My new cake blog

Hi all. My new cake blog is about halfway done. Please feel free to have a look and tell me what ya think. I'm still learning a lot about this blogging stuff so I still have a lot of tweaking to do and I still have a lot of info to post but it should be done soon. This blog is only temporary though. In a few months I hope to have a website. The blog address is http://www.thesugarmamascakery.blogspot.com/

Wooo Hooo

I get to make a Twilight cake! Woo Hoo!!! I know I'm a dork!

Packing on the pounds.... kind of

Today Blake got weighed and he has gained 14.5 oz. since Jan. 14th. Yay!!!!! You all know what a big deal that is to us. He is now 18 lbs. 7.5oz.. We haven't weighed him in a while so when we went to the doc for his concussion followup and pink eye, gross, we went ahead and got him weighed too. Here I am working out almost every night to lose my baby belly and I'm secretly adding hundreds of calories into Blake's food for a 7 oz. weight gain a month. Don't we all wish we had this struggle. I tried to post a funny video for you guys but it never finished downloading. Maybe I did something wrong. Oh well have a good weekend everyone.

March grocery Madness!!!

So after finding out that I suck at saving money at the grocery store I decided to figure out how other people spend half of what I do on groceries. I already bought store brands and bought everything I could that was on sale but I was still spending so much more. For the month of Febuary we stretched out everything as far as we could and tried to waste nothing. We saved $112.84. I didn't buy as much nutritional milk as I usually do for Blake so I definitely would have saved less if I had kept up with that.

My goal for March is to save another $100 this month. I am going to meal plan, which you guys know I don't cook so that will be hard. I'm going to use coupons and try different places. Thanks to my awesome Friend Lacey whom I'm just not worthy, I bow down to you Lacey, I am on my way to major coupon savings. She has this binder full of baseball card holders and she puts all her coupons in there to keep them organized and it makes them easy to see. Ingenius! So the last few days I've been organizing all my coupons and checking the sales flyers that come with the paper. I also have been checking out a blog that shows what stores have good deals that match up with coupons. Again thanks Lacey.

Okay so March starts and I think I'm somewhat prepared to start my grocery challenge. What a joke! My first adventure was at Walgreen's where even strapped in Blake was trying to dive out of the cart. He seriously was impossible to shop with. I never shop at Walgreen's so I didn't know where anything was and was all over the place. I learned that I was definitely not as organized as I thought I was. I spent 40 minutes there and yes I saved money but not as much as I thought I would. So I left there feeling totally defeated. I marched on though and went to Meijer's later that night to get more groceries. This time I was much better prepared but it took me forever to get all my groceries. One, I don't know that store and two, I had my coupon book, my calculator and other sales flyers that I checked for almost every purchase. I didn't have a lot of time so there were a few things that I wanted to buy somewhere else but I needed them the next morning so I had to buy there. But even if I had bought them somewhere else it wouldn't have been that much in savings. So in total I have already spent $215. Not off to a good start. I did have to buy some things that I don't normally get but that only ads up to about $50 of what I spent. I'm hoping that I won't have to do another shopping trip for a couple of weeks so maybe it will be better than I'm expecting.

So what I learned from yesterday is that I have a lot to learn and that this is going to take a lot of practice. So wish me luck in my March Grocery Madness Challenge. Where do you guys shop? Any tips?

Ethan's Star Wars Adventure

Anyone that knows Ethan well, knows that he is a super hero and Star Wars freak. He's never seen all of star wars but he's seen most of it. We edit out the bad stuff. So when we heard about a Jedi training event at our local library we just had to take Ethan. Now Ethan thinks that these people are real people so you can imagine the courage it took to meet Darth Vader and his other bad guys. I don't know what they are called. Ethan is going to have to help me with this blog.

Can you see the wheels turning in Ethan's head? Right now he's got to be thinking, please don't use the force, please, please, please.

Ethan tells me that this guys is the master clone trooper and that he's a good guy. He really liked his uniform.
This guy is a bad guy that rides those speed bikes and Ethan said that the guy was really nice to him because Luke Skywalker was secretly there.

Ethan says this is Luke Skywalker dressed up as a storm trooper. He says that at first he was scared to be there but since Luke was there, he was making sure all the bad guys were on their best behavior.

Obviously Vader and his people. Every time you tried to take a pic of him they would quickly pose. They were really good at it.

My three teeth baby.

As you all know, we have been waiting for Blake's teeth for a long time and now we have two teeth breaking within days of each other. It's funny what parents get excited about. So Saturday night Blake was up most of the night and most parents would wonder why their 22 month old was up all night. But with Blake's history it means nothing to us that Blake is up all night. Low and behold the next morning though Blake's third tooth had cut. Don't really know if that's why he was up since he was just playing in his crib all night, but you never know. The picture is difficult to see but that's the best I'm going to get from him. He's so cute it doesn't really matter though.

Daddy's birthday Feb 14th

Doug's birthday is on Valentine's Day and so we haven't celebrated Valentine's Day in about 10 years. It's my fault. Doug's so good to me all year long that I'd rather have a day all about him than get flowers that will die. So this year we went to his parent's house for a small dinner. We had already celebrated with his sister and friends on another date. We ended up having dinner all by ourselves though because his mom went to the ER for some issues with her heart again. She's fine. She just needed another medication. So Doug and I ended up making a dinner we knew nothing about, and if you know us you know that we are NOT good cooks. All the while we were really worried about Doug's mom. We persevered though. Dinner came out great despite our handicap. I spent most of the afternoon decorating Doug's golf bag birthday cake. I think it came out pretty cool. I didn't have all of my stuff with me but I think I made the most of what I had.

Yes Doug really is 34. Ha ha old man.

Some of these posted the wrong direction. Don't really know what happened.

Ethan made the golf ball all by himself. He had a lot of fun doing it.

The cake was covered in buttercream and chocolate fondant. Mmmm, mmmm, good.

Can you also see the silver edible dust I put on the irons?

My man and little men. Happy Birthday baby!