new things

My kids are sick :( It's not so fun. And it doesn't help that I'm a little sick too. *Sigh*. Tis life though. Thankfully both of their fevers seems to have broke, Eli's fever keeps playing with me, it will go up and down and up and down. I feel so bad for them when they are sick. There is not much sadder then seeing your normally bouncing-off-the-walls toddler be so sick that all they do is lay on the couch and barely have enough energy to sit up to take a drink of water.

In other news, I got a job! I'm kind of excited about it, and scared. I haven't had a job (besides making cakes) since I had Gabriel. It's not like it's a high-stress job, I'm going back to being a waitress. I didn't want something that was going to stress me out a lot, or take too much time since I am still going to school full time and have both my boys. I just wanted something simple and part time, and thankfully that's what I got! I'm just nervous about the whole thing, mainly because for the first time in my life I have to look for a daycare for my children :(

I never wanted to put my kids in daycare and when I call daycares I never know what to ask. I mean, I never went to daycare, don't really know too many people whom take their kids to it, and never had to use it myself, what are you supposed to ask these people? I don't know. And I'm sad to think about leaving my kids with other people to teach them the things that I want to teach them. I know it's part of my life right now but that doesn't make it easy. I've always dreamt of being a stay at home mom and now that I can't be that 100% of the time anymore can be a hard pill to swallow sometimes. I know I'll be fine and I'll make it, and I and they will get used to it. I might just have to assume that I might cry the first day I drop them off. It's like when people have to drop their kids off at kindergarten for the first time, except this time, their babies (ok, toddlers, to me they are babies though). Ah! I'm gonna freak out.

I can handle this. I can handle this. I can handle this.

I know, you might think I'm over dramatic, but it's my babies that we're talking about here :)

My classes are almost done for the quarter! I'm so very ready for them to be done! Only 2.5 more weeks!  Next week with homework should be too awful, except there is a research paper that I haven't even started on yet that is due. But besides that, the homework looks very minimal for now! I'm ready for my two weeks of Christmas break :)

Surprise!!!

I have been crazy busy this week. I've done more baking this week then I have done in a long time but I like I said in my last post, I loved it! Not only did I bake cupcakes, tortes, cookies, and banana bread, I also baked even more cupcakes and a cake!

My sister-in-law Tia is from England and she has decided to become a U.S. Citizen sooo.... my awesome brother decided to throw her a surprise party! How cute is that? I think it's cute :) Anyway, so I was put in charge of making the cake. I was more then happy to do it!

I made the cake and cupcakes the day before her surprise party, then we got up the next morning, packed up and drove down to Brainerd to scream 'surprise' when she walked through the door :) I wish I would have been able to get a picture of the event but I forgot my camera.

It was an extremely fun day and I got to see a lot of family members that I haven't seen in awhile.

Congrats Tia on becoming a U.S. Citizen! 

*Sorry for the not so wonderful lighting in the picture. If you can't tell, the cupcakes are red velvet with blue holders and cream cheese frosting with a gold sugar craft star on each one. The inside of the cake was french vanilla with buttercream and chocolate with chocolate ganache. 

yummm.......

I love to bake. It's probably not a secret though :) What I love even more then baking is baking for other people! I love to surprise people with baked goodies or bake for get togethers. This week I got to do both! On tuesday I went to my mom's group and it was our last day for the season, so I decided to make cupcakes for everyone!

There was red velvet and french vanilla cupcakes topped with whipped cream and vanilla frosting with a snowy theme. It was fun and it turned out to be a perfect theme considering it snowed that day!

The second set of things I baked was for a couple of boxes that I was going to give people. I really like to surprise people with boxes full of goodies so I made this chocolate truffle torte with sugar craft daisies...

... and tucked it inside one of the boxes. I hope the family that got it likes it!

That's what I've been doing this weekend! And I loved it!

1 Peter 3:4

Rather, it should be that of your inner self, 

the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, 

which is of great worth in God’s sight.

1 Peter 3:4

pointless facts

My mind is full of pointless facts. Seriously, I remember the oddest things. It would be helpful if the random facts were about something useful, like math or science or history, but no. I can't tell you what the plural of a radius is (ha! I looked that up so I would look smart that I at least knew a mathematical term! Wait. Probably shouldn't have said that, now I don't look so smart anymore! I hate math by the way, just putting that out there), what the scientific symbol of mercury is, or the exact dates the Revolutionary War started.

So what are the pointless facts I remember? Things about people lives that I will probably never need to use in my life. For instance one day, after my sister and brother-in-law had been married for a few years, she was trying to think about her hubby's first girlfriends name. I knew the name. I had only heard the name one time like 1-2 years prior, but I remembered.

I can also tell you exactly what a hitch hiker my parents picked up was wearing when I was 5 years old and what day of the year it was. I can remember the month, if not the day, that most people that I know were born. Ok, maybe not most people, maybe like 65%. I can tell you what my uncle was putting together in his office the one time we visited when I was one or two years old... and the color of his carpet. I can tell you the license plate number of a car that I was following the other day, and not because it was some funny license plate number, really it was just all numbers, 720-952. Why? I don't know. I just saw it, so I remembered it. I just hear things or see things, and they stick... FOREVER! Once it's in my head, it normally doesn't leave.

And why am I thinking about this on this particular morning? Because I'm going to to go into town today and I will drive past one of my doctors offices and all that comes to mind right now is that doctors favorite breakfast food. Creepy? I think so too.

I'm like one of those nerds in high school that can pump out tons of information that no one cares about and they have no idea where in the brain of the nerd it came from. Yep. I'm a nerd.

What can I say? I'm my fathers daughter sometimes, Mr. knows-the-world's-exact-population-in-1970something-or other.

my mom shot a bear...

So my mom shot a teddy bear. Actually she shot it a few weeks ago but I haven't got around to showing you pictures. Here they are...

See, it's just a extremely large black bear.

We may or may not be giving her a hard time about shooting Winnie the Pooh this particular bear. *Wink Wink*

So there it is! My mom shot a bear!

FYI. My mom refused to be in any of the pictures with her new stuffed animal ;)