Ahh, fall fun!

Today is the PTA fall carnival at our elementary school! So that also means today is the cake decorating contest. The PTA is really smart about this, they do a cake-walk during the carnival and this is how they get their cakes!!! All kids in the elementary are invited to participate in the cake contest, we just had to have the cakes there this morning at the beginning of the school day all ready to go. So...what do we think was happening at our house last night? That is right...cake decorating!!! And let me tell you, it was an adventure! Kassidy doesn't usually help with anything in the kitchen, so this was all pretty new to her! Everything was just, so fun to her! And let's just say that I think Emma knows more about things in the kitchen than Kass! But we pressed on and




eventually finished with Kassidy's "monster coffin cake" and if I do say so myself, it was very cute!

When it was Emma's turn, we took a different approach...CUPCAKES! I love cupcakes and these were fun for she and I to do! They were supposed to be slug cupcakes but I didn't have any black gel for the legs so they didn't turn out quite like they were supposed to. But alas, Emma and I had fun doing them! All I have to tell you is that circus peanuts are not as easy to find as one might think!

And here we have a finished product! See, kind of cute but I would definitely have to remove the "slug" in order to eat it!

And our finished coffin and monster! Last year Kassidy won first prize in the "I did it all by myself" category (she didn't do a thing on that cake...it was ALL me) so last night Paul kept asking me if I was planning on winning 1st prize again! I just know that the girls and I had lots of fun doing these together! Memories! While I am no Martha Stewart or even Sonja (although I can claim kinship here) I think that "our" cakes turned out quite cute!!!
****UPDATE Kassidy won 1st prize again this year. And it was NOT for the "I did it all by myself" category! She won 1st prize for "most creative cake" for 2nd grade. Thank you Paul!!**

Our fun weekend

This past weekend we went to Bountiful. It had been quite some time since we had all stayed in Bountiful! So of course we were excited! We started it out right, we (Grandma, Sonja, Me, Kassidy, Emma, and Addi) all got pedicures.(Thank you Grandma!) Yes, that is correct my 5 and 7 year old truly did get the full treatment.
Addi just got her toes painted, but she was so funny to watch. She sat on Sonja's lap the whole time and dunked her chubby little feet in Sonja's water and splashed and got nail polish all over Sonja. Sonja we love you so much for being such a good sport! The pedicure was wonderful for me, because I've reached the point of not being able to reach my toes very well! Then we all did a little shopping with our BEAU-tiful toes! Now baby Butch has some more clothes, it is so different shopping for boys!!! Of course Friday night was for scrapbooking, and my sister Jamie joined us! Woo Hoo! I got quite a few pages done, it was a productive time!! Then on Saturday Paul joined us and he got a new vehicle! To those of you who know Paul, this is a frequent occurance. When he asked Emma if he should get it she asked him, "What will we have to get rid of?" She knows him too well! Well, we didn't have to get rid of anything and we now have a 4th vehicle! Then the girls and I painted pumkins, thanks again Sonja!
They had so much fun getting to decorate their own pumpkins just how they wanted!
They also got to make pom-pom Halloween crafts, but Sonja and I made them and the girls got to play with them when they were finished! Kassidy's is a bat, Emma's a cat, and Addi's a witch! They turned out very cute, I must say! The day ended with a Grrrrrrreat dinner at Texas roadhouse (call at least 1 hour ahead!)! Over all we all enjoyed time away from home at our other homes! Thanks to Grandma and Sonja for taking such good care of us while we are visiting!

These stairs are jinxed!

Last night I fell down the stairs! I swear these stairs are cursed! A year and a half ago my sister-in-law slipped down them and broke her ankle. And I'm not sure if she's gone back down the stairs since. In the last month Addison has tumbled down them twice. Luckily she was laying on a stair and just tumbled down the remaining. No real harm done. Last night I was walking down stairs with Kass and Em,to put them to bed, and 3rd step from the bottom my foot went out from under me. I did the free fall thing and landed hard on my bum, then bounced down another stair. It was NOT fun! I banged and scraped my elbow on our genuine wood paneling on the wall, broke my toe, and bruised my back. Kassidy just looked at me with her mouth WIDE open and asked me what happened?! I asked her what she thought happened, and then tried really hard not to cry! We just looked at each other for a minute and then busted-up! I decided if I cried, she might cry too! I then went about my motherly duties of putting my kids to bed and then hobbled up the stairs. I told Paul "thanks" for coming to see if I was ok. He didn't even hear my less than graceful decent down the stairs. So I promptly brushed my teeth and went to bed to lick my respective wounds. In the middle of the night I awoke to a horrible pain in my toe, Paul had wandered onto my side of the bed (his theory is that I get 1/3 and he gets 2/3's, so most of the bed should be his) and had put is foot on top of my broken toe! O-U-C-H! I quickly pulled my injured foot away and justly kicked him for wandering. This morning he told me that he didn't think my toe was really broken since I could still kick him so hard! Needless to say, not much sympathy for the ailing mom!