YAY! It's finally here!!! UPDATED

Tomorrow is my sister's baby shower. I am SO EXCITED!! I have been since I started planning it!!!
Today I am making the cake/cupcakes. Her nursery theme is camo, so we are incorporating that into the baby shower (my cousin Holly is helping me) :) We have games planned with prizes and we're having it at the best pizza place ever in the world. :)

Here is the cake process:


Baking:


Cupcakes:







This will be my first time EVER working with fondant. I will update as I go.

Fondant:




Finished product for the cake (I cut out little flowers for the cupcakes):

IO IO..

Maybe I should have stuck with my original plan for the PhD. I seem to most enjoy organizing, planning, efficiency and motivational strategies. While I can satisfy these interests with projects at home, like my sister's shower, husband's fun committee and the structure I am trying to enforce on a mommy group, I would like to eventually do it not just as a hobby. Granted, I love being involved in philanthropic events and volunteering. I wouldn't mind doing things full time for volunteer organizations. Those are my current thoughts.

Loving the new place :)

So it's been a few months since we moved. We LOVE this area up here!!! Awesome schools close by (minor obstacle we have to face in order to get him into the one we want him to go to), our neighbors are amazing on both sides of the house (hopefully once they build behind and in front of us, if they ever do, they are equally as awesome). Getting involved in several really awesome mommy groups up here (thank you Alicia for encouraging me to join the Kent one.. it also gave me the courage to try out a few more, which I love all of them!!!) In fact, tomorrow I have a craft project that I am bringing to do with the moms and kids at the Puyallup Public Library and also plan on discussing with the organizer a food drive idea I have for the group.

This weekend is my sister's baby shower. Super excited because I am planning it. I have everything ready, with help from my super amazing cousin Holly. It's going to rock!! :)

I've been definitely staying busy with implementing my cleaning schedule that I had at the old house in Ridgefield, working with Sevren on projects and reading/spelling, a few things I am doing for Sayoji at work for his fun committee and now the activities I'm helping with for the meetup group. Good stuff. I like staying busy :)

Silly, I know..

but I was watching a catch-up episode of Glee. And it got me to thinking (Born This Way was the episode). Although this is something I think about often, what would my life be like.. and how would I be, if the things that happened to be never happened. I mean, yes, there are certain aspects of myself that I was born with. The emotional issues, I know are from experiences that could have been prevented in some extent. Of course, car accidents are not something that can be foreseen, as are other things that happened. Hmm.. this is sounding more and more like a poor poor pitiful me post. Not where I was intending this.

This was probably a bad time to start my detox -> new eating habits. I am definitely hormonal. Tuesday is going to be such a fun day. It's the day my period is expected, I have to take Sevren to his 4 year check up and get shots, and then I have to take his paperwork with updated shot record to the preschool/pre-k place. Hoping it won't take very long to get through that. Ugh! :) Yeah.. I'm definitely hormonal and tired and thinking I might add a bath to my evening before bed. :)