Rainbow Cake!

Eliana is the baker in the family.  She is not into cooking very much or baking savory things.  But, she likes baking desserts!

The other day, she decided that she wanted to bake a "rainbow cake".  So using cake mix and a round tin that she inherited from her aunt, she set out to bake this layered cake.

It had all the colors of the rainbow and she had to bake each layer separately.  Also, she only had one cake tin and had to wash out the cake tin in between each baking.  To make each layer the same thickness, she weighed out the batter into six equal weight portions.  It took her the whole afternoon!

Then came time for making the icing and the assembly.

And then it was done!  We apparently have never taught Gabe that he should let the baker have the first slice.  After dinner he dug into it without telling anyone.  All the layers were there!

It shrunk in size pretty quickly, day after day.

And it didn't take long for it to disappear!

Eggs!

We have good news!  We got our chickens back in August and have been waiting expectantly for them to start laying eggs.  

It's been six months now and Eliana, our researcher, says that they start laying between five to eight months of age.

Well, on Tuesday, Eliana decided to check the coop and found one!  It was a pretty exciting moment in our household.  The egg was cold so it must have been laid a while ago.

The kids think it's Chippy that laid the egg because they saw her go into the coop a lot.

Then Karina saw Chippy go into the coop and decided to check the coop again.  And she found another egg!

So now we're the proud owners of two freshly laid eggs.  We can't wait to try them!

Now, whenever the kids hear the chickens clucking, they go out to check for eggs.

Nothing this time!

Here are the ladies, all grown up!