Friday Night Fun

10 minutes of your life I wont give you back

You will have to turn your speakers up. Sorry about the sound and the wind.  I am not sorry about anything else.

Dylan

Georgia trip-We ♡ cousins

By Dylan

We left really early on Sunday morning. It took us about 14 hours to get there.

Kaden played basketball on Pops Iphone and kept trying to get away from me taking a picture of him.

PaPaw

Green Way Park (It was St Patricks Day so we all wore green)

The Varsity

Jumping on the Trampoline (this was our favorite part of the whole trip)

We always dress up crazy. Kaden didnt want to do it for some reason. Hazel has underwear on her face and I am wearing stretchy pants... just for fun.

Sleeping

Some Lake. It was freezing, like below 20 degrees.

Stone Mountain

Talking to our parents on Skype

Funny faces

Here are some of the  more recent "sweet" things that I have done....

A cake for an engagement party...the lady who ordered it had a picture of what she wanted so that made that part nice and simple. Sometimes the biggest accomplishment here is delivering it in one piece! (which I did manage to do)

Next, cupcakes for a 30th birthday. This party was thrown by a husband as a surprise for his wife who just gave birth to their first child. I hear she was very surprised! I hope she had a wonderful birthday and maybe the cupcakes made it a bit sweeter.

I found these containers online for carrying cupcakes. They use them at the grocery store but for some reason do not sell them (just the boxes) so I found them for a really good price online.I was so excited that they arrived on time!It takes so little to make my day.....They were a life savor this time since I was delivering the cupcakes by myself and had 4 dozen. One container even slid around quite a bit and the cupcakes were fine! I am sure I am the only one who would be excited about this....sorry. You come here for pictures of the kids and I bore you with stories of cupcake containers! 

I ♡ my kids

This time, I have had a lot to blog about and just not the time to do it! The younger two kids were gone to Georgia visiting cousins. They had a blast and took lots of pictures that they are going to put up tonight (hopefully).  They got back on Friday evening and we spent Saturday trying to spend as much time with them as we could before we got back into the normal routine.Michael decided to take the boys "paintballing" so Trinity and I thought that was a perfect excuse to have a much needed "girl day"! Right before I got in the shower that morning, Trinity informs me that she will be picking out our "matching" outfits......I was a little nervous! When I got out of the shower, this is what was lying on my bed...

(so nice that she remembered to set out the deodorant for me...it was a warm day!) And the little paper thing is a piece of gum and a note that says "For after Braums". She had the whole day planned out. So here is how we turned out......the closest thing she could find to matching....

Off to Olive Garden!

From there we went to visit Danny and Emily and baby Lille. She is the sweetest baby!

We kissed baby Lille goodbye and went to the Paintball park to watch the boys finish up...

Trinity likes stepping on all the paintballs on the ground. 

This is why they are so strict about the mask being on at ALL times!!

Team Paintball

We did go to Braums and to Target but I forgot to take pictures. Big Ice cream cones were had by all. (And I did chew my gum after that!)

We sent the kids home with Christian to relax and went with Richie and Michelle to watch as Richie got a tattoo. I still think tattoos are so fascinating...here are some pics from that in case you do too

Good Crazy...Grazy

This week was a little crazy. Good crazy. But crazy. Really I am just trying to play catch up from last week. I even went a whole day without checking my facebook....

So lets see...what has been going on besides the normal hustle and bustle....

Christian started some plants! Several of them are starting to sprout but this one is basil. That is our family's favorite herb so we are so excited about having it fresh again. We grew some last summer and it was actually pretty easy to grow. I think Christian must have put a lot of seeds all together in the middle but I think it will be ok. I may have to try to separate them when they are a little bigger? 
I had so much laundry to do. I hate laundry. But I had a little help of the cutest kind on Friday...I know I have posted how much I love hanging out with my neice, Naomi, before but I just cant help but tell you again. She is just so cute. It does my heart good to rock a baby to sleep every once in awhile and get slobbery baby kisses. I needed it more than I knew I did...sigh
And naturally, there were cupcakes. These dozen were ordered by some of the guys Michael works with...for themselves. They deserve it!  Chocolate Cherry Cupcake with Choc frosting and a chocolate covered cherry on top! My friends and family have been the best with this new venture, and I am having so much fun. Who knew? It would only be better if I wasn't always baking alone....Will someone please move here and be partners with me?!

Here is a video from last Sunday's Fine Arts Performance. This is something the kids can choose to be a part of at our church on Sunday nights while parents are at small groups (or in our case most of the time..working) Trinity choose to be in the dance group (k-2nd grade). She had lots of fun and all of the kids were so great! I put little clips from the other groups too.

To end the week..

Cupcakes for a basketball party...

Birthday cake for Miss Jacie.....she told me she wanted pink and purple, stripes and butterflies. I added the flowers, for the butterflies ;)

And videos...