Bloom Blocks 9 & 10, Gabriella's Bread

Wow, I can't believe that these last two weeks have flown by so quickly.  I thought I would have more to show but no such luck, life just got in the way and that's okay.

 

 

I do have Bloom Blocks 9 and 10 to show you, they are as follows.  I think that #9 has to be my favorite one so far with Block 2 a close second.

 

 



 

Bloom Block #9

 

Bloom Block #10

Good Friday has always been a very special day in our family for many reasons.  I remember as a child that my maternal grandmother would always make a traditional meal and all of our aunts, uncle's and cousins would come, it was such a nice time.  As I got older I remember most of us cousins would take off of work just to make it to grandma's to enjoy her traditional meal and catch up with each other.  More years passed by and all of us cousins started taking our children to their great-grandma's for the same meal and to play with a new generation of cousins.  After grandma passed, my mom continued this tradition with our family, it is such a special time.  This year my mom was sick, so as the eldest of our family, I made the traditional dinner.  To the bottom right hand side of the picture you can see a plate full of "papitas" that Gabriella helped me make with her own little hands, she shaped them almost perfectly, the way my grandma taught me.  I have not yet learned to make the home made bread so I bought some baguettes and had my little Gabriella butter them.  We all laughed that we had bread with our butter, but it didn't matter as I was able to bring one more generation into the fold of making our traditional "Good Friday Meal". 





By the way, the bread was delicious.

 

Below are a couple of other items that my Gabby helped me make!

 

The cake is our traditional "Carrot Cake" with cream cheese icing, just in a different shape than what we are use to seeing at the table.

We also had deviled eggs and we did a little something different with these, we actually colored the white part of the egg with food dyes before filling, they were delicious.  This might be a new tradition my Gabby and I start.

 

I don't have any Easter pictures of my little grand children as I had a migraine and missed out, but as soon as Alisha sends over some pictures from her phone I will show you how nice they looked in their Easter outfits.

 

 

You all have a wonderful week and remember to smile!!!