite people.....

For Valentine's Day we decided to make some special treats for the kid's teachers.

We started out by mixing up the cake..... we used strawberry so the cake would be pink for Valentines. Can you see the "hidden" word in the cake mix?
When the cake was finish baking and cooled the kids crumbled it into small pieces. Then the kids hand mixed in the cream cheese frosting

Next we rolled them into lots of little balls and put them in the freezer for an hour or so

When the balls were frozen it was time to melt the cholcolate. Of course I used Candiquick..... my seriously favorite melting chocolate. It is soooo easy to use!Then we started dippin the cake balls. This time I used these Wilton Treat Sticks to put the balls on while dipping. I would highly recommend using them but be sure to buy 2 sets so you can do more than 6 cake balls at a time. Also you need something to balance the Treat Stick on or in. I used the empty sprinkle containers and a baby bottle to balance them in while drying.

Ainsley LOVED dipping the cake balls Luke was excited to help tooAddisyn dipping for her teacher

You have to add the sprinkles fast before the chocolate drys

When the chocolate was almost gone I decided to add some red food coloring.... it turned it this pink color

We dipped some on sucker sticks so we can fill a Mason Jar with them

I decided to give chocolate a try to

Chocolate, strawberry cake ballsReady for some special teachersI had some leftover chocolate candiquik so I poured some of it into heart cookie cutters and put them in the fridge for a while and this is how they turned out.

Here are Luke & Karsten's all ready for their teachers Addisyn's and Ainsley'd teachers got a box full of cake balls

Happy Valentines Day! Love, the Stein's