Cute babies.

It's been a long week. Stephen bit Ethan in the face! Stephen got a huge time out and his puppy taken away for a whole day. Then they both came down with colds, then I got the cold, I had drama at church too, so all in all I was stressed and tired. Then Stephen burned his hand on the stove. Two days later Ethan, still sporting teeth marks (it was a nasty bite), fell and hit his head on the entertainment center! Got one of those goose eggs. SHEESH!

The good news is all of that turned out ok. Face is healing, head is fine, hand is good, colds are almost gone, church thing will be ok.

And look at these babies!!

*my friend Tiph sent me this mold, Stephen LOVES it and wants cupcakes to be made in it right away*

Some cute things Stephen said lately:

After begging for ice cream (which I didn't have) for like 15 minutes I say, "Baby you can't get blood from a stone" to which he replied, "No mommy, ICE CREAM from a stone!"

S: Where Nana go?

M: Nana is at the Temple today.

S: Ohhhh pretty!

that's all I can remember right now. He's always saying something cute though.

Crazy deals.

So the Food Lion near here is going out of business. EVERYTHING is marked down at least 60%. I got tons and tons of stuff:
dish detergent
jet dry rinse stuff
oven thermometer
meat thermometer
2bx chocolate cake mix
8bx white cake mis
3jars pickles
4 of those french fried onion thingiesr
aid wasp and hornet killer
razor blad thingies
carvel icecream cake
4 boxes tampons
baby tylenol
childrens benydrill
4 boxes ceral
pop tarts
mcCormic pesto sauce packet 2
4 boxes raisens
1 bag cranberry raisen tingies
10 of these little kid pasta travel thingies
10 thinigie of crystal lite
1 thingie of the little travel crystal lites
two pkgs tortillas
1tub hummus (garlic flavor)
120 count fiber suppliment
150 count womens' daily vitamans
chapstick
cholorceptic throat spray
3pk mcCormic seasongs in the little packets
2 "Finishing Sauces"
3 jars gravy
5 jars flavor extract
3pkg yeast
1jar cream of tartar
4pkg pudding
3pkg jello
1large bag chocolate chips
1pjg banana strawberry muffin mix
1jar pumpkin pie spice
1 jar ginger
1box of these little packets of crystalized orange extract (to use in recipies) 40 of them in the box
1 bottle teriaki sauce
1 bag ranch flavored rice cakes
1 little chocolate cream pie thingie
two pkgs baking cups.

All for less than $100.

Stephen walked into the kitchen where I have it all displayed (to show Brian where his $97 went) and he opened his arms out to the sides and said: So much food, So blessed.

he's right. :)

I have currently 12 boxes of cake mix. It's a sickness! Anyone want some cake?

Ready to see the coolest thing EVER??

Today.



At the St. Augustine Outlet mall..

For a lower price than I'd seen anywhere...

RED. (REALLY RED)

450 watt stand mixer!

*thunderous applause*

This is a professional strength one, not that cutsie "Artesian" one that is in most stores. That Artesian one is in Target for $300, it's only 425 watts. I paid just $199 for this one and it is 125 watts MORE! I have no idea that I needed those extra watts, but I still wanted it! I mean why get less watts for more money? My only color choices were this dark red and a pretty cobalt blue. I liked both but think I will not be using blue when I redo my kitchen, also I LOVE red. I mean look at it!

In case you want a mixer too they still have the blue of this version. The cute Artesian one they have for just $179 down there and they had that in a boat load of colors (including a light orange that was really super cool!)

I had to use my "fun money" for two months to get it, I don't currently HAVE any saved up so I won't be doing any shopping during October or November! :( But still, I mean LOOK at it!

I made cupcakes already and it was so easy to whip up that frosting! I couldn't believe it.

Ok, off to go look at my mixer more.

ps, it does have the mixer thingies, I just had them off in the pic. It came with 3 different ones and a cool book that tells you what they are all for and has recipies in it.


Here is a link to my mixer online if you wanna read all the specs! AND see what an awesome deal I got!

Orange Creamsicle Cake.

This weekend my Dad and Step-mom were here for just one night. We went to Clark's Fish camp and I had the best dessert EVER. No lie, it was the most yummy bites of sugar delight in my whole life. It was called Creamsicle cake.

So you know I had to make one of my own! I got this recipe from Cake Central. I used this one: Orange creamsicle Cake (I'm not sure if that link works without a Cake Central account?). It was a TON of ingredients: Several packs of pudding, orange extract, eggs, a cake mix, yogurt, serbert! Just lots of stuff. Anyhow I tasted it and it's good!

Brian's co-workers will get this cake too. I'm seriously thinking of piping "Give my husband a raise cakes ain't cheap" on the next one!

Dad and Sue visit!

Every time we have a visit there is someone who ends up being left out of our photos, this time it was Sue! I swear she was here! I only have a few pics though and they only have the boys and my dad.

Here's the boys in their new matching Seminoles Jerseys!
Here's Dad with the boys.
Ethan decided to get in this tiny pot. (this is the phone that was killed by lightning.)
Stephen has to have a close up head shot each time we get the camera out.


The visit was nice but way too short for me! Brian missed pretty much all of it as he went to the FSU football game yesterday, he literally saw them for 5 min on his way out and 10 min this morning as they were leaving! But me and the boys got to hang out, go shopping for boy clothes at Target and go to Clarks Fish Camp, which is an awesome local seafood resturant. AND at Clark's they have Creamsicle Cake! I already pulled recipies for it so I can make some of my own this week.


Oh and our lightning repairs seem to be done. We replaced our phone, tried to deal with the pool pump, couldn't, called an electrician who told us just what to do *to save us $$ he suggested we do the repair ourselves, it was very simple* we did the repair and it's fixed! So that's good to have sorted out!

For those of you who are following along, I've got a card published in a magazine this month. Vamp Stamp News has a fish card I made on page 18.

An eye for the artistic?

Brian took a series of these pictures of Stephen looking through the action figure's legs. Stephen insisted that this is how he would have his photo taken. I'm impressed by his desire for framing and wonder if he knew his shirt coordinated well with the uniform on the football player.

Matching Aprons, and lighthing strikes

So yesterday we had a storm and lightning struck the tree out front. It was crazy, I was standing right by the window and I could taste the electricity! So it rained down pieces of tree.
It doesn't look like much in this pic but this piece of tree is super sharp and went in the ground like 5 inches. Also that is the window I was staning in. We are all fine, it shorted out our pool pump, we are hoping to be able to fix it with some part that Brian has figured out is the problem. It has also killed our phone, its funny, our answering machine still works, so you can call and leave us a message, but we can't call you back or answer the phone. I left a message that is like, "Hi, it's the Kelloggs, lighting struck our house and killed our phone, we can hear your message or you can call our cell phones." No one has called sense I changed it though, I wanted people to hear it.


I made the boys matching aprons with green froggie fabric, they love to wear them to "clean" and "cook". Apparently Stephen needs new PJ's.
We had a pot luck today at church and I brought these cupcakes in this stand. They were a hit. They were lemmon cupcakes with rasberry filling and vanilla buttercream icing.