Time Flies...

Today, this morning, my son is offically three years old! I cannot believe it! My little munchkin is three!! Time really does fly when you are having fun! I have been blessed with the most precious little boy ever!

Happy Birthday little one! Mommy loves you!

Ok, now I can tell you....

Since I got the official call from the company, I can now reveal that I got a new job!! Whoo hoo! I will be working for General Dynamics as a Junior Purchasing Agent. I am very excited and I so look forward to starting my new position! I will be making more money and have a HUGE opportunity for advancement! It is going to give me just the challenge I need to motivate me!

I want to thank you all for your support and kind words during the past week, while I wallowed in self-pity for losing my job and being worried about how I would support my son and myself. It is wonderful to have good, caring friends and family to help you through the tough times! I love you all!

Wish me good luck!!

I hate to admit it...

But Maria Martinez, YOU WERE RIGHT!! I know, I know, Brittany, I cannot believe it either but the truth is, she called it!

Wanna know what she was right about? Well she told me, as I mentioned in the previous post, that "When God closes a door, he opens a window," and boy has he ever!!

With that said, I will let you guess what door he opened for me....

The dreaded job serach....

Well it started on Thursday while I was packing up my desk at work. They had asked me to stay to answer the phones, which I did until I had to leave for my eye appointment. I sent out a few resumes and I already have two interviews on Monday! Whoo hoo! Maybe Maria was right...When God closes a door he opens a window!! I will keep you all updated on how things go! Wish me luck!

Bad things happen in three's...

And # 3 has happened! My parent company has gone down. Which mean I don't have a job anymore. It's a very sad day. I have been here with Great Southwest Mortgage for 3 years now and am sad to have to say goodbye to my co-workers.

If any of you need to reach me you can at:

Heather@TupperMommy.com

or call me at

(480)258-0257

I hope you all have a great day!

In your prayers...

Hi there! I am here asking for a prayer request for my grandmother. My 76 year old grandmother called my father today, who called my mom, who called me, to tell us she went to the doctor today to find out that she has a tumor on her heart. She has to go have more tests done and see a different Dr., a cardiologist to get more information about the condition.

All I am asking of you is to keep her in your prayers for a good diagnosis and smooth recovery to restore her good health.

I appreciate it more than you know! Thank you!

I am thinking of making these for my son's 3rd Birthday Party instead of getting a larger Cake. We always end up with large quantities of cake in the end, and I think this will be a better solution for the kids as well. I am thinking I may get the stuff for banana splits too since we will not have many kids and it would be fun and easy to do! Let me know what you think!


Ice Cream Cone Cupcakes

makes 24 cupcake ice cream cones / 350 degree oven
2 cups flour
2 cups sugar
1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1-1/2 teaspoons baking soda
1-1/2 cups milk
1/2 cup butter
2 teaspoons vanilla
2 eggs

1. measure out everything but the eggs directly into your mixer bowl
2. mix on low speed just until incorporated
3. beat on high speed for 2 minutes
4. add eggs, beat on high speed again for 2 minutes
5. transfer batter into a container with a pour spout (like a pyrex measuring cup)
6. pour batter into ice cream cones, leave a good half inch between the batter and the top of the cone
7. bake at 350 for about 20 minutes or until cake tester comes out clean

Vanilla and Chocolate Buttercream Frosting
2 sticks butter
7 cups powdered sugar, sifted
1/4 cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/4 cup cocoa powder (I use Valrhona)

1. beat butter until creamy, scrape bowl
2. add 5 cups of sifted powdered sugar, milk, and vanilla, beat until combined
3. add more powdered sugar until you get to the consistency you want (not too stiff so that its hard to pipe)
4. take out half of the buttercream and reserve, this is your vanilla
5. add the cocoa powder to the remaining half and beat to combine, you might need to add a little milk if its too stiff, this is your chocolate buttercream

Assembly
1. pipe frosting onto cooled cupcakes with a large star tip
2. top with sprinkles

Moving on...

I would like to get back to more fun things than the "Spelling Stalker" who had consumed my blog for the past couple of days. I can only imagine one person who has something against me and has decided to use the passive aggressive form of anonymous comment posting as revenge. So I am ready to move on...

I made a "Wish List" on Amazon.com. It has alot of practical stuff on it, but it also has alot of not so practical stuff on it too! And by the way, the toys would be for Austin, not me! hahahahahaha!

See My Wish List

Have at it Spelling Stalker!!

Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.

Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.

As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite
Its rarely ever wrong.

Eye have run this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect in it's weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.

Oh wait! It's all correctly spelled. You want to correct the grammer as well? Have fun!

Let's just add to yesterday's post...

