Wednesday, January 21, 2009

For the Love of Cupcakes.



I have had a lot of people ask for a good cupcake recommendation and so I am giving it on my blog. A couple years ago while looking for a bakery to do a custom cake or cupcakes for Ady's 2nd birthday a Mexican Fiesta, I came across this website THE SWEET TOOTH FAIRY
She is getting more and more popular these days, her cakes bites (so good) were just featured on the Rachel Ray show, and she is ever opening her own store front in the Riverwoods in Provo. So, I thought I would share some of the fun and yummy projects she has done for me.


This year she did these for me to give as neighbor gifts at Christmas, it made us pretty popular.



Maxwell's 1st birthday cake, complete with time cupcake for him to eat. All I did was send her a copy of Max's birthday invite and told her to match the cake to the invite. It was perfect.


The "fiesta" cupcakes she did for Ady's 2nd birthday


She made these for me, when I had an activity days party at my house. The girls loved them!


Our ever popular "Idol" cupcakes we had for our American Idol Finale party last year.


And of course her biggest project for me to date, last year's DESSERT NIGHT
She helped me cater almost the entire spread for our dessert night, which by the way be will be throwing again this year since last year's was so fun.




So, if you have a special event coming up or want to send someone cupcakes or cookies or whatever. Hit her up! You will love it!

Also, if you are super local (like right down the street) another hot spot for Cupcakes that I just love is Dippidee
They did both of the following for me, the cake for Ady's 3rd birthday family party and the "A" cupcakes for her friend party. Both delicious. Try either of these sweet shops and you will not be disappointed, unless you are trying to cut calories.


Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Planning for Disney.


{Spending time on Disney's trip planner}

We are going on a Disney family vacation coming up pretty soon. So since the kids are getting  bit older now, I have been having them get involved in planning and talking about the trip. I have said before and I will say again. Disneyland/Disneyworld were some of my most memorable childhood trips. And I love how family oriented everything Disney is. We have taken our kids to the Disney parks before. But, I think this will be the most fun yet.



 Ady is so into the princesses and Max loves Buzz and the whole gang from A Bug's Life. I think they are going to be loving this next family vacation. Everyday I have been getting online with the kids and showing them clips from Disneyland on youtube and today we were one the Magical Beginnings part Disney website where it shows families with toddlers, all the best rides to go on, the best places to eat and even has things I could print off for the kids to color now, to get them excited about the upcoming trip. Ady has been saving her money for the last little while so that she can get a Mickey Mouse sucker when we go and maybe something princess too (the is not sure what, she wants to wait to check everything out). She is all into putting every little penny she finds into her Disney savings. It's awesome. And I really may be just as excited as them. It reminds me of how exciting and magical Disney can be to a child.  And to the parents of a child. Now, I know why my parents loved taking us there so much as kids. I mean, it couldnt have been easy for them to fly with 6 kids to Florida and spend days at a time at all the parks. I know, I have done it with just my 2. But, I am so excited that we are getting them involved in all of it this time and seeing them loving being a part of making the choices. Plus I think the building anticipation will make the trip that much sweeter for them.

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Wednesday, January 14, 2009

What makes me smile today.