A Weekend to Celebrate

Friday was my cousin, Devin's, birthday. He wanted to come and visit us this past weekend so we said "Sure. Why not."

After work on Friday, Tabber and I met him and my Aunt Marcy. On the way home we stopped at Subway and got some dinner. Once we got home, we watched some tv and played Wii (Jimmy FINALLY got his Cabela's hunting game).

Saturday morning we woke up and I made chocolate chip pancakes. We do love us some chocolate chip pancakes. Then after a little bumming around we went to this bible bookstore I have been wanting to go to. What a great store! Definitely bigger than I thought. Tons of stuff!! Will definitely have to go back there. Then we went to Wal-Mart and Giant to pick up some groceries and odd and ends.

Once we got home we baked some cupcakes. I saw these cupcakes in Family Circle Magazine

and thought they were totally cute! I knew Devin likes to bake so I thought, perfect. Well not so much. When I took them out of the over they looked great. Almost perfect.

Well then it was time to put the icing on. This was a new recipe for icing and we were using the cake decorating stuff (bags and tips). It just so happened to be the first time using that stuff as well. All I can say is we tried. We used a little too much food coloring in some of them.

I couldn't find pastel food coloring like they said to use. I'm sure that would've made a difference. For some reason it was very runny and wouldn't really stay in shape. It also had lots of white little speckles. Not sure what that is all about. I think maybe the sugar. I dunno.

After we were done with the cupcakes we made homemade pizza. My aunt got us dough from a store, which was really good taste wise, but a pain in the butt to use. We kept stretching the dough and trying to form it, but it would just shrink. (I later found out we were messing with it too much.) We decided to make 3 different pizza's. One big one, that goes this crazy bubble in it.

Then two smaller ones. We made a white garlic one, which was pretty good. (Sorry no pics) While we were eating the pizza we watched Dark Knight. AWESOME movie!!! I so want to get it on DVD.

Sunday morning we cooked a big breakfast. Eggs, potatoes, bacon, and toast. Ok, so not that big, but VERY GOOD!!! After breakfast we just hung out for the rest of the day and watched some tv and played Wii. We had an experience with the toilet overflowing while Jimmy was at the gym. Not sure what happened there. But it all worked out. Other than that. We didn't really do much. I hope Devin had fun spending his birthday weekend with us. We know we did!!!