Sweet Temptations Cupcakes

So Mom and I had a great idea one day while we were taking a break from work and browsing books at Books A Million.  We were looking at a cupcake decorating book and I jokingly said,  "We should make cupcakes!"  She agreed and that is how we began this adventure!  We have several recipes that we have been perfecting and we will be working on several more.  After some trial and errors, we decided that we needed to become a legit business, so we had the Department of Agriculture do a home inspection and then we went and got our business license.  We have lots of work to do to get our name out to the public, but we are up for the fun!!!  For now we will be doing this part time, but our dream is to have a storefront someday. 

If you need cupcakes for any occasion or just because, let me know!!!


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Lots of updates!

See below for updates (since I haven't posted since July 4th weekend!)

• Pick your own - Blueberry picking
• Swimming!!!
• Dress Up!!!
• Busch Gardens
• Kite Flying and Kid's Cove

Maybe now that I'm getting ready to get laid off, I'll get better about the postings!!!

Kite flying and Kid's Cove

We took Blair to Mount Trashmore to fly her kite. She climbed the stairs with Nick. When we got to the top, Blair intently watched Nick put together the kite. She helped Nick launch the kite in the air when it was all put together. She even helped fly it and thought that it was really cool! After she got bored with watching the kite, she practiced her jumping. She also thought that the kite package was cooler than the kite itself. She put the package on the ground, ran up to it, jumped on it, threw her arms in the air and said "TA-DA!!!" It was so cute!!!! After we finished flying the kite, we headed down the hill and went to Kid's Cove. It was fun but it definatly made for bigger kids. Nick had to help her out a lot. They are in the middle of remodeling and expanding the park so we will see how it is when it is all done!

Busch Gardens

We went to Busch Gardens with the Simpson's and of course picked a hot day. Even with the heat, we had a great time. Blair rode a ride in Sesame Street World, the Teacups 3 times, the Hot Air Balloons about 10 times, the Little Flyer's and the Carousel once. Nick is still joking me about watching Blair ride the Hot Air Balloon ride. It just really shocked me that in a year since we had gone last, she had grown up so much and was willing and able to ride rides by herself and wave at me while she was doing them. I realized that she really is growing up to be an independent girl. I guess I just don't realize that until we are put in a situation where I can't be there right next to her while she does it. I was the crazy mom that was crying watching my kid ride a ride! We had a blast and can't wait to go back and see what Blair accomplishes there next summer!

Dress up!!!

Blair was given a Tinkerbell dress from one of my coworkers for her birthday. She has not liked to have it on very often and actually asked to put it on today! She dumped all of her toys out of the plastic bin and brought it in the kitchen and posed for me. She was being so silly!!! She also likes to get really close to the lens and look to see if she can see me and then wants to see the pictures that we take of her.

Swimming!!!

After blueberry picking, we headed over to Nick's parents house to take a dip in their neighborhood pool. We had a great time and were the only ones there!!!!

Pick your own - Blueberry picking!

We had a fun afternoon picking blueberries with the Fosback's. We drove to the blueberry and blackberry farm in the pouring rain and ended up being chased out by the rain as well. The blueberries were so yummy! Blair ate her way through the fields. I wish we had picked more so that they would have lasted longer than a week!!! We will be going back next summer!!!!

4th of July fun

We were so lucky to have some visitors for 4th of July weekend. Grandma and Patti were able to come up from South Carolina and spend the weekend with us. It was really cool to see Blair really interact with Grandma. Blair had Grandma read some books to her and Blair also showed Grandma around the house.


We were able to take a little road trip to Knott's Island and go to a winery and do a wine tasting. The wine was good! Knott's Island has tons of dragonflies all over the place!!!! Blair loved watching them fly all around.

I got creative for the weekend as well. I made red, white and blue cupcakes with red and blue sprinkles and a red chocolate star! We all really enjoyed eating our patriotic cupcakes!




I was really excited to take Blair to see the fireworks at the beach this year. We are so lucky that mom lives 3 blocks from the beach. We walked down to the beach to see the fireworks that they were setting off at the Oceanfront. It's so cool that we can avoid a lot of the tourist traffic but still be able to enjoy everything. Blair did OK with the fireworks. On Saturday, she did get scared of them, but I think it was because she was just startled by them. We kept telling her that they were fireworks and that they were very pretty. She calls them Boom Booms! While we were at the beach, Blair did really well. She was a little nervous since there were people setting fireworks off all around us until the big show started. But once the show started she did watch them.

It was a great weekend and we can't wait to be able to head down to Charleston to hang out with the family there!!! Thanks so much for coming up to see us Grandma and Patti!!!!