Pictures and a Muffin Recipe...

Getting ready for the parade at the 4H ChickenQue (annual fundraiser)

And parading through the fairgrounds

Cassia proudly holding the flag at the end of the parade

Cyrus is in love with this 1936 Ford truck

We had a good day yesterday. This is the only fundraiser 4H does, so it is pretty important to participate. My kids were in the parade (as they are Sergeants-at-Arms), and they helped with trash clean up. They also won seed packets in an egg toss, made leather tags with imprints (Cassia did a rabbit, Cyrus a cat), and checked out various animals. They are both now convinced we need a couple of rabbits for the backyard! We also ate bbq'd chicken (which M helped with... his annual volunteer contribution to the ChickenQue), hung out with my mom and sister, ate cake, and had a generally good time.

Speaking of cake, I made two this year for the ChickenQue, but never saw them after dropping them off. M says that they must have sold pretty quickly. I made a butter pecan cake with apricot filling, an apricot-vanilla buttercream, and chopped candied pecans on top, AND a strawberry cake with lemonade buttercream and filling, and candied lemon slices on top. Cassia calls it a Strawberry Lemonade Cake. Anyhow, they were long gone by the time we got around to buying a few cake slices.