Home-Made Hostees Cupcakes

My husbands cousin came into town a few weeks ago, so I decided I need to make some "Welcome to Washington" cupcakes.
I made chocolate cupcakes, filled with marshmallow fluff frosting and topped with chocolate frosting with the famous curly-cue.

Michael Buble

Mike got me Michael Buble tickets for my birthday! We had such a great time, we couldn't stop talking about how great the concert was for days.

I cant wait to see him again!

Birthday Flowers

My birthday was a couple months ago but I just had to blog about the flowers my parents got me for my birthday.

My parents surprised me at work with these flowers! Isnt that the cutest flower bouquet ever?

I had a great birthday it was full of surprises, Mike went all out!

Birthday Surprises!
*I had Red Lobster for lunch with my parents
*Had a FANCY dinner at Quest Casino
*Stayed in a lovely suite there
*Had chocolate covered strawberries delivered to our door
*Got Michael Buble tickets!

BABY!

I am going to be an aunt!!! My sister in law (Kari) is due in December!

(i love babies)

Treats!

I have recently found that I love to make treats! I am finally getting around to posting some pictures.

I made these for one of our doctor's 50th birthday, chocolate cupcakes with white chocolate chips topped with chocolate frosting (all from scratch)

Baby ice cream cones, made with itty bitty ice cream cones with a chocolate dipped marshmallow.

I made these for Easter, they are banana cupcakes with cinnamon honey frosting (again from scratch).

Mini fruit pizza, sugar cookies with a cream cheese, powder sugar and a little bit of lime frosting.

Strawberry Lemonade cupcakes

Chocolate cupcakes with peanut butter frosting (yum)

Obviously from a looonnggg time ago.

Things I have recently discovered:

About Young Women's
*I love Young Womens! I am a laurel advisor to the best Young Women ever!
*A new value (virtue) has been added to the theme, so needless to say I was very thrown off by that for the first couple weeks.
*Also regarding Young Women's the necklace has changed as well as the personal progress book.

About Mike and Ike
*I love feta cheese
*I love the orange colored sixlets I think it taste different than the rest of them
*Everyone I know is having a baby and Im just beginning to think about getting a dog
*Looking for a new place to move is stressful!
*I can no longer be taken to Tri-City Americans Hockey vs Spokane Chiefs games (I get violent)
*I am going to learn how to ski
*I am seriously contemplating going to nursing school
*Zumba is going to become my new best friend
*Mike is learning the guitar and he is actually pretty good at it
*Mike is coaching pee-wee hockey
*The team Mike plays hockey on is the #1 team in his league

That is it for now, Im sure (well at least I hope) I have learned more stuff but thats all I can think of at the moment.

Love and a Birthday

Yesterday was a big day in the Thompson household, not only was it Valentines Day but it was also Mike's birthday!

I have always been a birthday lover and love to make big deals about birthdays, and seeing how Mike's birthday lands on a holiday I had to make it extra special.

So I got off work early and rushed home and started making dinner (which turned out AMAZING... who would have ever thought I would be such a good cook).

Then while Mike was taking a quick shower I hid presents around the house and sent him on a treasure hunt.

Here are some pictures of the hunt











It was so fun/cute to see him try to figure out the clues and then running around the house looking for the presents.

After all the present were found we enjoyed a giant cupcake.



It was a great birthday and Valentines day! Mike even had a couple Valentines day surprises for me!