I baked...Cupcake Pops!

Like most days, I am reading all my favorite blogs when I find a link to some really cool Cupcake Pops by Bakerella. Well, after reading the tutorial and all the comments on her blog I thought I would give it a go since they are beyond cute. Now I am a realistic person and smart enough to know this is not gong to be easy (when reading all the comments I think some of the people actually thought it would only take a few minutes!) , but the end result would be rewarding and so fun to give away on St. Patty's Day! So here is my baking journey for the month ( yes, I said month because I just killed the baking bug with these little pops!)

Step One Bake the cake
Level of Difficulty: 1- easy peasy...

Step Two: Add the Frosting to the crumbled cake & Mix
Level of Difficulty: 1-easy peasy... except that I REALLY wanted to eat the frosting all by itself.

Step Three: Roll 'Dough' into balls
Level of Difficulty: 1-easy peasy... nice and messy too! My boys will enjoy doing this when they get older...MUCH older as I would not suggest you try and make these with small children. At least not MY small children.

Step Four: Form the Cupcakes with the Flower Cutter
Level of Difficulty: (For the first 5 minutes) 5- Holy Cow what have I gotten myself into! I have sticky dough all over my hands. My cupcakes look more like what my Parent's dog, Daisy, leaves behind when she gets nervous!!! AND I have absolutely NO idea what I am doing.
Level of Difficulty: (After the first 5 mintues) 2-Oh this isn't so bad its actually kind of fun now that I know what I am doing...

Step Five: Coat the bottom of the Cupcakes with Milk Chocolate
Level of Difficulty: 4-This was super-duper hard for me. I could not get the chocolate to run down the sides very easily...but I did get to eat ALOT of chocolate since it was soooo messy.

Step Six: Coat the top of the Cupcakes with White Chocolate & Decorate
Level of Difficulty: 1-easy peasy...

I have them chilling in the frig tonight. I will wrap them tomorrow! If you want to try them click on the link above for Bakerella and follow her directions. I will definitely make these again...

Happy Baking everyone...

I tell him...

I tell him he can't play video games at the breakfast table. What does he do? He sits on the floor.

I tell him to go put on pants. We don't run around the house in our underwear. What does he do? He puts on his Chewbacca costume pants. (Happy Birthday Uncle Matt. I am sure he did it JUST for you!)

I tell him to smile...What does he do? He smiles.

They are so sweet when they kinda listen...

Random Rambling-Try to keep up...

Rainy, Cold Day...
2 boys couped up in the house...

One GREAT idea- Let's go to IKEA. Bob and I can check the boys into the Play Area for an hour and tour around nice and slowly, almost peacefully.

30 miles to IKEA...
Yes! We are here...

30 minute wait to get the boys into the play area...uh-oh, so the GREAT idea just became the BAD idea. It is now 1:00pm.

2 shopping carts...
1 boy playing the DS and totally oblivious to the goings on in the store...
1 boy that won't let his cart STOP!!! I felt like a sled dog- mush! mush!

1:45 We are out of here! We have light bulbs, fun vases for me to experiment with in arranging in different rooms throughout the house until I find a spot that I like or don't like! AND- we have a shelving system to put together with 6 bins to hold legos.

1 hungry boy yelling for food...
1 boy, again oblivious to what is going on around him...
(By now, I hope that you know which boy is my trouble maker. His name rhymes with 'Organ' if that helps.)

30 miles to Home...
Secretly smiling to ourselves when we see we are going in the ONLY direction of I-5 that traffic is moving...(YES! Something goes our way!)

Ahhhhh- Home. WHAT HAPPENED TO MY HOME? Someone must of broken in and played with the toys, and left my kitchen in shambles! Oh yeah- I guess I haven't cleaned up yet. Oh well, at least the breakfast dishes aren't still sitting on the dining table. Oh wait- they actually are.

3 hours later...
1 Morgan Nap later...
1 IKEA shelving system put together by Father and Son...

What? Why is Cade wondering around the house all bored? Aha! He is the only Rowan who is NOT asleep! Why is he looking at me? Why won't he go away!

1 mother who needs to get the boys out of the house- now finds herself at Nordstrom buying them both new shoes. I am crazy, I am crazy, I am crazy...

1 escalator with a 6 year old (up & down)...
1 boy running EVERYWHERE and riding a rocking horse made for a 1 year old (Umm- this would still be the 6 year old, you know- the one whose name rhymes with 'Made').
The boy that rhymes with 'Organ' was a complete angel who stuck by my side without a single mush, mush moment.

