10 Years Ago:
I was a junior in high school, working, schooling, trying to stay out of trouble.
5 Things On My To-Do List:
1. Clean house
2. Fold and put away laundry
3. Work out
4. Finish preparing sharing time lesson
5. Balance budget
5 Snacks I Enjoy:
1. Peanut M&Ms or Reese's
2. Chips and salsa
3. Cookies and cream ice cream
4. Granola bars
5. New favorite is Snow Cones (Strawberry cheesecake flavor..mmmm!)
5 Foods I Love:
1. Anything Mexican
2. Carino's Fire Stix
3. Baked spaghetti
4. PF Chang's orange peel beef or lettuce wraps or spicy eggplant
5. Green or red curry chicken
What Would I Do If I Were Suddenly A Billionaire: Buy every kid I know an education, pay for missions, go on family vacations with immediate and extended family and friends, pay off bills, buy a radio station for Adam to play whatever music he wanted, build a house with all the upgrades, hire a maid and a hair stylist..okay, im getting carried away! As if this would ever happen any way..
5 Places I Have Lived:
1. Baker/Escambia Farms and Paxton, FL
2. Nashville, TN
3. Salt Lake City, UT
4. Tuscaloosa, AL
5. Sulphur, LA
Favorite Quote: don't have one
I'm tagging:
1. Laura (back!)
2. Cheyenne
3. Valerie
4. Erin
5. Katie G
BUT..choose 5 of THESE questions to answer and remember to elaborate on your answers!:
what do you see yourself doing in 10 years?
most embarrassing moment?
biggest crush?
favorite tv show?
best day you've ever had?
favorite celebrity and why?
if you could do any job (other than parenthood), what would you do?
favorite place to be?
what do you hate the very most?
favorite book or genre of books?
cats or dogs?
what are you most grateful for?
most frivilous thing you've ever bought?
YOUR choice
I'm anxious to hear your answers! :-)
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Tagged
Monday, April 14, 2008
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
...and the Very Tired Mom. We had a blast over the weekend celebrating Ben's 1st birthday. One of his favorite books to have us read to him is "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" by Eric Carle so that is what we had to have as our theme. I had a 24-serving cake made at the bakery not too far from here (Jo's Party House) and then made a caterpillar cake myself. And of course Ben had his very own cake to demolish/eat. I think he ate pretty much the whole thing even after he ate all of his dinner! 
For the caterpillar cake, I took a king-size cupcake pan and made about 12 cupcakes, arranged them into the crawling caterpillar shape on a sturdy styrofoam poster board, then cut a little bit of the side off each one so that it would fit snug next to the next cupcake.
For the frosting, I made buttercream, put about 1/2 cup or so to the side and colored the rest with green and yellow. (Just plain green looked too St. Patrick's Day-ish.) I frosted every other cupcake with the green/yellow, then added to the frosting quite a bit of blue food coloring to frost the remaining cupcakes. For the antennae and eyes, I just used construction paper although if I would have had time, I would have used rolled out cookie dough to make the antennae and letters to stick on top that say "Ben's 1st" or something like that. I also couldn't get a pretty color of purple using food coloring (red and blue) so I might would have gotten some purple icing coloring just for things like this. I used Hershey's Kisses for the feet.
Games that I had *intended* to play but just never got around to were:
1. Pin the Food on the Caterpillar
2. A scavenger hunt to find foods with a hole them (black dot from construction paper) that the caterpillar ate through
3. See how many "holes" (Cheerios) the kids can toss in the air and catch in their mouths
Party favors were sugar-filled plastic fruit, plastic caterpillars, butterfly stickers for the girls, and some odds and ends like bouncy balls, pencils, etc.
For the invitations, I put an apple on the front and hole-punched a hole out of it and used pom-poms to make the caterpillar.
But most importantly, we had fun bbq'ing with good friends and family! Thanks for all who could come and all who were here in spirit!
For the caterpillar cake, I took a king-size cupcake pan and made about 12 cupcakes, arranged them into the crawling caterpillar shape on a sturdy styrofoam poster board, then cut a little bit of the side off each one so that it would fit snug next to the next cupcake.
For the frosting, I made buttercream, put about 1/2 cup or so to the side and colored the rest with green and yellow. (Just plain green looked too St. Patrick's Day-ish.) I frosted every other cupcake with the green/yellow, then added to the frosting quite a bit of blue food coloring to frost the remaining cupcakes. For the antennae and eyes, I just used construction paper although if I would have had time, I would have used rolled out cookie dough to make the antennae and letters to stick on top that say "Ben's 1st" or something like that. I also couldn't get a pretty color of purple using food coloring (red and blue) so I might would have gotten some purple icing coloring just for things like this. I used Hershey's Kisses for the feet.
Games that I had *intended* to play but just never got around to were:
1. Pin the Food on the Caterpillar
2. A scavenger hunt to find foods with a hole them (black dot from construction paper) that the caterpillar ate through
3. See how many "holes" (Cheerios) the kids can toss in the air and catch in their mouths
Party favors were sugar-filled plastic fruit, plastic caterpillars, butterfly stickers for the girls, and some odds and ends like bouncy balls, pencils, etc.
For the invitations, I put an apple on the front and hole-punched a hole out of it and used pom-poms to make the caterpillar.
But most importantly, we had fun bbq'ing with good friends and family! Thanks for all who could come and all who were here in spirit!
Here's a couple of shots of the birthday boy:
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