ConLai's Crumble Cake Conglomeration

Aunt Mindy sent a cookie mix and recipe to make some sugar cookies for ConLai's birthday. So the girls and I went to work and made some. I needed something to help make the cookies a "pretty presentation" for her birthday, plus we needed something to stick candles in. The idea was for the cake to be a three step (stair-like) cake with each cookie word on a step.

First the cake came out so moist (yea for box cakes) that it wouldn't come out of the pan as a cake. It came out in crumbles. Then the cookies didn't stand up. So much for the "pretty presentation". :)

I have this idea in my mind of how wonderful the work I'm doing will look when I'm done. It's going to be such a pretty presentation to my God, and aren't I just wonderful for doing it is my train of thought! But all this is like filthy rags to a holy God. Later in Isaiah 64 where it talks about our righteous acts being as filthy rags it says,
"Yet you, LORD, are our Father.
We are the clay, you are the potter;
we are all the WORK of your hand."

Turns out I'm His work in progress that looks like the cake conglomeration below but on the day of Christ Jesus, will be completed!

We had a family over to help celebrate.


We managed to find a bike at a garage sale (a huge plus to Huron, SD) this summer that was in excellent shape which became ConLai's bday present.