Getter Done!

What a busy, busy weekend! Drew had four performances of the play Big Bad. He did great in each one. I was proud and impressed by all of his performances; especially considering that he played in a soccer game first and was up late the night before that at rehearsals. Whew! Tough boy, Drew!

Gabriel's soccer game was very good. So much better then last week when we played a team with nasty attitudes. The boys played with more strategy this week and Gabriel scored his first goal of the season! And it was on PURPOSE!

Also, this weekend was a meeting I had with the ladies on my Relay For Life team, Craving a Cure. We got a lot accomplished and still have tons more to do! It's 19 days until the relay. Our team is hosting the Texas State Cupcake Bake-off at the event. We have 15 flavors entered in the contest so far. Registration ends on the 30th of April so we'll see if there are anymore stragglers that sign up between here and there.

Last night we decorated our team aprons and chef hats. My friend, Tiffany, got a great idea to add sort of a faux tutu to the front of the apron and we added "ruffles" to the top with decorated cupcake liners. All of this was no sew! I am just always so amazed at what women can do when they get together.

I am also painting shirts for our families. Our hunky men will wear shirts that say "So-and-so's Cupcake." Almost all of us have two kids so our eldest will have shirts that say "The Icing on the Cake!" and the littles will say "The Cherry on Top!" It's so fun!!!!

So far our team has raisde $1,320 for cancer research. If you wuold like to donate or get more information on the event click on the links at the end of the blog.

We still have scads to do in a small amount of time but there are no worries. Such a great group of ladies are sure to pull it together.

What a mother will do for her children and State

I guess it was back in December sometime that my sons stayed over at my moms. For whatever reason they were talking about our great state of Texas. They quizzed each other on the State Bird, the State Tree, the State Flower, etc. My youngest, Drew, is a foodie. (The boy loves to shop for it, prepare it and, of course, eat it.) All this talk about the things Texas has named their best got the boy to thinking: What is the State Cupcake? Mom laughed and everyone who ever heard the story laughed. I laughed too and then....I wondered...

Drew and I got on the computer one day (because he asked me again what the State Cupcake was)and did a little research to find out there is indeed no State Cupcake. Why oh why did I feel the need remedy this? But I did more research to find out how to make it happen. It requires legislation and so I contacted our state reps and got everything into motion. They are currently out of session until January 2011 but our request in on file for the 82nd session. This gives us time to choose a cupcake to be declared The Texas State Cupcake!

Enter Relay for Life. Relay for Life is an overnight fundraiser for cancer research. The idea is that cancer never sleeps and so we don't either. Teams of people camp out around a track and walk all night in a relay fashion. Some events run for a 24 hour period. Ours is for 12. 7 p.m.- 7 a.m. Each team is also required to do an on-site fundraiser. This helps to raise more money for cancer research as well as give us things to do to keep us up all night. My team is called Craving a Cure and our fundraiser is a cupcake bake-off.

I am having so much fun working on this event and trying to pull it together. I am also wondering what in the world am I doing? This is a lot of work all because my little Nugget asked if there was a State Cupcake! Unbelievable.

We have cupcakeries from all over the state coming to this thing. It's going to be amazing! Professional and amateurs alike are getting involved. My sons can not wait to start the judging!

If you would like to participate in this event either by entering a cupcake or donating to the American Cancer Society you can click on this link here: http://main.acsevents.org/site/TR/RelayForLife/RFLFY10PL?pg=team&fr_id=26415&team_id=643391.

We are excited about the whole process and it will be so cool that if one day another child wonders what the Texas State Cupcake is they can have an answer! Ha!