I got these cute boxes at Expedex. I just decorated one side.
Inside you will find 3 adorable burp cloth cupcakes tucked in cupcake liners. I think they turned out pretty cute.
And for the boys....
Some cute puppy dog cupcakes. I made 6 sets all together and I am selling them for $8.00. I think they would make a super cute gift for a baby shower. Of course I am the original creator so I would think that. I guess we shall see in a couple of weeks.
Baby diaper card sets for Melon Days.
Some baby onesies for Melon Days. The designs on these were cut out using a Cricut machine (not my own, but my mother in laws). To make them I ironed a piece of Heat N Bond to the wrong side of my fabric and then cut that fabric piece to fit in the Cricut. I found however that you have to put the fabric in the Cricut with the paper backing of the Heat N Bond right side up and I also learned that it doesn't work too well on flannel. But there are a lot of cute designs that you can cut with a Cricut so I love this idea.
One of the latest burp cloth cupcake sets. I am going to try and box some up this afternoon so I will make sure to take a picture of that too. If you are interested in a tutorial on how to make this check the blog U Create on Sept 18th because I am going to be guest blogging and sharing the tutorial. I am so excited. What a great opportunity. 
I think we may have a girl who likes dress-ups.
A silly swimsuit moment.
Look at this gorgeous face. How did I get such a cute girl. Look at those eyes!!
A silly small fry face with wide eyes. She has been doing this wide eye thing for a while. So adorable.
Small fry and Daddy at the baseball game
Small fry riding the subway. She loved the "big fast train" and all the people. Talk about a variety pack on the subway. I think she was the only blonde haired, blue eyed person almost every time we rode the subway. She sure generated a lot of attention.
Wouldn't you know that you can travel all the way across the country and your little nature girl will still find a big old stick and cling to it for dear life when you have to leave it in Central Park.
As part of the trip I wanted to get a "mini make-over" and come home with a new look. I was feeling rather drab before I left and so I was willing to spend a little money on myself while in NY. My brother hooked me up with a rather flamboyant man to cut my hair and this is the result. I really like it though it is shorter in the back than planned and I don't think I was nearly "fabulous" enough for the man cutting my hair. "Sorry to disappoint you Darren with my plain old Utah self".
Also as part of the make over I wanted to get some new makeup. We decided to head to Macy's and find a makeup counter to do a consultation. This is the before picture.
And this is the after. Notice the difference? Ya, me neither. Proof of the fact that when choosing a makeup artist to do a makeup consultation you should probably choose one that is wearing more than some 80's blue eye shadow and eye liner. I however had no choice. She was the one assigned to me. And actually I did end up getting a few make-up items that I really love and I do feel really good about them and using them so frizzy hair or not, the consultant was some what helpful.
This is how I felt after a day or two of New York life with a 16 month old and an outdoor temperature that had to be hovering somewhere around the 310 degree mark with the humidity.
Here we are on the peer at Coney Island in true New Yorker (must get in at least one more text message) style.
Here we are about to take our place on the over crowded beach at Coney island. Note the background people in the following pictures. I am very glad I managed to capture this rather large man in a rather small swim suit as part of the trip. This picture reminds me of another incident on the beach where another rather large man with a dude rag on his head and a very small swim suit stopped us to ask for the time and then lingered a little to closely for a very uncomfortable minute or two like a seagul looking for a free meal. I wanted to say, "excuse me sir, but we have told you the time now move along, there is nothing more to see here and we have eaten all of our lunch. Kindly continue on down the beach."
Small fry loved the sand even though it was rather warm. Speaking of warm, this lady in the background looked like she had been out in the heat far too long. She kind of reminded me of an over cooked steak.
Here we are at another beach on Long Island. Though it is quite brave of me to post pictures of myself in swimming attire, I wanted all to know that I am not ashamed of putting on a swim suit to play with my daughter at the beach. Clearly, however, this colorful wrap that my brother had and loaned me (don't ask why he had it) is doing absolutely nothing to disguise my "curves". Note to self, bold printed, tie dyed wraps are not figure flattering...use only on a private beach.
And so with that we conclude our trip to the Big Apple. Thanks to my brother for showing us a great time. I am really glad we went. I am really glad I didn't talk myself out of the experience because of fear of being able to do it alone. We made some memories to last a life time and I love spending time with my brother.
And a quick To Do list for the few days we are going to be home:
A Popsicle cupcake pan. It was brand new and I was more than willing to give it a home. When I looked at it closely I wasn't sure how cupcakes would work in it as the individual spots are not that deep. But I had a better idea; cookies. So I whipped up a batch of sugar cookie dough from a package (shh don't tell anyone) and divided the dough into the pan, pressing down each one to make sure the mold was filled. Then I baked them for 12 minutes. I was not impressed with the design of the pan because there is no place to insert a Popsicle stick while it is baking. So when I took the pan out I had to dump the cookies onto a cooling rack and immediately insert sticks. I wasn't sure how they would turn out once cooled. And even though they were a bit cracked, they held the sticks pretty well and once frosted, they looked nothing but totally delicious and ohh so cute.
They taste great too I might add. (I think real Popsicles are definetely lower in calories and don't include the temptation to eat the dough) How fun are these???? Thanks Teri for thinking of me during one of your cleaning sprees. 
