Mom, my nose is shaped like a...

breakfast conversation this morning was centered around what things are shaped like. after talking about what our eggs were shaped like and our plates were shaped like anden, in the most serious tone this child could possibly muster said to me, "mom, my nose is shaped like a....

triangle."

and then giggled because crossing your eyes feels as funny as it looks.

Snow men in TX

What Anden and his dad do with the freezer scrapings:-) Then a snowball fight with the wall!

Cupcake of the Week: The Banana Split Cucpake

Banana flavored cream filled cupcakes topped with vanilla buttercreme, ganache, sprinkles and a cherry on top. Yum. The idea came to me today as I was writing in my journal, how awesome would cupcakes that resemble ice cream sundaes be? Here they are!

Birthday Celebrations

My birthday fell on a Sunday this year, which was pretty cool. Everybody at church knew it was my birthday because I am the Primary Chorister and our Secretary keeps a good roster . Someone in Primary guessed that I was in my 40's. That makes me laugh, children really don't have a good grasp on age. When we got home, we all took a glorious nap and I woke up to my husband putting finishing touches on a velvety cheesecake. My visiting teacher even came over with a plate of delicious chocolate mint cookies. Peter grilled some chicken, made some rice and grilled asparagus and it was truly a great meal. We ended our night by watching Kaeling hear her mission call to Taiwan read over the phone and playing games with friends from the singles ward.

On Tuesday we invited a few friends to Chuys for dinner. I was spoiled then again with undeserving gifts. Honestly, a Le Crueset Pie Plate? A cupcake cake pan? Jewelry? Invader Zim Tee? Hair Products (from my new stylista)? Gorgeous Picture frames? Wow. I am so spoiled. Then it was my turn. I spoiled them with some cupcakes, so we were all even stevens.

Well I thought it was all over, but just last night Peter came home with this delicious cake stand. I am a sucker for a cake stand, and I had to make cupcakes for the occasion.

i love my son.

this month is such a special one, it's birthday time for you!

november is my favorite month because it begins with my birthday.

we were hit by the "pop" arazzi

Our "lodger" Kaeling helped me create these cake pops, again inspired by Bakerella for our Halloween dinner tomorrow night. I used chocolate cake, dipped them in black candy melts and placed red hot eyes to make phantoms. Then I used white cake, dipped in orange flavored orange candy melts and placed an M&M on top of them to mimic a pumpkin. We rolled the extra cake pops in sprinkles. Yum-yum.

Pre-Halloween Festivities

It all started on Monday evening at the Round Rock Library, Anden signed up for the Halloween Party! We had a fun time listening to stories.

We saw this cool skeleton made out of recycled milk gallons.

Also this week we had a Preschool party, I made ghost krispies for the children and witchy popcorn, then we watched casper the friendly ghost and had a great time!

I don't quite know what it is about Halloween, but it is certainly one of my most favorite times of year. What a way to start out the Holiday season.

Vampire Bites

We were invited to a Halloween Party and were asked to bring a small treat. I decided to try out Bakerella's cake pops. I used red velvet cake and thought they turned out well for my first batch of cakepops.

I didn't get a picture of them at the party, but here is a picture of them freshly finished, don't mind my extremely dirty kitchen table.

Cats and Halloween....

Sometime in August, we lost our two cats Penni and Bella. They must have run off somewhere and ended up lost. On Anden's birthday, my Father-In-Law's cat had a litter of kittens. Two of them were pure white and the more outgoing of the litter. Peter and I decided to adopt them. We've named them Albus and Moby due to their white-ness. The only way we can tell the difference between the two is that Albus has a few brown hairs above his eye.

Carving pumpkins this year. We got to them a little early and had to throw out our rotting pumpkin, but we got pictures first! I carved this:

And on the other side, Peter carved this:

And Moby decided he liked eathing this:

Anden decided to paint his, Peter and I thought they were StrongSad inspired:

A visit from the Grandparents...

When we got home Anden was so excited to be back in his element. He pranced around pretending to be little bunny foo foo.

The week after coming home, Peter's grandparents came to visit us. Grandma Doris and Grandpa Lloyd are some of the most energetic 80 year olds I know! They had traveled from north of Salt Lake into Houston, by car before visiting with us. Anden was excited to see his Papa.

The same week I had a huge wedding order so I wasn't able to participate in much of the activities, but Peter took Anden and the grandparents to the Innerspace Caverns in Georgetown. It looks like they had a blast!

Back-log blogging....

I am pretty much the worst blogger in the world. Between my intermittent journal entries and my husband's cell phone posts, I feel like I haven't lived up to my own blogging expectations.

So while I am storing the data off our camera and getting ready to refresh our memory card, I am going to "Photo-blog" our last two months over the next few days.

our family at the Albuquerque temple.

Anden at the top of Sandia Peak

Peters birthday cake

on the road home again.... Anden is so spoiled

Saturday is a special day...

It's the day we get ready for Sunday...

Literally.

Today will be spent rehearsing with my beautiful Primary children the songs we have worked hard on all year.

Then tomorrow, they will be nothing short of amazing. I think the BC Primary has the sweetest kids I have ever known, and let me tell you why. When they sing, I mean really focus on the words... aren't acting ridiculous or silly, I get the goosebumps and can feel the spirit.

I just hope I can keep it all together.

in too deep...

this week is about taking fertility drugs, making cookies, cake balls, husbands and child's halloween costumes...

this week is filled with the things i love. i can see the results smiling on the faces of those i created for.

this week i just hope it's more than just cookies, cake balls and costumes...

here's the thing

• sleeping in on saturdays doesn't really exist when you have a three year old, a puppy and a husband with ambitions for the yard.
• i am enjoying staying at home with my son and he has told me that he likes staying home with me.
• "falloweena" is the new halloween, so my three year old says.
• i am not bored staying at home (someone asked me that yesterday)
• i am extremely nervous about our ward primary program in a week.
• i went from a dedicated "blogger" to an unreliable "blogger" and there's no promise ahead of dedication... just unreliability...
• i have nothing planned today and that makes me happy.