Fatty Boombalatty Fridays

alrighty my peeps...

this week totally sucked! stepped on the scale to a big ol' goose egg :(

nothing

nada

at least it wasn't up (that was Jim's input into the whole crying fiasco!)

so what the heck happened you might ask?

I've walked everyday (no abs or weights though)

...we've also been on the road 3 out of 5 lunches so hello McD's and Taco Hell (if that doesn't swear you off junk then I don't know what would!)

...and we have been getting slammed spirit-wise this week. waiting for dates for fire department testing, watching as the plane tickets creep and creep and then BAM their through the roof, but still NO Date set. so then we wrestle with the thought of is this really where God is leading us...do we just give up...BLAH, what's the point of this all!?! somethings are falling back into place and next week will be better...more on that in a future post.

I've gotta pick myself back up, there will be days like this and I'm not gonna let this get me off track. I might have a fatty tuesday to keep myself going this week....

Monster Mash

We aren't too Halloweeny at our house. The kids get to dress up, go to a couple of houses and then we head out for pizza. I grew up with Halloween, Jim grew up with pizza....I see the merrit behind both sides, but personally we try to make it not much of a big deal around the house.

With that said, they boys saw Monster Cupcakes in a magazine at their grandma's house and begged for us to make them...sure...sugar isn't really something they get to have a lot in our house and they worked super hard last week helping me clean so lets go for it!

I made a half batch of 2 recipes from The Joy of Baking: chocolate and yellow cupcakes. Also, arm yourself with plenty of chocolate chips, pretzels and air head candies.

I whipped up a batchof her confectioner's frosting..which is pretty much the basic butter, vanilla, powdered sugar and milk recipe except that she beats her's for like 5 min----Amazing! I left some plain, then dyed 2 small bowls of orange and purple, plus filled a little ziplock baggie with green.

First, frost the top with white and then dip the cupcake (pic above) into colored frosting that's been microwaved for 10 seconds, until its a tad runny. You're going for globby and monstery! While you're at it, cut 2 big marshmallows in half and stick onto a pretzel stick...dip half of the marshmallow into the frosting too (again, see above pic under his arm). Word of advice, work on waxed paper so that everything will come unstuck once dried :)



Roll out a piece of air head and then press the back of a butter knife into it for the "tongue" impression. Shove it into the frosting, add they eyes (with chocolate chips dipped in white frosting and then smashed into the marshmallow)...the teeth were mini marshmallows cut in half, but in hindsight you could just cut small pieces of the larger marshmallows!!! (I know, I know...but really we don't go through them and I know they'll be hitting the trash in a month once they're all dried up!)


This little guy was just pretzel sticks broken up and poked into the top of the cupcake...then dipped in melted frosting. The eyes are plain pretzel sticks with a mini marshmallow stuck to the top and chocolate chip smashed in.

Faces only a mother could love!



My personal favorite was the little green guys...which I forgot to take a closer picture of, but you'll get the basic idea: Put a blop of white frosting on the top of a cupcake. Cut a large marshmallow not quite in half, but angled so the the bottom edge will sit flattish on the cake and the top will make the eyeball. With the frosting in a ziplock, I just snipped off an edge of the bag and then made little spikes all around the cake and marshmallow....add a junior mint with a smidge of white frosting to make it stay for the finished eye!

There you go...a lot of work, but super fun! These really aren't very portable, but makes a fun activity on a cold fall night!


After all of this (cupcakes from scratch, homemade frosting, cutting candy...) when I told the boys that they could eat their creations---they replied...Ummmm, na. But thanks mom, this was fun! The two white ones were for stick in the mud daddy, who I know wouldn't have appreciated all the extra decoration ;)

This morning I found a monster massacare in the kitchen after our golden retriever pulled the pan from the top of the stove! Well, at least someone got to enjoy them!

I'm linking up to Jennifer at Hope Studios----head on over, there's lots of Cute stuff this Week!!!

Fatty Boombalatty Fridays

Another crazy week here on the homefront!

Jim is Back to Work!!! Yeah, God! He is starting in a couple weeks working with my friend's hubby who is an athletic trainer...but just opened his own business....I'm holding back all of my Hans and Franz jokes (I can barely stand it!!!!). He's going to go from girly man to Mr. Wake up and smell zee muscle ;) Just kidding babe, you're not a girly man...mostly..hehehe!

Ok...back to business---Week 3 of Fatty Fridays:

This week was my turn to hold our small group---ahhhh---what was I thinking?!? We did it, house was pretty much clean (hello, it was spotless compared to the almost Hoarder-ness it was before!)....through it all, not much exercise happened! Well, I was feeling it for sure--deep cleaning for 2 days straight must have did something! (that and Aunt Flo decided to come back for a little visit again...what the heck!?!)

So drumroll please.............

Week 3 total: 4.2lbs!

So far in 3 weeks that's 11.2 lbs!!!! That's a sack of potatoes, a Very large Baby, a Small Dog! After battling all summer and stalling out in August, I've finally been able to bust through that 30lb mark!!!

Oh yeah, uh huh...happy dance...whoot whoot!

Sorry, I just had a coffee...can you tell?!?

Have a happy weekend..perfect fall temps here in the midwest...trying really hard Not to make those pumpkin cinnamon rolls that I saw on a blog earlier this week! (maybe I'll have a bite and then give the rest away...any takers?)