Sugar, Sugar, Wonderful Sugar!

Tonight I made fondant! And had powdered sugar all over the kitchen, almost killed my kitchen aid mixer, learned I don't own a strainer, and realized I really really need to make or by an apron, but I made fondant and so far it seemed to turn out pretty good! Last year during my cake decorating classes I worked with fondant a little and it seemed pretty fun, but the Wilton premade was not very good at all, it was not edible. At one point I did try and make fondant, but didn't have a double boiler(tried it with two pans and it just didn't work well) and it still didn't turn out right. I just left it at that figured I would figure something out when I needed to.
Wilton came out with the 2010 cake book so I picked it up(I have to get it every yr :)!), N looked through it with me and this year they have transformer cakes. Well he wants one of them(of course!) and it's covered in fondant, so with the Fourth of July coming up I figured I would try my hand at fondant again, this time with a double boiler and a new recipe. I think I could have used more vanilla, but so far it's seems to be pretty good, and it's much easier to work with then the other batch I made last yr. I have to wait at lest 24hr to use it, so for the moment it's sitting on the counter in a plastic bag.

TRANSFORMERS!!

In case you didn't know today Transformers II came out. We were planing on going to see it on Saturday with N, but hubby was able to work something out at work so he could be off so we could go this afternoon. We left M with Grandpa and N, hubby, and I went to the 4:40 showing. It amazingly wasn't to crowded, there was a lot of people but it was comfortable. (though when we where leaving it was crazy busy!) You know when everyone still has a seat or two between each group of people. About halfway through N did have to go potty, but let me tell you I've never seen the boy run so fast to the bathroom or pee so fast! He wanted to get back as fast as he could! At one point he did want to go home, but (not to give anything away)someone died and he wasn't happy. We got him to want to keep watching and he was very excited about the ending! N impress the people behind us, at one point, before you could really see which character they where showing, N goes "Megatron!" Hubby said they made a comment about how he knew all the names. N was sort of quite through most of it every once in awhile he would talk a little loud where the people behind us could here him(not to bad for a four yr old if you ask me). Except at the end when there is a plane he made a big comment about it, it was really cute and funny! He was so excited about that part. When we where leaving there was a little boy(about N's age) sitting with his dad waiting for the next show. He was wearing an Optimus Prime costume and N goes, look Mommy, and Daddy he's got Optimus like me! Afterwards, we went to BK for dinner, cuz they have transformer toys(and you could win a camero :)!) so N got an extra treat!

Pain and Suffering

After 3 years I finally got something from my accident. For those that don't know on Jan 4th, 2006 I was driving home from work. It was a great day, it was my last day of work for a week, my sister was landing in just a few hrs, my brother would be here in a two days, and N's first birthday party was just a few days away. I was just 4 house from our house when a car pulled out of a side street and basically hit me head on. I saw him coming, so I was able to break. Thankfully everyone walked away it could have been a lot worse, but I was out of a car at a time I really needed one. Later that night I had painful neck pains, but being N's first birthday I refused to go to the hospital till after the party. By the day of the party my neck was better and we had a great day, but a week later my pains came back so I went to a dr. After months of appointments, therapy, MRI's, and X-Rays, we found out I have 2 bulge disks in my neck, 1 in my lower back, and TMJ. Unfortunately the disks they can't do anything about except chiropractor to keep the pressure off them and in line, the TMJ as you know I had surgery for in Jan. It is 100% better, but I am learning that when my neck hurts the TMJ does come back a little on one side. Something I have to live with. Anyways, because of all this we got a lawyer to help us pay all the medical bills. We finally got it all finished, all the bills where paid and we got a little bit for pain and suffering. Why am I telling you all this, well one cuz I can finally tell my story out loud and two, even though we put most of the money aside to pay for chiropractor appointments I got myself a pain and suffering gift. I had a lot of MRI's (which I DO NOT LIKE) and surgery(which was very hard for me) I SOO deserved a little something!

You've all seen the commercials for the Open Heart necklaces and I've thought those are so pretty and I love the story behind it. So today we went out and got one, which by the way I didn't realize how many styles they had it the "pattern" there is alot!

Anyways, here is my pain and suffering gift I love it!

I ordered the kids an easel the other day from walmart and had it site to store-it came in today! I'm so excited, they both love coloring and I wanted to get them paints so this is perfect for them. I also wanted something that was educational, fun, and they both could do for over the summer, and this covers it all. As you can see they already love it!

The Track

Yesterday hubby got off work early so we packed up the RC car, picked up N from school and headed to the RC Track.

Doing jumps

Really cool jump I just missed it cuz it was going so fast.....it's right above the fence thing

We all had a good time, hubby got to really run the car, and the kids had a ball watching Daddy. There was two other guys there running their cars too, which to M meant that Daddy was racing them. She kept saying "Go Daddy Go!" it was so cute.

M cheering on DaddyN and daddy

It was a great time even though N did get stung, by something. We are pretty sure it was a wasp cuz the guys that where there said sometimes there are wasp nest under where we were sitting. It went in his shoe and stung him on his ankle. From that point on he wouldn't sit there anymore(either did M or me).

I wanted to bring Cody too, but he hasn't finished up his puppy shots yet and I'm still afraid to take him parks cuz of that. In two weeks he'll get his shots so we'll take him after that!