Cupcake Wars

Our family had our very own Cupcake Wars this weekend. For those of you who watch FoodNetwork you'll know what I'm talking about. We had a list of ingredients we could use and had to use at least 2. Then we had judges come and score them based on taste, creativity of ingredients, and look. It was such a blast. The winners of this round will have a competition at our Christmas party!

Tate & Elaine's Mashed Potato & Gravy Cupcakes

The Winner Got this Trophy!
The cupcakes underneath were the winners!
Mom & Dad and Tate & Elaine tied for 3rd place.

The judges doing their judging duty..

The Winners!

Summer Summary!

This summer was soooo crazy! I had something going almost every week and weekend..so of course blogging took a backseat. So here are some quick highlights of the busy crazy summer I had :)

June...the sibs (minus Elder B) after cousin Jantzen's baptism.

July..Bear Lake with the Baxter fam

June...best friend's wedding

July...Girls trip to St. George (while dad was in Alaska!)

Tuachan in St. George

June..sibling campout and fishing at Strawberry....I was the only fish catcher the whole weekend!!

But i refused to touch them...thank goodness for brothers!

August...Elder Tate comes home!!!!!!!!!!YAY!!!!

I love this kid and am so glad he is home!

June...Yellowstone with the Carter family.

Had a scary experience with anaphylaxis! This was the beginning with my swollen hands...ended up in the ER a few hours later with a swollen tongue and face. Ugh!

August...YSA Campout! Love my sister!

YSA bestie..Lori Bodily :)

The end of summer...Labor Day...September. Shooting with the family.

All the girls!

Mom, Kath, Holly, Me, Elaine

The boys!

 

Summer was so busy and so fun.  I'm glad fall is on its way though. Hopefully things calm down and everything continues to be good :)

To blog or not to blog?

I was going to post pictures of my last few weeks of vacations and fun...but I'm pretty sure no one reads this anymore so I'm wondering what the point would be. Hmm... to blog or not to blog?

Let Summer Begin....

Its only the 1st week of June and I'm already cRaZy busy!!! This weekend alone, I had a baptism and a wedding, plus homestuff and just everyday things. It was so packed, but a blast nontheless!!

Me and the siblings after Jantzen's baptism. Love them! (cant wait to add Tate to these in a few months yay!)

Todd, Holly's head, me and cousin Brad! :)

Kasen, Reagan, and Ryker...babysitting/swimming adventures

Kasen

Water fight with the Ley kids.

My best friend Michelle on her wedding day!



Me, Michelle and Jeff

Playing in May

May feels like it has just barely started and it already CRAZY busy!  I've been busy doing crafts for birthday gifts and bridal shower gifts, going to school, working, Holly and I are helping my friend Natalie out and watching her kids everyday while she's at work so that definately keeps us busy. Its just been a insane couple weeks, but I'm LOVING every minute. Life is good and I love it :)

I made this for my friend Bobbi's birthday...it turned out so cute

I'm going to have to make myself one!



A bridal shower gift for my friend Michelle

A bridal shower gift for my friend Jenna...she's a fisherwoman so I loved how this turned out!



Me and Reagan. I love this girl! She is so freaking adorable. She makes me want kids so bad!

Lol...I love my 'puppy' Koda! He's like adding a third child to our babysitting endeavors but how can you not love and smile at that mug.

We got the kids sidewalk chalk....I think Holly and I have had more fun with it than Ryker and Reagan...

Reagan held perfectly still while we traced her body....haha...she couldn't get enough...she kept laying down wanting us to draw her over and over

Jammin' it up!

Last week...well...I needed to make some jam. Pretty much I wanted to do anything but do homework...so..boy did I make jam!

2 cases of strawberries...(a little too many I found out)

The final count....26 bottles of strawberry freezer jam! I think we'll be stocked up for a while!

(I finally got around to studying for my microbiology test...hours later of course..but I think the jam making payed off cause I got an A! haha)

eAsTeR!

Easter is so much fun. I love spring time and the feeling of starting a new year.  Even though its like 4 months into the new year...I think it really starts with spring time :)

This was my Easter craft!! I love it!

Gotta do the traditional coloring of eggs!

We started a new tradition this year. Egg rolling.  You roll your hardboiled, colored eggs at each other. Only 1 will break! I was the champion. My yellow egg named "The TrackerJacker" kicked everyone else's butts!! Lol.

While the girls colored eggs....the boys cut down trees. haha.