Jesus loves you

I've been in desperate need of some days at home with no activities or appointments. Last week was so hectic and i'm feeling exhausted from some late nights (well late for old nanna me) and waking to Sofie who doesn't want to sleep through the night apparently, so today i made sure that other than school drop off/pick up which i can't avoid we would have a day at home.

I've caught up on the washing which was huge and organised and baked the snacks for school/work - this week on the menu is banana yoghurt muffins which thankfully only need 2 bananas because they are like gold at the moment in price thanks to Yasi, but taste bee-yoo-tiful! And i made a oat slice and some savoury scrolls.

But enough of that, today's blog is all about Sofie and her christening on Sunday. Here is the day in pictures.

Daddy and Daughter

The kids were able to be included in the service and helped pour the water!

No tears

Us and the godparents, A's aunty and A's youngest brother, missing my cousin Nat who is also a godmother

The baby girl with the christening cake, was so, so cute!

The cake and one of her gifts. 

It was a lovely ceremony and i'm glad to have it over with, its been on my to do list for months.

We had a small thing back at our place for whoever wanted to come back and we served finger foods. Found some delicious recipes, taste.com and i are now tight lol and they were so easy.

We had sausage scrolls, scotch eggs, capsicum dip, mini pizzas, marinated chicken legs, egg and lettuce sandwiches and sweet and sour meat balls.

Desserts were the beautiful cake made by Sweeter than Sugar and i made mini raspberry and custard tarts, mini baked raspberry cheesecakes, caramel kisses, mars bar slice, i attempted cake pops which tasted beautiful but looks wise were a bit of a failure hehe.

I did make slight variations to the recipes, i had loads of capsicum dip so i used that on the mini pizza bases as well instead of tomato paste and because i had the raspberries all mixed up i used that to make the little custard tarts instead and omg they are so good and so simple and i'm not the biggest fan of custard. 

Here is a few photos of some of the things i made with my hubby as my assistant:

Here is the cake pops before and after. The recipe is so, so simple literally get 2 packs of oreo cookies and blend together with a tub of cream cheese then roll into balls and decorate. I did buy the special wilton candy melts but mine wouldn't work and i was doing them at 10pm so gave up and ended up with these. Very yum though and something i plan on practising and getting better at.

The capsicum dip before and after. Another really simple dish. Literally bake some red capsicum and then blend with cream cheese and voila yummiest dip i've had in a long time.

Raspberry swirl cheesecakes, a little more time consuming but turned out so yummy. Definately adding it to the to do again list.

Mini custard tarts - easy as, especially when you buy the tart shells :)

Selection of the desserts. Drooling they all taste so, so good. 

And finishing off with Sofie Sof because i think she is the cutest thing in the world (along with her brother and sister of course)

And now i need to go research healthy recipes because i've eaten way to many sweets lately!