Baking Frenzy

Wow, I am exhausted! I have been preparing for the big double birthday tomorrow allllll day! My son and daughter's birthdays are just a day apart, so we have a conjoined party for them. That is until they get old enough to decide that's not cool anymore haha. I always bake my own treats, and today I spent 13 hours straight of baking and decorating. I did take one 20 min break to eat a couple slices of pizza. But ya, my back  is super sore from standing all day long. But I am super excited for the kids to see their treats tomorrow! Thank goodness my mom came over  to help me tackle all the baking projects I assigned myself. If it weren't for her I'd probably still be going right now! I could seriously not be any more excited though! We got them each a new bike and I cannot wait to see the looks on their faces when they see them  :). We've been hiding them at their grampies house, and he is going to bring to the party tomorrow. Wooo! Here's some pictures of the things I baked:

I attempted to make a rainbow cake for my Daughter. Her name is Rayne, but everyone has called her rainbow since she was born. This is a picture of the batter before I put it in the oven.

Went with a Lego theme for my son. He's Lego crazy. These are attempted lego head cake pops! My first try making them, they didn't come out as round as I hoped, but they are insanely delicious!

Lego brick graham crackers :)

My daughter's rainbow cake all decorated. I can't wait to cut it open tomorrow to see how the colors look on the inside :D

Jello slices! I got this idea on Pintrest :). I did more colors but they were on another plate.

Lego cake I made for Phoenix :D

Rainbow Cupcakes!

Rainbow cupcake!

Rainbow pudding :)

So that's mostly what I spent my day doing! I did make a few more things that I didn't get pictures of. I made some lego brownies and lego rice crispie squares. and some rainbow sprinkle rice crispie squares. I dealt with soooo much food coloring today. I'd be happy not to see it again for another year haha. Well I definitely need to collapse! What a day, tomorrow is going to be such a blast!!!

Today was Phoenix's actual birthday. He turned 5 years old. It's incredibly mind blowing. 5! omg! He is the most amazing 5 year old I know. I am so incredibly proud of the little boy he is growing up to be :). He came bursting in our room this morning at about 6am going " I'm 5 years old, I'm 5 years old!" He's been getting hugs and kisses galore!! <3 

So that's me for today :). Have a great one!!

Mario Theme?

So it's been a few days since I posted, sorry! I've been feeling extra tired lately and have been going to bed pretty early. As well was soaking up as much sunshine with the kids as possible, and planning for their party this weekend. It is drawing near and I am getting so excited, almost as excited as the kids! I'm also pretty nervous. I always get so anxious when the days get closer. I get paranoid over simple things, the food won't turn out, the cake won't turn out, people won't show, I won't get the house clean enough. Ya, I stress out a little to easy. Luckily I have my husband around to help keep me grounded<3. So aside from those things, not to much has been going on. I did crochet a few new things tho! :)

Ya, kind of got stuck on a mario theme haha. I got the pattern for the mushrooms and the bob-omb at WolfDreamer. The star pattern is from Shh! I'm Counting! 

I crocheted them all while re-watching The Guild. I forgot how funny it was :). I love that show haha. Anyway, it's pretty late here and I definitely need some sleep to prepare for the next couple days! G'night and see you again soon :).

Return of the Sun!

Today was rainy day #3! And it rained with extra gusto! I spent most of the morning making stew for the slow cooker. The weather seemed appropriate for a stew day :). But we were pleasantly surprised, because out no where the clouds went away, the sun was shining and it was so warm out! I put the kids rubber boots and and we hurried outside. We've been stuck in for 3 days now, and we were all getting a little restless.

I was glad I had made today a slow cooker meal day because it meant we got to stay out and enjoy the sun until supper was ready. We didn't have to go in to get supper ready. After we ate our yummy stew and Daddy went off to work we piled right back outside and played more! We colored all over the swing-set, played in puddles and sang songs. It felt so great to be back out in the sunshine! That was definitely the highlight of my day.

My happy baby boy <3

I get to push all 3 of these adorable monkeys <3

that's me =P

mud pudddles!

I just finished reading Eragon, the first book in the Inheritance Series by Christopher Paolini. So I am going to watch the movie and probably crochet something :). I always try to read the book before seeing the movie but I haven't really heard anything good about the movie from fans of the book. But we'll see :) Also, don't forget to check out my Teaser Tuesday on Owl Read It for Eldest, the second book in the series.

 G'night all!

Musing Mondays-Apr23

Musing Mondays is a weekly event where MizB from Should Be Reading will ask a book/reading related question, and you answer with your own thoughts on the topic.

This week's Musing Monday asks:

Other than working at a job, what is your biggest interruption to reading? What takes you away from your books?

