They supplied a great package this go around. Each gift bag had a Toothbrush, full tube of Toothpaste, a sample pack of Cars 2 chew vitamins, full bag of Floss sticks, tons of coupons, and an information packet.

I was also supplied with the Cars 2 DVD, and a Full size of Mouthwash, which was raffled off!

I also went to the Dollar Tree and found these great 11 oz tumblers for each kid to take home and use at my house (you know how kids like to use a million cups because they “lost” their cup, lol). I personalized each one with their name and a cute little graphic (thank you to my graphic design awesomeness).

I also used my awesome new cake pan to make an extra treat for the kids…..and what would that cake pan be in the shape of………

Thats right! LIGHTING MCQUEEN!! CAAAAA-CHOW BABY!

Once everyone arrived we had some play time and then got ready for our movie!! But first and most important we all lined up for the Conssession Stand!! Yay for snacks!

 
After the snack gathering everyone picked their seat to view Cars 2!!

Then…….

 
MOVIE TIME!!!!!

Everyone had a great time and were excited to receive their goodie bags! Of course the biggest hit in the goodie bag were the balloons, but us mom’s know what the best part of it was….THE FULL SIZED TOOTHPASTE AND TOOTHBRUSHES!

That being said, she has given me a gift that she is unaware of. And I hope she will one day know how awesome this gift is. She has taught me how to make beautiful cakes! I never ever thought I would do such a thing, phhhssst decorate a cake, not ME. But YES, I can do it!! And she has given me the secret to a super moist cake, and the best cool whip icing ever!

See, my mother in law used to do this sort of thing way back when. She figured over 30 years ago since she had kids she would take some cake decorating classes through Wilton. After that she started making cakes for family, friends, and strangers. She made wedding cakes, birthday cakes, anniversary cakes, any kind of cake you could think of! But sadly after her first stroke she was unable to keep strength in her right side so she had to stop making cakes, that was 13 years ago.

She asked if I would like to try to make Miss J’s birthday cake, I was a bit hesitant but came around and said yes. I have to admit, it really wasnt the best looking thing, but Miss J loved it, so that’s all that mattered! And I really had fun doing it, so I decided to try on my own to make Miss J another birthday cake for her real birthday (the first one was for her party), that one came out ehhhhhh ok, but I was still not happy…..yet….still had fun!!! Some how my first 2 ugly cakes impressed my friend and she asked if I would make cakes for her kid’s birthday party, well I also kinda told her I would before she could ask….sooooooo maybe they didn’t really “impress” her…..lol. Either way it was a done deal, she would just buy my supplies (cake mixes, cool whip, secret ingredient, eggs) and I would rock out awesome cakes, hahaha. And guess what! I rocked it!!!! I was impressed with myself!

Check out my cake pics! Now……if I can only figure out a way to make some money off of these cakes! $$$$$

My very first cake!

This is the 4th cake I have done. It was just a cake to pratice.

Here is one of the cakes I did for my friend. This was cake number 5 for me. My favorite so far!

And the other cake I did for my friend. That was my attempt at Star Wars text.....hahahaha

I was picking up Miss J from kindergarten today and like all of us parents do, we all wait outside the gate until they unlock the gate at 12:08 and we all stampede like a herd of cows through the gates to sign out our kids (I swear my flip-flop gets stepped on every damn time, it never fails!).

But today while waiting, this older lady walks by with this overabundance of perfume. TOTALLY NOT OKAY! I mean my nose hurt so bad after taking a few breaths in, I had to resort to breathing through my mouth and just deal with the taste of this womans perfume. Now this could have been a really nice expensive perfume but to me it smelled like the dollar store version of “Sunflowers”, member that perfume (I know someone with the initials with JJK remembers it), now back when I was 15 I loved that perfume, but come on, half the bottle on one person?

Well as I was walking home with Miss J I started thinking about guidelines for wearing perfume, and I really hope everyone in the world will read this so we can all save each other.

