Bring It On 2012

Hi!

Remember me?!

It’s me, Kelly, the trying to keep it all together, while staying slightly organized, part-time office/full-time mom of 3 and wife to 1…did I refresh your memory?!

I am one very bad blogger who unfortunately couldn’t keep it ALL together this last year, and this blog was one of my casualties. Some of the the last year I thought I had figured out the answers to all my worries, but that would just be too simple, right?! 

I’m not going to start off 2012 “looking” for the golden key, but instead just keep it simple and do what’s important for me and my family. 

My 2012 To-Do List

• Save more, spend less
• Yell less, discuss more
• Sell our house
• Find, organize, and decorate our forever home
• Cook at home as often as I can
• Have a few more date nights
• Clean eating and more exercise
• Lose 15 pounds by swim season
• Dust off my Nook and read more
• Read WITH my kids more
• Blog more
• Learn Adobe
• Practice patience DAILY

So it’s not a long list, and it’s not an unobtainable list, it’s my list and with that I say BRING IT ON 2012!  I can’t wait to see what this year brings, and I truly hope to share it with you all!

Cheers,

Remember Me?!

Holy cow, where has the time gone?! I can't believe I have not posted in over a month it was a month when I started this post, but now its more like 2 months!!!! Bad blogger, bad blogger, BAD BLOGGER!

I do have somewhat of an excuse...life got CRAZY really FAST! I know that's not that great of an excuse, but for the past month here is what's been going on:

3 new precious babies have been born, 1 of which being my nephew

The boys graduated from their last year of preschool...I almost didn't even know how to comprehend that I am going to have 2 kids in Kindergarten in the fall, but like every new stage in their lives I know this one will be just as exciting!

The entire month of May our schedule was as follows:

Monday   Tuesday   Wednesday   Thursday       Friday     Saturday

                Baseball     Soccer        Hockey          Soccer         Baseball     Hockey

I've been getting my crafty on!

The hubby and I started, and stopped, and started, and stopped, and started P90X AGAIN and it became quite the family activity

OH! I almost forgot...I started up a little business in my spare time...I know right?! I figured I just had to go for it after almost 6 years of ideas filling my head! So...here it is...Yellow Brick Road Bake Shop is born!

So there you have it, a lot of milestones hit, a lot of new projects going on, we're enjoying our summer, and I'm trying to get the craziness under control! Hope everyone is enjoying their summer and I promise to get back into the swing of things!

Cheers,

Spring Makeover

It's kind of Spring around here, right?! At least he calendar said it was Spring! It always seems that once those pretty tulips and daffodills start to sprout, the grass gets greener, and we actually have sunlight, its time for a little sprucing up around the house!

Now, everyone does the ol' Spring cleaning, but I'm more into the Spring makeovers! I love mini home makeovers. No need to bust out any heavy duty tools or break the bank, just a few little fun touches to make a change.

I don't know whether it was the highly anticipated sunlight shining through or the addition of our storage unit items, but the couch needed a little facelift.

Kind of blah! Notice the white puff ball enjoying some sun too!

After a trip to Pier1 and 2 big bags later...VOILA! Instant face couch lift!

I always B-Line it right for the sales to keep things within budget. Lets face it they're pillows and with 3 kids, things happen!

 I love mixing patterns and textures

 That was a fun pillow

 The chocolate brown pillow stayed and is now nicely accented by the extremely soft burnt orange

I didn't even need to make the hubs paint or move anything and I still was able to achieve a fresh change! Happy "Spring"!

Cheers,

Wordless Wednesday

Life Is Sweet

Hi there, remember me?! It has definitely felt that there are just not enough hours in the day, but I think things are finally settling down!

As I mentioned here, I kind of had a mini meltdown and couldn't quite get my head "unfogged". But what can clear a foggy head you might ask...try a cupcake! Well, not just a cupcake...I got my head out of the clouds and got my butt into the kitchen!

Confused?

Here's a little background...
When the boys were babies I started making custom cakes. I had a website, a logo, the whole 9...I got orders, I got customers, and I got burnt out! Being a new mom, with 2 babies, and working full time, cake making took a backseat and was soon left in the dust. Since then I've always been an avid home baker and enjoyed making some pretty yummy treats that not only looked good, but tasted good too.

Rewind a couple weeks ago...
I mentioned how I constantly have a creative itch that needs to be scratched and I love making things pretty and that also make people happy. I kind of felt like I should go back to the beginning when I was doing what I loved. I still don't have all kinds of extra time, but I do have 5 year olds instead of 8 month olds, and have some what got a handle on the whole muli-tasking thing.

So the past couple weeks I've been in the kitchen baking up a storm and perfecting some favorite recipes as well as creating some new ones! I am so excited to start sharing some of these yummy creations! I'm not sure where these will take me, I know where I'd like to go with it, but I'm just happy to be doing something I love!

We hosted Easter brunch so I threw together a vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream. Ran out of time so it didn't get the detail I wanted, but it was still sweet and went with our yellow and green theme.

Lemon cupcakes with lemon cream cheese frosting...Mmmmm!

Picked up some organic strawberries today and adapted a new recipe for a strawberry cupcake with strawberry frosting. It just made me happy...I would put that frosting on anything it was so good! My kitchen still smells of strawberry goodness!

Finding out what makes me happy may have taken 5 years and even if it's for my own satisfaction, I'm totally okay with it! I'm found a happy place and it includes frosting!

Cheers,