Birthday Girl - Life, Love & Puppy Prints

Someone has a birthday this weekend! 

Carolyn from Life, Love & Puppy Prints has a birthday on Sunday. If you read her blog, you prob already know this.

If you know her in real life, chances are things like this have happened. 

I bring you...

Ode to Carolyn

 

This is her age in Babylonian symbols. I was going to reveal how old she was but then again, she didn't on her blog so the cat shall remain in the bag. Unless you are fluent in Babylonian, you'll never know.

Ok, back to the birthday girl.

You'll talk about, laugh about and quite possibly end up at one point in time wearing something penis.

You will most def, listen to this girl.

You will spice up your life.

You'll attend a Twin's game or 100 and get to know what gate attendees to avoid. This woman pictured means business. She will not let you slide with any sort of alcoholic smuggling in her section. Oh yeah, you better have a ticket for her section too or your bounced. If you are ever at Target Field in MN, do not and I repeat DO NOT make eye contact with this woman.

If you are at a wedding with Carolyn, you will be required to take 1 zillions photos. Chances are, people neither of you know will some how make it into your photo shoot. Like this gent pictured. No idea who that is. 

You'll attend a bbq at one point in time that will include frozen Boone's Farm. Nothing like it. Errr, yeah, something like that.

Yumm.

Then you will proceed to have a jam session, with all sorts of vinyl records which then leads to a great debate "how do they get the music on the record?"

You will venture to your favorite German bar where you can drink beer out of das boot. You will polka your heart away until the DJ starts, where more dancing shenanigans will ensue.

You will play Big Buck Hunter.

You will drink beer. You will like it too.

You will also take photos with your beer towers.

You will smooch.

If you are really lucky. You will meet Will Smith.

You may end up watching a UFC fight downtown.

You will take pictures in a public bathroom.

You will cheer for and love the MN Twins.

You will wear sunglasses at night waiting for your "homie's", or otherwise known as your Hubby.

You will play the "let's make this face game..."

Pictured above  is "gangsta face."

 

 

You will have inside jokes.

Bottom line, you will love her and have a girlfriend for life. Happy Birthday boo!

Men Wax

Yesterday morning the Hubs leaves for his haircut. No big deal, he goes to one of the "quick, no appointment" joints that I will never set foot in. 

(Not Great Clips, I have begged and pleaded for him to NEVER go there again. His hairline quickly vanishes and they leave crazy amounts of neck hair. Not cool, Great Clips, not cool.)

So he is now going to what I call "a step above Great Clips". Still a quick, cheap haircut.

So I'm at home, outside with Ella and Jack and I get this text.

First, I LOVE that she offered to clean up the brows. I've done that for him once and while I may have gone a little overboard, they look much better with a good ole trim.

Second, I couldn't wait to see the newly waxed brows of my man. I was dying with anticipation. I may have had this image in my head for a minute of two though...
 

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Third, it was only $10. If my brow wax was $10 I'd be jumping for joy. 

Finally, I love that he knows the pain we girls go through all in the name of beauty. 

He went to Home Depot after the haircut and it seemed like HOURS to me. I called and begged for a photo. I mean, I had already sent a copy of that text to his Mom, Sister and two Brother's and their respect girlfriends, I needed a photo! They needed a photo. 

He flat out refused to hand over such thing. "I knew you would be sending it to everyone so no." 

Dang.

He knows me all too well.

His turned out great by the way. They are still quite "manly" but minus the crazy randoms. I've already told him if he won't get the strays waxed in the future, then I will pluck them for him because I loved the result that much. We don't want this...

Babe - if you get to this point when we are older, I will have them come to our Assisted Living condo on the beach and wax you. 

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Happy wife = happy life!

The Proposal - not mine.

A couple of week's ago I was helping plan my brother in law's surprise party. 

Only, he was in on it. Yes, you read that right. He knew about it. 

His girlfriend on the other hand did not know he was in cahoots with me.

You see, he had been planning on popping the big question to his girlfriend since last summer. He just needed the perfect proposal. He wanted something that they could share with their friends and family.

Sometime in early December he approached my Husband (his brother) about throwing a fake surprise 30th Birthday for him and he would do it there. It would surely be a time when she did not expect it. He just needed some help from me.

After Christmas, I planted the seed in his future bride's mind. "How much fun would it be to throw a surprise 30th?!" I asked her.

She took the bait hook, line and sinker. She actually ran with it. Months of planning, messaging and excitement over this birthday party.

The party was a success! They came in, everyone yelled "SURPRISE!" He had the best poker face. 

 

Then 10 minutes later he took the mic. It was supposedly a "thank you for coming speech". She had no idea.

 

She just sat listening to his speech, ready to take the mic away. Ha, ha!

 

 Then he called her up front to thank her for throwing this great party.

 And popped the question!

She said yes.

Then of course, I had to make a shirt for Jack to wear at the party. 

It say's "My Uncle Chad put a ring on it."

Now don't worry... The baby did not stay at the bar for very long. Just for the "surprise" then some photos.

