The Sprinkle on Top

Our ward auction fundraiser was this last week and I was asked to help bring cupcakes for dessert. I've always loved flipping through cupcake cookbooks, pinning new flavors of cupcakes to my Pinterest board (completely dedicated TO cupcakes!), and eating other people's yummy cupcake creations. I've never been able to make cupcakes on my own. At least not ones that don't look like a two-year-old decorated them. But I decided that was all about to change as I made four dozen cupcakes for our ward auction. I pulled out my cupcake cookbooks-- Your Cup of Cake --and set to work. In my defense, they tasted amazing... But for the life of me, I could not get my buttercream frosting to work. It just kept melting on my completely cooled cupcakes. I feel like you'd have to try hard to get them to turn out the way I did. I researched all over the place to a solution for my problem--add less liquid so the frosting's not as thin, add more powdered sugar to th...

I have to be honest, since Month One I've had Evie's posts ready to go days before she actually hit that age. But today I'm late... but only by a day. The older Evie gets, I swear the faster time goes! Our little sweetheart is 7 months old today! Somewhere along the line, we passed the 6-month-old stage where all the newborn woes are said to end. The beautiful light at the end of the tunnel came and went. And suddenly Evie's her own little person. Evie, you melt our hearts every day and have quickly become my best entertainer and one of my favorite people in the entire world. Over the past month, we've spent all day every day together just you and I. Some days have been hard as we're still battling your acid reflux and trying to find a medicine that works, but most of them have been amazingly fun. You love trying new things and we've done a lot of that this month. Between trips to the library and the grocery store to tasting new foods of all kinds...