1) Perfume IS ok!
2) BUT the person 5 tables down from you should NOT be able to smell it.
3) You should be the only one who smells it the strongest.
4) Your Husband/boyfriend/Partner should be able to smell it.
5) And lastly, ONLY people you hug or people who are in your ”personal space bubble” should smell it.

I don’t think those are unreasonable guidelines. And just think, you could be reading this and YOU may be that offender! So you’re welcome.

In the recipe I am posting I doubled it. So just to make it easy on you guys at the very bottom I will put the amounts for a 16oz jar (approximate).

Ingredients

• 1 teaspoon dry mustard powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 4 eggs
• 4 tablespoons white vinegar
• 4 cups vegetable oil (Or EVOO)

In your food processor or blender, combine the mustard powder, salt, eggs and vinegar.

Set your device on Medium or Low and give it a mix, and get your oil ready.

Gradually start to drizzle in the oil while your device is on medium or low.

 

As you are pouring you will notice your mayo forming.

 

And what is this?? Beautiful!

Transfer your Mayo into a super sexy Mason jar. And put it in the fridge! Your mayo will stay good for 2 weeks.

FINALLY my super awesome, strong, handsome, beautiful, sexy husband built my box!! Now when hubby builds something. He gets all manly and BUILDS something. I just wanted a little planter box like this cute little planter box. Nope I got this manly 11 foot monster!!

(told ya he was sexy….meeeeowwww!!) 

And since hubby is the greatest. He gave me free access to get whatever plants I wanted. But I do believe it had something to do with the guilt trip fact that I was unable to start from seed since I wasnt sure when he would get to my box.  

 We did a potting soil, compost, manure (but if you say it man-errr, and fast, it’s so funny, that’s all we were doing yesterday!), and then on I put some black plastic mulch on top. Those bags are heavy, so we used our child laborers…….

I’m not sure how much Miss J was helping, but she sure was grunting up a storm and throwing around a lot of “oh my gawd’s”

After hubby got all of the ground level and grass gone. He placed the garden box in for me. I laid newspaper down, reading in that link above, that it helps with weeds and then just naturally decompose and enrich the soil. It was kind of ironic going to the store to buy a few newspapers to use at the bottom of my garden, the checkers thought it was funny…..the cover stories were about the killing of Bin Ladin. So I was going to bury him in my garden….ya ya…ha ha. Me too, I’m over it.

After getting all of my yummy dirt mixed up in my box. I was ready to plant!!! WOOOOO HOOOOO!!!!! Here is what I bought to plant and with any luck I WILL be able to say “TAKE THAT! HIGH PRICED FRUITS AND VEGGIES!”

• Cantaloupe
• Watermelon
• Strawberries
• Artichoke
• Zucchini
• Bell Peppers
• Corn
• Tomatoes
• Pumpkins (outside the box)

I am so proud!!

Busy cutting my own hair, dyeing it, redyeing it, recutting it, coping it, freaking out, crying, and at last dealing with what I did to my hair.

Oh wait...that wasnt me.

I also did a quick trip to visit my mom and sister for my sister’s baby shower. It’s a 5 hour drive one way. I left on a friday afternoon and left there on a sunday afternoon. Not only was it a physically draining trip (even though I was just driving), but totally emotionally draining. I think that is why I now want to spend a month with my Mom, sister, niece, and newborn nephew.
There is one job I take very seriously on top of wife and mommy, and that is being an auntie! I love it! Nothing can melt my heart faster than hearing my niece call and say “Hello, Auntie Cold, its me”.  Oh I love that girl!

Me and my sweet niece. Thanksgiving 2010

On the ride home from picking up Miss J from school there were 3 that I placed images to with parts of songs….(its okay, you can say I’m weird)

This one has to be obvious…..

