Happy Birthday!

Today is my daughter's birthday!

I can't believe she is 19 years old how did that happen?

I am so proud of her she is quite the responsible young lady with a plan and she actively works her plan each and everyday. She is AMAZING!

Today she is taking a big leap and buying a new car. Her old one decided it wanted to be a little bit of a stinker and have some repairs done however, the repairs were adding up and it was looking to be costly to keep putting this and that into it. So she is making the leap to something newer and we go to pick it up this evening :) I am excited for her!

No real big plans other than that we will be eating dinner at home and having a small cake with some cookies & cream ice cream LOL! I'll tell you about dinner in another post, another day!

Have a great day everyone!

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They looked cute they tasted

so so!

Not the worst tasting but definately not the best cupcake recipe we have ever tried. I won't be keeping this one that is for sure. They were a very dense cake, good flavor but very dense and we liked more light and fluffy :)

Red Lobster was YUM! I had Steak and Lobster Oscar oh so delish!

DH had the Ultimate Platter, he loves the crab legs but he prefers when I get them so I do all the cracking work and he helps with the tasting LOL! He did some but I finished them for him...hmmm should of said that was his bday present those suckers are tedious sometimes!

He didn't eat the cupcake we brought him but he ordered the chocolate cake (we shared) it was so rich! Very good but VERY rich! I was glad there was s scoop of vanilla to temper it some.

The kids, neither of which like seafood; went too they get the chicken dinners there and then DD'sF had the cheescake which had the most scrumtious strawberries on it - yep he let me have one! Super Good and I am thinking a trip there for a lite lunch followed by cheescake would be delightful fo rmy tastebuds! DD had a cookie thing with chocolate inside that was supposed to ooze out but wasn't heated quite enough for oozing LOL!

Anyway we all had a nice time!

Presents - yep there were some of them too ;)

The kids got him some golf shoes which he "needs" (kinda like I "need" craft stuff) and I am taking us to the race in Charlotte in October which will be exciting! We went to the speedway last time we were there and even got to drive on (well DH drove not me!) so now we will go watch the race there!

Birthday Cupcakes!

Today is hubby's birthday so I wanted to do something special for him. He likes cupcakes and they are more portable than a hunk of cake for him to take with him for lunch so that is what I did :) No I didn't just get a cake mix either I did them from scratch and even one step further...well a couple further LOL! I made vanilla batter then added colors to some of it to get a tye-dye look! LOL here is them after I just plopped the colored batters into the papers.

Next I swirled them a little - not so much I guess they are more multi-colored than tye-dyed!

popped them in the oven to bake...wait ....wait.....wait....smells so good! wait..... DING!

this is what came out!

are those totally cool looking or what?!?!?!?
I can't wait to see what he says!
One batch is never enough so the second batch i only mixed vanilla and chocolate with. Then I made 2 batches of frosting vanilla and chocolate and covered half of each with each flavor so it was mixed up a bit.

We are going to Red Lobster with our dd and her fiance so I packaged a single one up to take with us and present to him there :)

YUM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Joke

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Yeah STEELERS! and more...

Well that was sure a game to watch to the very end last night! Packed with excitement and the commercials too LOL! I have to admit though I did not really care for halftime - I didn't think it was all that great and found myself wandering aroung the house while the E Street Band was doing their thing. Anyway YEAH STEELERS!

I found this awesome site today called A Year of CrockPotting

I linked it on the side for future reference too!

There are tons of recipes -all tried and reported back on for your crock pot. I am always on the lookout for more recipes to make life easier and now I have another reason in that I am walking with a friend (although via phone since we are in different states LOL) I need a quick or already cooked recipe for this night each week so we both talked about crock potting it. Hopefully I can keep it up and report back with some yummy recipes for you to try also, I am pretty adept at the quik cooking LOL! In the meantime though I am going to start loving my crock pot a bit more and plan to try several recipes from the above site.

Pass along ones you know are good too!

Woot Woot!

Go Steelers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Will you be watching the game today?