Mama can't bake, but he doesn't care :)

Garrett was feeling much better by the time his actual birthday rolled around. I asked him what he wanted to eat for his birthday dinner and he said pizza. Big surprise. I then decided that there would definitely be time to bake a homeade cake if somebody else was doing the cooking for the meal. ;)

Garrett said he wanted a cherry cake. Ok. I decided that a red velvet cake would be close enough. I searched and searched for a recipe and finally settled for one I found online. I would have much rather found one in one of the many cookbooks I have, but it just didn't happen. I just had a gut feeling this was all going the wrong way, but we forged on and baked the mystery outcome red velvet cake.

The gut feeling was right. The cake was horrible and the icing turned out even worse. I can't believe that I'm posting this, but you'll see why from the picture. This little boy sure knows how to make his mommy feel better about a yucky cake. He thought it was the best cake in the world. One of the MANY, MANY reasons I love this kid to pieces.










See, I told you it was bad. I'm embarassed by the cake but I had to share his sweet excitement.

Please feel free to link me to your favorite red velvet cake recipe in the comments. ;)

Look at Me, Me, Me, I'm 3, 3, 3!

Our boy is 3 today!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY G-MAN!!!!

Three years ago today God gave us this perfect little bundle to care for.



Courtney made this for him all by herself and I just love it.






He loves blowing out candles! I have to keep him away from the candles at other birthday parties. He would blow out everybody's candles for them if I would let him!

I was so sad for him because he turned up sick on his party day (Sunday). We still had a celebration with family because he has been so excited about it all. We will have to do some type of fun make-up for him when and if he ever gets to feeling better....this boy has been sick off and on for a while now so he and I are on house arrest this week. We are hoping to have a healthy boy soon!

More pics to come soon!

Are they cute or what?

I put this one on my photography site, but I had to share here as well.



We had zero time and the weather was yucky, but there are LOTS of of cute ones. And I'm not just saying that because they are family. ;)

XOXO Love you guys!

Tasty Tuesday: Just for Fun

I'm doing a little too much running lately (literally) and not much blogging. On my long run on Sunday I thought about dinner. I thought about how I would be too tired after my run to fix anything hard. I thought about how I wanted to do something fun in the kitchen with the kids. Something that wasn't chocolate chip cookies that would cancel out the miles I just ran.

This is not rocket science and I know lots of moms that do this. I'm just posting because it was fun and if I don't post some pictures every once in a while the grandparents get restless. ;)

Take the 99cent off brand pizza, add a little cheese and whatever you want to make it fun and voila!!!


They loved it because it was cute and fun. I loved it because it was easy!
Everyone wins!

We're still here!

We've just been busy!



Hope to catch up soon!