Cupcake Craze

I have gone into a cupcake craze spiral! It all started with going to For Your Kitchen by the mall to get supplies to bake 150 cupcakes for my parents 40th anniversary celebration. While there the owner told us about the classes they have and that they had a cupcake decorating class coming up. She showed us the cutest cupcakes including this one:

I thought this would be perfect for Mikaela's first birthday party. unfortunately we weren't able to make the class so I started looking online for videos on how to make these. That's when I stumbled across these books and their how-to videos posted online. I watched them for about an hour or so and then logged onto Amazon and bought both of their books!

So far we've only tried out two cupcakes; chrysanthemums and rubber duckies. Here are our results:

The flowers were very simple to make but took a LOT of preparation!

Definately not perfect but I think pretty good for a first try! The hardest part was getting the beaks to stay up. You can see on the blue eyed one below it's starting to droop! also the icing was kind of runny. I've since researched different ways to do this so hopefully for Mikaela's birthday it won't be that bad. One more thing - they were almost unbearably sweet! "What? Megan is saying that?!" Yeah I barely got through one. Again, I've researched that and next go around I'm going to add cream cheese to lessen the sweetness. Should be delicious!

Next week? Fur Balls and String Monsters!

Thoughts

Have you ever listened to that song, "You're Gonna Miss This." by Trace Adkins? I've been thinking about that song a lot lately. The song is about this girl's life and she is always talking about what she wants to do next and first her Mom, then her Dad, and finally a plumber tell her you're gonna miss this.

I have to admit that I am guilty of this mentality. I'm always thinking about what's going to happen next. How nice it will be when my kids are older and can take care of themselves more. How I can't wait until we are in a better financial position. Everything I'm going to do once we're in a better financial position.

I'm probably missing out on all the great things that are happening right now, or not taking full advantage of what is happening right now. Ben is always telling me to get out the video camera because we need to capture the cute things our kids are doing before they grow out of it and he's right! Tafton is so cute right now! He's talking so well and says the cutest things. He told me his first joke. He does belly flops into our baby pool. He woke up and walked into our room and woke us up for the first time this week(I almost started crying typing that; isn't that the most quintessential child thing to do?). Mikaela is climbing all over everything. She has her first tooth and her second is going to pop out any day. She gives us the cutest cheesers! She can clap, shake her head, give hugs and kisses all on command. She throws the most dramatic fits when she doesn't get her way. They are both growing up so fast and I don't want to look back and think why didn't I hold onto those moments rather than wishing for their naptime?

I want to do better on living in the moment and enjoying the moments! Even those crazy-shake-your-head-feel-like-you're-gonna cry moments!

I scream you scream, SHE screams for ice cream!

I wish this video was larger because it is so cute! We all went to the splash-pad and went to Artic Circle after for their HUGE ice cream cones! This was mikaela's first ice cream cone. She was hesitant at first but then couldn't get enough. So cute!!!!!

I love watching her bounce across the room for things she wants! She is so cute!! and was so sad when the ice cream was all gone!

....oh and Tafton was cute too!

Da Plane Da Plane

While Charissa and her kids were here we went to Hill Aerospace Museum. It was fun, I had never been there before. There are a bunch of exhibits of old planes and what's even better, a kid's area! We spent most of our time there. They had costumes to dress up with and flight simulators and different experiments older kids could do; resulting in CUTE pictures!

Tafton and Emma in the flight simulator. Tafton LOVES Emma. He follows her around everywhere!

Chase and Trey in the flight simulator

Tafton in his flight suit

Emma in her flight suit

Chaser in front of the moonscape.

In front of the moonscape. Emma kept blocking the astronaut I thought it was funny.

....and Mikaela had fun climbing on top of everything!

We had a lot of fun with our cousins and can't wait to see them again!

Rubber Duckie

I've been super slacker on updating this so here are a bunch of pictures of Mikaela we took for her one year birthday invite! Enjoy!

I love her snaggle-tooth!

This was when we first put her in. She wasn't so sure about it.

But it didn't take long for her to warm up!