A Meal Fit for Kids

(I just want to start this by saying that I started this post mid April! It's not from lack of trying that I'm not posting. I also have two other posts partially started from over the last month, there just has been a lot happening!)

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We left April 2nd to go visit Brent's brother and sister in law in Michigan for a week. No Brent did not go with us, I braved the in-laws all by myself.....ok, ok.....it didn't take much bravery at all! Brent has a great family and I enjoy them all, as do the boys.

Their oldest daughter is fund raising for girls camp this year and her young woman's leaders are having them do a cupcake fundraiser! So she and Chef J picked out three different projects from http://www.hellocupcakebook.com/, went shopping with Pam (who had NOOOOO idea what she had gotten herself into but was so great with the kids!!), and got to work baking and decorating.

They picked out meatballs and spaghetti, corn on the cob, and for desert Van Gogh's Starry Night.


The Starry Night was a lot of cupcakes arranged in a rectangle and filled in with chocolate wafer cookies.
Then they carefully piped frosting on it, and Aubrey spent a lot of careful time pulling/swirling the different colored frosting together to replicate Van Gogh's picture.


She's very talented and I was very impressed with how well she did, this was her first time using this book and doing these techniques.






While Aubrey worked on the painting, Jayden whipped up a batch of spaghetti and meatballs! Yum! Yum! He took cupcakes in a circle and piped on frosting in strings that looked like noodles.

At some point his shirt came off, this was serious business!


Finished! He did this project mostly on his own with Pam supervising. Did I mention how much I appreciated Pam handling this project!!! She was so good with them. Patient and letting them do it themselves.

They both made corn on the cob, but I only got Jayden's.



Then we set the table and the natives were ready to eat!!

But game for some pictures to make their Aunt/Mom happy. (not to mention a Grandma or two or three!)

So very good.





Just seeing those corn on the cobs gets my mouth watering every time!!! They are made with Jelly Bellies and man were they GOOD!

Thank you Aubrey and Pam for letting Jayden join you, he has a such a wonderful time and we sure enjoyed the end project!