Cupcakes and some news!

So, I've been a really crappy blogger lately, but I will try my hardest to do better. Seriously, when you've been blogging for close to 10 years, you tend to get a bit burned out after a while.

I've been baking A LOT lately - which I completely love. My cupcakes were recently featured in another fantastic local blog, which you can find here (the link is directly to the post about my cupcakes but I urge you to check out the rest of her blog too!). Thank you again, Kara, you made my day then!

Along the cupcake line, you can now get to my Facebook fan page by using http://facebook.com/makewayforcupcakes!

On another note, we are expecting a new addition to our family! No, I'm not pregnant (my two boys are more than enough, tyvm, LOL!), but we are getting a baby. A puppy - a Pembroke Welsh Corgi puppy, to be exact! We will be traveling halfway across the state to get our furry little bundle of joy mid-April. Her name will be Sookie. Yes, she will be named after a character from the True Blood series, but more from the books than from the show, LOL. Here are a few pictures from the breeder to tide you over, but I know there will be TONS of pictures from me once she's here!

We're very excited to get her!

Other than that, I don't have anything much to report!

January update (oops, photos, cupcakes and dog!)

You can call me Grace!

I'm on crutches for the next 5 days thanks to my fantastic walking-down-the-stairs abilities! I have a sprained ankle but they also found a bone spur on my heel when they did the x-ray. I never even know I had it, and honestly, I've never really noticed anything hurting there. The urgent care doc said it didn't look bad, so they didn't suggest doing anything about it, so I'll just let it go, I guess!

I dropped the boys off at school this morning and now I'm resting, which is nice! I went to my usual sites I visit this morning only to find that I have a photo featured on The Pioneer Woman's photography site this morning!!

This only had minimal tweaking, slight contrast, some sharpening after it's resized, but it's pretty much straight out of the camera. I remember the date it was taken without having to check the photo stats because that date means a lot to me. I remember standing down at Liberty Park looking over the Lake and enjoying the beautiful view. That is one of my favorite places to shoot and I haven't been down there in so long.

Seeing that up on her site absolutely made my day!

Not too much else going on here lately. Cupcakes I've made lately include Cookie Dough, Orange Dreamsicle, Peanut Butter Cup, and Banana Split. The last three are featured in this photo here:

I'll leave you with the latest photo of my puppy (who isn't really much of a puppy - he'll be 9 soon), Milo! He never holds still so I don't get to take his picture much.

This is me, slacking again

Hello? Do I still have any readers left out there?

I suppose this is starting to be a theme here, but when you've been blogging for close to 10 years, you tend to get a little burned out by it every now and then.

Nothing much new to report. I'm still baking, still working, still stressed out (but not by baking - I love that!). I'm more or less in one piece (which, with my clumsiness, that's an impressive feat!).

Kiddos had fun on Halloween, we made it through Thanksgiving and enjoyed Christmas with our families.

I had an order for cupcakes for a baby shower and was asked if I could put a monogram of the baby's future initials on the cupcakes. I wracked my brain to figure out how I was going to do this, as I'm not real fond of fondant (i.e. - the Connor's wrestling ring birthday cake), so I decided to work with chocolate! I think they came out pretty fantastic. *pats her own back*

We drove down to Kraynak's and Daffin's mid-November. I've been to both several times but Dave had never been to either one. I think we'll be going back there again, as he enjoyed both very much. I picked up a couple Christmas ornaments at Kraynak's - both ornaments are very fitting for me!

The kids and I are currently enjoying Christmas break (and not really looking forward to returning to school/work on the 4th). We spent Christmas Eve with my side of the family, and that included a surprise baby shower (including games and baby gifts) for my cousin and his fiance. They were very surprised!

That is just some of my side of the family - there are lots missing from the picture!

We spent Christmas morning here at the house and later on at Dave's parents' house for lunch/dinner.

That last picture is my niece with her "If You Give A Cat A Cupcake" cat (and book in Dave's mom's lap) that we got for her!

I think that's just about everything. I'll try to be a better blogger next year, but I make no promises!

slacking

I know, I know, I'm really overdue for a post. My bad!

I've been really busy with work, school (kids, not me), PTA, and 4-H. Oh, and cupcakes, of course!

I haven't even uploaded many photos to Flickr since my last post and that's pretty rare!

I have added a few new flavors to my cupcake menu including:

Apple Pie - an applesauce spice cake filled with apple pie filling topped with a cinnamon cream cheese frosting and sprinkled with cinnamon sugar

and Chai Latte - chai tea cake with honey-cinnamon swiss meringue buttercream

...and these ones aren't new, but who can resist these itty bitty cupcakes?

I'll try to update more often, I promise!

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".