I came in this morning, took a quick glace at my blog to see how things looked and noticed a comment on post from yesterday so I thought I would take a look. It seems to be that a person who doesn't want me to know who they are correcting each of my spelling mistakes. If this is you, tell me who you are. I will not be angry. I wish that this person wouldn't feel the need to correct each and every one of my mistakes. I can't spell, that is no secret, but I also don't go around correcting everyone's mistakes, and publically at that! If you are the one doing this that is fine but please find a way to identify yourself. It is really annoying to go in and see someone had written nothing other than the correct spelling of words!

Am I wrong?

I need to vent...

Ok! So I have a couple of things I would like to just get off my chest!

1) I finished my 2nd summer class at ASU on Friday. On Thursday I had my final exam and had to finish posting discussion on Friday. All this week I have been watching my grades like a hawk to see if I the professor had finished grading everything. I watched all day Monday and yesterday. At about 3pm yesterday I decided to check also to see if final grades have been submitted to the university. Knowing that it shouldn't have been, givent hat my 2nd exam score wasn't posted, I was surprised to see my B was posted with the university and was already applied to my GPA. i emailed the professor to ask for my 2nd exam score and i was surprised to see that she emailed me back asking me to re-email her at the beginning of the Fall Semester. WHAT!!! I had to wait 2 weeks before I could find out WHY I got a B instead of an A?? I don't think so sister! And i woke up this morning with the intention of figureing out how to get in touch with the dean. But then I checked my email this morning and there was an email in my box from the professor saying the grades for the 2nd exam were up. I guess I wasn't the only one complaining!

2) Why is it that when you are trying to do the right thing, someone always rearranges your intentions? So my ex gives me problems, this I understand but to have people believe I purposely don't invite them to my son's B-Day party is just ludicrus. Anyone who knows me at all, knows I am always concerened about hurting people's feelings. I have been struggling with the arrangements for my son;s partyt his year because my family will be out of town the weekend before and after Austin's bday and my ex will be out of town the weekend of. The ex said he would be taking care of getting a party together for Austin the weekend before and as of today he still has not. I was planning to have a small little family get together the weekend Kenny is gone sot hat they too get to enjoy celebrating with him as well. It appears his plans are not going to come to fruitition, so am I wrong to want to invite his family to my family party?

Ok! That's all! Thanks for letting me vent!

Lookie Lookie...

Happy Monday everyone! I want to share a website with you guys! I got an email from my Tupperware Recruiter last week telling me about this friend of hers in Ohio who makes and sells purses. I was a little skeptical when I first got it but decided to check it out anyways! I was TOTALLY IMPRESSED!! I emailed her to ask her if she could work up something for me in a particular fabric and was floored when not only did she say she could, she had it done for me the same day! I can't tell you what it is b/c the person who I had it done for reads this blog and doesn't know she is getting a surprise!

You guys should check it out if you get a chance! Visit Jennifer V's Esty Shop!

I promise you will fall in love with something!

On the horizon...

As most of you know I am a ASU Sun Devil. I will beginning the fall semester here in a couple of weeks, but it all feels so brand new to me because this is the first semester I will be taking a class on the BIG SCAREY CAMPUS in Tempe. All the other campuses I have been on have been SO MUCH SMALLER than ASU Main. But with all the excitement of being on a real, university campus again, I am starting to get into the fall semester spirit again. Everything feels brand new and all the sports teams start fresh with new records and generate excite ment a comrodery amongst the students! SO EXCITING!!

Visit ASU for any information you might want. There are so many thngs surrounding this school! There is culture, theater, nightlife and so much more!

I have decided to get smarter...day by day...

I was thinking of what to post today and I have decided to add yet another thing to my side bar! I am going to do a dictonary word of the day so we can all learn alot of new words! If you are like me, I put a little dot in the dictonary next to whatever words I look up. I know, I know...BIG NERD!

Today's Word...

Word of the Day
Thursday August 2, 2007

brackish \BRAK-ish\, adjective:
1. Somewhat salty.
2. Distasteful; unpalatable.

I gagged, and tasted something metallic and brackish in the back of my throat.
-- Lance Armstrong and Sally Jenkins, It's Not About the Bike

Brackish derives from Dutch brak, "salty." It is especially used to describe a mixture of seawater and fresh water.

If you feel moved enough to use it in a sentace to increase your understanding of the day's word, feel free to add it as a comment to the day's post. After today, it will be in the sidebar, but I would love to hear your interpretations of the word as well. Happy Learning!

Ta da....

Here are Austin;s pictures that DeAnn took on Sunday morning at out local park! These are for his 3rd Birthday announcements. A friend and I are going to be working on making a DVD picture slideshow to send out to everyone! So exciting! It will have a Cars theme of course because Austin cannot get enough! Enjoy!