Holiday Cheer

I love when November and December roll around for many reasons, one big one being the food! It is impossible to find Ghirardelli peppermint bark anywhere during the year, and I am completely obsessed with the stuff, so I buy way too much of it as soon as it pops up on the shelves. I also can't help but snatch up anything and everything pumpkin flavored. Within the last week I have shamelessly bought and consumed pumpkin flavored donuts, coffee, bagels, muffins, and bread. It's probably an addiction at this point.

On another note I started Christmas decorating so once the tree goes up there will be pics of that. Our kitty will have her first Christmas and she is already getting in the spirit!

The pumpkin muffin was fantastic and I even went so far as to get pumpkin cream cheese for my bagel...no regrets

Summer Cupcakes

Today was a relaxing, sunny Saturday in Florida. I went to a cookout at my friend Kristen's house and she had made these adorable summer cupcakes. They are so amazing!!

The only credit I can take for this idea is the credit of gobbling them up! Since a cool and creative idea such as this should be for all to enjoy I shall share this with you in hopes of inspiring you to make your own cupcakes to liven up any summer themed party!

How to Decorate:
1. Ice half (approx. 8 cupcakes) with blue icing to resemble water and ice the other half with white icing.
2. Add crumbled vanilla wafers onto the white icing to resemble sand.
3. Decorate the blue cupcakes with Teddy Grahams and Life Savers (teddy bears sitting on pool floats!)
4. Decorate the sand cupcakes with Teddy Grahams sun bathing on Airheads Xtremes candy "lawn chairs"
5. Top them off with umbrellas and you have one super awesome cupcake!

Adorable, fun, creative, and delicious! Happy summer!

Watermelon Whales

 It's been a busy graduation weekend. Our brother graduates today, so there has been quite a few parties already this week. As a gift for one of the parties yesterday Brittany decided to carve a watermelon and make a fruit basket. After much googling between the two of us we found the watermelon whale. She changed it up a little, but here's a cute DIY if you have a little patience and skill with a knife (I don't, so Brittany did all the carving!).


1. Pick a melon, make sure it's ripe and delicious.

2. Brittany did it freehand. But find a design and marker it on.

3. Carve him hollow. I've seen some cute melons where they used an ice cream scoop to make watermelon balls to put back in the fruit salad. I was too late suggesting it in this case.

4. Give him eyes and a spout. She used a perminant marker and a little confetti thing for the spout. Get creative!

5. Lastly, fill him with fruit of your choosing and enjoy!

Hope everyone's having a great Memorial Day weekend!