Martha Stewart eat your heart out!!

Today is Abby's birthday & she wanted to take cupcakes to school for her birthday treat. Her school doesn't have the NO homemade goodies rule, so I decided to make cupcakes. Butterfly cupcakes to be exact.
I saw them in a cupcake cookbook & thought I could totally make those. Well it turns out I can make those, but I'm not real sure I will be making them again anytime soon. The butterflies took FOREVER & once they were done & I had to place them on the cupcake. Talk about scarey, I had spent hours on these butterflies & now I had to pick them up & put them on the cupcake without breaking them. And don't even get me started on the antenna! Well with Derek's help (I love my husband) we were able to finish the cupcakes. FYI-Real men do make cupcakes!! Now the only problem was transporting them to the school & then getting them distributed to the class without breaking them. I drove to school like I had a new born baby in the car & was happy when I arrived & the butterflies were all still in tact. Lindsey helped me with the doors to the school & we made it to the office, were we have to wait for Abby to come pick them up & take them to class. Her school has a pretty strict policy about parents walking the halls of the elementary. So, I can only pray that my butterflies made it safely to her classroom & that there were no accidents on the way there. As for now I have my fingers crossed & am waiting to hear if the cupcakes arrived safely.

Exciting Day

Friday was an exciting day, Abby was able to get her cast off. Yeah!!! No more plastic bags in the shower, no more plastic bags around her arm at the beach & hopeful plenty of time in the sand box & the swimming pool this summer. I think I was more excited to get her cast off than Abby was. Having cast really didn't slow her down to much. She is so ticklish, she was laughing the whole time the doctor was sawing her cast off.


If you have a keen eye, you will notice her cast changed color. The piece that goes between your thumb & pointy finger broke off a few weeks ago, so we had to go back to the doctor. Instead of putting a new cast on, they just wrapped a few new blue layers (Abby chose blue)around the existing cast & in between her fingers. Poor thing her cast was so thick, it looked like a big club. She could have used it as a weapon.