Staying Busy!

I've managed to disappear from Blogland again and this time you can blame it on my phone. :)  Over the past week since getting my new iPhone, I've found that pretty much anything I need to do can be done on my phone! Days go by without me even opening up my computer and I've been loving the ease and convenience of this new phone!

Aside from being in iPhoneville, I've been staying pretty busy with an assortment of different things. On Friday, I went to play Bunco with some friends. It was my first time ever, playing Bunco and it was a lot of fun!  I guess I had a stroke of beginner's luck because I walked away that night as the winner with the most buncos and $25 in my pocket.  So cool!

Getting paid, lol!

I even was able to make and take some Halloween decorated cupcakes too, which was fun because it had been a long while since I'd made cupcakes.

Over the weekend, we made it to Alyssa's school Fall Festival.  What I thought would be a super fun day for the girls turned out to be a big bust. It was crazy hot that day and they were all in bad moods.  I bought wristbands for carnival games the girls refused to play and I was almost wishing we'd have stayed home. I took along my good camera and managed to get literally only one good picture....

The girls had fun playing with their cousin Natalya that day and the highlight of their day was getting to go swimming at the pool in my sister's new house!

The other highlight of my weekend was making some cupcakes in a jar for MOPS.  I volunteered to make cupcakes to celebrate birthdays and yesterday was my first time on cupcake duty.  The cupcakes turned out so fun and I was glad I gave them a try!

I made red velvet cupcakes (care of Duncan Hines, lol) and then made some yummy cream cheese frosting to go in between each layer.  You can find the recipe for the frosting HERE.  I'd been doing so well with not sinning in the sweets department these last three months, but I could not help myself. I gave in and had a cupcake and they were SO good!

I'm working on making more of these with a friend really soon for a fundraiser we'll be doing for Wren.  I have a feeling these will sell really well! :)

While at MOPS, I asked my friend Sonia to take my picture with Liv. It's been a year now since joining MOPS and my baby has grown so much since then.  Gone is that little (or not so little) baby girl and here is my growing girl!  I can't believe how big she's getting!

And speaking of babies....I cannot believe that my very best friend, Kristin is due to have baby Matthew anytime now.  As of tomorrow, she will be 38 weeks already!  I'm so, so excited, and pretty soon here, I get to do my very first "guest post" on Kristin's blog announcing Matthew's arrival.  I can't wait! :)