March Photodump

She is growing up SOOOO FAST

She LOVES this ball

New favorite food: Mum Mums

Love us some baby wearing #Tula

I swear she has to be close to teething -
she is chewing on EVERYTHING

Happy all of the time

Sleepy Dakota

Last year all three of these babes were in utero
Lucy (8.5 months), Jonah (4 months), Mac (almost 1)

New Bohemia pretzel 

LOVED baby

Uncle Cubby

Family

FINALLY able to get outside and get running

playing with Dad

#roadtrip

Sometimes at 10:00pm you just need brownies

Worth it to bundle her up to run outside

I can't believe that she is already 8 months
trying to savor every minute

How was your March?

What were your highlights?

{Cupcakes: Disney's Peanut Butter Cupcake}

I have caught the itch for the trend of cupcakes.
I love how each individual cake looks nice as opposed to when you cut a cake it looks awesome as a whole but the individual pieces do not always look so stellar when they are being served.

This winter I have really taken seriously my love of cupcakes and have started to learn how to frost/decorate my own as well as bake my own from scratch. {I know they probably don't taste all that much different and maybe not even better, but I love knowing I created something from square one} Pinterest has a TON of fun ideas, the problem is some of them are just pictures while other include the entire recipe. I have an entire Pinterest board dedicated to cupcakes. I {and my mom} are always pinning different cupcakes, some people are ridiculously creative.

A couple weeks ago Lucy, Marc, Dakota, and I met up with Cubby {my brother}, Al {Cubby's girlfriend}, and my parents in Minneapolis to celebrate my Mom's 60th birthday. I offered to bring the cupcakes {what's a birthday party w/out cake?!}.

I found THIS pin on Pinterest, which lacks any directions just has a picture.
They claim to be Disney's Peanut Butter Cupcake. {I would LOVE to learn a ton of Disney parks recipes}

I made a chocolate cake from scratch
Put mini peanut butter chips inside the cake
Baked them
Made a homemade buttercream frosting
Sprinkled with a few mini peanut butter chips
Drizzled melted peanut butter chips {I add a tiny bit of oil to my melted chips}
Drizzled melted chocolate chips  {I once again add a tiny bit of oil to my melted chips}
Added a mini Reece's Peanut Butter cup to each cupcake

In retrospect: the pin put the peanut butter cup on then added the two drizzles


We brought a dozen to Minneapolis and a dozen to a St. Patty's day party
We had zero left at the end of the weekend, so I am calling it a success

Do you like to bake?
What do you like to bake?

Jellyfish

This past weekend Marc and I went down to Minneapolis and met up with my family and a friend. While we went to the cities to see Wicked (which is unbelievably awesome), we also managed to squeeze in a quick trip to the aquarium (we had wanted to go to the zoo, however the rain prevented that). Anyways, here are some pictures I took of the jellyfish (they were ridiculously fun to see - some pictures are better than others however, I am still learning how to use my camera). Anyways, here is a glimpse at some of the jellyfish we saw:

This picture is my favorite.

Do you have an aquarium by you?

Do you like going to the zoo?

Have you seen Wicked (if you haven't figure out when it will be near you next and go, it is seriously that good)?