I'm doing it again...

Falling behind, that is.  Why can't I keep up with a simple blog?!  Oh well...that's my life, I suppose.  So my newest update is that I finally decided to set up an Etsy shop and FB fan page for my headbands and tutus!  I'm glad I did, but I hope it does well.  I finished my first tutu for the shop, but since Jace, Ashlin, and I have a cold, I'm going to wait until we feel better before I get some nice pictures of it and list it.  Here is a link to my shop and my fan page :
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Lil-Hearts-Boutique/186850308045181 

http://www.etsy.com/shop/LilHeartsBoutique?ref=pr_shop 

Tomorrow is Daniel's birthday

Daniel and I have never made a tradition out of celebrating each others birthdays very much.  He always says there's nothing he wants so I never buy him anything.  He says he's too old for parties so we never have one.  We're always totally broke on my birthday so I never get a chance to celebrate...lol.  Anyway, about a month ago, Kelsie saw something on TV where someone had a surprise party.  She said that she wants a surprise party for her birthday, so I had to explain that it wouldn't be a surprise if she knew about it.  It made me think about Daniel's upcoming birthday, though, and I decided we'd have a little surprise party for him.  I couldn't tell the kids until he left for work tonight, cause they would have let it slip, so after he left, we baked him a cake.  When I say party, I really use the term loosely.  It's just going to be yelling surprise while holding a cake when he walks in the door.  But the girls will love it...and I'm sure Daniel will, too :o).  I'll post a picture on my next post since the cake isn't totally frosted yet.  That's all for now!

Cookie success!

I will NEVER bake with margarine again!  I bought shortening while grocery shopping today and I decided to make chocolate chip cookies when I got home.  They were perfect!  SOOO good!  That may be a bad thing.  One batch made 4-5 dozen cookies and I sure would hate for Daniel to come home in the morning and all the cookies be gone...lol.  Wanna see the lovely little morsels of wonderfulness?  Ok, but only cause you asked :o).

 

Keyboards, Cookies, and Chocolate

I'm not sure how long our keyboard was broken (as in unusable)...2 weeks maybe?  Maybe it was a little longer.  It all started about a month ago when I had my coffee a little too close to Jace and he grabbed it and pulled it over onto the keyboard (luckily it didn't spill on him).  The keyboard was fine for a day or two, but then the keys got really sticky.  No problem, Daniel could just take it apart and clean it.  He'd done it before, he could do it again.  Well that worked for a little while, but then letters and numbers would randomly start appearing while I was typing and just kept coming as if I were holding a key down.  It made it nearly impossible to type a sentence so we just started using the on-screen keyboard.  I got so fed up with that that I started to missing my good-for-nothing keyboard!  On-screen is definitely way more trouble than it's worth.  It's great for if you're in a pinch, but not meant for long term use.  There was definitely no way I was typing out a blog post with that...lol.  Anyway, I said all that to say this- we got a new keyboard today!!!  YAY!!!  It's nothing fancy, but it does the trick and that all that matters to me!

Smooth transition sentence to introduce my next paragraph.  I have a really big sweet tooth.  I could seriously eat dessert after breakfast, lunch, dinner, and again before bed. I think...I've never tried it.  Anyway, the problem is, I don't buy sweets very often cause I tell myself that if I don't have them, I can't eat them.  Then I crave something sweet and dig around in my cabinets and fridge til I find the ingredients for cookies :o).  Unfortunately, I seem to suck at baking (cookies, anyway).  Imagine the suckiest a person can be at something.  That's how much I suck at making homemade cookies.  I may have found the problem, though, cause all my cookies have the same thing in common: I substitute shortening for margarine.  It's all I ever have.  My cookies tend to get too fluffy for my liking.  I like the flat chewy kind.  I'm going to buy shortening on my next shopping trip and if that doesn't work, then I'm never baking cookies again.

So speaking of sweets, while we were at walmart getting our keyboard, I got chocolate :o).  They are aerated Hershey's kisses.  I thought they would have more of a mousse type texture, but it was much harder.  Other than a few air bubbles inside, it tasted just like milk chocolate.  I was a little disappointed.  Oh well, it was still chocolate.  You can't go too wrong with that!

Time for a couple of pictures!

My Hershey's kiss!

Daniel, Kelsie, and Jace

Jace banging pans...his new favorite thing to do :o)  It's really blurry, but I love that it shows the motion of the pans moving through the air.

Kelsie on her scooter

Ashlin posing all silly like.  She just started sitting like that and I had to get a snap of it.  I love this kid!

 Jace in the middle of saying momma (with his gums), but it looks like he's saying "cheese" so this is currently one of my favorite pictures of him.  SOOOO cute!

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