Oh, my goodness, this day...

I mean, it was a swell day... One of the most fun days I've had in a while, actually. It started with an email from my cousin Leslie saying that I really was welcome to come and stay with them, should I be in the greater Seattle area. (Any of you who live out of state know that I am wont to invite myself over from time to time. I know, it's not the most polite way to travel... but I figure that if you've known me long enough, you know that I do this, and if you've hung around for over 4 years, you're probably due for me to just invite myself over.) Anyhoo... while I was emailing my cousin Leslie back that thankyouverymuch, I'd LOVE to come and stay with you, I was talking to my cousin Beth on Facebook. (Beth lives in England. I've invited myself there, too. Don't you worry about that. I'm an equal opportunity moocher.)

So, it was a super fun morning, emailing and IMing with my cousins... and then, after running down to the manager's office to sign a new lease (I'm staying put until March 2010, for those of you who may have last been with me when I was up in the air about whether or not I was going to renew the lease), making a batch of cupcakes and doing 3 loads of laundry, I headed over to my Lizzie's house for a cupcake day with Liz and our friend Shea.

Here's a shot of the finished product. We (Shea and I) made a boatload of icing. I mean, we're talking 2 bags of powdered sugar here. (Yeah, that's A LOT of frosting. Enough to frost 2 full cakes. Or, erm... in our case, 24 cupcakes. Disgusting, I know.)


Oh, and besides the frosting of the cupcakes, there was also some frosting-straight-down-the-hatch by our girl, Shea. Classy, right?


I went with a slightly different approach. Rather than shooting chocolate icing into my mouth, I shot it onto strawberries and then popped them into my mouth. Mmmm.... delish.

(And, yes, I know... I soooo need to do my nails, they're a trainwreck right now. Don't judge.)


And here's Shea with her "strawberry surprise special". This pic doesn't do it justice. Truly, I was gagging every time I'd look at it. (She buried a strawberry under the icing and then iced it to look like a strawberry. There were juices flowing through/around the icing. It was truly disgusting. Bless her.)


And here's Lizzie, looking super cute, sporting her two fave cupcake creations.


And here's my own cupcake creation. I had a good time making a rose on top of a cupcake instead of icing it. ... If only the icing hadn't gotten so soft that the petals all sorta melted together. But it was still fun, so here's a shot for your ocular enjoyment.



And here's a fun shot of Liz's "Incredible Hulk" cupcake. (Yup, she named it.) It's awesome, right? ... I mean, holy truckload of icing, Batman! But awesome, nonetheless.


After doing the cupcake thing, I came home and waited for my sweet nephews to come over. (I watched them tonight so Spence & Brea could have some quality time.) We ended up meeting at the theater - saw Ice Age 3 and actually laughed my fool head off. ... Not sure if it was the movie itself, or if it was Seth & Connor laughing that got me, but seriously, I did laugh my way through the full movie. After the movie, we headed to Chicka-fil-a (yeah, extra A included in the pronunciation the boys gave me) for some nuggets, and then back to my house for a night swim. I've never been so tired in all my live-long life, but gosh, this was a great day.

Here are a couple shots of the boys. Since they were robbed of a public appearance in the family bbq post, I thought I'd tag them here.

Con, truly, has the biggest eyes and the sweetest little face ever, don't you think? I love him.

And here's a shot of Seth & me. It's so not my finest picture ever (it'd been a long day, okay?), but since Connor took it and Seth's looking super handsome, I'm including it anyway.

And that being said... I'm off to bed. After getting up early and running all day (including an hour and a half literally chasing a 4 year old around the rim of the pool), I'm beat.