Getting Ready

We are so excited for this weekend. 17 family members are driving up to stay with us and be a part of Averie's baby blessing.

We are still shocked at the love and support we are being shown. We have amazing families!

So this week my goal is to get everything around the house as perfect as possible. All the boxes have been unpacked for a while. With the exception of my craft room. For some reason I just couldn't ever find the time to get in there and get it done. Could it be my two and a half year old, and three month old were keeping me from it?

So today I got in there while they were both napping, something that NEVER happens outside of the car. Well my room is finished! Things are put away and organized, I have stuff up on my walls and the closet is even pretty nice. I have one more box with stuff, but need to buy some more organizers before I can empty it.

I love my room! I am so stinkin excited to have the space I have, with room to grow! It's just awesome!





















Tomorrow my goal is to get the basement 100% cleaned and ready. Wish me luck!


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Cake bites

Recently, since our move, I have been really into learning new baking techniques. This weekend I attempted making cake bites for the first time.

I only just discovered what these were about a month ago, and then discovered a wonderful blog, and book on them. The Bakerella at http://m.bakerella.com/ has a wonderful blog and book I highly recommend. I ordered her book off amazon and this weekend got to baking.




Knowing this first batch would be completely for my family I thought I would do a flavor I knew I would love, chocolate cake with cherry frosting. Yum!
The baking process is super simple just a box mix, and canned frosting. Kori helped along the way.

When it came time for the dipping and decorating part I thought it would be fun to make these as cake pops and put them on lollipop sticks. They tasted great but don't look so pretty yet.



Halfway through the process I realized I needed more candy melts, and more fun decorating tools......off to JoAnns. Which by the way is all the way in Provo! Hello country living!

Have you seen these cute peanut butter cup candy molds? Super cute, and the Bakerella uses them to make cupcake bites. So I purchased some to see If I liked them.

Yup, I do! These little things are adorable!!! I still need some practice to make them look perfect, but I really like them.




Now the trick is to make three batches of these for Averies blessing luncheon next week and not eat them all! Um yeah we will see.


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