Birthday Scone Recipe :)

This is the recipe for the blueberry-orange scones I made for Sadie's 1st birthday tea party! Super easy and delicious..

• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/3 cup sugar
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon orange zest
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup sour cream
• 1 Tablespoon honey
• 1 Tablespoon orange juice
• 1 egg
• 1/4 cup butter or margarine, melted
• 1 cup blueberries
• Extra sugar for topping

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 400.
2. In a large bowl, combine flour, sugar, baking powder, orange zest, baking soda, and salt. Set aside. In another bowl, combine sour cream, honey, orange juice, egg, and butter. Add to dry ingredients and stir until just moistened. Fold in blueberries.
3. Sprinkle a large cutting board with sugar. Put dough onto cutting board and press it to about 1 1/2" thick. Sprinkle sugar over top. Cut into squares or triangles. Place about 2" apart on greased cookie sheet and bake for 15-18 minutes or until lightly browned.

Birthday Week :)

This has been some week!

At 2am last Sunday, Sadie woke up with her first stomach virus. :( How awful! It's especially awful to know that they feel miserable and there's nothing you can do but hold them and try not to gag when they throw up all over you. Despite my cleaning efforts - I literally scrubbed myself in the shower with antibacterial hand soap - we all still caught that virus. Talk about crummy! For a full week we lived on chicken noodle soup, applesauce, toast, and popcicles. I'm very thankful that my mom came over to drive me to the hospital, once again, in the middle of the night for yet another gallbladder attack. I'm also thankful that Josh's mom came over to watch the girls while Josh straightened up the house. Unfortunately, though, both moms also caught the bug. Spreading like wildfire!!

So, since we'd like to give out something better than a virus as party favors, we moved Sadie's birthday party to next weekend. :) It worked out better anyway.. after days of laundering throw-uppy clothes and blankets, I hadn't had a chance to even work on anything for her party! We did, however, celebrate her day by having a birthday breakfast tea party. I whipped up a couple tutus and princess hats for the girls, I wore one of my sister's old prom dresses, and Josh put on his Sunday best - even a tie! :) We had blueberry-orange scones, mini waffles, fruity cheerios & my great-grandma's cinnamon cookies, and watched the unbirthday tea party scene from Alice in Wonderland (the animated Disney version). :) It's so much fun to start our own new traditions! I see many birthday tea parties in our future. :)

The Birthday Girl! :D

Hmm.. what to eat next..

Lacie's Princess Outfit :)

Lacie preferred her ninny over a scone.. haha

Sadie teasing Mae with her cookie :)

Lacie is here! :)

I'm finally getting into the groove of being mother to two girls under the age of one.. if there is such thing as a 'groove'. :)

For anyone who doesn't know, Lacie - who wasn't actually due until December 20 - tried her very best to come extremely early. I started having problems with preterm labor at 28 weeks, and was sentenced to modified bedrest, haha.. If you've ever been on any kind of bedrest, you'll completely understand why I say 'sentenced'. Most boring time of my life!!!!! Hahaha. :) Of course it was worth it. Lacie was in no way ready to be born at the time.

Six weeks later, on November 14, 2011, our beautiful little Lacie Jane was born - 10 months to the day after her sweet big sister, Sadie, was born; less than 24 hours after her Florida cousin, Wesley, was born. Lacie was just anxious to get in on the action!! She weighed in at a whopping 5 lbs, 11 oz - far bigger than they thought for 34 weeks and 6 days! She stayed in the NICU for 7 days, which was very difficult. Don't get me wrong, I have nothing but great things to say about all of the nurses, but the whole experience was, in a word - heartbreaking. To be sitting in the hospital for 2 days with no baby next to you and to go home with an empty carseat.. it just felt like I was in the hospital for an illness. All the memories of Sadie's first week that make me smile, I don't have with Lacie. I hate that. :( You never think about these things until you're in that position, I guess. It's no fun. But, she's healthy! :D That's what matters!

So now we are a week from Sadie's first birthday!! Lots of house cleaning to do and decorations to make. :D I'll be posting lots of projects and birthday pics in the next couple weeks. :) Have a great night everyone!