Firework by Katy Perry:
Cause baby you’re a firework
Come on show ‘em what you’re worth
Make ‘em go “Oh, oh, oh!”
As you shoot across the sky-y-y

Baby you’re a firework
Come on let your colors burst
Make ‘em go “Oh, oh, oh!”
You’re gunna leave ‘em fallin’ down-own-own

(obviously those are not all of the lyrics but the way my game works, you just use a picture from a part of a song)

Ready for song #2?………
Eff’n Perfect by Pink:
Pretty pretty please, don’t you ever ever feel
Like you’re less than f*ckin’ perfect
Pretty pretty please, if you ever ever feel
Like you’re nothing, you’re f*cking perfect to me
You’re perfect, you’re perfect!
Pretty pretty please, don’t you ever ever feel
Like you’re less than f*ckin’ perfect
Pretty please, if you ever feel like you’re nothing
You are perfect to me….

(There were many many pictures that came to mind during the course of this song, but the one of Miss J getting caught with her hand in the coco mix was just the best, no matter what she does she will always be perfect)

And the final song in our 20 min drive because we got lunch on the way home…..

E.T. by Katy Perry:
Take me, ta-ta-take me
Wanna be a victim
Ready for abduction

Boy, you’re an alien
Your touch are foreign
It’s supernatural
Extraterrestrial

Your so supersonic
Wanna feel your powers
Stun me with your lasers
Your kiss is cosmic
Every move is magic

(I know 2 songs by Katy Perry in 20 mins, I’ve learned to deal with it)

Well I hope my blog didnt bore you too much. I deleted my facebook, so I guess I will be blogging more. Or actually be doing housework.

Gift bags for my guests.

Let me start talking about my party through pictures. unfortunately the pictures are not how I want them, since I was busy in the kitchen making crepes and putting together yummy goodies for everyone, so Miss B took pics for me. But we shall make do
But to sum today all up….EVERYONE loved Nutella.

Some of our goodies.

There were vanilla wafers, graham crackers, strawberries, bananas, apples, crepes, waffles, and croissants filled with nutella.

mmmmmmmm

My sweet niece came to see what I was cooking.

Of course with a little bit of Nutella on her mouth, hahahahaha.

This is what I was making.....yummy!!

Mommy Misty and Mommy Jennifer trying to enjoy their snacks with crazy kids running around. lol

Mommy Jennifer, Mommy Michelle with baby Brayden, and I all enjoying the get together.

Someone had a super yummy awesome plate!

Misty and Rachel were good girls and ate all their food! Gold stars for them!

MORE PLEASE!!!!

This was so much fun! Thank you again Nutella and Mommyparties!

With some extra money we decided to tackle Miss J’s room.
1. She is the baby
2. Hoping she would love her room
3. with this new love she would want to SLEEP in her room
4. just to make it more “homey” for her

Her and I talked about it a lot. What colors she would want. Which character she would want to base her room on. Let me tell you, this simple conversation with a 4 year old took at least 2 weeks! In the end we chose Tinkerbell.

Hubby and I went to Home Depot, they have actual Disney Colors. I didn’t want to go with a fluffy pink. Tink is more green and purples. So I went with these 3 colors:

The green and purple to go on the walls and the yellow (for Tinks hair) to go on the ceiling.

Since spending so much on the painting supplies we really didn’t have the extra money to buy new decor for her room make over. So we just used what we had.

Here are the before…

I took this after taking down her curtains and moving her heavy bed in the middle of the room.

Her room had ZERO “homey” feel. I felt like I was depriving her.

And now for the after!!!!

We already had the Tinkerbell curtains. And I put up her Tinkerbell costume.

We already had the Tink decal. So I painted pixie dust from Tink leading down to a sleeping Miss J

Here is a close up of the pixie dust, I hot glued little rhinestones on them.

These were the other decals that we had. It’s a bit bare but I will add more at some point.

This “little” project took me all flippen weekend. lol! It will be a while before I do another one of these little projects.