And the After Shot!

Here's the finished cake. :) I'm really happy with it. Brian will be taking it to work tomorrow.

wish me luck!

Today is the final night of cake class, where I make a cake with a rose spray thingie on it.

Here is my cake I'm going to be decorating, it's triple chocolate. Don't you wish you worked with Brian? He takes these cakes all to work.

see how smooth the icing is though! I'm pretty proud.

More cute pics

So Stephen and Ethan LOVE it when I vacuume. (is that right? spell check says so but it looks so wrong?) Anyhow they love it. I have that horrible... I mean adorable popper toy that they push and it goes, Pop! POP, POP. you know the one? Well anyhow today at Goodwill I found a fake vacuume! It was adorable, it's a dirt devil, lights up and makes vroom vroom noises! So I bought it for $4!





I baked during nap time for my last cake class tomorrow and when I got the boys up I was still wearing my apron. Stephen wanted to know what it was and then wanted to wear one so I let him.





here's pics: (still have snotty noses, you must love them anyhow)



So there is this Mommy and Me apron class at Joannes, I have this new fixation on aprons... will it fem Stephen up too much if I go to it and make him an apron for when he "Helps" me clean? I figure he can use it for messy crafts too ya know? Let me know.

For my family you can let me know by hitting "comments" and then LEAVING ONE! SHEESH! you'd think no one was interested in these cute kids!

I love Costco.

Today was another Costco day! :) gotta love that.

I took pictures, because I sure want to memoralize my favorite place in scrapbook form:

Oh and how do I look? I lost 5 lbs in the past month. :) I'm pretty excited. Plenty more to go though, but progress is the key. Stephen is indeed eating a bowl of sourkrout (how on earth do I spell that?) in that picture. He loves it.

OH guess what they sell at Costco? The 475 watt KitchenAid stand up mixer! I'm in love! Have I mentioned to any of you that I'm after that Mixer? I gotta save my pennies!

I'm still making cakes for class and friends and having a good time. I've been really good and only had one or at most two slices of any cake I've made, I send the rest to Brian's work. They all seem happy with this plan.

We are all doing well, Stephen had a resurgance of his cold, but it seems under control.

Oh cute conversation today:

Me: What color is your shirt (we are learning colors)

S: Purple! (which as you can see in the pics is wrong)

Me: No baby it's Red, purple is a different color from Red.

S: Why mommy?

Me: um.... I don't know...

How does one answer these questions? Why IS purple, purple and red, red? Do I say, "Because purple has a bit of blue in it in additon to the red hue and that makes it purple." I mean what do you tell a 2 year old about color theory?

Later today while getting him in his bed for naptime he leaned forward and LICKED my shirt (I thought he was coming in for a hug, I don't GENERALLY let people lick me) and said, "mmmm Mommy, yummy T-Shirt". It was, of course, my turn to ask "Why?" He had no answer for me.

Oh and apparently I talk about KitchenAid mixers too much, Stephen said, "Mixer" when I visited the one at Costco today. hehe.

Cute words for today.

So me and Stephen have colds. It sucks.

Stephen was feeling a bit better after some medicine and comes up to me (I'm on the couch)

S: Mommy I'm happy, Thankyou.

Me: Awww, (burst into tears)


Later Ethan (who barely talks at all)

"Waaaaaafle MEEEEEEEEEEE!"

closest thing to a sentence yet!

Then when Brian gets home he gets all over him and over and over and over, "Daddad, daddad!" He was all in love with him, it was super cute.


then Stephen said something about Costco and it was bedtime.

*we love costco*


I ate Taco Bell tonight, it was horrid, I officially do not eat Taco Bell... EVER. I might be ill.

No pics tonight, sorry.

Taking a cake decorating class.

Have I shared here that I'm taking a cake decorating class? I am! I'm in the third week and this week we made cupcakes.



Here's pictures: me, sporting my pink ruffles apron my friend Lani made me.
And the cupcakes!


cake decorating is FUN, but NOT CHEAP. Don't let anyone lie to you, it's NOT a cheap hobby!

OH and I decided I need a Kitchen Aid Stand Up Mixer, my arms are about to fall off using a hand mixer! SHEESH, one thing leads to the next doesn't it?




PS, I moved the "Family Silliness" video to the bottom, it's still there, go check it out.

cute conversation:

While getting Stephen dressed on the changing table:


Stephen: Mommy, Careful!
Me: How bout you be careful, and I'll be Mommy.
S: OK Mommy.
M: Who are you
S: I'm me!
M: But who are you?
S: I'm THIS Stephen. *points at himself*
M: Oh, ok Stephen.
S: We go to Costco now?
M: of course!

Yea, life's good.

Here we are playing in the pool today.

:) I love life.