Life of Larisa or LOL

...while dad is away. We play. And bake. And make pirate hats. And let toddlers pretend to drive. This week we are counting down the days until Isom returns home from his business trip. But over the past two weeks we have been keeping busy. My favorite diversion is of course whipping up sweet treats in the kitchen. My latest baking project involved marshmallow, chocolate, and graham cracker. Gabe helped me eat s'more pie and a s'more trifle. Both delicious and fun to make. The layers of chocolate graham gooey goodness included brownie, pudding, Nutella, coconut and caramel drizzle, and chocolate chips. Sinful. My latest obsession (other than s'mores and Desperate Housewives) is putting any and everything in mason jars. S'more dessert was that much better spooned out of mini mason jars. And that much cuter too. The boys have been keeping me tired and laughing with their fort building, chalk drawing, and fridge shelf climbing (Zach). We have the pictures below as proof t

...to happen on Easter weekend---another broken toe! Even though its April Fools Day, this is no joke. You can't make something this ridiculous up. The Easter Bunny paid the boys a visit two days early (we have VIP status with him) since Isom left for three weeks of training on Easter Sunday. This year Zach was loaded up with Elmo loot. He currently loves the fuzzy red guy and the moon. Gabe received a few treats and a book from a series he got sucked into over spring break. We paid a visit to the mall/rodeo version of the Easter Bunny. You can see from the picture what a success that was. Maybe running my toe into a concrete wall was my payback for mildly torturing little Zachy. I still got a good chuckle out of his sheer terror at being held by the wascally wabbit. Saturday Isom kindly fried up bacon and baked his famous ginger snap cookies for our Easter brunch on Sunday and we dropped him off at the airport. Sunday we enjoyed good food and company, an egg hunt, egg roulette (s