Thanks!

Thanks to everyone who commented on the cookie trays!  It was very helpful and I have a better idea of what I'm going to do now.  I"m really enjoying all this baking.   This week has been even more exciting because I've gotten some really fun things in the mail.  The first package was from my mom.  She got me some really nice gel colors (which I've already used) so I can pretty much have any color of frosting I want now, and some pretty edible sliver balls.  I'll have to save those for something fancy.  I"m excited.  The other package came from Shawn's mom. It is awesome I just have to show a picture of it.

It says cake delivery assistant.  He LOVES it.  So much in fact he wore it for almost two days straight until I had to wash it for an actual delivery.

And here's the back.  Awesome right?  It makes me smile every time I see it.  The people I have delivered to seem to think its adorable too.  I really wanted to take a picture of one place we went to.  Its a building downtown, and the office is on the 28th floor, I didn't snap a picture because I wanted to appear professional but I guess that goes out the window when you bring a three year old with you.  Next time!  Graham calls it the tower and loves to look out the windows its a great view of Nashville.

And here's Devin photo bombing Graham's picture, he wasn't too happy about it.

And Graham photo bombing Caroline's picture. I'm so glad I found the camera, blogging with pictures is WAY more fun.  Thanks everybody for your support!

The Hound Dog Run

I finally have pictures to post!  Friday was the kids school fundraiser and as much as I hate getting asked for money every few days for various different things the kids really love it.  So I'll stop talking and just put up the pictures.

I was a few minutes late to Caroline's part of the race but she didn't care.

Enjoying her after race popsicle. 

Ms. Tant's second grade class

I was on time for Devin's race.  He was so cute, all ready to start.

And go!  He did a really good job, he only stopped for about 2 seconds and then kept on running.  I was very proud.

And his turn for popsicles.

This is the first year we went to the after school festivities.

They were really fun.

The kids went on the bounce house about 50 times.

And of course got some awesome ballon animals/people.  Devin LOVES his ninja.

Afterwards we had some of the kids friends over to watch a movie and have root beer floats, I really hope they had fun because I was exhausted! 

Little treasure

Wanna know one of the greatest things about living in Nashville?  Free country music videos from the 90's. It's made the last two nights of staying up late and baking, then waking up to entertain the kids while Shawn is at a conference totally doable. That is of course when my crappy intena can pick up the station. Don't worry I found my camera and will finally have a HUGE amount of pictures soon!

Survey Time

I need some help.  I"m trying to come up with ideas for cookie trays for Christmas.  I don't want everyday chocolate chip cookies in them but I want to know what people think of when they see a cookie tray.  I have some ideas of what cookies to put on there but I need a little direction. I know Christmas is really far off but I need to try out recipes and make sure they work.  Here are some ideas that I have.
Jam sandwiches (butter cookies filled with jam)
chocolate hazelnut diamonds
coconut macaroons
black and white spiral sable cookies (a French butter cookie)
Chocolate dipped pistachio shortbread
molasses spice cookies or gingerbread (I hate frosting cookies though)
mint cookies (andes mint covered in cookie dough drizzled in chocolate)
Am I missing anything?  And are there cookies that should be left out and replaced with others?  I'd really love to know what people think.

I miss blogging

In my head I knew what I wanted to write about but now that I actually am writing I can't think.  I just know that this week is going to be busy so I thought I'd post before I forget to again. Since I've started making desserts for people I've been spending way too much time cleaning after baking and I haven't even been taking pictures of the stuff I've been making or remembering the hilarious things the kids say.  It's been crazy.   I do want to have it on record that Shawn and I went on a date this weekend, a double date even!  I know we were social and had a whole lot of fun, but were still in bed by 10!  My kind of night.  I keep on forgetting to take pictures of the kids because I thought I had lost the camera but it turns out Shawn just had it and didn't tell me or more likely I didn't listen or hear him when he told me he had it.  Opps, I'll be better because if I'm being honest, the blog has not been awesome lately and I really miss being funny, but right now I just feel like a crazy person trying to remember too many things.  I promise next post I'll have a picture of something, dessert or kids, or maybe even both, but that may be asking too much.

Random Stories

I don't know what has happened to me but I really suck at blogging lately.  The kids continue to crack me up and I continue to do embarrassing things but I forget to write them down.  So without further delay I'll let you in on what's been going on around here.
I've been doing my best to keep on top of the house, kids, and schedules which usually isn't bad at all I just need help remembering it all.  Friday I felt really good that I had scheduled an oil change for the van and arranged a ride home so I wouldn't have to spend all day there.  As I was walking up to my front door after being dropped off I realized I had left my house key on my car keys and had no way of getting in my house. Oops, luckily my friend hadn't left and I was able to borrow my friends car and get my keys without too much headache.
Shawn has had a little more time off because one of the attending he works with is out of town so we are taking full advantage and staying up until midnight and buying movies from Vudu on a whim.  Is it sad that the most exciting thing we do is buy a movie without agonizing over the purchase for an hour? I must say I really enjoyed it.
Caroline is such a good kid.   At least once a week I get a note from her teacher telling me what a good helper she is.  I'm not surprised I was the teacher's pet in school too.  She also loves teaching family home evening which is great because all I have to do is tell her to write about something and 20 minutes later she has a lesson, and its good!  Shawn thought she had copied from our kid scripture book yesterday.
Devin is the clumsiest kid ever.  He falls down at least once a day and I"m just glad he has a cast on his elbow.  I think I'm going to wrap him in bubble wrap for a while to take a break from broken bones.  He also LOVES school which is great.  It does take some effort to get him to stop playing with toys to get him ready in the morning though.
Graham is so weird and funny.  Shawn and I went for a walk with just him on Friday and he rubbed in in Caroline's and Devin's face as much as he could.  I think he would really love to be an only child.  Too bad for him.  The other day he was talking to Shawn and said, "Sometimes I miss mommy."  And Shawn said, "But you're with her all the time."  And Graham replied, "I know but I still miss her."  He makes us laugh everyday.
Nothing too exciting going on but we're loving it!