It was one of the cutest proposals I've ever seen! I cannot wait for the wedding plans, parties AND another great Sister in Law! Woo hooo!

SPD '12 - We are Young

Saturday was "SPD '12" according to the back of our t-shirts. I designed our t-shirts this year and I'll have to admit...they were pretty sweet if I do say so myself. They did cause some confusion amongst the impaired that night. There were many debating what they meant.

Not too difficult...

We spent the day at the in-laws hanging outside enjoying this beautiful summer like weather MN is currently hosting. It was nearly 80 degrees out. In March. In Minnesota. Unreal.

Jack had some March Madness and decided to learn to dunk at the tender age of 20 months. The boy has some skills.

We did venture out the the "Adult Party" later that night for about an hour. They had the streets closed off for SPD. There's just something about overflowing Biffy's that makes me run home screaming. Disgusting. 

 My future sister in law was hit on by the Triple D (dancing drunk dude), she had the best denial line of the night. It went something like this:

Triple D - "Hey beautiful, would you like to dance?" with a nice blurred vision twitch.

Future SIL - "I'm sorry, I've had diarrhea all day. I don't want to get you sick!"

 An hour was long enough to hang out. Plus, the street vendor food truck man was out of Cheese Curds. Plus, we had to take home an intoxicated friend before he was sent to detox. Oh to be the responsible ones at the party.

I almost made it the entire night without an injury. 

Almost.

You know that horrible feeling you get when your going down stairs and you miss a step? You know, mid air and you think to yourself "shoot, I think there's one more step...OUCH". 

Yeah, that was me Saturday right before bed. 

My poor little/fat/swollen toe.

Sorry if your grossed out by feet. I had to show you my fat, bruised toe. Ha, ha! Oh and ignore the botch paint job. I was in a hurry.

In case your wondering, yes, I can pick up a golf ball with my toes.

I just can't get enough of this song. It's been on repeat all weekend. The video is a bit strange but whateves.

via You Tube

Happy Birthday Babe!

Today is my Husband's Birthday. 

 

Oh, how I love thee. Let me count the ways.

Your the BEST Dad I know. 

 

You can do a pretty decent underwater handstand.

 

You are a sucker for a board game.

And apparently, the dunk tank.

You carry my purse when I ask...

You put up with my competitive side.

 

{We were cheering for different teams, I may or may not be the person giving his hat the finger...}

No explanation for this one.

You always say "yes" when I ask to play Ultimate Charades.

Most of all.

Your the best friend I could ask for. 

Happy Birthday Babe! 

Cheers to many more! You + me til the end!

SMOOOOOOOOOOOOCH!

The prettiest cupcakes you'll ever see....

Saturday morning, my girls decided they wanted to do something "fun". 

My answer was "isn't every day  filled with fun around here?"

So I sent them to Pinterest. To find whatever desert they wanted to make. I told them to find something we could make for the Hubs birthday treat. His birthday is coming up so I thought this would be a good idea for a trial run!

Remember I told them to find what ever they wanted, anything.

I crossed my fingers and hoped for the best. After searching all the pretty desserts and finding a nice rainbow jello shot complete with a cherry, (I made her unpin that one, told her that little jello treat included alcohol) they found their project of the day.

Tie Dye Cupcakes

via Delightfully Dowling

This will be the cliff note version so bear with me. If you need more detailed instruction, go to the link above.

You'll need: 1 box of cake mix, 1 container of frosting, cup cake liners, food coloring and frosting tools (piping bag and tip).

1.  You just take your basic box mix, prepare batter as directed. 

(We used a box of Betty Crocker Yellow Cake Mix.)

2.  Divide batter into separate bowls. The number of bowls will depend on how many different colors you want. 

3.  Next, the fun part. You make each bowl the color you want, with food coloring. I would say, the brighter the color the better. Our pink was more of a dusty rose. Meh.

 (We did 5 different colors total, but the original yellow batter we counted as a color.)

3. Get your cupcake liners into place, then put a spoonful of batter in each liner. Do not mix them, just place the colors on top of each other.

4. Fill the liners 2/3 full.

5. Bake as directed on the box.

6. Completely cool the cupcakes.

6.  Now time to get your frosting colors ready. 

Divide your frosting into how ever many bowls you have for different colors. Add food coloring to make your desired color.

7. Add a spoonful of each color of frosting to your piping bag. Think of it as a circle. Add in accordingly. Make sure you add  a color to the middle too. Don't stress about this part though. It will work out in the end. Trust. Frost away!

(I didn't have a piping bag so I used a baggie and cut the corner to make my own. It did the job.)

(I need better frosting tools but whatever, this worked. I'm a rookie.)

8. Do not frost your cupcakes until they've cooled. They will turn out like this:

(I kind of like them like this.)

Overall, I thought these turned out pretty darn good for our first go at them. I found myself biting into a few of them just to see what the insides looked like. They were literally fun to eat. No worries, I gave most of them to my Hubby to finish. Your welcome babe!

Both girls have already requested these for their Birthday treats! 

I think we'll have to keep looking for another Birthday Treat for the Hubs though. These don't exactly scream "Happy Birthday Dad" to me.