Warning kindof a dumb post but cool ideas

So I have been trying to find some great cake ideas for my little girls birthday. Which wouldn't be so hard if the event wasn't combined with a full grown man's coming home/ belated birthday party. Yea try and come up with a theme for that. As I looked for the ideas I stumbled on these cupcakes and they made me laugh. Cupcakes used to not make me laugh until recently. It would sound stupid if I tried to explain the humor behind cupcakes but it has everything to do with Kelly. As I was looking at different cakes I thought about different people and thought I would come up with a really dumb blog post. But the cakes are really cool so you might take a look.
Kelly the cupcake queen here's a new idea for your cupcake loving fam.

This is so my sister in law Fawn. She understands the importance a beautifully put together cake. Before her I looked at a wedding cake as food, foolish me, what a work of art they can be. Thanks again for doing mine fawny.

For Brigg because I don't know any other kid to say truck so cool.

For my wanna be rock star sister. Here's to having a leather shower curtain eh' sis

This cake I have no idea how they did it but I am just starting in my cake decorating. But this is for sure for my father in law who loves penguins.

This cake is for my sister in law Valerie. It just has so much personality and she is having a Halloween party soon so I thought I would throw the idea her way.

All settled in

The folks are off to Alaska to finally bring my sister home. We are so excited to get her and her husband back in town. Mean while we are getting all settled in to our new living arrangements and I haven't posted in such a long time I thought I would just snap some photo's of what everyone is doing right now. The first picture says so much about my kids. If you notice she is in Pj's and is looking so adorable. I don't know about you but my kids all of sudden become the worlds best charmers before bed so they can stay up. The next is Brigg hanging out on uncle Lance's bed watching "turtle's" (teenage mutant ninja turtles). He had been asking for the movie all day and Uncle Lance and mom finally said yes. The third is Brad and Laney having dinner and watching turtles with Brigg. Nothing too exciting tonight but we are planning on taking over the world later so I'll let you know how that plan goes.

Shout out....

I would like to give a shout out to my house, Yes, my house. You never realize how beautiful your home is until you have to leave it. We went back last night to get rid of the staging and to take one last peek while it still feels like it's our house. It was harder than I anticipated. I have been looking forward to moving back in to Mesa for such a long time that I didn't think it would be a big deal. But it really hurt my feelings to give it the final walk through before it becomes tainted. So in memorial of the house it will never be again I would like to post some pictures to remember our first little home. It grew to fit our family so perfectly

The Heart of the House

My Empty Bedroom with the ugliest curtains you have ever seen! I could never figure those things out and would lie in bed staring at them wondering WHY!?!?

Vanessa's darling little room. This room had such a transformation as we lived there. It went from Brad's stuff room, to a guest bedroom, then to brad's stuff-guest bedroom (some how all of his stuff migrated back) and finally to my baby girls room.

Briggs little Baseball room empty. His Aunt Rhonda surprised us with the room being all painted up when we got back from the hospital. It was the first room with paint and character. Our little 5 LB NB Brigg looked so tiny when we first brought him to see the room. By the time we moved he had wall to wall toys and it didn't seem like he had enough space.

Finally my bathrooms. I bet you can't tell which is the master bathroom. This made sharing a little tiny counter no fun so brad actually took one bathroom and I took the other. Our next house I am holding out for a double sink vanity and not care if that means that I have to clean two sinks. A couple who flosses together makes funny smiling faces together! But I did love how the turned out decorating wise. I got the paint color off of my cousin Sammy's wedding announcement and I couldn't have loved it more.


As I whimper and wine about not wanting to give this house up and how much I grew to love it Brad says, "we can move back". But I think I want to move forward so to bigger and hopefully better things.

So I think my mother is trying to KILL me....

So it has been so great living in Mesa again. It's like coming home again......well part of that is because we are living with mom and dad. I hope for every one's sake that this 30 weeks of schooling for Brad passes quickly. But I hope that mostly for me because my mother has it out for me! She has me wake up at 5AM and then tortures me for an hour or more sometimes. My Aunt Rhonda is in on it every MWF too. My arms, stomach, back, and legs hurt and I have blisters to top it all off. Don't be decieved by her smiling face above, she keeps saying that it's exercise she is putting me through but some how it feels like she is trying to kill me!!

SOOOOO Happy there isn't a picture for this!