I don't technically have a 'job' because I am a stay-at-home mom. But if you ask me, that's one of the biggest jobs out there! I have 3 little ones, the oldest turns 5  in 5 more days and my youngest is 2. So life is pretty busy around here! That's definitely where the majority of my time goes. I'm left with little time for hobbies. So playing Mommy is definitely what takes away from most of my reading time. Although, I don't really like to say that being a mommy interrupts my reading. I definitely prefer spending time with my kids and my husband more than reading. And it is much more important to me. Reading is definitely second. But if we count being mommy as my 'job' then my answer would be Crocheting. It's not easy having two hobbies with very limited free time haha. But Crocheting is my other favorite thing to do. And sometimes that takes away from my reading time. In my free time I'm usually lost in a book, or using my hooks :). Other times I'm playing games with my husband.

Review- The Bridge of Deaths by M.C.V Egan

This was a book of positives and negatives. In my opinion, the latter makes up the most part.

I'm a little sad because I feel like this book has the potential to be better than it was. It is a good story idea, and I really enjoyed the two characters Bill and Maggie, I might have enjoyed Catalina if reading her narratives wasn't so incredibly boring.

Bill keeps having a recurring nightmare about a plane crash, he goes to psychic to seek help, and it turns out this dream he is having is actually him re-living a moment from his past life. In another place far away is a part time writer named Catalina, whose grandfather died in that plane crash. She has been trying for years to write a story about said event. These two end up crossing paths as they are both digging for information about the same thing. Throughout the course of the story they exhange information, the writer supplies Bill and Maggie, his girlfriend, with the information that is missing from his dreams, and they in turn supply Catalina with the information from his dreams, since they are like a first hand experience.

As I said before, the idea is good, and I enjoyed Bill and Maggie's chapters. But When the Chapters were under Catalina's narrative, it was soooo hard to read. It's nothing but constant information, full of un-ending names and dates that she pulls from all these files she's collected over the years. I think the only way to keep track in this story is if you started keeping your own files of all the information that is constantly being thrown at you. Most of the information I found to be pretty much pointless.

With a lot of cuts, I'm pretty sure I would have enjoyed this story, but as is, I can't say that I liked it. The boring, and the sections of overwhelming information, far outweighed the parts I enjoyed reading. However, if you like tons of facts I guess this is the book for you.

I gave this 1/5 stars.

Getting back to normal + Yoda

Things finally seem to be getting back to normal around here! Kiddies and daddy are all over the flu, and my back seems to be almost mended as well. But let's hope I don't pull muscles in my back again anytime soon, that was a little to painful for my liking. Glad to be almost done with that! :). Yay for saying goodbye to sickness and pain!

Today was a rainy dreary day, so even though we all felt better, we didn't get to go outside and play :(. Instead we watched some movies, read lots of stories and played with toys. We went pretend grocery shopping. We made a grocery list by drawing all the items that we needed, and then we grabbed some shopping bags went shopping! Then, using our 'recipe book' we put our ingredients into a great big bowl, and with a giant wooden spoon each we made tons of different things. We pretended to make blueberry pie, mango pie, pizza, soup and more! I just love my kids' imaginations! They can turn anything into a world of fun :).

I also finished a crochet project I started last night. A friend of mine asked me to make them a Yoda for a father's day gift. Here's some  pics of the little guy:

hehe, he's pretty cute. I found the pattern on Ravelry, where I find most of my patterns =P. Here it is if you'd like to give him a try or add him to your faves for later: http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/little-yoda-crochet-tutorial
The pattern for his jacket wasn't working for me at all. It just wasn't looking the way I wanted. So I improvised a little and got it the way I wanted. Now I have a couple extra little robes laying around haha. I'm sure I'll find a use for them eventually!

Billy returned to night shift tonight, which means I'm most likely in store for a rather sleepless night. So far my plans include reading, and watching Game of Thrones :). Hope you had a great day, and have a wonderful evening as well!

Review- Blockade Billy by Stephen King

This was a super duper quick read. the book actually had two stories in it, the second "bonus" story was called Morality and it really was about half the size of Blockade Billy, which was only 80 pages.

Blockade Billy is the story behind a remarkably good baseball player who was mysteriously and suddenly erased from the history of the game, along with his team members and any games he played in. No one really knows why but Stephen King finds a player from the team he was on and he gets the whole story. The story itself is a little chilling, as is to be expected of Stephen King. The character of William Blakey "Blockade Billy" definitely has questionable mental stability. There were parts where there was a lot of baseball lingo being thrown around, and at those parts I was a little lost, being that I don't know anything about baseball or any sports in general =P. But that is no fault of Stephen King's, who is an avid lover of the sport. The book was actually dedicated to all lovers of the sport.
Overall, though, it was a good, short read. If you were looking for something to pass the time or just a really quick read inbetween other books you should pick it up.

Also, the bonus story was also decently good :) and the title for it was very suiting, and the ending surprising but at the same time, not. It seemed like a story that could have been a lot longer if he wanted it to be, but then it wouldn't have been as good, it needed to be short to pack the right punch in my opinion.

all in all, Stephen King never disappoints :) enjoy!

I gave it 3/5 stars!