Cookies for Japan Part 2

Now that we are finished we thought you would like to have a report of how our service project went:). Thank you so much to all of you who ordered cookies and made this possible for my girls. They took lots of orders and were very excited to go way over their goal of $20. (They even jumped up and down a few times when they realized how much you were all giving them). After all of your orders they made $170 and were very excited when I went to the bank with all of the checks and money and asked the teller if I could get all of the money in one dollar bills! We thought it would be fun for them to SEE how much money they had made...and they were SHOCKED! As we were counting it out they said with big smiles on their faces "wow I can't believe how much money we get to give the people in Japan".
  They were so cute and they worked really hard baking and baking and baking the 27 DOZEN cookies! By the end they were getting a little bit worn out but as we drove around and delivered the cookies all of the excitement came back. Then when we took the rest of the cookies to the Ronald McDonald house they got the "it feels so good to serve" feeling all over again. The girls really liked this part and smiled from ear to ear when the lady told them that they had 20 families staying with them and that the cookies would make they all smile and feel better. I can't thank you enough for all of the support you gave us, it was a really good experience and we were happy to be able to have a chance to serve. Below is a letter from the girls and then a bunch of pictures of the project! Thanks again!
Bryn

Dear family and friends,

Thank you, thank you, thank you for the money that you gave us to help the people in Japan. We got $170 and gave it to the Bishop today (to give to the Humanitarian Aid Fund). We had fun making your cookies. We hope you like them. For all of you who didn't get cookies we gave them to the Ronald McDonald house. 20 families are staying at there. They were happy to get so many cookies. We felt happy when we served. We love SERVING! Thank you again for all of your help.
Love, A and L

 

March Madness

This was a quick cake I made for a party we had to watch the BYU game!! It tasted soooo good! It was a yummy vanilla cake filled with raspberries, so when we cut into it we topped it with Whipped Cream! YUM! And BYU won! YAY!

Cookies for Japan

Dear families and friends. My kids have been asking a lot about Japan lately and have been really cute about praying for the people there before they go to bed at night, so we have decided (after hearing about another family with small children in our neighborhood working together to help) to have tonight’s Family Night theme and lesson be about serving others . When talking about what we can do to help we decided that the best thing for our family would be to earn money and have the kids give that money to our churches humanitarian aid fund when they go to church on Sunday. Elder Jeffrey R. Holland told reporters in a news conference that the Church has committed substantial financial aid to Japan. Emergency supplies are being purchased in Japan or nearby countries as necessary to reduce response time and help local economies that have suffered during the crisis.
When the kids were asked what they thought they could do to earn money the most popular response was “we could make cookies for people and they could buy them from us”. (My girls LOVE baking. They feel really big measuring everything out and I love all of the conversation that comes from being in the kitchen with my girls) So this is what we came up with:

We are going to take orders this week until Thursday night for cookies: You can order chocolate chip, snicker doodles, or chocolate crinkles. They will come in little bags with 6 cookies in them and with be $3.00 a bag.

Since we are sending this out mostly to family members who live in Idaho we decided that if you still want to help them earn some money and serve you could go ahead and order the cookies but instead of having them shipped to you, the girls could take your cookies and give them to the families that are staying at our local Ronald McDonald house…Its double the service.

On Friday after Addy gets home from school we will all sit down and make our shopping list and go shopping for our ingredients. Then Friday night and Saturday we will bake away.

If you live in Lexington your cookies will be ready for pick up by 5:00 pm on Saturday.

As far as money goes, you can pay in whatever way works for you. You can send cash, or checks in the mail, pay when you pick up your cookies, or use credit card or PayPal through my blog. (kiddiekupcakes.blogspot.com). To order the cookies you can simply reply to this email with what you are wanting, or you can go to the blog and click on the purchase cookies button.

Then Sunday morning the girls can turn in all of the money that they have made. All of the money that we get will go towards to the Humanitarian Aid Fund.

Thank you sooooo much for helping my girls learn about service. They are very excited about this!

Bryn

The Mini Pink Zebra

So this cake has a funny little story! I decided that since I was at the chubby stage of pregnancy and could not find a purple dress to wear to my sisters wedding to save my life that I was going to make a skirt, but I only had one day that I had enough time to work on it since I had a huge list already of things to do before we flew out. I already had the fabric and had it all cut out and ready to go but I needed a wide piece of black elastic. So I loaded up my two little ones and went to Joannes and got my piece of elastic and was hoping to hurry out of there and get home to make my skirt, put kids down for naps, and maybe even cross something else off of my huge list before Addy got off from bus and the evening chaos of homework,dinner, bedtime began. But as I was checking out I think it came to $3.20 I tried to pay with my credit card, and then my debit card, and then was told that I would have to pay in cash because they were having computer problems and their card readers weren't working BUT they were going to reboot them so I could wait until they did that. It was $3 for heaven sakes and I had NO cash...Addy had wanted to have a hot lunch that day at school so I sent my only $5 bill that was in my purse with her that morning. But I wasn't going to just leave and come back another time because I didn't have more time. So I moved out of the way so the next customers could try to pay and I was going to wait for the reader to hopefully start working. The customers behind me were three friends that had come into Lexington to run some errands and then go out to lunch and they were having a "It really doesn't work..even debit cards?" "I will pay for this with my cash and then you can buy my lunch" conversation. And as they finished paying one of the WONDERFUL ladies came over and gave me $3.20 and said that they all have kids and they didn't want me to have to wait there with them forever. I could have hugged her! I paid (feeling blessed and a little guilty) And then ran to my car to make sure there was no cash in there and as I already knew...there wasn't but I could see these girls getting into their vehicle close by so I hurriedly wrote my blog address down and ran over and told them that I didn't have cash to give them but I would love to give them a deal on a cake or some cupcakes sometime and THANK YOU sooo much!! As I walked back to my car one of them came over and said that she was looking for someone to make a cake for her daughter. Once they were home she had her daughter look at the blog and she loved the zebra cake but only needed a small cake, so we did a mini version of the pink zebra:) I was so happy to make this cake!

I can't tell you how happy I was to meet these three girls or how nice it is to live in a place where people are just so nice! I love Kentucky! And for all of you that live here in Kentucky one of these three ladies has a corn maze from Sept-Oct. so this fall you should check it out the web address is devinescornmaze.com.

And here are the super nice things she had to say about the cake:

"The cake made it through all that and was absolutely delicious!!!  I believe it was the best chocolate fudge cake I have ever eaten!!!  The girls had cake for breakfast on Saturday.  They all loved it!!  So thank you so much for the cake I really appreciate it!!  "