Love LOVE Day

I love my boys. I am so blessed to have them in my life. 

I got beautiful flowers for Love Day from my Honey.

 This has definitely been an interesting week. Gavin got shots last week at his doctor appointment which turned into a huge bruise on his leg and he was sick but his cold seemed to get worse this week and he has had more of a cough. Wednesday after I picked him up from Grandma's house I needed to run some errands. The first stop was hobby lobby.... Gavin screamed bloody murder from the time we entered the store until we were half way home and then picked it up again when we got home until I put him down for a 3+ hour nap. It's definitely been a week full of fits but it's also been full of snuggles too. I'll take snuggles whenever I can get them. 

Chris and I got engaged on Valentines day 4 whole years ago. It seem so long ago and short all at the same time. I told Chris I didn't care if we did something ON Valentines day or before or after but I wanted to do something so he made reservations for PF Chang's. It was delicious! I love going to PF Chang's because they have a delicious gluten free menu... makes my life so much easier. Grandma and Grandpa Draudt were so nice to watch Gavin while we went out. We haven't been on many dates since Gavin was born and it's nice sometimes to just spend some time alone. It was a great Love Day.

Yogurt is Yummy.

Friday night Chris and Brooklyn had a dance at her school. It sounds like they both had a great time. Brooklyn ditched Chris a few times to go dance with her friends and Chris swears he wasn't the worst dancer... he even came home and showed me some of the dance moves he learned. (I'm still trying to get him to let me take a video of it.... hilarious!) Chris said they played a lot of the songs more than once and Brooklyn made sure to tell him she has a crush on Justin Bieber.

Anyway, back to Me... I mean back to the yogurt.

Gavin loves yogurt. It's one of his favorite foods. If we're not careful when the fridge is open he will get a yogurt cup out of the fridge and bite a hole through the lid. Usually when Gavin has yogurt I just feed him or help him feed himself so he doesn't get so messy. Friday night was a different story. I decided to let him feed himself. He did so well for a while and then decided hands are much easier than spoons and that his hair needed some yogurt too. This sweet boy is so funny.

Sunday we went to Mimi and Grandpa's house for dinner and Gavin got to try out his new travel high chair. It is so much easier to feed him when he can't run around. We also got to play with Gavin's new puppy cousin Maximus Dsdlkfjsldkf Melksjfd.... some really long name of some character from some movie that I don't remember so we just call him Max. Max is Amanda and David's new puppy. He is such a cute sweet puppy and Gavin loves him. I wish I would have had my camera because the two of them together were so cute. (picture courtesy of Amanda)

One last random tidbit. I don't think I ever realized how expensive phones are until I learned that I'm going to have to pay full price for a phone because of the cell phone plane we've switched to. It just seem ridiculous that a cell phone costs more than an ipad. I tell you what, I'll be a lot more careful with this new phone then I've been with my phones in the past.

Post Doctor Appointment

I love Gavin's doctor, I really do.

Buuuttttt.... going to the doctor is starting to get stressful. I get super antsy before his appointments and start thinking what is going to be next????

This time we found out Gavin has only grown .2 inches (take note of the point) since his last appointment and is now so short he isn't even on the chart.... the chart defaulted to the 1% for height because it can't go any lower. He also only gained one pound and is in the 9% weight (I think).  If he doesn't grow by his next appointment we'll be doing extensive blood work to see if we can figure out what the problem is.

I've been told of a few people who their kids wouldn't grow and they were allergic to milk and when they took them off milk they grew. The allergist said Gavin is allergic to milk but that if it doesn't seem to bother him to keep giving it to him.... but maybe he's wrong and maybe that's why he isn't growing. I guess we'll find out.

Cooking may become interesting at my house. (No Eggs, Gluten, Dairy, or Peanuts.)

At the end of Gavin's doctor appointment he got his shots. Shots are the worst. He was not happy after that and was a grump pretty much until bedtime.

Chris had band practice last night and this is what we did...

He is not just the cutest boy? He kept trying to open the door to the basement to go play with the band.

Snuggles never last very long and then they turn in to this ---------------------------------------------^

Of course the night wouldn't have been complete without playing with the Bat-mobile :)

Brooklyn's Birthday Cake

I've been wanting to make a fondant cake for quite some time. Remember this?......


I was going to make Chris a batman cake using fondant and after some issues I just ended up with a fondant bat on a chocolate cake with sprinkles.

It's the thought that counts right? haha

My sweet neighbor makes some amazing cakes and has a great blog with tips and she gave me extra tips too.

I made the cakes a couple days in advance and kept them in the freezer. I never new how much easier frosting a frozen cake was... I will never frost a not frozen cake again! I also made the fondant a day in advance. My neighbor recommends making it a day in advance but I also figured if I messed it up it would be best to give myself a day to figure something out if the fondant didn't turn out lol. I got my fondant recipe from my neighbors blog here.

