Cupcake Wars!

 

So, after a 2 hour tv viewing marathon of Cupcake Wars - Disney edition this past week, Riley Catherine and I were hungry and inspired.  With our creative juices flowing and our mouths watering, we decided to have a little cupcake war of our own.  Well, not really.  We weren't warring with anyone in particular.  Just pretenting to be a set of bakers on the show vying for the postion of Cupcake Champion.  Obviously, to really express your cupcase creativity you need a theme and lots of batter and icing (more than we could    should eat all by ourselves.)  So, with our neighborhoods annual back to school bash coming up in a day or two we decided to make cupcakes with a little academic flair.  Here are the results.

 

 

 

 We started out with two pretty basic cupcakes - chocolate and vanilla.  Wait, though, the vanilla cupcake had a little surprise inside.  In the center was a sweet little dollop of strawberry preserves.  You'll see why in a minute.

Then we added frosting to each, a basic buttercream frosting tinted pink for the chocolate cupcase, and a rich peanut butter frosting for the vanilla filled. 

After coating our pink icing with red sprinkles and adding a pretzel stick for a stem and a fruit rollup leaf, we had our "apple a day" cupcake.  For the other one, we drizzled on a little strawberry preserves and added an A+ made from candy bark to create our "PB&J" cupcake. 

 

The Grand Prize: Doing something fun and delicious together as mother and daughter

Snapshots of Summer 2012

I love summer.  I love having my kids at home with me, mixing up the routine a little - not having to have a routine at all if you don't want to - and just enjoying being together.  Here are some snapshots of some of the thing we've been able to do.

 

 

Attending several GBraves games!

 

Getting to raise the 10th man flag during one of the games was especially fun.

Spending lots of days at Sierra Creek pool.  The waterslide was of course the highlight!

 

 

Celebrating our 16th wedding anniversary with Bo and An at Leon's in Dacatur.

Cheering Papa on for his ride-along at the racetrack.

Not sure this is on the kid's list for fun activities, but it's one of my favorite things that we do in the summer - writing journals.  Will and Ty were especially faithful to get up in the morning and get it done first thing.

Lots of fun in the neighborhood and exploring the great outdoors.  Here they are displaying their wristbands from a scavenger hunt.