Home again...
Bob is awake...
Dinner? Let's call it 'snacker' instead since it is now 7:00pm.

3 hours later...
I guess we better get the boys down...
Jammied...teeth brushed...snoring boys...ahhhhhh.

Tomorrow- rain is in the forecast again- BUT it won't be another day like today! At least I can hope!

Quickie Quote...

Okay...I have to get this one down quick before I forget.

Bob just walked in with the Boys from Day Care. I sat out some of the Easter decoration this afternoon and Mojo just spotted one of them. (It is a cheesy little 'Carrot Tree' that I found. It has chicks and rabbits hanging on it like ornaments.)

Here he goes...

Mojo, in a whisper: "What's that mommy?"

Me: "It's an Easter Decoration Morgan."

...he runs to the table, and starts mumbling to himself.

Mojo: " It is little chicks and rabbits...hanging from a carrot tree."

...he starts to turn the carrot tree in circles...making puttering noises...

Mojo: "It's a carrot-sel!!!"

This kid, he is too brilliant to be mine. He must be Bob's little boy.

Conversation of the Night...(Last Night)

Did you know that I love my oldest boy? Did you know that one of the things that puts me in awe is how much he is like me? I look at him sometimes and I think, "My mother is a wonderful person... because I know I dished out to her as much is this little creature dishes out to me!" This child is me in a male format.

So with that said...get a load of this conversation that we had last night on our ride up the ski lift. It went a little like this-

Cade: "Mom, I have two flame awards at school."

Me: "What is a flame award sweetie?"

Cade: " It's an award you get when you are good or when you read in front of the class."

....... (long pause) .......

Cade, with a mischievious smile on his face: "I got it for reading in front of the school."

Me: "Heavan forbid if you got it for being good."

We laughed so hard together we fell off the lift... JUST KIDDING...It was actually just time to unload.

Laughs to you all...

Moments for a mother...

Wow! I just had a crazy, wonderful evening last night with my boys. No stress, no tempers, just a nice, fun evening.

Tuesday's are Bob's days. Have I ever told you how lucky I am that my wonderful hubby is also the family taxi? The task that so often falls on mother's in other households, is his and his alone. He wakes them up in the morning...feeds them...clothes them...takes them to daycare...he picks them up from daycare...e-v-e-r-y-d-a-y...except Tuesday's.

Tuesday is my day to pick them up and spoil them like any mother who feels guilty for spending so much time away from her children.

So- We started our evening at Safeway (Hey-what can I say...I love shopping at grocery stores). it is Girl Scout Cookie time and they hangout at the store by our home. I let the boys each pick-out their own box of cookies. And- I got mine too! Nothing can keep me away from my samoas- except Bob when he eats them all (hence, why all of our boxes have names on the them this year)... Okay- Back to Safeway, that little Girl Scouts' mom looked at me with shock when I told her I would take 5 boxes. LITERALLY, her eyes were as big a platters...Is five boxes really that much???

Finally home and we decide to have a car race. We raced EVER SINGLE HOT WHEELS car in this house until there was ONLY ONE car left. How did it go down? Well- Morgan, of course, lost interest and Cade crushed me. His car was the Ultimate Racer- can you believe the model was a Cadillac? Go figure. Okay no pun intended, but that takes us to our next activity...

ACTION FIGURES...We have Stars, Wars we have DC Comics, we have Marvel Comics, we have Teen Titans, you name it we can find it. Again- how did it go down? Well- Morgan, again, lost interest and Cade started his own little Star Wars saga.

They were an absolute joy. No TV, No Video Games...just me and the boys. It wasn't quite, but it was peaceful.

Nighty Night!

Not Me Monday...

Welcome to Not Me! Monday! This blog carnival was created by MckMama. You can head over to her blog to read what she and everyone else have not been doing this week.
Short list this week. Does that mean I was good? Because it certainly isn't normal.

I did not, while grocery shopping last night, break a bottle of beer all over my jeans in the produce section. Nope, Not Me. Ummm-Excuse me, but c'mon~what Safeway grocery store thinks it's a good idea to surround the apple display with beer bottles!

I did not nearly pee my pants from laughter on Friday, when my girlfriends and I found ourselves looking down on a Black Diamond ski run that might as well have been a cliff. No, we would never torture ourselves that way.

And that is all I have this week! Now- go out and enjoy your Not Me moments this week, they are what make us human.

Love to you all.