Thanksgiving

Is it too late to blog about Thanksgiving? No? Good. As long as I do it before Christmas, right? Good.

So for Thanksgiving I had no idea what the boys and I were doing until the night before Thanksgiving. We had a few options on where to go and I kept going back and forth between places. Right before I went into class on Wednesday night I found out my brother and his family was coming up to celebrate Thanksgiving at my parents, so I decided to stay at my parents for Thanksgiving as well.

Thanksgiving was full of baking and cooking and all the boys playing. My brother, Nathan, and his wife, Tia, have 4 boys, and with my 2 it was 6 boys total. And the kicker was that their ages were -1, 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. It was a lot of fun and the boys all love playing together. This was the kids table...

They were so excited to have their own table! They started sitting there maybe an hour before supper and just kept sitting there until we told them to go do something else because it was going to take awhile for the food to be done. We set up the adult table all purty :)

The food (and dessert!) was so delicious! We all had lots of fun!

The next day Gabriel taught the older two boys how to be crazy and jump off of his bed. Gabriel was by far the craziest one in the bunch, Brendyn and Tyvan were far more cautious when it came to jumping from high heights onto my bed, but in the end they were almost as crazy as Gabriel.

On Saturday Nathan and Tia had to go down to the cities and they left their three older boys behind. We had fun coloring and Opa took the boys trapping. By mid afternoon this is what happened...

We know how to wear children out round these parts :)

It was a fun weekend! What did you do for Thanksgiving?

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