Train Party

Right after we moved my youngest O turned 2!  He is a train freak (also big truck, planes and helicopters) but trains were the easiest for me to do with only a couple of weeks to prepare along with unpack stuff.  I think it turned out pretty good!

So here are a bunch of pictures to show the party decorations and food.

                                                                     

I think that pictures say it all!  We didn’t let O see anything until it was all set up, he was speechless for a minute (not that he says much to begin with – LOL).  A good time was had by all.

National Coffee Day

Ok, so this was meant to be posted on Thursday which was National Coffee Day but I got side tracked by a showing of our house and then we decided to have a last minute Thanksgiving at our house (which I tried an awesome Chantilly Pumpkin Pie recipe!).  So anyway, here is the post!  :)

I don't know about most of you out there but I LOOOOOVVVEEE coffee.  I like brewed, french press, peculated, specialty...you name it...coffee.  And I recently came across 2 cupcake recipes that I just had to try - Pumpkin Spice Latte cupcakes and Vanilla Latte cupcakes (I had them saved in my Pinterest...I love that site!  Check it out if you haven't already).  So of course I had to make them.  :)

Don't these look Delicious! 

Mmmm, the ones below are the Vanilla Latte ones, I made them a bit different.  Instead of coffee liquior I used vanilla syrup and I put sweetened whip cream on them with some vanilla latte powder and a chocolate covered coffee bean.  These took a little longer to cook than normal cupcakes, it was about 14 minutes for the mini ones and 22 minutes for the big ones.



The next ones are the Pumpkin Spice Latte ones and they were delicious!  I basically followed the recipe for these, the mini ones took 12 minutes and the large ones took 18 minutes.  These ones were also a bit lighter than the vanilla ones.

I packaged a few of them up all pretty like (Well, pretty for me as I am not good with the whole paper crafts although I plan to try more) and played cupcake fairy!  I love giving things like this away as I don't need them all but I love to bake...plus it is like Paying if Forward, if you do something nice for someone then they do something nice for another person...and so on and so on.  You make someones day and eventually if all comes back around to you.  (Just like the other day, I was getting a Timmy's coffee and the person in front of me paid for my coffee...so nice and unexpected!)

Enjoy the rest of you weekend!

Munchkin #1's Birthday

It was a busy weekend for the S family!  It was my eldest's 3rd birthday and Father's Day! 

We had a super hero theme for the party, so that meant games, capes, masks, and cupcakes!  (Ok, most of my parties include most of that as I go completely overboard love to throw parties the boys will remember!)

Some fun pictures from the party -

The cool cupcakes that I wanted to make but ran out of time.  I baked them and my SIL decorated them to my instructions...but she probably did them better than I would have as she is a perfectionist!

The birthday boy making his super-hero symbol with fabric pens.  It was a fun craft for the kids to do and they all loved it.



Everyone had a great time doing a super-hero hunt (to win the capes), decorating their super-hero symbol, doing the obstacle course (to win their masks), getting candy from the pinata and eating hot dogs and cupcakes.

Father's Day was a bit more low key, it was POURING outside so we hung out inside and watched movies and snacked on junk food...perfect day for a ugly day outside.