Saturday day morning I got up early before everyone was up. I was excited and nervous and it was nice to have time to work without someone needing me for something else.

First I took the cakes out of the freezer and frosted them and set them aside. I took the fondant out at the same time. By the time I was done frosting the cakes the fondant was still too cold to work with so I stuck in in the microwave for a few seconds to warm it up a little bit which did the trick.

I then rolled out the fondant and probably used a little more powdered sugar than I needed... I was a little worried about the fondant sticking. Once I rolled the fondant out I put it on the cake. This was my first time and it definitely wasn't perfect but it wasn't quite as bad as I was expecting either. I can see how working with fondant can take practice.

 After the cakes were covered I got to work on decorating the cakes. For the bottom half I cut the zebra stripes with a pizza cutter and used water to adhere the fondant to the cake. I forgot to take pictures but I used cookie cutters to make the circles that covered the top half of the cake. I also rolled up little balls of fondant to go around the cake. 

Once everything was done and the cake was put together we steamed it a little bit and it looked great! After sitting out all day the fondant looked a little dry. I've already been doing some research on how to keep that from happening the next time I make a cake.

Brooklyn's Birthday!

Somehow Brooklyn's birthday always seems to come so fast after Christmas and I find myself scrambling to plan a party. This year was no different. We (Chris and I) had come up with a few different ideas for a birthday party but then decided to go with a mix of stuff. We took Brooklyn and some of her friends to see Wreck it Ralph at the movie theater. Brooklyn loves going to the movie theater and we didn't tell her that some of her friends were coming so she could have a little surprise. 

After the movie we came back home for Pizza, Cake and Ice cream with a pink and zebra theme. She got some great gifts and had so much fun with everyone that came. Thank you everyone for coming!

At the Movie.

Dressed to impress!

Watching Hotel Transylvania.

Make a wish!

Weekend 1/18/13

What a weekend! I love long holiday weekends. We had so much fun this weekend.

Last week I received an email from Kiddie Kandids for $50 in free pictures so I decided to make an appointment since we would have both of the kids. It was a mess when we got there. The family that was waiting in front of us had been there for an hour. Luckily we didn't have to wait that long. But I'm pretty sure the girl who took our pictures was on something. She took our pictures and as soon as we were done and we were packing up our stuff she asked if we had an appointment. When I explained that she had just taken our pictures she asked our name and said she lost our paper. She finally realized she had just barely taken our pictures and had to go up front to get the paper. When she came back after asking again if we had an appointment she said it would take her fifteen minutes to enhance the pictures and asked if we had anywhere we needed to go while she was doing that. So we went to lunch.

We went to Wingers and I got the wing lunch with naked wings which are just wings without the breading. When the waitress brought out my meal she told me that they didn't put sauce on my wings but there was sauce on the table I could put on them. I was so shocked at the customer service or should I say the lack there of. I would think if you get an order wrong you fix it you don't just tell the customer they can fix it themselves. Lol!

Anyway... Back to Kiddie Kandids we went. We were greeted by the lady who took the kids pictures again with a "Do you have an appointment?" I told her she just took their pictures and we were there to pick out what we wanted. She tried to sell us a CD of the images for $80 which we declined and then she turned us over to another girl to order our pictures. I'm really glad we got some cute pictures and I'm really glad we got some for free lol.

A few other things that happened this weekend.

Chris decided to loosen the jar of salsa before he shook it... I think we will be finding salsa spots around the kitchen for a while.

While watching the Biggest Loser Brooklyn got really emotional when they sent someone home and she told us that we needed to change the channel because it was too sad. It was so sweet I had to cover my head so she couldn't tell I was laughing. I didn't want her to think we were laughing at her it was just so sweet.

We played Candyland and my danced and sang and watched the Barbie princess movie (shoot me). All in all it was a fantastic weekend.

It was so hard to get up and leave my sweet boy this morning who was screaming for me. I pray that someday I won't be the one leaving...

Christmas 2012

Christmas is SO MUCH MORE FUN with KIDS!

This year we had Brooklyn for the second half of Christmas vacation so we got to sleep in on Christmas morning which was great since we were up late the night before making cinnamon rolls. (Well... I made the cinnamon rolls and Chris just stayed up with me lol)

It was so fun to watch both of the kids open all of their gifts and get so excited about their new things. It was wonderful being able to spend time with all of our families. I love the Christmas season. And to top everything off we even got a white Christmas :) 

My silly boys.

Brooklyn was so excited for her onesie jammies.

Having fun at Mimi and Grandpa's.

The cutest kids ever!