Plenty of Courage Here!

So, I got my courage on and threw Aubrey her first slumber party to celebrate her birthday coming up on the 22nd. Last night we had 8 little girls spend the night in addition to Aubrey and Sariah for a total of 10 girls. I feel like I just gave birth. What a wild bunch!
We had cake and presents and afterward decoupaged Masquerade Masks. At midnight when we were finally done with that, the girls watched "Horton Hears a Who" and I went to Bed. I could hear them up until about 2am. I finally got into a deep sleep only to be awakened by some little girl singing at the top of her lungs. I ran down stairs to shut her up before she could wake up the whole house, thinking no one had slept at all, and discovered it was 6 am. They had slept... A total of 4 hours. For breakfast we broke out some strawberries, grapes, and the chocolate fountain. I'm sure the parents will love me for that one. But what fun is it going to a party if you can't break the rules just a little?

Anyways, before I take my nap to recover, I thought I'd post these cake pics...

Pay no Attention to the Cake on My Face!

So at the risk of becoming a blog exclusively about cake I am posting a story about... cake. But oh well, right?... it is so much a part of what goes on around here lately. And this story is a classic...

I'm in the kitchen, humming away, completely surrounded by cupcakes. Isaac and Ellie are in the living room watching Cartoons. Being a mom and completely aware of all things going on in the house, I notice that the kids are helping themselves to the unfrosted cupcakes I've left by the oven. The cupcakes I've decided I'm not going to use. Needless to say, I don't care... Hey, they aren't whining to me to make them any food so, I'm good. After a considerable amount of time passes and many, if not all the cupcakes are consumed, Isaac decides he is going to tattle on his sister. It went something like this...

Isaac: "Mom, Ellie has been eating the cupcakes."

Me: "Oh, really? You haven't had any?"(At which point I actually have enough sense to grab the camera that is right next to me on the cupboard, Lucky me!)

Isaac: "No, I didn't have any. Ellie ate them all."

Me: "Are you sure about that?"

Isaac: "I didn't have any. Ellie has been eating tons of them"

Me: "Not even one?"

(This is the point when it suddenly dawns on him that there might be
something on his face giving him away)

Isaac:
"Well, I might of had a bite of Ellie's"

He then runs out of the Kitchen and straight to the bathroom mirror.
Me trailing behind with the camera.
(I'm so mean!)

Upon seeing the reflection of the red velvet cake covering his face, he finally notices it all over his hands, and realizes he has been caught "Red Handed". What he does not realize is that I don't care about the cupcakes anyway. He instantly breaks down into a crying fit. It's such a horrible feeling to get caught lying! (yes, I'm speaking from experience...I told a few in my day)

I'm sure he was really confused as to why his dad and I were standing at the door taking pictures and laughing our rears off. He finally confesses to eating the cupcakes. And confesses that he was worried his nose was growing. Something Andy told him was happening. We then had to have the little talk about how important it is to tell the truth and how your mom can always tell if you are lying, even if it isn't written all over your face. If I had only had the video camera on hand, this was hilarious!

The tornado that takes the house...

So February 21st to March 22nd is our Birthday Blitz. 3 Out of 4 of my kids have their Birthdays. Some years we even get to do Easter, too. It's quite the whirl wind... Parties, Cake, Presents, Parties, Cake, Presents. Heck, it's an F5 twister around here.

As you know I allow the kids to choose which Birthday Cake they want me to make and then I spend a couple of DAYS making it and doing practically nothing else. So needless to say, since I've blogged about it before, there are not Words to describe the mess. Especially this year since I've done two cakes this week. I can't work in a messy Kitchen so that's about the extent of my cleaning. But you should see my kids rooms:(:(:( I shouldn't have to clean those anyways, right? Riiigghht!

Well, even though it can be a little difficult to deal with all the carnage after the tornado, at least we have memories of this...


































and this...










































Aubrey's birthday is still yet to come. I'm going to try to take advantage of the break in the "weather" to regroup for her BIG 10th birthday party. It's her year to have the whole shebang(which at our house just means friends instead of family, but with a family as big as ours, I'm beginning to think we've got it kind of backwards.)

This will soon all be over and I'll have the rest of the year to recover...until the F4 twister comes at Christmas...but you know how unpredictable the weather can be!