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The stuff. He demands to sleep with Barney, George & Max as well as 4, count em', 4 blankets. With how gimongous he's getting, there's not much room to spare in that crib these days. He calls the collective group his "stuff".

Enjoying one of the last nice fall days...

Max's first sledding adventure!

Isn't he a cute snow bunny?

Where the Wild Things Are

The night before Max wore his wolf suit for his big birthday party, he was sent to bed.

That very night, while he slept, in Max's house a party grew...

and grew...

and grew until the ceiling hung with vines and the walls became a party all around.

And a platter stacked up with cupcakes just for Max.

And his mom worked on a haunted gingerbread mansion

through night and day,

and in and out of weeks,
and almost over a year,

to have it ready for Max's Where the Wild Things Are party!

And his friends came to the place where the wild things are.

And they roared their terrible roars, and gnashed their terrible teeth, and rolled their terrible eyes, and showed their terrible claws, til Max's mom said "Be still!"

But his friends wanted to go home where people love them best of all, but Max cried, "Oh please don't go. I'll eat you up, I love you so," and his friends said "No!"

So Max waved good-bye and then, with his cousin Griffin, went into the basement of his very own house, where they found markers & a white couch waiting for them.

And they made mischief of one kind...

And another...

His mother called him "WILD THING!"

and he was sent to time out without any warnings. :)

And after time out, he found his mother waiting for him...

and she still loved him so!

The End!

The Best Two Years

My little baby is two years old today! Despite the truck load of other issues, Max has made these last 2 years the best of my life. Being a mom is more wonderful than I would have ever dreamed, and of course more difficult than I imagined, but I wouldn't trade it for all the world. He is like a little ray of sunshine that just lights up my whole life. Every morning when I go in to get him out of his crib his little head shoots up and he gives me the cutest little dimply grin. It makes even my darkest days light. His little hugs and slobbery kisses melt my heart. I couldn't imagine a more amazing little boy. He's so perfect & he's mine!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MAXIE!

Catching Up...

I haven't blogged for a while so for those of you who don't facebook, here is a very abbreviated look at what I've been up to lately:

Finally finished the wainscotting in the front room.

Went to Lake Powell for the first time!

Started making a haunted gingerbread mansion! Here is the model!

And began working on Max's Christmas stocking.

Planted a few trees in the backyard.

Made cupcakes for Isaac's birthday.

Went to the Dinosaur Museum at Thanksgiving Point.

Visited family in Minnesota cuz my brother Ben got home from his mission!

Went to baby Coleman's baby blessing & spent lots of time with family.

Things are looking rosy :)

Aren't they pretty??? *Sigh* I just love how these turned out. I'll for sure be doing these again... but what I'll never do again is make a cupcake recipe from The Hummingbird Bakery recipe book!!

This is try #2 and both I thought were a bit on the grainy side - and the worst part about them is that the cupcake papers don't stick to them for some reason!! Maybe too much butter? Not sure but it was SO irritating I can't even tell you. Let's just say I was ready to smash some pretty flowers towards the end there. I had to "glue" every single one of the cupcakes to their papers with icing. And I know it wasn't the papers' fault because I used 3 different kinds between the 2 recipes (I've made the vanilla and these are the chocolate). A bit disappointing since the book looked so adorable... Has anyone else made these with any luck? I know Jeni Carlson has made the black bottom ones and said they were a hit... Maybe I just did both recipes wrong.... ?

As cute as these turned out... THIS is what I'm most proud of!!!!! Am I innovative or what?! :)

I had to transport these without them bumping eachother or the pan they were sitting in. I have a cupcake carrier that I could've used but the little cups they sit in are too low so if you hit any sharp turns they get demolished (it's happened to me before and it was very sad). So I came up with this GENIUS (if I do say so myself) solution of using Lincoln Logs as separaters! Whassup I'm amazing. Feel free to gush over my genius ;).