I'm back!

Since I last updated my blog so many things have happened... I got my craft on decorating for spring, hosted a baby shower for one of my best friends, baked lots of yummy treats, celebrated Easter, went to the Tulip Festival, planned a graduation BBQ for Mark, spent a day in NYC with my hubby without the kiddos, Mark graduated from law school, said goodbye to my friends in Albany, moved to Pennsylvania, enjoyed a day at the zoo with the kids, been working non-stop fixing up the house we moved into, and have been enjoying summer. Get ready to hear all about it!!!

Oh la la lips!

Just having a bit of fun during snack time :)

Hello Cupcake.

I saw these lovelies on a food blog and couldn't wait to make them. I absolutely LOVE chocolate chip cookies! But since I don't need 24 cupcakes sitting on the counter staring at me begging me to eat them, I decided to wait until I had a special occasion to take them to. I finally had one last Monday night and spent most of the day making them. They were pretty time intensive but totally worth it!

It's a cupcake, filled with chocolate chip cookie dough (egg-less), topped with rich cookie-flavored icing, finished with chocolate chips and a chocolate chip cookie. YUM!

He can crawl!

Ethan has been doing the army crawl for the past 3 months and finally today he just busted out a crawl right after he climbed up the 3 stairs from our living room to our dining room all by himself. I'm pretty impressed!

To my valentine.

Since last time...

It has been forever since I've blogged! It feels like life just ran away with me. Here's a little update on what's been going...

I turned 30! It was a lot less traumatizing than I thought it would be. I think my 30's are going to be great. We will finally be done with school, have a house, and be able to take that vacation we've been planning for the last however many years.

We celebrated Thanksgiving in Pennsylvania with our families and Cala got to spend time with her cousins who were visiting from Arizona.

I got a really tall Christmas tree, but when we got it home I discovered that an even taller one could have fit :( Where Christmas trees are concerned I say "the bigger, the better". It was still pretty great though.

My good friend Cindy moved to Indiana. We are still missing her!

We resurrected our long lost family tradition of decorating graham cracker houses at Christmastime. So fun!

Ethan became mobile! He can army crawl and it's super cute to watch but now he gets into EVERYTHING!

We celebrated Christmas with our families.

Cala, Mark, and I went to Candylane at Hershey Park. I thought it would be a great night for it, not too cold and all that, until we stood in line for 30 minutes to ride the Scrambler. Brrr!

We celebrated New Year's!

Cala and Ethan watch cartoons together.

Ethan started eating solid foods!

My parents came to visit for the weekend.

Mark and Cala had their first Daddy/Daughter date to the french fry place (McDonald's).

Cala got to make cupcakes with pink frosting, as requested, after days of begging.

We took the kids sledding in the 25,000 feet of snow we have gotten so far this winter. Don't be fooled, they look happy in this picture only because we had just gotten outside. By the end they were both crying and I was pretty sure I was the worst mom in the entire world.

I made this cute pillow for Cala's bed. She calls it her "special pillow".

Cala got a much-needed hair cut. Note to self: Next time, pay to have someone else do it.

Mark finally got an iPhone. To say that he's excited would be a massive understatement. If only I had a video of the dance he did when it came in the mail :)

And Ethan just keeps getting cuter!

First snow.

Today was the first snow of the winter. I couldn't believe how much it snowed! We went outside after it had been snowing for a few hours, but then it turned into big, fat snowflakes after we came in. Cala was in heaven, Ethan seemed bewildered, and it got me excited for Christmas!