a Rock Band night

Yes, it's a non-cupcake post!

I'm not sure who enjoys this game more, my kids or my husband (who really had an idiot moment the other night, but more on that in a minute). None of us can sing all that great, but darn it, we have fun!

Dave decided (without my ok - I was completely against this from the moment he brought it up) to get the Stage Kit that goes with Rock Band - the light show and fog machine. Well, the dork managed to fog up the whole downstairs AND set the smoke alarm off the other night. I laugh now, but at the time I wasn't too happy to not be able to see through my living room at all.

Here are a few pictures from last night when the kids were really getting into the game.

I'm pretty sure this was during "Don't Stop Believing".

Cupcakes and catch-up

Well, we're back to school and work now. So far so good on both fronts.

We really didn't do much this summer that wasn't around town, other than drive to the White Turkey (which was delicious, as always!).

We went downtown and watched the Frisbee dogs during Celebrate Erie and watched Abbey Road (which I think I enjoyed more than the kids did).

We caught the last buck night Seawolves game of the summer (well, a few innings anyway). The kids got free tickets we turned in earlier in the summer and I'm glad they were free because we ended up sitting next to a real jerk - who yelled at me for sitting in the seats that were on our tickets and then practically sat in my lap the whole time we were there. If he stayed there any longer I would have had to start fishing dollar bills out of my pockets, LOL!

Here are the PB&J cupcakes that I blogged about in my last post. These have quickly become a favorite to order!

...and here are the latest cupcakes I've done, for a picnic at my sister-in-law's house. Pink lemonade, s'mores and cinnamon toast mini's.

A non-update post

I don't really have much to blog about lately. I went a couple weeks without cupcakes to make but then got slammed with orders this past weekend (believe me, I am NOT complaining about that in the least!!). I was so busy Saturday (when they were all getting picked up - I saw 7 people leave my house with cupcakes then!) that I didn't even really have time to take pictures of the cupcakes, including a new one - Peanut Butter & Jelly cupcakes. I have another order for those this week, so I will be sure to get a picture of them then!

We found the puppy we want but just can't swing the money for her right now. I'm sure another one will come along when we can afford it. We'll just have to wait a bit, that's all.

School starts back up next Monday and I know the kids are excited because they're starting to get a little bored with being home.

I have passed out so many business cards in the past month that I've had them that I am going to have to order more already!

Other than that, there really hasn't been much going on here. Hopefully this week I'll have pictures to share!

Benefit

I haven't been posting much, but honestly, I haven't had much to post about lately, not even so many cupcakes to post.

I do want to take a minute to post this.

If anyone is interested, there is a benefit for one of Connor's school friends who was diagnosed with leukemia. I've attached the flier with the location/price details.

We will be going for sure!!

Please pass this on to anyone who you think might be interested!

This past weekend...

I just realized within the last 10 days I have had about 400 cupcakes in my house.

400.

That just blows my mind.

I'm not complaining, I promise!!

I already showed you the 300 I did the weekend before last. I didn't take pictures of the ones I made for my parents this past weekend (they were the to-die-for peanut butter mini's with chocolate frosting) but I do have other ones to share, including a little cupcake experiment with turned out to be a love it or hate it recipe that I'll tweak the next time I make it.

First I will share with you the experimental cupcakes I did. French Toast and Bacon. Yes, bacon. They are paired with a Peaches and Cream cupcake for an unintentional breakfast - they kids told me the peach ones look like a "dippy egg".

Those were for Friday. Saturday morning I cranked out the ones for my parents and then started on my order for Sunday.

Sunday's order was for Malted Milk, Triple Chocolate and Chocolate Peanut Butter cupcakes. These are full size cupcakes which was a change for me since 9 times out of 10 I'm making mini ones.

Malted Milk cupcakes:

Triple Chocolate cupcakes:

Chocolate Peanut Butter cupcakes (these have a peanut butter surprise inside - I forgot to get a picture of that this time):

This morning, my new business cards arrived! This time I ordered them with all pictures of cupcakes I've done. Not that I don't love the last ones I ordered, I'll keep those around. I just forgot to put my email address on the last ones (I had been writing it on there when I handed them out). I was really excited about these!

I think that just about wraps everything up here that's happened lately!