April Fools!

Well I have no jokes to play on anyone today (sad face) but I have been busy baking up a storm and revamping the blogs look! I loved how it looked before and it was totally my style but I also have a softer side, plus my old eyes were having trouble looking at it all the time! So walla I came up with a theme that had some of my favorite color combinations on it!

I added a new treat to my Whats Cookin page! Its peanut butter chocolate chip mini cupcakes!

Oh they were so tasty!

I can not believe its April already I am having a very hard time keeping up on this calender day/week thing I think my mind is still stuck back in the middle of March (hurry up mind my body needs you lol)! I am hopping spring is right around the corner, this rainy gray wet snowy stuff ain't cutting it. let me give you an example of what happened to good old Oregon valley peps on March 21st-22nd..

Woke up on Wednesday 21st not really expecting anything out of the ordinary. Looked outside to judge the weather and bam was hit with a bright white light (no I was not having an out of body experience) but in fact it had snowed ALL night! WTF..

Not just a light dusting either

My poor tulips

I ok well its not so bad and the roads were clear enough that I had to still make it to my doctors app this day. Blah blah after all that and I got to work most of my clients for that day started canceling boo on them. At worked it snowed all dam day, non stop not one break but it was not sticking on the ground cause it was too wet & warm. later that night when I got home (7:30) still no stopping & the temperature was dropping and now the snow was starting to stick to the roads..

Wednesday evening out our front door

 Where dose the yard & sidewalk stop and the street begin? Yes it continued to snow non stop, it was beautiful but not what I really was hopping for as the weather for the 2nd day of spring. Lets move on to Tuesday morning...

Eye popping 4" of snow right out the door

The street was much and driving to work sucked! but by 2:00 it was mostly all melted and we were having non stop rain with lots of flooding! Yeah!

St. Patrick's Day

This is one of my Favorite holidays and times of the year! Tulips are in bloom, warm weather is on its way! I am pretty sure there is a lot of Irish in me, white skin, blue eyes, light hair and my family loves their alcohol! I am not a religious person by any means, even though this holiday's foundation is built from Saint Patrick bring Christianity to Ireland! The main reason I like it is that they celebrate it by eating a feast of yummy food and drinking alcohol! Every one is just a wee bit Irish on St. Paties day!

This year Mike and I are celebrating with a little pairti at me Daid house with corn beef and cabbage, Irish car bombs and of course my contribution cupcakes...not just any old cupcakes but...

Chocolate stout filled w/ Irish Whiskey Ganache, & topped w/ Baily's Irish Cream frosting!

Yes its so amazing it needed to be in bold underlined print! If you want the recipe and to see how they turned out it will be on my Whats Cooking page under March 17th! One cute little romantic side note is I had my 1st kiss with Mike on St. Paties day 2011, Guess its the luck of the Irish ;)!!