Showing posts with label Cupcakes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cupcakes. Show all posts

Sunday, December 16, 2012

Jilly and Her Sweets

One weekend in October, we went over to a friend's house for a birthday party.  Jilly quite enjoyed the cupcakes.  Just like with her Oreos, she was only interested in the creamy frosting.  She didn't want anything to do with the cake part of the cupcake.




Boy does this girl love her sweets!  She would probably be really happy if I let her loose with a tub of frosting.  ;)

Saturday, July 14, 2012

Strawberry Cheesecake Yummyness

 Yes, another cupcake post.  Preston chose Strawberry Cheesecake cupcakes this week.  Yum, yum, YUM!!!  The cake part has real vanilla bean in it.  Very tasty.  They are also filled with strawberry jam.  Add that with the cream cheese frosting and crumbles of brown sugar/graham cracker crust on top and this makes for one scrumptious cupcake.

Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Yum!!!

Last week was Trenton's turn to choose the cupcake.  I have to say, this was my absolute favorite so far.  It's a good thing we gave so many away, or I would barely be squeezing into my pants this week.
Andes mint cupcakes.  
Trenton made them all on his own too.  All I did was pipe the frosting on top.  He did amazing!
Here is the link.  They will not disappoint.

Sunday, June 10, 2012

The Past Week

Here's a little recap of this last week:
 The grandparents came over one night and we had pizza and watched "Brother Bear".  Jilly enjoyed a few tastes of Vivi's lollipop.
 She didn't want to give it back.  Once she had one taste, she thought it needed to be hers.
 I made some valences to go above my kitchen windows.  I didn't notice how bare all my windows look with just the blinds, but now that I have these valences up, I'm thinking I need to get going on making some window treatments for the other windows.
 This is one of Jilly's favorite new toys to play in.  Preston and Vivi pretend it's a wheelchair all the time and pretend they have broken legs and wheel each other around the house.  They decided to put Jilly in it the other day and she LOVED it!
 Trenton is done with school now.  YAY!  Can't wait til Viv and Colson are done, then we can really get our summer started.  Trenton's been such a wonderful helper.  He has also spent plenty of time pushing Jilly around in the dump truck.  He's so good to her.
 Preston and I got to go on a little date the other day.  It was so much fun.  He chose lunch at Good Times.  He loves the spoon benders there.  What am I saying, I love their spoon benders!  Although I'm trying to quit.  We also went to a toy/learning store so I could get the kids some summer workbooks.  He loved it.  They had these little car/scooters, and he was cruising all over the store in it.  He found this giant bear while we were there and had to have a picture with it.  While we were out, we also ran to Target to get a few groceries.  As we were 
strolling through the aisles, he saw a woman who was pretty heavy and he said, "Whoa, mom!  Look!  Her butt is really--" and as he looked and saw the expression on my face, he exclaimed, "Cool!  She has a cool bum!"  Oh my goodness... It was all I could do to not burst out laughing!  That boy cracks me up.
 The kids had their recitals on Saturday.  They did so good!  This is their amazing hip hop teacher Mr. B.  I wasn't able to get a picture of Vivi with her teacher, Miss Holly.  She took tap and ballet this year with Miss Holly.

 After the recitals, we headed over to the pool for some fun in the sun.  We all had lots of fun jumping off the diving board.  Here's Viv in the middle of a twist.
 Trent has still got it.  He did a front flip with a full twist, a 1 1/2 front flip into a dive, and lots of cannon balls.
 Here's Trenton finishing up a front flip.
 And this crazy little boy here decided he was going to do a front flip, and just went up and did it!  I couldn't believe it!  Colson was done swimming by the time I pulled the camera out.  However, he was the one that got me up on the diving board.  During adult swim, he told me, "Mom, go and jump off the diving board."  I looked around and noticed that the pool was all but empty, and there was nobody over on the diving board.  I asked him, "Now?"  He responded, "Come on mom.  This is your only time to shine!"  Once adult swim was over, I went and jumped off the diving board several times with the kids, then asked Colson if I was "shining" yet.  He told me that since I hadn't taken the opportunity to jump during adult swim, I missed my chance.  Oh well... Maybe next time.
My little Lou looks so cute in her tutu suit!  She's funny about the pool.  She loves it as long as she doesn't get splashed too much.  Which is funny to me, since when she is in the bathtub, all she does is splash the whole time and practically drown herself.  She's a funny girl.

For our cupcake this week, Vivi chose May Day Basket cupcakes.  She decorated them all herself.  They turned out so cute!

Saturday, June 2, 2012

It's Cupcake Time!

Summertime means cupcake time at our house.  Several years ago we started what is now known as the Cupcake Tradition.  Once a week one of the kids gets to look through my cupcake cookbooks, or at all of the cupcake recipes I've downloaded online, and they get to pick whatever kind of cupcake they want for that week.
It was Preston's turn to pick this week and he chose Pina Colada cupcakes.  Super yummy.  Next week is Viv's turn.  Can't wait to see what she picks.  Or rather taste what she picks.  ;)