CAKE...KIDS...and...A NEW HAIR CUT.

After a long winter, I am so ready for some of these.

So I set out to make a delicious Strawberry Cake. It was
so good, I wanted to share it with you...I hope you like it too.

STRAWBERRY BUNDT CAKE

1 Strawberry Cake Mix
3 oz. box of Strawberry Pudding
Pie Filling, (not instant)
3/4 cup mashed up, fresh strawberries,
add a bit of sugar, (reserve 6 T. juice)
4 eggs
1/3 cup water

Spray Pam.. in bundt pan, and
sprinkle it with white sugar.

Mix all ingredients, (except the reserved 6 T. juice)

Pour into the bundt pan and into oven set at 350'
Bake it for 50 minutes...Remove and cool slightly.

It smells so good while it's cooking, I think this is my favorite thing about baking!
It makes such a pretty cake too, you can see all the fresh chunks of strawberries.

STRAWBERRY GLAZE FROSTING

2 cups of confectioners sugar
1/2 stick of softened butter
The 6 T. of strawberry juice

Mix in saucepan and boil for 2-3 minutes.

Remove from heat and add;

2-3 drops red food coloring,
Now drizzle over cooled cake.

I like to use more strawberries and cover the
cake with them as the frosting sets up and all is cool.
This is so good, a special Spring time treat, enjoy!

We went here with some of our kids and grand kids.

It's a new swimming and sports complex in their city.
This is a winding current of water that carries them around,
kind of like the steams of water I floated on a tube as a kid.

Little Ella...she was so brave! Anything she saw the
older kids around her doing, she had to do it too.

Lindsey with her baby Sophia

It was such a fun afternoon to be together...

Little girls are so cute in little pig-tails.

I love it that they love each other...that is what makes my heart happy!

~Ella and Natalie~

I thought this was so cute...Sophia was with her older boy cousins and
she had them all charmed! Look how sweet she is holding on to his neck!

Ella and Sophia hanging out together

Sophia's daddy is a championship trials bike rider. This was the first
time she had seen him doing it and wearing a helmet etc. She thought
that was all so exciting hearing the sounds of the motorcycles and seeing
dad ride by and wave at her.

Here she is on his other motorcycle..."Bad To The Bone Baby"

I love playing on the floor with my grands...I love how she is looking right into my soul in this picture. That is what grands do, and thats what grandma's do too, thats why we love each other so much! I also show you this to show my hair...I liked it but was in a bit of a FUNK...so I did this...

And I am loving it! It is so easy to do...I just get up and run my fingers through water and then through my hair, shaping it as I go, and I'm done! It is so fast and so easy...I am out of the FUNK and ready for Spring! It was a fun change... and change is good. Now I am a sassy grandma! ;D

It must be Spring, we keep getting little dusting of snow but for the most part it gets more and more sunny and the temps. get a bit warmer everyday. I am loving walking outside again, I was getting so tired of the dreadmill. I take my dogs each day and go for about 4 miles, they love it.

Have a good week my friends and THANK YOU for all your kindness to me, I love every

one of you so much...you make me laugh and shed tears...you are my sisters and my friends.