June 15, 2012

Olivia turns 3 woohoo!!

 Happy Birthday to Olivia

Today is not really Olivia's birthday,  but she is leaving next week to go to her dad's house in Utah so we decided to celebrate it today. All my day care kiddos came and we had a ball. 

BEWARE::My Little Pony party 

fun below 

June 14, 2012

Chocolate cupcakes with marshmallow creme filling and chocolate frosting

HERSHEY'S "PERFECTLY CHOCOLATE" Chocolate Cake

Ingredients

2 cups sugar
1-3/4 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 cup HERSHEY'S Cocoa
1-1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1-1/2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
2 eggs
1 cup milk
1/2 cup vegetable oil
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 cup boiling water

Directions

1 Heat oven to 350°F. Grease and flour two 9-inch round baking pans.
2 Stir together sugar, flour, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda and salt in large bowl. Add eggs, milk, oil and vanilla; beat on medium speed of mixer 2 minutes. Stir in boiling water (batter will be thin). Pour batter into prepared pans.
3 Bake 30 to 35 minutes or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes; remove from pans to wire racks. Cool completely. 10 to 12 servings.
CUPCAKES: Line muffin cups (2-1/2 inches in diameter) with paper bake cups. Heat oven to 350°F. Fill cups 2/3 full with batter. Bake 22 to 25 minutes. Cool completely. Frost. About 30 cupcakes.

Marshmallow cream cheese frosting/filling

8oz cream cheese (room temp)
1/2 c butter (room temp)
1 1/2 c powdered sugar
1 jar marshmallow fluff
2 tsp vanilla
hersheys cocoa (to flavor)

Mix all together and fill cupcakes and frost.

June 10, 2012

the best day with my mom

The big day is coming soon…

Mom and I spent last week finding the perfect dress. The week started out really rocky. I was feeling very stay puff marshmallow like on my first dress search day. I tried on all the wrong dresses. 

Tuesday morning we headed out to David's Bridal, I was not excited about it at all. I didn't want a repeat of the prior day. 

The gals at David's were so nice. They took my measurements and went straight to work finding dresses for me. My consultant Jennifer, helped me find 3 dresses to try on. 

The first was really adorable it was just a bit too small and they would have had to call around and find the right size. 

The second fit nearly perfect. SOLD! After coming into the main room were mom was I was in love. I didn't even need to try anything else on. I knew it was the dress for me. It was sooo perfect. 
It swishes! nuf said!!!!