Adventures in Babysitting....

Barbara (my sister), baby-sat the other day while I was at work and took these cute pictures!













Too Cute!

Our Christmas Eve Party!

Christmas Tree 2009




This year's ornament :)


Beautiful Table! This was earlier in the day.


mmmm!






Table by night.


tried to take her picture in front of the tree...yeah...No.


Hating the antlers.





Opening other ppl's gifts...lol


following grandpa!


hehe. Santa's little helper.


Playing with her new toys after a short nap. She loves an audience!






Happy Holidays!

Christmas Wreath

More from the Hello, Cupcake! Book

Items Used (I edited the instructions/ingredients to my liking, but they are pretty much the same!):

-Cherry Chip Cake Mix
-White Frosting
-White Decorating Sugar
-Snowflake Sprinkles
-White Chocolate
-Mint Leaves
-Red Sour Balls


Without a bow....




With a bow!


Bake, frost and sprinkle the night before.



I covered one side of the mint leaves with white chocolate and then when they dried, I peeled off the leaf, if you are careful you can re-use the leaves a few times.


Put leaves in fridge over night. I did this because I started the 23rd and our party was Christmas Eve night and I didn't want to leave it to wilt overnight (surprisingly, it was rather sturdy!)



The day of the party arrange, and garnish with red sour balls!

:)

Christmas Party Pics to come!

Oh!

Olive is now on youtube!

Another week at a glance (and then some)

Olive writing me a story....


Playing in her room...


My uncle's birthday was on monday, so I made him some cupcakes I found in a book I just ordered off Amazon called, Hello, Cupcake!


This is a TV Dinner. Its 3 drumsticks, mashed potatoes, peas and carrots, and a cupcake dessert....it was supposed to be a brownie, but I forgot to get chocolate frosting!

I did make a few other changes because I didn't have some (a lot) of the things it required....

*I subbed the cornflakes for crushed graham crackers (this mostly because, the thought of cornflakes on frosting made me a little queasy...hehe)
* the cupcakes were butter pecan with cream cheese frosting
* instead of using a mini cupcake toped with a doughnut-hole to lengthen the drumstick from its cupcake shortness, I just used the doughnut-hole on a pretzel and popped it on the top....this because I didn't know about the mini cupcake *kicks self* Looking at pictures is not reading, Loryna! Still it worked out rather well.
*I also didn't have white chocolate to make the bone so I just used a marshmallow on a pretzel and poked that through the top of the doughnut.





Meanwhile....at dinner....

Olive studying everyone at my uncle's birthday dinner at Casa de Marisco.



Bored with the mariachi band (man, they played really bad...)


These are the cupcakes I worked on last night. I got the idea from Hello, Cupcake! they're ornament cupcakes!



I tweaked the idea a little because I couldn't find a lot of the candy items it required....these were also butter pecan/cream cheese.



I couldn't find the finer colored sugar, black licorice, or gum drops....so I made do with colored twizzlers and "coarse" colored sugar.....



Christmas is just around the corner....I can't wait to try out new cupcake stuffs!

Bath Time Baby!

Olive enjoying her bath :)








Getting ready for the holidays! Olive already has a ton of gifts from everybody! I didn't think she'd care, but she's already trying to open them! I think I'm more excited for her to open them than she is!

Thanksgiving

Its been a nightmare trying to upload over the weekend. It finally worked. Yay!
Here are a few pics from our Thanksgiving holiday.

It was hard job trying to capture this little girl on film...she just kept on runnin'!




This is (fat) me and Olive who couldn't wait to get away so that she could stalk my ((future))brother-in-law.


mmm!






Sweets!


Felt a little short this year....maybe because I was loathing the fact that I was gonna work Black Friday :(

I thought this picture was hilarious. My dad was babysitting the other day and he dressed her up in this knitted cape and hat my aunt made for her. Its too small for her already! She looks so funny! Like a little old lady hehe.


Going to bed.
Busy day tomorrow!
Cleaning, washing, and wrapping some gifts!


Nite.
Love.
Ciao.

Growing Girl!

My sister and I were going through her hard drive looking for some cute pictures to print and put in her office- a lot of cute ones that were taken this year popped up!!!

In her swing back in March! Oh, my little paddington!





Entertaining everyone while playing with her Easter eggs :)


At my cousin Belinda's birthday party in June


At Lone Star in Harlingen for my dad's Father's Day lunch!





She's grown so much! My baobei is sucha big girl now!

-bye bye