Rainbow around the Sun or is it God's eye watching us.

Yesterday when we were outside enjoying the sunny weather, my middle son, Trey had me look to my left at the "rainbow" around the Sun.  This is what I saw.

Alyxis 15th Birthday

So, Alyxis and all her friends have been on this Alice in Wonderland kick. Long before Johnny Depp, (although Alyxis thinks he's hot and seen most of his movies). Anyway, we brainstormed and came up with some pretty cool ideas to have a Mad Hatter Tea Party. Wouldn't you guess everything seemed to go wrong. They garnished Jaye's check, so we had little money. Value Village, Good Will, and Saint Vincent thrift stores aren't nearly as inexpensive as it use to be, they just didn't have what I wanted. Plus, of course it would be super expensive to buy the cake, the creative mommy I is, we decided to make one.


Marzipan figures: CAUTION!!!!!
I DO NOT recommend this to anyone, although it was fun playing with edible play dough so to speak, it was crazy making it. I wish we had pictures of the process of making it. It was ewwwie goooey fun, NOT. For those of you that don't know Marzipan, is made with almond paste, water, sugar and egg. I bought a bulk pound in a half of almonds and Alyxis blanched them and we ground them up in the espresso grinder.

Cupcakes that later were to become Mushrooms. Easier said than done

Cookies for the Queen of Hearts

Under the sprinkled cookies, you see the chocolate chip cookies, they were suppose to say eat me on them but we didn't even get the words EAT ME on them before they got eaten up. Seem's they were just looked too good to wait for the party.

The first time I had successfully crumb coated a cake, its easier than I ever thought.

after I added the color coconut for the grass effect.

The giant mushroom made out of Rice Crispy Treats, thanks Cake Boss, I will never be as good as you but great tips.


Starting to put all the pieces together.

The finished product!!!!!


I had made a trip to Value Village to try and find mismatched tea cups and sauces, maybe my first mistake was thinking they would have even one mismatched set, ok so a can we say, they had whole sets missing just one. GRRRR, I was so disappointed I didn't feel like back tracking and heading to Goodwill or going to Saint Vinnies, so I found a white tea pot for $1.00 along with what looked to be matching tea cups and saucers in plain white, then I found a set of six saucers and a set of 5 china saucers each for a dollar, so I picked them up and I figures we could paint different things on them. Nothing extravagant ! Well Jazzy got her little talented hands on them and used my pastel permanent markers and this is what we got.
The Duchess...

The Cheshire Cat...


Yummy finger sandwiches
The Tea Pot...

And because I wanted to be totally different..Sonic The Hedgehog...

Yummy finger sandwiches...


They had cookies, cake tea and finger sandwiches. They had so much fun they or mom forgot to take pictures of the actual tea party. Bad mommy...


Christine, Alyxis and Caitlyn Alyxis' friend since third grade.

Life

Well its been a long time since I have been on here. Life is just about the same. Kids are older, I wish they would go from babies to adults and by pass all the back talking, fighting and such. I just have to hold on to the fact that in about 20 yrs they will be having the same conversations where their kids and maybe they will think back about how much crap they put us through. We are dealing with stealing, forging teachers notes, straight up I don't want to follow the rules when dad's not home. Those kinds of things. I love my kids but sometimes I just want to throttle them.

California

OH MY GOSH! I can't believe that Christmas is almost here, and with that Trey and my birthdays. I can honestly say that I'm done with Shopping although I know if I go to Walmart, Kmart, Freddy's or other places that I can spend money I will.

Tonight I finally unpacked my suitcase after being home a week. Cambreean and I spent two AWESOME weeks in California with Jaye, because he is down there working for ten weeks. He comes back Dec. 21st, and then after the holidays he is suppose to go back again for how long we don't know, anything more than 4 weeks and I go down for two.

Ok so I've updated, even though I know I have no readers, but it will be great for myself at least.

Neverending school shopping

Man alive... the only thing that saved me this year is the clearance rack. With 4 kids in school I'm exhausted. Yesterday we went to Fred Meyer's saved $100.58, spent $97.37. Can't beat that kind of shopping. Lets see I got 7 shirts, 1 pairs of pants, a hat, a short and tee shirt for the baby