So as posted below we are in the middle of a move. As far as moves go it's been so far so good, well..... except for this one part. Brad wanted to check with the neighbor to see if it was okay for him to park our vehicle infront of their house. Mind you this is a man we talk to on occasion and has been quite pleasant. He is vietnamese and seemed pretty straight laced. Because of the language barrier we don't ever say to much but he has been a pleasant neighbor. Well when Brad went over and knocked on the door he got a little more then he was expecting. The man was standing there in nothing but his tighty-whitey's!!! Brad said the guy didn't even flinch and told him everything would be okay. Needless to say I am so glad it was Brad who went and talked to him about the car and not me. It makes me wonder about if we ever know who we are really living next to. People are so wierd sometimes!!

The Move is ON

Well the time has come so quick for us to move. No we didn't sell our house although I really wish that were true. We are looking for renters currently if anyone knows of someone.... It seems a little crazy that we are moving out of our home and don't know what to do with it, but we feel that it's oh so right. Brad just received his acceptance letter to ASU to get his Bachelors in Real Estate Development. This will teach him how to do real estate with the big boys. As you can imagine he is so excited! So we are moving into my parents house and helping them finish the upstairs apartment. And if all goes to plan we will quickly move up there until we aren't poor students again. I am so excited to be centrally located and close to old friends but I am afraid I will miss the Laveen Ward terribly. I think I will post pics of the house a little later when there aren't boxes all over. If anyone is looking to do some service then Thursday is when we are moving and no do gooder will be turned away. Well here goes another big change for our little family. We seem to just keep stepping into the darkness and waiting for the light. Back to packing!

Best Buddy

This is Brigg's best friend in the entire world other than his daddy and sister of course. They talk about each other, pray for each other, and a even fight for the same toy together. A few weeks ago at church we were standing around after sacrament meeting and I couldn't find Brigg. It turns out his buddy came and took him by the hand and they walked to nursery together. One of their favorite past times at my house is to stand on there cars, throw a block and then yell as they leap off of the toy car and tumble onto the ground. The picture above is Blake showing Brigg how to put olives on your fingers and eat them off. The picture below is the two boys being oh so cool with there cars. These best buddies are so great.

Blog help

Growing up my mother would get the itch of needing something to change. So my poor siblings and I would end up pulling down wallper that had only been put up several months before or even worse switching bedrooms. The bedroom switch wouldn't have been so bad had it not been for all of the food storage boxes under the beds that had to be moved. More of my dislike would lie in having to help my brothers get rid of their clutter. Of course the apple doesn't fall to far from the tree and I have inherited this trait. Mine is of course different since wall paper is out. I instead sell my furniture or paint something. My husband recently put his foot down to any painting seeing as we are moving so my creative efforts have to go else where. So I am attacking my blog and am wondering if anyone knows how to do a banner/header. I created the one at the top of the page which I am not happy with. It needs to be bigger and redone. I just can't figure out how to do it. I have been using www.scrapblog.com and it's been great. I am making a new banner to match whatever background I finally decide upon but I would love any help or suggestions on the banner I can get. Thanks

Some times I just can't help but be totally stupid!

So tonight I decided to be a little thrifty with my gas and drive to Fawn's house and then go with her the rest of the way to play bunco. Fawn needed to go to a wedding reception before hand which myself, Karalyn (fawn's friend), and Fawn's sister all agreed to go with her to. KaraLyn and I didn't know the bride nor the groom but the appeal of free cake never stopped me before (kidding). So we stayed a few minutes and mingled and then had to hurry off to Bunco. Well Fawn got separated from KaraLyn and I just before we left, and then I had the silly idea of signing the sign-in photo despite not knowing any of the wedding party. I told Karalyn we should sign it really big because they didn't know who we were and what a funny joke that would be. Well after we went to the car and waited for Fawn who soon came out of the door with her sister cracking up. I thought she had looked at the sign-in table and was laughing at that. It turns out Fawn went to go say goodbye to the bride and she asked her if she knew me. To which the bride replied yes she did. Then continued to tell Fawn how in 11th grade I had hit her car and the bumper fell off. I had totally forgotten all about the incident because it went over smoothly with my putting her bumper on her hood of the car and leaving a note and then matters were hashed out from there. My only thoughts are now is that she remembered me for being the girl that hit her car and she now has a lovely large autograph from me on her sign-in photo that will probably hang in her home for a very long time.