Perspective

An image provided from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, shows a cosmic rosebud blossoming with new stars. The stars, called the Berkeley 59 cluster, are the blue dots to the right of the image center. They are ripening out of the dust cloud from which they formed, and at just a few million years old, are young on stellar time scales. Berkeley 59 is located in the constellation Cepheus at a distance of about 3,300 light-years from Earth.

[And I thought turning 30 years old next week was making me feel old--- I'm a youngster compared to the rest of the galazy!]

The BEST week of winter is the LAST week of winter!

And this is why:

My feet are still there right?

I had to take this picture in order to convince myself that I could, in fact, still see my toes.  Just barely- but if I lean over the front of my belly, I can see them! (Sorry about the poor picture quality- wasting time with my camera phone at work...:))

P.S. I'm 32 weeks along- so I have 8 more week for this baby belly to shoot out even more!

Some inspiration

This is one of those posts, where I haven't actually done anything yet, but I'm hoping that if I post about my goals, then I may actually be motivated enough to follow through. 
To finish up the decorating of the nursery, I've been searching the blogosphere for some inspiration and have these two cute little items that seem simple, cheap but incredibly adorable for my baby girl's room.  Check out the inspiration and then check back in the next few months to see if I followed through on my goals!
First, the butterfly collage or it can be done in a shadow box using pearl pins to hold the punches in place, rather than the foam dots used in this one.

Next, this was originally from Pottery Barn- a butterfly chandelier.  But I've seen home-made versions that are just as cute.  I have some ideas on how to take this and alter it a bit to make it a bit more colorful, and not gold.  We'll see how they turn out.

Too true not to share with y'all...

Corn on the Cupcakes

Tonight we had the Blue and Gold dinner for Harrison's cubscout pack and he received his Weblos badge- very exciting!  Our pack does a potluck for the Blue & Gold every year and a cake auction to raise funds for the summer camps.  So our family was in charge of bringing one main dish for the potluck and one cake to be auctioned off.  Last year I made the mistake of underestimating the talents and creativity of the other families- the cake auction is more than an auction- it's a full on competition. So, this year, the gloves came off, and I made Corn on the Cupcakes!  But before you get too impressed with my homemaking skills....this is what I brought for the main dish we were in charge of.....

That's right- Costco Take & Bake pizza. Just keepin' it real!

I focused all my time and energy this weekend into making these little cuties:

Vanilla Cupcakes with Buttercream Frosting- decorated to look like Corn on the Cob- how cute!

The "butter" is a lemon starburst that I molded down the edges on to make it look like it was melting.

The "salt and pepper" are cookies-n-cream sprinkles- but you could also use black and white decorating sugar if you can find that.

I'm lucky enough to have a full-fledged Jelly Belly store near by, so I could go and pick and choose from all of the different jelly bean colors and flavors I wanted. I used pina colada, lemon, buttered popcorn, pineapple, coconut and lemon chifon.  YUM, YUM, YUM!!

Here is where I got the recipe and idea for these little babies! I highly recommend the book "Hello, Cupcake" -- so many cute ideas, especially for kids!

What did you do for your 3-day weekend?

We (James) spent our weekend painting the nursery.  The colors came out a lot brighter than anticipated, but we are working with it.  Here are some before pictures- the room was brown, brown, brown:

And here it is all white, nice and primed.  This actually takes the longest part. The painting was the easy part compared to the taping, wraping, covering and priming!

And now for the (almost) final version of Cassidy's nursery.  I say "almost" because there are still pictures to be hung and decorating to do. I'll post more pictures later when that's all complete.  But James is very proud of his paint job.  Especially the half and half wall under the window.

And Max can't wait for Cassidy to get here either.  He hung out all weekend underneath her crib: