Me, My Blog, and I

Saturday, October 5, 2013

FMS Photo-A-Day Challenge

I'm doing the Fat Mum Slim Photo-A-Day Challenge this month! I did it a few years ago and posted a picture to my blog every day.
That was pretty time consuming... so I thought, instead, that I would post pictures once a week! Here are the first few!

Day 1: Colorful

Day 2: Light

Day 3: You Today

Day 4: In Motion

Friday, October 4, 2013

Fast Fact Friday

Back in March my brother and sister in law said they had a late birthday present for my mom. They said they had ordered it online and they handed her a box.

I sat next to her on the couch as she opened it and as she pulled away the tissue paper, I saw a bright yellow shirt. At first I couldn't figure out why they would buy her a shirt online!

Then I saw the words....

FACT: You can call me Aunt Amanda!
FACT: We've already gone on multiple shopping sprees for baby girl Markus!

FACT: So happy for Eric and Hayley!!

FACT: Can't wait for her to get here!!

Now.... I just need to find my niece this awesome onesie....

Tuesday, October 1, 2013

Fallen

Yes...

In case you had any doubt...

Gravity still works.

My family was taking a Sunday afternoon walk

and we were just down the street from home

when it happened....

I stepped on a teeny tiny rock and

BAM!

I was down!!

Deja vu!

Sprained ankle....

throbbing and skinned knee.....

One of my neighbors came outside and saw my

laying in the middle of the street

and asked if she needed to give me a ride home.

Shattered pride,

I said no and walked home.

I swear my knee hurts more this time than it

did when I fell in June.

The bonus though....

I am getting plenty of use out of my

dang $75 brace!!

I have resigned to the fact that I may need to

start living life in a bubble....

or wrapped in bubble wrap....

Or maybe I need to invest in some awesome

football gear!

Sunday, September 29, 2013

What A Sight

Going through my phone, I've come across some pretty cool pictures of the world around me....

Friday, September 27, 2013

Flashback Friday

When: May 2012

What: Attempt at cake decorating

Last April, my friend Tiffany made a super cute rainbow cake for her twin's first birthday. I went over to help her frost it and she had done such a great job with all the colorful layers! In the end, it look so fun with its perfect white coating, completely hiding the surprise inside!

My friend Miranda celebrated her birthday just a month later and I thought it would be an awesome idea to make HER a rainbow cake! Tiffany had made it look so simple and I thought it would be "a piece of cake"!!

It started off fairly easy... All I had to do was make the cake batter and dye it all the shades of the rainbow! {A shout out THANK YOU to my lovely friend Charmaine who came over to help me! And you hung out at my house while I went to the store for more powdered sugar}

I even got them out of the oven and out of the pans without incident!

But that's when things started falling apart.... literally!

I am NOT a good frosting maker. I don't know what the problem is because frosting is pretty basic... but the frosting I made that day just wasn't that great. It was really sticky... which might sound like a great way to hold the cake together, but it had the opposite affect. The more layers I stacked, the worse it leaned! I kept putting the stupid thing back in the fridge, hoping that would help! I remember at one point I just used my hand to push the layers back together.... ruining the outside.

It was pretty titled when I finished, but I figured it would make it to Miranda's apartment. Well, this is what it looked like after the ten minute drive!

The leaning tower of rainbow cake..... Impressive, right?

If you cut the cake just so, and take a picture from just the right angel, you can almost see the look I was going for!