Day to day life...

After posting several of my baking failures over the past months, I thought it fitting to post a success story! Jared is part of a "cake club" at work. As the name suggests, they take turns bringing desserts in to work once a week. Well, last week it was Jared's turn and everyone had requested that he bring "American Apple Pie". Well, I am NOT a pie expert, especially when it comes to making the crusts, but I did my best and it actually turned out quite good. Everyone was impressed with the look and taste, so that was a relief!

One of Ruby's favorite activities these days is playing in the backyard. We have had a lot of rain this spring, but anytime that it dries out a little bit we put on her blue jeans and let her go to town. The nice thing about kids is that they're very washable! Anyhow, our yard is outfitted with a swing hanging from one of the trees, a small pond LOADED with frog eggs, and a large garden packed with huge snails. Her favorite thing to do is just to play in the grass pulling out all the weeds, grass, and flowers she can get her hands on. Thankfully she hasn't eaten too many things that she shouldn't yet, but I'm sure that will change soon as we will be weaning her from her pacifier sometime in the next month or so. She is still nursing once a day (when she first gets up in the morning) and that will be the first thing to go the day after her birthday. Then we'll gradually get rid of the pacifier, which I'm sure will be more difficult.

But anyhow, back to the snails. There are small snails here as well, but some of them are real monsters with shells at least as big around as a half dollar, if not larger. The largest Danish coin is a 5 kroner piece, and I'd say it's at least that big. Anyhow, it seems like I'm always nearly stomping on them as I walk to the laundry room or the garage (where our freezer is). They slowly make their way across our patio on a regular basis... migrating to the garden I guess. They also seem to like to climb up the house. Very odd little buggers...

We have been on the go a lot these past few weeks, so muc so that Ruby has managed to sack out in her stroller more than a few times. This was a picture taken over Easter weekend when we were walking by one of the palaces (now used for government offices).

Hope you all are enjoying spring as much as we are. Now I can't wait for summer!