More baby cookies!

Out of anything that has been ordered from me since I started making cookies, I have done A LOT of baby showers! Its one of my favorite things to decorate though b/c they always seem to come out so cute. This is an order that I made for a friend from high school. The colors were bright pink, black, and white. I also got to make some cake balls - red velvet and german chocolate!

Sam's 25th Birthday BASH!!!

I know you have all been waiting anxiously on the edge of your chairs to hear about Sam's big 25th birthday! (by "all" I mean the 10 friends and our mom's that actually read this blog!) Like any other 25 year old we went bowling! Sam might have said as we were pulling up to Main Event that he felt like a 5 year old going bowling for his birthday with his mom (aka: me) bring in the cupcakes!!! Despite those feeling we ended up having a really good time. Who knew it would be DISCO bowl night! And it was smoke free, so we did not get smoke inhalation while bowling and that is unheard of!! I can't remember the exact scores but I can tell you that my first game I ended up with a whopping 42! Let's just say it had been awhile! Don't worry I redeemed myself when we were competing and it actually counted; yes my team beat birthday boy's team...is that mean?

Side note: My last sentence reminded me of a funny story. Sam's birthday was actually on Friday and we went to eat with my brother and sister-in-law. I woke him up on Saturday though and told him that I was going to treat Saturday like it was his birthday since he had to work on Friday. Later in the day we were arguing about something (i'm sure it was really important) and he said...you can't be mad at me it's my birthday! Then I came back and said...it's not really your birthday and I CAN be mad at you b/ it was yesterday!!! Kinda like Indian giving!!!

So here are some pictures of the birthday BASH!!! Oh, I should say that yes I did bring cupcakes for Sam's party...any one that knows Sam knows that he is a BIG fan of Mrs. Little Debbie! So what more would he want on his birthday than homemade Little Mandy snacks! That's right, cream filled and everything! I also made red velvet and german chocolate cake balls. (I had an order last week, which I will share later, and had many cake balls left, so I made them fun and colorful for his birthday!)

Let the Games BEGIN!

Bring it on BOYS!! (attempt at mean faces)

Arizona Family Vacation - Picture Overload!!!

Thanks for all the birthday wishes for Sam. We had a great weekend celebrating with friends and family. I am a little behind on things I want to blog about though, so I am going to do them in order. I will post about Sam's birthday later this week! But first, a few weeks ago we took a family vacation with my family to the Phoenix area to play some golf, get pampered at the spa, shop, and just hang out. We had a great time! Since my family loves to play golf, we did a lot of golfing! The first place we stayed was called Gold Canyon which has the #1 and #2 ranked golf courses in AZ. They were gorgeous! I have no idea how they keep the grass so green in the dessert! Speaking of desert, this was the first time that I experienced the desert. I was amazed at the landscape. I have never seen anything like it before! Rock yards with cactus, rock gardens with more cactus, desert flowers...it was all very pretty in its own way. For some odd reason though every time I came near a cactus I had a strong urge to touch it!!! That is until our starter one day told us about "jumping cactus"...I was done with that and stayed away! We also had a small scorpion in our room...that too was my first experience with that and needless to say, not a good experience!!! After a few days, we then went to stay in the Phoenix area. There we went to see a spring training game at the Goodyear field (Cubs vs. Indians), ate at some fun restaurants, shopped, played tennis, and golfed some more! The guys played a beautiful course, The Phoenician, and the girls took advantage of the many outdoor shopping areas that Phoenix has to offer!

All in all it was a great trip with lots of much needed family time! We even ended the trip with a game of Thomas Family trivia that my mom made; I might not have won, but it was still really fun to try to remember all of the old memories! Thanks mom and dad for a great trip!

The guys at the Dinosaur Mountain course (#1 in AZ)

Sam and I before we teed off at the Sidewinder course (#2 in AZ)

Sam

Mom and Dad

Look at the form...just kidding, I am no pro!!!

Mom trying to get up on the green! Look how green it was!

Sam

Richard

Eating some pizza after a long day of golf and laying by the pool!

The sunsets were gorgeous; colors in the sky that I have never seen!

The girls shopping!

Goodyear Field

The monkey's at the zoo. You got to be inside the cage with the little monkeys!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SAM!!!

Happy birthday to my sweet husband who has finally reached adulthood! I love you more than words can express; I hope you have a great 25th birthday!!!

