Whole Wheat Honey Berry Shortcake & Our Precious Birthday Girl!

Today is someone's birthday.  Our little someone turned two and we are so blessed that she is ours!  To celebrate her special day I wanted to bake my sweetie angel girl something that would be good for her.  It was also important to serve her favorite foods which include berries, pineapple, cantaloupe & filet mignon.  I'd been craving raspberry filling and strawberry shortcake.  Heavenly Homemakers had the perfect Healthy Shortcake recipe made with honey & whole wheat flour.  I couldn't be more pleased with the delicious results.  In fact, I must buy a cake plate to serve it on as this will be a new favorite dessert in our house.


Kalee's big day started yesterday for us.  Her big brother assembled her new kitchen & hid it in his room.  Daddy came in to see if there was anything he could do to help.

Josh assembling Kalee's kitchen 

Last night I carefully made the healthy pound cake.  I quadrupled the recipe and had a little extra that I baked in a little round pan.   We all waited hoping that it'd stick so we could try it and it did! :D                                                                                         

I asked for raspberries & was excited to have gotten 3 types of berries to decorate with

mixing whole wheat flour & baking powder

8 eggs...can you tell which one our hen laid? 

2 cups of raw honey

mixing well

buttered pan

Mommy adores her little girl

birthday pictures before church

Mommy & the birthday girl!

birthday glasses & braclet

Helping Daddy give the announcements in church...of course announcing her birthday :)

I enjoyed singing with my kids again ;)

Big brothers & their girlfriends help to celebrate the big occasion!

there was a little bit of kissing :)

and some more kissing

Kalee's kitchen is a big hit!

a rose for our rose & she appreciated it

Lori's 3 Berry Shortcake w/honey whipped cream &
honey raspberry filling

Honey Wheat Shortbread, honey raspberry filling
w/honey whipped cream! yum!

Daddy helping our little girl to blow out her candles

the birthday girl enjoying her balloons

Our daughter's big day has arrived and we are so excited to bless her today!  

Ugly Alligator or Lizard/Toad & cooking frenzy in the kitchen!

ugly plastic alligator 

Ugly on his hairbrush, hehe

ugly toy by kitchen sink! ugh!

Thursday a.m. I opened the refrigerator to find an ugly plastic dragon on our meat.  My oldest son had gone through his toys, that I made him save for his kids, and found it.  It's ugly.  So I put it in between his sheets by his feet that night.   He awoke around 1 a.m. to fear a huge scorpion was in his bed! hehe He put the thing near my pillow under the covers.   When Gary made the bed down that night he found it and put it on my night stand.  I found it and put it on Josh's hairbrush in the bathroom drawer.  Matt thought Josh put it on his hairbrush, since I put it in the wrong drawer and put it in Josh's bathroom drawer on his toothbrush.  This morning when Gary got his coffee cup out, it was in there!  I got up to find it by the kitchen sink & left it on Josh's keyboard.  Since that didn't seem to make a big enough impression, I put it deep inside something else rather useful but I'm not saying where! ;o)  (there's a surprise if you click the paragraph above) 

Being that it's Saturday, I thought it'd be a great idea to make enough food for tomorrow so I don't have to cook.  This girl has to have a day of rest.  Gary had mentioned Pasta E Fagioli earlier this week and thinking ahead I made a huge batch!  It can serve 12 people so surely it'll tie us over till Monday!  :))  Here's a few pictures of how I made myself productive today ;o)

pasta e fagioli

my whole wheat pasta

rolling a pasta sheet

cutting the pasta

rolling out whole wheat pita bread

cooling warm pitas to store in the freezer 

pitas & basil pesto mmm!

natural yogurt, raw honey & fresh frozen raspberries

sweet raspberry yogurt & honey smoothy ;)