Cupcake decorating party #2...

A few of the gals couldn't make it to Wednesday night (see post below) and we had a TON of candy left over, so we had another par-tay...

this one i made specifically to eat...

Ricci and Sarah working hard... or hardly working...

it says Lunch, but it's hard to read from this angle...

Olivia was very intense... :-)

(little) Olivia has blue lips!

this was Silas's cupcake. Now, here's a smart boy. He came in and just wanted to eat the candy but we told him that he were for the cupcakes (after he already had a few pieces). We asked him if he wanted to make a cupcake and he said yes. So he grabbed a mini cupcake, decorated it and left the room. Came back a few minutes later, with the same cupcake, minus the candy and asked to put more candy on. We laughed but let him do it. He came back, 2 more times!

Cupcake decorating party #1...

I had a few of my friends asked me to teach them how to do a little cake decorating, so we got together last Wednesday. It ended up being a going-away party too for our friend, Cindy. Here's some pics of the tasty treats we made...

i got this idea from this great book called, Hello, Cupcake...

Oreo sunflowers, yummy!

Olivia and her "fish bowl" cupcake...

yeah, it's made with a mini oreo...

bird's nest...

this is Cindy, and it was her going away party...

it's like Willy Wonka's factory...

Brenda was quite proud of her easter basket cupcake...

Ricci and Jeremy - if he was a cupcake...

candle light, wine, oreos, airheads, cupcakes - so romantic...

it's the most wonderful time of the year...

:-) well, Easter is coming and you know what that means: CADBURY CREME EGGS!!! I just had my first one of the season. I had gone into Michael's to see if the canvases were on sale. I walked by a stand of easter candy and i saw it. One last Cadbury Egg in a otherwise empty box. At first i resisted... then i caved. I love them. As a kid, my mom use to let us only eat one half at a time. I remember begging, every single time, to PLEASE let me eat the whole thing...

hee-hee!

there's no cookie cutters for art...

... unless it's the art of making cookies...

we didn't get to make christmas cookies this year in the ramsey house, so we made new years cookies...

dinner's served...

Tuesday, I did something that I never would have guessed that I would ever do...

It was my night to make dinner and I choose to make Breakfast Burritos. Lynn, Heidi and Kathryn had only ever had like McDonald’s and were grossed out by them. So I decided to enlighten them. Unfortunatly, you can’t always get the same thing here that you would be able to get in the states. We have been making our own flour tortillas because to ones here don’t taste right. So I made my own for dinner. I didn’t ask Lynn to get hash browns at the store because we already have potatoes so I figured I could make them myself. Well, think again. I tried ‘baking’ them in the oven (a little healthier than frying) and that didn’t really work. Then Lynn tried “frying” on the stove-top and that didn’t quite work either. But they were good enough to eat. The eggs were the easy part. But the thing that I NEVER thought I would do was… Let me back up again… There’s a butcher here that we use when we need… well beef, and the like. Though, we’ve had some trouble with finding some of the same cuts that we get in the states. So, I asked Lynn to pick up some sausage (ground pork) for my dinner night. She left the order with the butch and when she picked in up it was small (finger-size) sausage links. Not what I was asking for. But the links wouldn’t work very well for the burritos (too big) so… I pain-stackingly cut open each one and ‘squeezed’ out all the pork. Yeah, gross. And that’s something that I never thought I would do.

P.S. they were great! Not exactly like home but everyone liked them.