A Day of Love

I realize that Valentines was a week ago, but I just finally remembered to bring my camera with me today so that I could down load the few pictures that we took. We had a very special Valentine's Day. No it wasn't anything extravagant, but it was about each other. Valentine's is such a commercialized holiday, but it is still such a fun day to celebrate with your loved one. Yes we should celebrate the love that the Lord has blessed us with in our spouses every day, but sadly I know that we don't. We don't always take time out of everyday to show each other just how much we love them. So Valentine's is a great day to do that. We did nothing but be with each other the whole day! It was also a great day for me because I was to do nothing, Sam wanted to shower me!

I'm not a girl that is huge on getting flowers. Yes, they are gorgeous and I love to receive them when I do, but its not a must for me. My husband knows the perfect way to my heart though because Friday he surprised me with not a dozen roses, but a dozen cupcakes from Sprinkles!! Yes it was a bit of an overload on cupcakes, but it just shows the thought! (side note: we shared many of our cupcakes; we spread the love with cupcakes!) Then Saturday morning Sam fixed us heart pancakes and then we took advantage of the romantic comedies on tv! After being lazy we went and played tennis (one of our favorite things to do together) and then went shopping for the food Sam needed to make his special Valentine's dinner! (side note: let me just say that everyone else must have had the same idea to cook at home because the stores where PACKED!) Sam crafted a delicious 3 course Italian meal which was followed up by a fondue picnic and movie in the living room (we never watch movies, and we enjoyed a few in one day!). I love that my husband loves to spoil me and make a special day for us! Thanks sammy, I love you!!

On a completely different topic, I need to get my hair done! I have only gone to someone in the DFW area once or twice because I usually go home. I don't think we'll be able to make it home before I will be in dire need, so does anyone have a great hair person that you would be willing to share with me around here??? (Oh, I must also mention that I am kinda "cheap" when it comes to getting my hair done, so keep that in mind!)

Love is in the Air!

To get in the Valentine's spirit this week I made some yummy valentine goodies!!! My mom gave me the cute mini heart cake model pan last valentine's so I was really excited that I was finally going to get to use it. I think the cakes turned out pretty cute and tasted pretty good too!! I have no idea what our valentine plans are this year. Sam just told me to not make any plans for Saturday and to not get in our account online so that I would not ruin any surprises! I love surprises!!!

I have been wanting to see some movies. I want to see the following: He's Just Not That into You, Confessions of a Shopaholic, Bridewars, and Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Any thoughts/opinions? We NEVER go see movies, so I want to make it a really good one if we go!

Playing Catch-up

I have not been on my best blogging behavior lately! I have some catching up to do. To start I realized that I never put up pictures I took over the Christmas break with my besties! I have the best friends ever and some of us got together while we were home over the break. It simply amazes me every time that we get together that no matter how few times we see each other during the year, it seems like we have never been apart when we finally do get to be together. I feel as close to these girls as I ever have. We may each be in different phases of life, but we are still best friends! I love you girls! Then to add more icing to the cake, all of the hubbies get along great and are very close! Two blessings in one! The Lord is so good to us all!

Sessler's, Ingram's, Wilson's, Cherry's

Megan, Ashley, Mandy, Sarah

I also wanted to show off my official letter saying that I passed my exam. I took this as we were leaving to go celebrate! My husband made me feel so special! He made me wear my glasses because he said they are my smart glasses!!!

I'm still going...I was tagged by Megan to go through my picture files! The rules are that you go to your 4th folder and find your 4th pic in that folder. Well I have a lot more folders within folders, so I had to kinda do it a different way. So I opened up my first folder on this compture which was the 2006 folder. Then I clicked on the 4th folder in that folder and found the 4th picture. This is in August of 2006 and is of Sam and his buddies in Utah for Ryan's wedding. I was not there, so I think this was the day before the wedding when they were just hanging out! It was a gorgeous wedding, I sure wish I could have been there!

So now I get to tag 4 other people to play the game.

Directions:
1) Choose the 4th folder where you store your pictures on your computer.
2) Select the 4th picture in the folder.3) Explain the picture.4) Tag 4 people to do the same.~No cheating (cropping, editing, etc.) Have fun!!~

You're it!

The Douglass'

The Master's

The Wester's

Melissa Miles

Last, thank you to Melissa for the Fabulous blog award! I'm glad you think my blog is FABULOUS!!!